Trend Alert! (New Year edition)

Here's what's trending as the earth completes yet another astonishing orbit of the sun:

1. Russian blast

2. 'Duck Dynasty'

3. Ice-bound ship

4. Marijuana

5. Tech 'fails'

6. Brain death

7. 'The Good Stuff'

8. Holiday gluttony

9. Best of 2013

Have a trendy new year!

(Trends courtesy of CNN Trends)