Want to know what folks are talking about on social media? Every weekday on 97.9 The Hill’s “This Morning with Aaron Keck,” Victor Lewis scours the Internet for the day’s top trending stories, from weird news to wacky crimes to odd business ventures and everything in between. Click here to listen back to all our past What’s Trending segments – and tune in to “This Morning” on 97.9 The Hill every weekday at 7:45 to hear What’s Trending live on the air.


Trending today: an anthropological study of head wounds in ancient skulls, showing long-term trends and cycles in human violence. Turns out human beings were violent before we thought they were – even before the dawn of agriculture – but we have grown less violent in recent centuries. Will things stay that way? Victor’s a cynic, but Aaron’s optimistic. We’ll all find out together.

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