Post Tagged with: "Fear"

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  They’re Coming

  The aliens are coming, and they’re bad.
   
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  [Mood Riffs] Re-Learning to Re-Worry About the Bomb

  The US Department of Health is funding the development of “novel products to treat severe thermal burns.”
   
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  [Mood Riffs] Ebola Is a Major Concern Among Americans

  Ebola is third on a list of urgent health concerns in the US.
   
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  [Mood Riffs] The Big Screen — TO — the Big Scream

  “Negative social mood produces declines in stock market and disposes more people toward watching films with negative themes such as horror, tragedy, and misery.”
   
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  [Social Mood Watch] The Apocalypse: Coming to a Disaster Near You?

  Extremes in fear during periods of negative social mood.
   
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  [Social Mood Watch] Why “Driver’s Ed” May Be UN-educated

  Scientific evaluations indicate that driver’s ed does not produce safer drivers, so why is the trend growing?
   
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  [Article] A Browner Shade Of Green

  From its July 2008 all-time-high, the Continuous Commodity Index fell 47 percent and remains about 32 percent below its peak. The following timeline of headlines documents the subsequent environmental accidents and waning desire to save the environment:
   
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  [Audio] Corn, Ethanol and Hysteria

  Does using corn for energy make sense? Is common sense or hysteria behind this aspect of the green movement? Corn prices affect a very large percentage of the foods we eat and food inflation is rising. Socionomics helps us understand why the corn to energy movement is gaining in popularity.