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By Walt Hickey Manga France rolled out an app that grants €300 to every 18 year old in the country to be used for cultural purposes, an attempt to both…
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By Walt Hickey Once Upon A Time In The Eastern District of New York The U.S. Attorneys office for the Eastern District of New York announced it success…
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By Walt Hickey Bonus When an American athlete wins a medal at the Olympics, they also get a tax-free bonus from Team USA provided they’re not already p…
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By Walt Hickey Welcome back! Box Office In a surprise, M. Night Shyamalan’s Old won the weekend at the box office with a $16.5 million opening. It beat…
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By Walt Hickey Welcome to the Numlock Sunday edition. This week, I spoke to Julie Kendrick, who wrote “Shampoo Bars: What they are, how they work, and …
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By Walt Hickey Have a wonderful weekend! Crabs Jumbo lump crab meat that would typically go for $18 to $22 per pound wholesale is now going for $60 per…
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By Walt Hickey Product Placement In 2021, $23.3 billion will be spent globally on product placement in media, which is up 13.8 percent compared to 2020…
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By Walt Hickey Chicken Fifty years ago, the average American consumed 83.9 pounds of beef and 40.1 pounds of chicken annually. Today, that’s up to 97.6…
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By Walt Hickey Cars The average price paid by a consumer in June for a new car was $39,948, and the average price paid by a consumer that month for a o…
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By Walt Hickey Welcome back! Neckties The pandemic accelerated lots of changes in the world, one of which appears to be the popularity of neckties. The…
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By Walt Hickey Welcome to the Numlock Sunday edition. This week, I spoke to Francesca Tripodi, a senior researcher at the Center for Information Techno…
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By Walt Hickey Have a great weekend! Seeds Remember that weird couple of months when a bunch of people got random seeds in the mail from China and lots…
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