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Numlock News: October 8, 2026 • Tortoises, Bunts, Nuclear Clock
By Walt Hickey
Bunts
In the Moneyball era of baseball, an axiom of the optimized analytics of baseball was that bunting was for suckers, and that in general, teams should not bunt because trading an out (valuable) for a base ad...
Numlock News: October 7, 2026 • Kubrick, Makgeolli, Tropilaelaps
By Walt Hickey
Kubrick
A number of items from Stanley Kubrick’s personal archive will be auctioned off at Bonhams, with highlights of the sale expected to include the star child prop from 2001: A Space Odyssey, which is project...
Numlock News: October 6, 2026 • Binary Star, Bare-Throated Bellbird, Book Ban
By Walt Hickey
Zombie Campaign
Frank Lautenberg, a senator from New Jersey best known for lending his name to the transit interchange they built in that swamp, has been dead for more than 13 years, but he has lived on in the La...
Numlock News: October 5, 2026 • Paprika, Uranium, Haunted House
By Walt Hickey
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Alderman Merriam’s Shells
A painting scored for $30 at an estate sale in Michigan has sold at auction for $1.3 million just a year later, with the authenticated Gertrude Abercrombie work setting a...
Numlock News: October 2, 2026 • Stratego, Drive-Thru, WWII Wreck
By Walt Hickey
E-Trucks
One-third of trucks sold in China this year run on electricity, which is having an immediate payoff as diesel spirals upward in cost. E-truck sales were up 80 percent in the first half of this year, and...
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Walt writes Numlock News, as well as some other stuff. He's a data journalist who is obsessed with culture, society and fascinating numbers buried in the news.
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