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: the rise of “urban mining,” or recycling gold from used products – necessary, because there’s not much gold left to mine from the ground. (In fact there’s never been that much gold to begin with: we’ve only mined about 200,000 metric tons combined, in all of human history. Which is a lot, but you’d think it would be more.) Also: Victor and Aaron debate metric conversion, and Aaron ties it all together with a timely callback.
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