Hello, and welcome to another edition of Kat’s Kable. It’s been eleven months since I started it, and the time that’s passed by in the time seems rather surreal. Let’s cut to the chase now; here’s this week’s list.

1. Seriously, the Guy has a Point - This is about the Fearless Girl statue that’s been placed opposing the Charging Bull at Wall Street in New York. The fearless girl is supposed to symbolise feminism and oppose all that is wrong with the lack of diversity in the world of finance, but Arturo di Modica, the sculptor of the bull, says that the context isn’t right; the bull was created to catalyse and inspire, it was never meant as a symbol of male dominance.
   
2. The Clinicians - “Colombia’s first legal abortion clinic has given rise to a politically powerful network of more than 600 clinics across Latin America. One family is at the center of it all.” This is a great and inspiring piece.
   
3. Inside the Cut-Throat World of Toddler Bike Racing - A thoroughly entertaining and amusing account of the Strider Cup balance bike race that’s meant for kids. Arrest your better sense as you read through this.
   
   A few kids don’t make it. They splay out across the track in a pile of elbow and kneepads and full-face helmets. And then, there’s one kid, coming from behind, who executes a perfect pass on his recently potty-trained competitors and crosses the line first, his chest forward in an elated victory celebration.
   
   
4. The Mao Mango Cult of 1968 and the Rise of China’s Working Class - The peach is China’s iconic fruit but in 1968, a rather comical series of events led to the mango becoming popular amongst a group of zealous Mao Zhedong followers. All this happened because Mao thought that fruits were messy and hence he didn’t want to eat from a case of mangoes gifted to him by the Pakistani premier at the time.
   
   
5. While the rest of the world tries to kill email, in China it’s always been dead - Email is a service that has lasted for a long time as compared to other digital media. In China, however, email has always been dead because a majority of new internet users are introduced to connectivity on their phones, and hence they have never needed email.
   
6. Why Kickstarter Decided to Radically Transform its Business Model - An interesting read that transcends Kickstarter itself. Kickstarter has now relabelled itself as a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC). This means that its primary motive is (supposedly) not profit, but social good. This piece is a nice analysis of companies’ motives and the history behind the introduction of PBCs in the US.
   
7. This is what a Brutalist World would look like on your Phone - This is a rather entertaining series of pictures to scroll through.
   
   
8. This is what it’s like to be struck by lightning - A few case studies of people who have been affected by lightning by varying amounts. If you are struck by lightning, there is only a 10% chance that it is fatal. Great reporting as usual from Mosaic.
   
9. The Story of Patel Brothers, the Biggest Indian Grocery Store in America - This is wonderfully written.
   
   A visit to Patel Brothers can feel like emerging from a plane: Your sense of the world becomes radically slower, the activity of grocery shopping gaining a more leisurely glean than the frantic stress that can ordinarily accompany a trip to the supermarket.
   
   I left the store with very little from that visit, drawn to what had long been my objects of affection: cake rusks for dipping in tea, a packet of wheaty and flat-baked Parle-G biscuits, and bag of frozen spinach-paneer samosas. These were items that others may characterize as inessential, but I needed them.
   
10. Is Uber Evil or Just Doomed? - Has Uber run its course in its quest to change the world and capitalise (quite literally) on an open market? With the number of controversies plaguing it recently, it seems to have to first extinguish fires before conquering new markets. However way this pans out, there is no denying that Uber started the ‘Uber’ kind of startup model - make an app to call something. They did it with drivers and cars, but there are many services now for food, doctors etc.