What’s Trending: Where The Buffalo Roam
Trending today: filling in for Victor, Michael Koh celebrates our successful efforts to save the American buffalo from extinction.
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What’s Trending: Suicidal Plants? So Metal.
Posted by Aaron Keck | Mar 18, 2026 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
Trending today: a push to breed plants that deliberately draw metals from the earth, to make them easier to extract.
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Read MoreWhat’s Trending: Arm Farms
Posted by Aaron Keck | Mar 17, 2026 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
Trending today: the rise of “arm farms,” where human workers are used to train AI robots to do various physical tasks.
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Read MoreWhat’s Trending: Go Ahead And Scam The Government
Posted by Aaron Keck | Mar 16, 2026 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
Trending today: a new ‘scam’ (?) among Russian soldiers – sham weddings with friends, who can collect the government benefits if they die.
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Read MoreWhat’s Trending: A Pretty Sick Munich Wave
Posted by Aaron Keck | Mar 13, 2026 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
Trending today: a perma-wave in a Munich, Germany canal that’s been popular with surfers for 50 years – has suddenly disappeared.
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Read MoreWhat’s Trending: A Better World Is Possible
Posted by Aaron Keck | Mar 12, 2026 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
If you’re seeking hope in these troubled times, Victor’s got you covered with new data about our (successful) efforts to fix the ozone layer.
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Read MoreWhat’s Trending: Apart From The Aqueducts
Posted by Aaron Keck | Mar 11, 2026 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
Trending today: a new study of medieval Britain finds that (contra popular belief) British society didn’t collapse after the Romans left.
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Read MoreWhat’s Trending: 4.5 Trillion Butts
Posted by Aaron Keck | Mar 10, 2026 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
Trending today are cigarette filters – which may actually make cigarettes less healthy, and produce a huge mountain of trash.
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Read MoreWhat’s Trending: We Ought To Be On Spotify
Posted by Aaron Keck | Mar 9, 2026 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
Trending today: Victor discovers a deep-dive study into the rising popularity of frozen foods – specific types of frozen food, that is.
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Read MoreWhat’s Trending: Pappa Mia?
Posted by Aaron Keck | Mar 6, 2026 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
Trending today: Victor discovers “junior editions” of Broadway shows, and we brainstorm which roles best lend themselves to gender-swapping.
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