What’s Trending: The Hundred-Million-Dollar Diner
Trending today: a not-very-popular New Jersey diner turns out to be a shell company for fraudulent stock trading.
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What’s Trending: John Dies At The End (15 Percent Of The Time)
Posted by Aaron Keck | Jul 15, 2025 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
Trending today: a study that takes a deep dive into how often the main character dies in a movie. (But who even is the ‘main’ character?)
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Read MoreWhat’s Trending: Canned Laughs and Dramedies
Posted by Aaron Keck | Jul 14, 2025 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
Trending today: Victor and Aaron discuss TV comedies, inspired by an article that takes a deep dive into the history of laugh tracks.
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Read MoreWhat’s Trending: Ambient Animal Planet
Posted by Aaron Keck | Jul 11, 2025 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
Trending today: Victor continues a run of boring segments with a piece about an extremely slow chase between ocean animals.
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Read MoreWhat’s Trending: Lightning Strikes, and the Trees Who Love Them
Posted by Aaron Keck | Jul 10, 2025 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
Trending today: a species of tree in Panama that has evolved to the point where they actually benefit from being struck by lightning.
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Read MoreWhat’s Trending: Sick Little Food Cart
Posted by Aaron Keck | Jul 9, 2025 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
Trending today: New York City’s effort to relax the rules for becoming a street-food vendor, to address an extremely long waitlist.
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Read MoreWhat’s Trending: Unsafe At Any Haptic Level
Posted by Aaron Keck | Jul 8, 2025 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
Trending today: new data on the danger of touch screens in vehicles, and Aaron’s optimistic theory of human anthropology.
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Read MoreWhat’s Trending: Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Buys Your Album
Posted by Aaron Keck | Jul 3, 2025 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
Trending today: the “Hamilton” cast album breaks a 70-year-old record for Broadway longevity, and Aaron disses 50s-era LPs.
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Read MoreWhat’s Trending: Victor’s Volcano Vent
Posted by Aaron Keck | Jul 2, 2025 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
Trending today: increased volcanic activity in Iceland, which is affecting development plans and driving residents from their homes.
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Read MoreWhat’s Trending: Just Like East Berlin
Posted by Aaron Keck | Jul 1, 2025 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
Trending today: the negative ecological impacts of border walls, and Aaron’s attempt to engineer a modern castle with a high-tech moat.
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