What’s Trending: In Praise of Gatekeepers
A story about the rise of fake podcasts leads Aaron to a rant about the importance of traditional media’s gatekeeping role.
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What’s Trending: Your Favorite Fun Fact
Posted by Aaron Keck | Jun 4, 2024 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
Trending today: social media’s abuzz after learning that the transit system in Silicon Valley still runs on floppy-disk technology.
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Read MoreWhat’s Trending: ‘Hey Ya,’ Fast or Slow
Posted by Aaron Keck | May 30, 2024 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
Trending today: an incredibly silly new law in Chechnya sends Victor and Aaron on a tangent about the speed of Outkast’s “Hey Ya!”
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Read MoreWhat’s Trending: Serenity Now!
Posted by Aaron Keck | May 29, 2024 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
Trending today: research showing that meditation is better than “blowing off steam” when it comes to managing stress and anger.
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Read MoreWhat’s Trending: A Matchbox Of Our Own, A Fence Of Real Chain Link
Posted by Aaron Keck | May 28, 2024 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
Aaron takes over the segment with a reminder: we try to fit the news into our pre-existing beliefs, but those beliefs aren’t always right.
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Read MoreWhat’s Trending: Gas Stations and EVs, (Un)surprising Partners
Posted by Aaron Keck | May 24, 2024 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
Trending today: a Politico story that finds gas stations may be the “unlikely” winner in the rise of electric vehicles.
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Read MoreWhat’s Trending: TikTok and Bluey
Posted by Aaron Keck | May 23, 2024 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
A new report finds that most TikTok users don’t actually post any videos, and Bluey becomes the no. 2 most-streamed show online.
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Read MoreWhat’s Trending: A Hundred Thousand Elephants
Posted by Aaron Keck | May 22, 2024 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
Trending today: a story about Botswana, which is dealing with an overabundance of elephants. (Unlike the rest of the world.)
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Read MoreWhat’s Trending: To The Barricades?
Posted by Aaron Keck | May 21, 2024 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
If an essential freedom is the freedom to disobey, is it okay that Republicans are trying to pass a law they say people can basically ignore?
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Read MoreWhat’s Trending: Where Are The Bones?!
Posted by Aaron Keck | May 20, 2024 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
A new book suggests a macabre explanation for the lack of bones at 19th-century battlefields: they were dug up and used to make sugar.
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