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Brendon Ellis2022/12/21< 1 min read

TrendSegments: The Good, The Bad, and Even the Ugly

Would you sacrifice all your worldly possessions to be the modern Beethoven? Would you give up the love of family and friends to be Richie Rich Jr.? What would you really do for a ...
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Sarah Binns2022/12/211 min read

2022: ICYMITE (In Case You Missed It: Trendlines Edition)

What happened in 2022? If you don’t remember (or you’re still screaming into the void), Trendlines can help. The year started with an online craze: Wordle. In February only 13% of ...
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Jordan Boeder2022/12/071 min read

Are Men Merely Steak-Eating, Whiskey-Drinking Woodworkers?

The role of gender in society raises many important questions: Why are ladies always being asked to throw their hands in the air like they just don’t care? Why are single-person ...
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Cory Manento2022/12/071 min read

Why So Blue, Twitter Blue?

Things have been pretty eventful in TwitterLand since Elon Musk took over the company on October 28th: The mass firings, the new paid subscription service (or maybe not?), banning ...
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Jordan Boeder2022/12/071 min read

TrendSegments: Battle of the Band (Name)s

As the late, great Ludwig van Beethoven once said, “A band is only as good as its name.”* It only took 90 years after Beethoven’s death for the first band to be formally formed: ...
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Jordan Boeder2022/11/161 min read

California Dreamin’: Boom or Bust

After the wild midterm elections, some of you may be looking to move to a different state or, at the very least, take a vacation away from your fellow voters. Either way, Gradient ...
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Brendon Ellis2022/11/162 min read

Foosball Is the Devil

Peanut butter and jelly, thunder and lightning, Tom Brady and Bill Belichick Gisele football; some things just go together. So when you hear FIFA World Cup, you naturally think ...
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Kyle Block2022/11/16< 1 min read

TrendSegments: Tales from the Trunk

While most of the world was anxiously awaiting a possible death sentence for American democracy last week, we must confess: We were not. Our attention was focused on coming up ...
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Cory Manento2022/11/021 min read

Screwed! At the Midterms

On the ballot in next week’s midterm elections includes everything from reproductive rights, inflation, slavery, democracy itself, to sports betting. Most Americans would bet the ...
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