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Numlock News: August 17, 2026 • Hobbies, Tornadoes, Meteorite Iron

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By Walt Hickey Welcome back! Spider-Man: Brand New Day has passed $2 billion in global ticket sales in just three weekends of release, with $785 million domestic, $1.23 billion overseas and $2.022 billion overall.Spider-Man has reached $2 billion in the second-fastest amount of time ever, behind Avengers: Endgame, which did it in 11 days.
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Numlock News: August 14, 2026 • Antediluvian, Mummy's Curse, Immortal Fungi

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By Walt Hickey Have a great weekend! A new paper explores the complicated question of “how old do fungi get?” which invites the immediate question of “how do you calculate the age of a fungus,” and then of course the ultimately grey areas of “what do you mean by alive?” and “what exactly do you mean by death anyway?” and of course “you keep on using this word organism, what exactly is an organism in this context?” Longevity is already an exciting frontier in fungi; saprotrophic fungi such as...
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Numlock News: August 13, 2026 • Seinfeld, Romantasy, Biscoff

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By Walt Hickey A general principle of contemporary warfare is that it’s important to have lots and lots of ammunition to shoot your adversary, but a project to shore up the United States’ stock of 155 mm artillery shells has turned into a huge mess. General Dynamics was, by 2022, the only producer of the shell bodies in the United States, operating a factory in Scranton that had been producing with the same methods since the Korean War.
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