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What is Numlock?

The best way to start your morning!

Jan 1, 2020
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What is Numlock?

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It's a snappy, funny, and informative newsletter, plus it's ad-free.

  • Tens of thousands of people wake up to Numlock every single day.

  • Numlock highlights the fascinating numbers that are buried in the news.

  • It’s a a fun rundown of below-the-radar news with just the right amount of fun and snark.

  • Walt Hickey, the author, has been writing a daily newsletter since 2014.

  • The weekday edition is totally free — seven great stories — and there are never ads.

One newsletter, every weekday. We never use your email for anything besides that. Numlock is supported directly by readers who pay to get a Sunday edition. Sign up now, and if it’s not for you we make it super easy to unsubscribe.

About Numlock

Numlock was founded in 2018 when Walt left his job as Senior Culture Writer at FiveThirtyEight. He wanted to start his own newsletter to highlight outstanding stories that get drowned out by larger news and surface eye-opening stats and numbers in typical news stories.

Numlock doesn’t cover politics, and if there’s a story dominating the headlines you probably won’t read much about it in Numlock. This is all the fascinating stuff you’re missing, the great stories that get drowned out by the current fixation. Culture, science, technology, entertainment, climate, awesome new discoveries, this is the kind of stuff you’ll read about when you subscribe to Numlock.

Plus, it’s hilarious.

What readers have to say about it:

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Lindsay Cross @LindsayACross
If you're at all like me, you have 93 morning newsletters that you normally delete every day, but I have to recommend @WaltHickey's Numlock News. It's the one that I don't delete!
12:30 PM ∙ Jul 12, 2018
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Claire Biddiscombe @BiddiSTEM
A few weeks ago, I subscribed to Numlock News. Since then, I've read it every day. It does a great job of demonstrating that numbers matter, and doing it in a very accessible way. #SciCommSunday
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Walter Hickey @WaltHickey
Hello! I have been writing a daily newsletter about cool numbers in the news for over 900 consecutive weekdays. It's a good way to get news you miss because of the louder stuff. It's independent, entertaining, and ad-free. Subscribe to Numlock: https://t.co/B84lLbMgrY
8:58 PM ∙ Nov 18, 2018
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Joanna Piacenza @jpiacenza
One year of @WaltHickey's Numlock News has made waking up every morning suck a little bit less ☼ why aren't you subscribed?
numlock.substack.comNumlock NewsThe best way to start your morning! Numlock celebrates great stories buried in the news that you won’t find elsewhere. It’s snappy, funny, and informative, plus it’s ad-free. Try it out and see why thousands of people wake up to Numlock every single day.
1:16 PM ∙ May 22, 2019
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Julie R ✏ @abetterjulie
If you don't subscribe to NumLock News, you are missing out on laughing while you get your data. Thank you, @WaltHickey. I needed today's guffaw.
7:14 PM ∙ Feb 11, 2020
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H. Wade Minter @minter
Happy first birthday to Numlock News! If you're not signed up for this newsletter, you're missing a delightful morning read every day!
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Check out today's edition of Numlock News from @WaltHickey: https://t.co/QRt9FjRvrZ
1:11 PM ∙ May 22, 2019
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Josh Herzig-Marx @herzigma
The single greatest paragraph I have ever read in an email newsletter. You should subscrive to @WaltHickey's Numlock News (walthickey.com/numlock-newsle…)
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