Reading List by Rochelle Dsouza - Year 2025 - 18th August

Hi 


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


  1. https://www.persuasion.community/p/bringing-human-nature-back-in

  2. https://www.commentary.org/articles/joseph-epstein/overweight-biographies-ellmans-joyce/

  3. https://www.historytoday.com/archive/behind-times/spain-was-different-tourism-under-franco

  4. https://www.theverge.com/openai/686748/chatgpt-linguistic-impact-common-word-usage

  5. https://www.brown.edu/news/2025-08-11/george-orwell-1984-manuscript

  6. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/commentisfree/2025/aug/17/the-guardian-view-on-regulating-cosmetic-procedures-rogue-operators-must-be-tackled-but-arent-the-only-problem

  7. https://aeon.co/essays/philosophy-in-prison-is-a-rowdy-honest-and-hopeful-provocation

  8. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/science-fiction-think-again-scientists-are-learning-how-to-decode-inner-thoughts-180987194/

  9. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/ideals-in-question/202508/your-emotions-care-about-the-facts

  10. https://aeon.co/essays/at-the-heart-of-surfing-is-the-pursuit-of-moments-so-pure-they-clean-you-out

  11. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/18/asia-pacific/society/china-women-only-communities/

  12. https://philosophynow.org/issues/169/Challenging_the_Objectivity_of_Science

  13. https://daily.jstor.org/fifty-years-of-fractals/

  14. https://lithub.com/ruled-by-numbers-how-data-dominates-every-facet-of-our-daily-lives/

  15. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/17/renaissance-art-contemporary-jenny-saville

  16. https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/aug/17/royal-hatters-top-tailors-james-bond-lawyers-trademark-fight-team

  17. https://aeon.co/essays/doodles-are-the-freewheeling-emanations-of-our-pixillated-minds

  18. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/before-meditation-apps-listeners-were-hooked-on-whale-songs-rain-sounds-and-the-scream-of-the-southern-leopard-frog-180987181/

  19. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-secular-mystic-path/202508/the-inevitability-of-meaninglessness

  20. https://daily.jstor.org/transplanting-nutmeg/


Short stories 

  1. https://americanliterature.com/author/jack-london/novella/the-scarlet-plague/summary

  2. https://americanliterature.com/author/mark-twain/book/the-prince-and-the-pauper/summary


TED Talk Daily 

  1. https://www.ted.com/talks/steven_pinker_the_hidden_logic_of_human_harmony

  2. https://www.ted.com/embed/michael_schur_how_ethics_can_help_you_make_better_decisions


Happy Reading


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