Numlock Unlocked: Free to read Sunday editions all weekend!
Hello! We’re off Monday, hope you enjoy the long weekend if you can. During long weekends I like to make a bunch of the paid subscriber editions available for a few days without the paywall. If you enjoy what you see, consider upgrading to a paid subscription. It helps to keep the newsletter running, you get a solid weekend interview, and I’m throwing out a little deal this weekend. Either way, enjoy, here’s some of my favorites from the past couple of months. Wattpad and the fanfiction boom with Julia AlexanderJulia is one of my favorite writers — you should check out her newsletter Musings on Mouse — and she wrote a really prescient profile of Wattpad, a company that is trying to turn user-generated fiction into Netflix hits. A week after her story, Wattpad was purchased for $600 million. We spoke about her story, why this could change the future of media adaptations and why some films get moved to streaming and others get their release dates moved. The growth and change of the crossword puzzle with Michelle McGheeMcGhee wrote a brilliant story about crossword puzzles and how they’re changing — or for that matter, not changing — with the times. “Who’s In The Crossword?” for The Pudding is a seriously clever approach that puts hard data to an otherwise difficult-to-quantify problem, and I learned a whole lot about how some highly motivated editors have successfully managed to drag some crosswords into the 21st century. The accounting bug behind millions of tons of carbon emissions, with James TempleJames wrote a story about a crucial bug in the way that carbon credits are calculated, and how it can lead to a serious overestimate in how beneficial the credits can be. This story is fascinating because it takes a concept that gets discussed a lot in the abstract and drills down what the heck is exactly being measured, and in doing so discovers ways that the system can be improved and finds things it’s failing to capture.
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Numlock News: May 28, 2021 • Sea Cucumbers, Cage-Free, Wayne Gretzky
Friday, May 28, 2021
By Walt Hickey Have a great weekend. Numlock is off Monday in observation of Memorial Day. Free readers can expect an email tomorrow with a few Sunday specials unlocked for the long weekend. See you
Numlock News: May 27, 2021 • Drug Tests, Venues, Hoosiers
Thursday, May 27, 2021
By Walt Hickey Venue The Save Our Stages Act guaranteed $16 billion in federal relief to independent venues across the country who were dealt devastating blows owing to the pandemic, with tens of
Numlock News: May 26, 2021 • Escaped Monkeys, Dinosaurs, Wolves
Wednesday, May 26, 2021
By Walt Hickey Copper Copper hit a record high price of $10460 per ton in early May and has held north of $10000 since. The metal is a great indicator of the overall health of the global economy, with
Numlock News: May 25, 2021 • Tardigrades, Fungi, Spiral
Tuesday, May 25, 2021
By Walt Hickey Spiral As of Sunday, the latest movie in the Saw franchise, Spiral, earned another $4.5 million in the domestic theatrical market and $2.67 million overseas, which pushed the total
Numlock News: May 24, 2021 • Whales, Tigers, Online Dating
Monday, May 24, 2021
By Walt Hickey Welcome back! F9 The latest installment of Vin Diesel's ongoing car-themed Dungeons & Dragons campaign, F9, was released in cinemas in eight overseas markets this past weekend
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