Hello, reader, and welcome back to another issue of Kat’s Kable. Phew - I took a long break, came back with two issues and a commitment to be consistent, and went straight back to a month with nothing out. Reader, life has been hectic. Work has been a lot and I simply am not getting the time I want (or even need) for my hobbies and general life side quests. Here I am again with an issue, and I do hope I can get another one out this weekend, but let’s see.

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1. The 10 Lessons I Learned Walking 10,000 Kilometres in 2021’s Pandemic Year (Ben Pobjoy’s personal website):

I loved, loved, loved this. It was buried at the bottom of my reading list for something like two years, and I’m so glad I got around to it finally.

2. The Case For Smelling More (Atmos):

This has fun pictures and overall is an essay saying a simple thing: we have to smell our surroundings more.

3. Will We Ever Get Fusion Power? (Construction Physics):

The last issue had an article about fusion power, and this one is pretty good too! So why not share?

4. Life of Riley (London Institute for Mathematical Sciences):

I had no idea that Talulah Riley, who here is written about because she became the newest trustee of the London Institute for Mathematical Sciences, is also an ex-wife of Elon Musk.

5. The unexpected poetry of PhD acknowledgements (Australian National University):

Oh, so lovely. I found it doubly nice having done a PhD myself.

6. Horseshoe crabs: Ancient marvels facing modern threats (Current Conservation):

:(. Amazing beings who are now dwindling because their blue blood is a critical component of medical research.

7. Romance Politics and Ecological Damage: The Saga of Sable Island’s Wild Horses (Hakai Magazine):

Amazing! Sable Island is a sandbar island off the eastern coast of Canada, and it just has all these wild horses!

8. How Olympics Officials Try to Catch “Motor Doping” (IEEE Spectrum):

Last time I’d shared a couple of pieces about bicycle racers and their diets - this one is about how officials catch cyclists who have secret electric motors in their bikes to give them an advantage.

9. How do jewellers capture every last particle of gold dust? (FT):

This is really cool. There are companies who will go to jewellers and find significant amounts of gold in their rooms, carpets, trashcans, etc. They’ll even take their trash and incinerate and process it to find gold, platinum remnants.

10. The Enduring Magic of the Angel Oak (Garden and Gun):

“A beloved gathering spot and an emblem of resilience during the civil rights movement, this ancient South Carolina live oak is poised for an exciting future”