What’s Trending: Just A Soggy Lead Pipe
Trending today: about 2000 lead-covered cables causing contamination, and new trends in book sales, with some genres way up in 2023.
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What’s Trending: Florida Vs Brazil
Posted by Aaron Keck | Jul 17, 2023 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
Trending today: more details about Florida’s disastrous orange harvest – which is opening the door for a spike in shipments from Brazil.
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Read MoreWhat’s Trending: My Sanctuary for Delicious Lunchmeat
Posted by Aaron Keck | Jul 14, 2023 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
Trending today: commercial deli slicers, now at Subway sandwich shops – and soon at Victor’s home, if he has anything to say about it.
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Read MoreWhat’s Trending: Lord of the Non-Compostable Rings
Posted by Aaron Keck | Jul 13, 2023 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
Trending today: new research showing that many items labeled “compostable” aren’t nearly as compostable as you think they are.
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Read MoreWhat’s Trending: Fiddling on the Deck of Twitter
Posted by Aaron Keck | Jul 12, 2023 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
Not as many people are left on Twitter these days, so different things are trending – like concerns over the ‘brine’ of desalination.
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Read MoreWhat’s Trending: Self-Sufficiency
Posted by Aaron Keck | Jul 11, 2023 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
Trending today: Victor takes a dive into food imports, strawberries, and national self-sufficiency rates. (The US is good, Japan less so.)
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Read MoreWhat’s Trending: Nicolas Cage’s Finest Hour
Posted by Aaron Keck | Jul 10, 2023 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
In which we discover that movie buff and orchid lover Victor Lewis somehow hasn’t seen the film “Adaptation.”
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Read MoreWhat’s Trending: Time To Buy
Posted by Aaron Keck | Jul 7, 2023 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
Trending today: an entire industry of phony news sites, with AI-produced stories clicked on only by bots, all to generate advertising revenue.
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Read MoreWhat’s Trending: Saving Diego Rivera
Posted by Aaron Keck | Jul 6, 2023 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
Trending today: a bankrupt San Francisco art school may sell a 90-year-old Diego Rivera mural – but would it ruin the art if you move it?
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Read MoreWhat’s Trending: Potent Potables and Pyrotechnics, Pre- and Post-Pandemic
Posted by Aaron Keck | Jul 5, 2023 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
Trending today: big shifts in our collective behavior, like a huge spike in individual firework sales and odd changes in sake consumption.
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