What’s Trending: Six Degrees Of…
Trending today: which actor has the most ‘centrality,’ or the fewest average “degrees of separation” from everyone else? What’s your guess?
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What’s Trending: Hail on a Plain
Posted by Aaron Keck | Oct 11, 2024 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
Trending today: the threat of hailstorms, which cause $46 billion in damage each year (even though nobody makes disaster movies about them).
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Read MoreWhat’s Trending: A Dude Out There, Pointing
Posted by Aaron Keck | Oct 10, 2024 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
Trending today: Victor digs into Hawk-Eye Innovations, a company whose technology is being used for instant replay in athletics.
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Read MoreWhat’s Trending: Roll (Over The) Tide
Posted by Aaron Keck | Oct 9, 2024 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
Trending today: a particularly animated sports-talk guest caller, who was none too pleased about Vanderbilt’s upset win over Alabama.
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Read MoreWhat’s Trending: The Immortality of the Crab
Posted by Aaron Keck | Oct 7, 2024 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
Filling in for Victor, Michael Koh ponders the idioms of various languages – including an especially poetic Spanish phrase for daydreaming.
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Read MoreWhat’s Trending: Fat Bears vs. Fat Bears
Posted by Aaron Keck | Oct 4, 2024 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
Trending today: reality intrudes on Katmai National Park’s popular Fat Bear Week, as one of the competitors is sadly killed.
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Read MoreWhat’s Trending: May-December Romances? More Like May-Early June
Posted by Aaron Keck | Oct 3, 2024 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
Trending today: a study finding a continued drop in the average age gap in American relationships – now about a 2-year difference.
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Read MoreWhat’s Trending: Milkomeda (or Andromedilk?)
Posted by Aaron Keck | Oct 2, 2024 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
Trending today: the eventual collision of our Milky Way galaxy with the nearby Andromeda galaxy. What should the new galaxy be called?
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Read MoreWhat’s Trending: Washers, Dryers, Means, Medians, and Agitators
Posted by Aaron Keck | Oct 1, 2024 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
Trending today: a study from GE that finds Americans leave their clothes in the washer for an average of 2 hours after the cycle’s done.
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Read MoreWhat’s Trending: They Have EPCOT Now?!
Posted by Aaron Keck | Sep 30, 2024 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
Trending today: a report showing that more than two-thirds of Disney’s annual profits come from “experiences” like parks.
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