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2/22/2024
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Numlock News: February 22, 2024 • Monkey, Fighter Jet, Pilots
By Walt Hickey I was the guest on this week's 99% Invisible episode talking about the book, check it out! Monkeys The reality of modern medical science is that it requires lots and lots of monkeys
2/21/2024
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Numlock News: February 21, 2024 • Quasar, Sailboat, Genomes
By Walt Hickey DVDs The era of buying physical DVDs and Blu-rays is coming to a close, as the business fell in 2023 to a $1.3 billion slice of the US home entertainment spend, down from $9 billion in
2/20/2024
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Numlock News: February 20, 2024 • William Riker, Bob Marley, Cocoa
By Walt Hickey Welcome back! One Love The Bob Marley biopic Bob Marley: One Love made $52 million domestically and won the weekend, which given the $29 million made abroad is a great opening for a
2/19/2024
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Numlock News: February 14, 2024 • Astarion, National Anthem, Beats
By Walt Hickey Baldur's Gate Hasbro, which owns Wizards of the Coast and thus the Dungeons & Dragons intellectual property that fuels the Larian Studios game Baldur's Gate 3, has reported
2/19/2024
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Numlock News: February 15, 2024 • Tooth Fairy, Megaliths, Beyoncé
By Walt Hickey Tooth Fairy Inflation The amount of money that the Tooth Fairy — a fey beast that forged an ancient compact with humanity to trade coin for fang, provided the terms are upheld and the
2/19/2024
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Numlock News: February 16, 2024 • Classified Satellites, Carry-On, Space Fire
By Walt Hickey Have a great weekend! We're off Monday in observation of Presidents' Day, we'll see you Tuesday. Satellites The US Space Force has cut $2 billion from a Northrop Grumman
2/13/2024
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Numlock News: February 13, 2024 • Super Speeders, Overtime, Out-Of-State Plates
By Walt Hickey Announced some fun news yesterday: I've left my position at Business Insider and will be taking a job as executive editor at a soon-to-launch newsroom called Sherwood Media. This won
2/12/2024
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Numlock News: February 12, 2024 • Cassettes, Darwin, Radio
By Walt Hickey Welcome back! Darwin For the past 18 years, a project has attempted to identify thousands of items in British naturalist Charles Darwin's expansive library, and has identified 440
2/9/2024
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Numlock News: February 9, 2024 • Hawkeyes, Monarchs, Raiders
By Walt Hickey Have a great weekend. Voices In a unanimous ruling, the FCC has outlawed robocalls that use voices generated by artificial intelligence, a move that follows a call in New Hampshire
2/8/2024
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Numlock News: February 8, 2024 • Lemon, Vegas, Arctic
By Walt Hickey When Life Gives You Lemons A lemon that is hundreds of years old sold at auction for £1416 at Brettell's Auctioneers. The lemon bears an inscription that reads “Given by Mr P Lu
2/7/2024
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Numlock News: February 7, 2024 • Milk, Sports, Wolves
By Walt Hickey Milk Milk has become a bit of a battlefront, as the entities behind what has traditionally been sold as “milk” — the dairies that extract, market and sell cow's milk — contend with
2/6/2024
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Numlock News: February 6, 2024 • Vesuvius, Vegas, Zeppelin
By Walt Hickey Favre Former New York Jets icon Brett Favre has been ordered to pay back $1.1 million in speaking fees he received from a nonprofit in 2020 that improperly paid him out of funds intended
2/5/2024
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Numlock News: February 5, 2024 • Argylle, Hobby Tunneling, FIFA
By Walt Hickey Welcome back! Argylle Argylle just had the single worst opening for a pattern-based movie since Stripes opened to $6.2 million in 1981, pulling in $18 million domestically and $17.3
2/2/2024
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Numlock News: February 2, 2024 • Demon Slayer, Chipotle, Valentine’s Day
By Walt Hickey Have a great weekend! Challenge Strava, the exercise tracking app, and Chipotle teamed up to create a competition in six different cities where a 300-meter segment next to a Chipotle was
2/1/2024
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Numlock News: February 1, 2024 • Swift, Flip, Wiggles
By Walt Hickey Tabletop For the second year in a row, the amount of money pledged to successful tabletop Kickstarters — the primary way that such ventures achieve initial start-up funding — has gone
1/31/2024
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Numlock News: January 31, 2024 • Manatees, BYD, Disney Channel Original Movie
By Walt Hickey Box Office The Japanese box office hit ¥221 trillion ($1.5 billion) in 2023, up 4 percent year over year in local currency terms. All told, the number of films released was pretty much
1/30/2024
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Numlock News: January 30, 2024 • Gravel, Suits, Cryogenics
By Walt Hickey Gravel Alaska's North Slope, which encompasses some of the northernmost parts of the state, is increasingly short on gravel, of all things. Gravel is hard to come by, and is
1/29/2024
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Numlock News: January 29, 2024 • Jump Rope, Ants, Fanzor
By Walt Hickey Welcome back! Insurance The average bill for the repair of an American vehicle is $4437, and for an electric vehicle that is up to $6618, about 49 percent higher. Collision insurance
1/26/2024
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Numlock News: January 26, 2024 • Seahorses, Ingenuity, Heisler
By Walt Hickey Thank you to everyone who came out last night to NeueHouse, it was a delight to meet so many of you, I really enjoyed that. Have a great weekend! Ingenuity The Ingenuity helicopter that
1/26/2024
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