Reading Matters

Hello everyone!  This week’s reading list - 20 articles and short stories Here are the articles https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jul/25/goodreads-is-right-to-divide-opinions-wrong-to-boil-them-down https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/corporations-undermine-global-food-governance-by-nora-mckeon-2023-07 https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2023/07/28/language/japanese-vocabulary-ki-energy-soul-idioms/ https://www.americanscientist.org/article/the-early-human-social-network https://daily.jstor.org/is-star-treks-warp-drive-possible/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/why-the-ken-doll-will-never-truly-emerge-from-barbies-shadow-180982607/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/helium-in-distant-galaxies-may-help-explain-why-the-universe-exists/ https://www.newstatesman.com/world/2023/07/the-end-of-globalisation https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/cutting-edge-leadership/202307/how-can-people-be-so-mean https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/security/a2862

  Hello everyone!  This week’s reading list - 20 articles and short stories Here are the articles https://www.wired.com/story/why-generative-ai-wont-disrupt-books/ https://thepointmag.com/examined-life/unnatural-gifts/ https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/in-defense-of-independent-opinion-journalism.html https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/24/britain-housing-crisis-towns-cities-countryside https://www.aljazeera.com/features/longform/2023/7/21/how-afghan-women-secretly-learn-judo-over https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/found-incapable https://hedgehogreview.com/issues/who-do-we-think-we-are/articles/the-unbearable-burden-of-invention https://philosophynow.org/issues/156/Remembering_Memory https://daily.jstor.org/how-the-indian-middle-class-came-to-define-bollywood/ https://aeon.co/essays/early-christians-struggled-to-distinguish-themselves-from-pagans https://www.theglobalist.com/the-power-of-diasporas-in-the-age-of-globalization/ https://www.theguardian.com/

Hello everyone!  This week’s reading list - 20 articles and short stories Here are the articles https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-man-who-organized-nature-review-linnaeus-the-namer-673a3305?st=fmoguoiuqf4tvai&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-hidden-history-of-the-hollywood-sign-180982518/ https://daily.jstor.org/nasas-deepest-3d-fly-through-of-the-universe/ https://newrepublic.com/article/172104/tantalizing-lonely-search-alien-life-jaime-green-book-review https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/08/teach-children-survive-ai https://aeon.co/essays/the-tree-as-foot-soldier-of-chinese-merchants-and-empires https://reason.com/2023/06/25/gadgets-and-gizmos-that-inspired-adam-smith/ https://yalereview.org/article/kamran-javadizadeh-ahead-time https://hedgehogreview.com/issues/meritocracy-and-its-discontents/articles/branded https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/07/14/hydrogen-is-the-future-or-a-complete-mirage/ https://www.theguardian.com/com

Hello everyone!  This week’s reading list - 20 articles and short stories Here are the articles https://aeon.co/essays/why-did-darwins-20th-century-followers-get-evolution-so-wrong https://www.historytoday.com/archive/head-head/was-richard-iii-bad-king https://nautil.us/how-the-1918-pandemic-revolutionized-virology-351983/?_sp=113a773d-8da6-4455-8deb-f6b7c38fd7c5.1688957719534 https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/ai-central-planning-versus-decentralization-by-daron-acemoglu-2023-06 https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/7/9/books-are-losing-value-in-afghanistan-this-scares-me https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/the-behavioral-science-hub/202307/women-as-leaders-our-brains-may-be-wired-to-say-no https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/humans-take-more-wild-species-than-any-other-predator-on-earth-180982478/ https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jun/29/what-an-owl-knows-by-jennifer-ackerman-review https://www.colinmcginn.net/mass-and-consciousness/ https://www.thegu

Hello everyone!  This week’s reading list - 20 articles and short stories Here are the articles https://aeon.co/essays/what-crusaders-daggers-reveal-about-medieval-love-and-violence https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/03/beige-fluencers-life-surprises-young-people-aspiration https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/full-catastrophe-parenting/202306/is-the-golden-rule-still-relevant https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/zelenskys-fight-after-war https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/out-of-the-wild https://daily.jstor.org/de-bunking-the-barbarians/ https://www.noemamag.com/the-sounds-of-invisible-worlds/ https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/6/30/french-police-killed-nahel-because-french-racism-enabled-it https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/7/3/chinas-new-problem-climate-lies-fuelled-by-nationalism https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/26/grisly-true-crime-stories-merchandise https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2023/07/02/commentary/world-comme