I have devolved into a bad habit, where I put off writing the Kable until an hour or two before it’s to be sent. That’s why this week’s issue is short, with less of my usual commentary. Let’s hope I learn better henceforth (no promises).
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1. Did Venus Williams Ever Get Her Due? - An excellent New York Times profile of Venus Williams. I didn’t know much about her personal or tennis life as much as I would’ve liked to; this piece corrected that.
- ‘Just Enough’ Piracy Can Be a Good Thing - An interesting point of view: all piracy is hard to crack down on. It may not be worth the cost to punish it at a 100% rate, and also new customers may be introduced to something via a pirated good.
3. The Ethics of Hiding Your Data From the Machines - Relevant in today’s world. The piece starts off with the author saying that they feel a small victory every time they deceive an algorithm by withholding or falsifying data. I can relate to that.
4. How to Build a Life Without Kids - I enjoyed this from the Canadian magazine The Walrus. It talks about the idea of a stigma-less child-free life from the point of view of motherhood. Childfree is different from childless, and that distinction is important.
5. Do Plants Have Something to Say?
6. When Vegan Influencers Quit Being Vegan, the Backlash Can Be Brutal
7. Why Weather Forecasting Keeps Getting Better - Predicting weather is hard.
8. Why Some Tennis Matches Take Forever
9. How do people learn to cook a poisonous plant safely? - I’ve wondered this so much. How did people figure out how to neutralize the toxins in foods that were poisonous in their raw forms?
10. The Untold Story of the Vegetable Peeler That Changed the World - Amazing piece! This is about the Oxo easy-grip peeler, that was originally designed for arthritic people. It has been a phenomenon.
See ya. -Kat.