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By Walt Hickey Welcome to the Numlock Sunday edition. This week I spoke to Maggie Koerth, who wrote “America Has A Thing For Hippo Parts” for…
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By Walt Hickey Have a great weekend! Wheels Hundreds of thousands of Americans rely on motorized wheelchairs, which in the dense jargon of medical…
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By Walt Hickey Deficit The U.S. budget deficit has fallen by $1.57 trillion so far this year, thanks to rising wages and employment. The government…
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By Walt Hickey Thanks so much for all the well wishes! Warhol Shot Sage Blue Marilyn, a silkscreen image of Marilyn Monroe by artist Andy Warhol, sold…
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By Walt Hickey Exciting news! Yesterday I won a Pulitzer Prize in Illustrated Reporting and Commentary for editing the comic I Escaped a Chinese…
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By Walt Hickey Welcome back! Doctor Is In Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness made $185 million in its opening weekend, good enough for the 11th…
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By Walt Hickey Welcome to the Numlock Sunday edition. This week, I spoke to Ben Lindbergh who wrote “How Can MLB Fix Its Too-Many-Pitchers Problem?” for…
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By Walt Hickey Have a great weekend! Last week’s Sunday edition with Dave Infante of the newsletter Fingers is unlocked. Fingers is one of my favorite…
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By Walt Hickey Tax Refund Intuit, the company that produces tax prep software TurboTax, has agreed to pay $141 million to consumers it deceived into…
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By Walt Hickey Chess.com One of the most popular ways of playing chess on the planet and with tens of millions of players, the mobile app Chess.com is…
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By Walt Hickey The Queen’s Ball Taking a page from those traveling interactive Van Gogh exhibits that swarmed the country last year, lots of television…
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By Walt Hickey Welcome back! Box Office Next week, the summer blockbuster movie season kicks off in earnest with Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of…
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