Jordan Boeder
Wherefore Art Thou… Rome?
There’s still time to squeeze in a vacation before the kiddos return to school and your boss starts losing the tan that’s kept them in a surprisingly good mood for weeks. For ...
The Rebrews Are in: Ranking the Best Beer Brands
The year 2023 marks the 500th anniversary of Reinheitsgebot, the German beer purity law, which mandates that beer is only to be made with four ingredients: malt, hops, yeast, and ...
Pragmatically Parsing Parents
Throughout a typical day, we constantly classify the people and objects around us. For instance, when driving in traffic many of us play label that driver where we categorize ...
Remotely Working or Working the Remote?
Working from home in the comfort of sweatpants with unlimited access to snacks was possibly the only benefit of the COVID-19 pandemic. But with many tech giants like Amazon, ...
Got Plant-Based Milk?
On September 24th, 2021 we reported a bowel-shattering statistic: One in five Americans describe themselves as lactose intolerant. That’s right, 20% associate dairy with ...
Bad Neighbors 3: Into the Amazon Box
Inspired by our reference to Mad-Al, Steve, a Trendlines subscriber, asked us to investigate what makes a bad neighbor. Coincidentally, the Gradient family finally moved into the ...
Gene Genie
With genetic enhancements and robotic prosthetics becoming more viable, humans may soon see a new wealth class: the cybourgeoisie. How beautifully ironic that the curiosity that ...
We Are All Benjamin Button
The idiom “you're only as old as you feel” loses its charm when Uncle Jerry demands the kids' price at Chuck E. Cheese because he feels like he's 8 years old. To all you high ...
TrendSegments: It’s 10 p.m. Do You Know Where Your Money Is?
When we approached Silicon Valley and Signature Bank to get a loan to manufacture Shoembrellas™, we were laughed at and told the idea was sure to fail. Well, well, well, guess ...