UPDATE: For the 2012 trends in news, pop culture, fashion, life style, etc., see also, Google, Zeitgeist 2012.
FYI, the term zeitgeist means "the intellectual fashion or dominant school of thought which typifies and influences the culture of a particular period in time."
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