Reading List by Rochelle Dsouza - Year 2025 - 28th April

Hi 

Hope you are enjoying the articles that are being shared. Do find time to read the short stories over the weekend. From this week, I will also include 2 short TED Talk Daily videos to enrich the learning journey. 

Sharing this week’s list of 20 articles and short stories

1. https://www.publicbooks.org/poetry-city-iowa-city-iowa/

2. https://coloraturaruns.substack.com/p/its-good-youre-bored-at-the-symphony

3. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/18/the-philosophers-machine-my-conversation-with-peter-singer-ai-chatbot

4. https://www.noemamag.com/theres-life-inside-earths-crust/

5. https://hedgehogreview.com/issues/after-neoliberalism/articles/are-we-really-living-in-a-materialist-age

6. https://www.historytoday.com/archive/behind-times/ghosts-gaelic

7. https://aeon.co/essays/meet-the-woman-who-initiated-socrates-in-the-philosophy-of-love

8. https://daily.jstor.org/the-gendered-labor-of-noticing-and-anticipating/

9. https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2025/05/harvard-men-gender-gap-education-employment

10. https://philosophynow.org/issues/167/Gods_Silence_on_TV

11. https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/angel-monument-chernobyl

12. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-psychology-of-workplace-violence/202504/what-guilt-is-really-trying-to-tell-you

13. https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/4/24/the-great-collapse-of-us-higher-education-has-begun

14. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/27/the-guardian-view-on-owning-the-heavens-the-perils-of-letting-capitalism-colonise-the-cosmos

15. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/04/27/world/america-needs-an-uprising/

16. https://www.salon.com/2025/04/24/a-torrent-of-infectious-diseases-is-erupting-from-melting-ice-we-shouldnt-freak-out-just-yet/

17. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/17/labour-keir-starmer-votes-16-year-olds-sorry-not-convinced

18. https://aeon.co/essays/why-pale-blue-dot-generates-feelings-of-cosmic-insignificance

19. https://daily.jstor.org/how-did-eastern-north-america-form/

20. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-realities-of-refugee-screening/202504/peace-psychology-in-a-time-of-war

Short stories 

1. https://americanliterature.com/author/anton-chekhov/short-story/a-story-without-a-title/

2. https://www.pdfbooksworld.com/The-Iron-Heel-by-Jack-London

TED Talk Daily 

1. https://www.ted.com/talks/marc_bamuthi_joseph_and_wendy_whelan_the_role_of_art_and_forgiveness_in_democracy?language=en

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooMXEwl7N8Y

Happy Reading