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By Walt Hickey Welcome to the Numlock Sunday edition. This week, I spoke to Ernie Smith who writes the Tedium and Midrange newsletters. A week ago he h…

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By Walt Hickey Have a great weekend! Repaid In the 1840s, a cache of Nez Perce artifacts were obtained by a minister and eventually entered the possess…

Dec 3

By Walt Hickey Soccer Fans FIFA, a global money vacuum that occasionally organizes soccer games, has proposed to increase the frequency of the World Cu…

Dec 2

By Walt Hickey Fees Westpac, an Australian bank, will pay 113 million Australian dollars (81 million USD) and $57 million (USD) in compensation to cust…

Dec 1

By Walt Hickey Huckleberries Huckleberries are delicious, tart berries that are gathered from public lands in the American West. Demand is up, but supp…

Nov 30

By Walt Hickey Welcome back! Charts Last week saw two milestones on the music charts. The first is that “All Too Well” by Taylor Swift reached the numb…

Nov 29

By Walt Hickey Welcome to the Numlock Sunday edition! Hope you had a nice Thanksgiving. This week I spoke to Jordyn Holman, who wrote Good Luck Finding…

Nov 28

By Walt Hickey Numlock is off the next two days in observation of Thanksgiving and Day After Thanksgiving; we’ll be back on Monday! Paid subscribers st…

Nov 24

By Walt Hickey Webb The James Webb telescope suffered a setback following an incident where a clamp band unexpectedly released and caused a vibration o…

Nov 23

By Walt Hickey Welcome back! Ghostbusters Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Jason Reitman’s relatable story of a group of heirs claiming their inheritance from …

Nov 22

By Walt Hickey Welcome to the Numlock Sunday edition. This week, I spoke to Alexander Kaufman, who wrote Oklahoma Proposes Letting Gas Utility Charge A…

Nov 21

By Walt Hickey Have a great weekend! Urea If you’re bored with “the chip shortage” and “west coast port traffic” and other more conventional, dare I sa…

Nov 19

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