What’s Trending: Textiles, Corn, and Uncrustables
Trending today: the spectacular rise of Uncrustables, the gimmicky packaged lunch item that’s now nearly a billion-dollar industry.
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What’s Trending: In Praise of Kelp
Posted by Aaron Keck | Jun 18, 2024 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
Trending today: the benefits of kelp forests, which are responsible for about $500 billion in economic activity each year.
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Read MoreWhat’s Trending: Ana de Armas Seemed So Far Away
Posted by Aaron Keck | Jun 17, 2024 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
Trending today: two guys sue a movie studio for false advertising after Ana de Armas appeared in a movie trailer – but not the actual film.
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Read MoreWhat’s Trending: Sub-Sea Cables, and the People Who Love Them
Posted by Andrew Stuckey | Jun 14, 2024 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
Trending today: Victor discovers that there are about 800,000 miles of sub-sea cables – and only 22 repair vessels in the world to fix them.
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Read MoreWhat’s Trending: Where’s My Sassy Robot Maid?
Posted by Aaron Keck | Jun 13, 2024 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
Trending today: Apple’s plan to integrate ChatGPT with Siri, the definition of “AI,” and the Jetsons as our collective future goal.
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Read MoreWhat’s Trending: Shark Tank, Litigation Finance Edition
Posted by Aaron Keck | Jun 12, 2024 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
Victor explores the realm of “litigation finance,” where people invest in lawsuits – which sounds sketchy, but could actually have benefits.
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Read MoreWhat’s Trending: Do Better At Planned Obsolescence
Posted by Aaron Keck | Jun 11, 2024 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
Trending today: bad DM’s, good headphones, Oreo flavors, and what the makers of Dungeons & Dragons should actually be trying to sell.
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Read MoreWhat’s Trending: It’s Not On Your Homepage, But It Is On Mine
Posted by Aaron Keck | Jun 10, 2024 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
Trending today: a recent move by the U.S. Department of the Interior to raise the required bond for plugging up old oil wells.
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Read MoreWhat’s Trending: Cats, Ascending
Posted by Aaron Keck | Jun 7, 2024 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
A piece about the increasing prevalence of cats in Hollywood movies gets Aaron and Victor talking about the rise of cats in general.
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Read MoreWhat’s Trending: In Praise of Gatekeepers, Part Deux
Posted by Aaron Keck | Jun 6, 2024 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
Trending today: Victor and Aaron follow up on yesterday’s conversation, which began with fake “content creators” pretending to be podcasters.
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