January 2008
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Between conjecture and memento: shaping a...
Authors: Alberto Pepe, Johan Bollen Title: Between conjecture and memento: shaping a collective emotional perception of the future Abstract: Large scale surveys of public mood are costly and often impractical to perform. However, the web is awash with material indicative of public mood such as blogs, emails, and web queries. Inexpensive content analysis on such extensive corpora can be used to...
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Newton & Helen Mayer Harrison
Newton & Helen Mayer Harrison have worked for over thirty years with biologists, ecologists and urban planners to initiate collaborative dialogues to uncover ideas and solutions which support biodiversity and community development. They just gave a talk at UC Irvine (also broadcasted at UCLA) as part of a biweekly seminar I am part of on human complex systems. Their talk was titled...
