What’s Trending: Right To Repair, Sort Of
Trending today: Apple is finally giving in to the right-to-repair movement and providing replacement parts for iPhones – at a price.
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What’s Trending: If You’ve Never Seen a Trilobite
Posted by Aaron Keck | Jan 22, 2026 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
Trending today: a study of historical trilobite fossil collections, proving that humans have always loved collecting cool-looking tchotchkes.
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Read MoreWhat’s Trending: This Vast Expanse of Nothingness
Posted by Aaron Keck | Jan 21, 2026 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
Trending today: Victor drops details about the extent of land owned by the federal government – a big chunk of which is located in Alaska.
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Read MoreWhat’s Trending: Conformity Gate
Posted by Aaron Keck | Jan 20, 2026 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
Trending today: Stranger Things fans disappointed by the finale have convinced themselves there’s a secret, real final episode out there.
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Read MoreWhat’s Trending: That’s a Lot of Gigawatts
Posted by Aaron Keck | Jan 15, 2026 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
Trending today: India is starting to go all in on solar power with a big investment – and it’s beginning to pay off.
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Read MoreWhat’s Trending: Farewell to Hollywood?
Posted by Aaron Keck | Jan 14, 2026 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
Trending today: a decline in the number of Hollywood films that are actually made in Hollywood, thanks to a rise in on-location shoots.
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Read MoreWhat’s Trending: Who-oa Here She Comes, She’s An Anteater
Posted by Aaron Keck | Jan 13, 2026 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
Trending today: scientists discover that anteater-style species have evolved on 12 separate occasions since the dinosaurs died.
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Read MoreWhat’s Trending: The Video Booth Changed My Life
Posted by Aaron Keck | Jan 12, 2026 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
Trending today is Vidiots, formerly an independent video store that’s now a nonprofit dedicated to preserving rare videos for posterity.
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Read MoreWhat’s Trending: Borne Back Ceaselessly Into Your High School Reading List
Posted by Aaron Keck | Jan 9, 2026 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
Trending today: what are the 10 most commonly assigned novels in middle and high schools? About the same as they were 35 years ago.
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Read MoreWhat’s Trending: Reading For Pleasure (Or Not)
Posted by Aaron Keck | Jan 8, 2026 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
Trending today: a survey finding that fewer than half of Americans have read a single book in the last 12 months.
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