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Numlock News: April 15, 2021 • Psilocybin, Rental Cars, Scrap
By Walt Hickey Clunkers France may offer the owners of old, high-pollution cars the chance to give the vehicles over for scrap in exchange for €2,500 (…
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Numlock News: April 14, 2021 • Scrub Jay, Transfers, Complaints
By Walt Hickey Internet A judge ordered Charter Communications to fork over $19,179,392.45 to Windstream, a rival telecom, after sending out a mailing …
Apr 14
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Numlock News: April 13, 2021 • Denali, Cookies, Rocky Horror,
By Walt Hickey Time Warp Prior to the pandemic, The Rocky Horror Picture Show had played at the Clinton Street Theater in Portland every Saturday night…
Apr 13
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Numlock News: April 12, 2021 • Smuggling, Super Mario, Cicadas
By Walt Hickey Welcome back! Another Castle Speedrunner Niftski became the first person to break 4 minutes, 55 seconds in a speedrun of Super Mario Bro…
Apr 12
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Numlock Sunday: Kim Bhasin on the sneaker boom
By Walt Hickey Welcome to the Numlock Sunday edition. This week, I spoke to Kim Bhasin, who wrote “One Couple’s Fight to Stop the ‘Gentrification’ of S…
Apr 11
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Numlock News: April 9, 2021 • Poison, Rivers, Anime
By Walt Hickey Have an excellent weekend! Hack Last month, 8.2 terabytes of data from 100 million people using Indian mobile payments app MobiKwik hit …
Apr 9
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Numlock News: April 8, 2021 • Box Tops, Knives Out, Muons
By Walt Hickey Knives Out A pair of sequels to the hit murder mystery film Knives Out has sold to Netflix for $469 million, a colossal sum for the righ…
Apr 8
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Numlock News: April 7, 2021 • Gas, Cash, Grass
By Walt Hickey Cards Topps Co., which makes sports trading cards, will go public through a special purposes acquisition company that values the company…
Apr 7
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Numlock News: April 6, 2021 • Chopper, Ketchup, Yahoo Answers
By Walt Hickey Get To The Chopper A 4-pound solar-powered helicopter successfully endured its first nights on Mars, having been deposited by the Persev…
Apr 6
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Numlock News: April 5, 2021 • Paleobotany, Solar, Godzilla
By Walt Hickey Welcome back! Titans Godzilla vs. Kong made $48.5 million in its first five days over the course of the Easter weekend domestically, the…
Apr 5
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Numlock Sunday: Katharine Lusk on the post-pandemic city
By Walt Hickey Welcome to the Numlock Sunday edition. This week, I spoke to Katharine Lusk, who wrote “City Dwellers Gained More Access to Public Space…
Apr 4
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Numlock News: April 2, 2021 • Lambs, Grizzly Bears, Mr. Brightside
By Walt Hickey Have a great weekend! To hear the audio version of last week’s Sunday interview with the brilliant Karen Hao, anyone can check out the N…
Apr 2
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