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Sarah Binns2023/02/01< 1 min read

TrendSegments: To Kill a Gatsby or Catch Him in the Rye in 1984

As the world awaits the award-winning A Novel by ChatGPT (insert wail about the decline of originality), it seems timely to revisit classic books you probably read in high school. ...
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Jordan Boeder2023/01/191 min read

TrendSegments: Cheese, Yum; Cake, Yum; Cheesecake, Double Yum

With global temperatures rising, many places that were once lush with vegetation will become deserts. To better prepare Americans for their eventual desert lives, we conducted a ...
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Jordan Boeder2023/01/11< 1 min read

TrendSegments: Nostradamus Could Never

Remember in 2021 when we were all sure we’d gotten past the Bad Times? And we were rewarded with sheltering in place after having just left our shelters (#omicron), Taliban ...
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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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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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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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Brendon Ellis2022/11/02< 1 min read

TrendSegments: Panic! At the Deserted Island

Imagine, for a moment, you are stranded on a remote deserted island—probably 20 feet in diameter with a single palm tree (or so comics would have you believe). What survival tools ...
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Jordan Boeder2022/10/19< 1 min read

TrendSegments: Star Studded Streets

Stars are simply incredible. They brighten our nights, provide entertainment in the dark evenings after work, and are so incredibly dense and hot that it’s a wonder how they ...
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Cory Manento2022/10/05< 1 min read

TrendSegments: American Idol, GOAT Edition

Who is the greatest singer of all time? Since we unfortunately have not (yet) developed the technology to reanimate the corpses of late, legendary musical performers in order to ...
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