What’s Trending: Mumbai vs. Wood-Fired Ovens
Trending today: a push by the city of Mumbai to ban wood-fired ovens, which generate a surprising amount of pollution.
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What’s Trending: Exit Through The Distant Gift Shop
Posted by Aaron Keck | Aug 14, 2025 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
Trending today: the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, a new museum in Los Angeles that’s taken George Lucas 15-plus years to bring to fruition.
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Read MoreWhat’s Trending: Falling Starbucks
Posted by Aaron Keck | Aug 13, 2025 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
Trending today: the rapid decline of Starbucks’ popularity in Seattle – though Aaron’s surprised that hadn’t already happened years ago.
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Read MoreWhat’s Trending: BEOS, Ironically A Lie
Posted by Aaron Keck | Aug 12, 2025 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
Trending today: a new type of lie-detector test that’s increasingly popular in India – even though it’s probably worthless.
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Read MoreWhat’s Trending: There’s No I in ‘Team,’ But There Is One in ‘Instagram’
Posted by Aaron Keck | Aug 11, 2025 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
Trending today: Victor, Aaron, and special guest Michael Koh consider which individual athletes outpace their teams in Instagram followers.
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Read MoreWhat’s Trending: I Just Harassed 80,000 School Principals, Please Give Me Tenure
Posted by Aaron Keck | Jul 23, 2025 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
A massive study finds that school principals still default to mothers over fathers when choosing which parents to contact about their kids.
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Read MoreWhat’s Trending: Robot Chefs (and Human Dishwashers)
Posted by Aaron Keck | Jul 22, 2025 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
Trending today: a once-popular restaurant in South Korea that lost its mojo when it started employing robots to make their food.
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Read MoreWhat’s Trending: Flat-Footed Barbies Make the Rockin’ World Go Round
Posted by Aaron Keck | Jul 21, 2025 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
Trending today: a study that explores the posture of Barbie dolls, finding that Barbies with ‘jobs’ are more likely to have flat feet.
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Read MoreWhat’s Trending: Comedy Minus Comedy
Posted by Aaron Keck | Jul 18, 2025 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
We follow up on our recent discussion of unfunny comedies, with a fascinating theory about them by comedy writer Jesse David Fox.
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Read MoreWhat’s Trending: All-Star Home Runs, and the Baseball Fans Who Love Them
Posted by Aaron Keck | Jul 17, 2025 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
Trending today: highlights from the MLB All-Star Game, including great defense in the Home Run Derby and a winner-take-all ‘swing-off.’
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