Reading List by Rochelle Dsouza - Year 2025 - 8th September

Hi 

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

1. https://www.persuasion.community/p/unbundle-the-university

2. https://www.thefp.com/p/what-happens-if-no-one-reads-culture-education

3. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/07/the-guardian-view-on-the-twin-vermeers-how-to-spot-a-masterpiece

4. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/1/why-do-shallow-earthquakes-cause-more-destruction-than-deep-ones

5. https://aeon.co/essays/mentorship-and-hope-can-solve-the-youth-mental-health-crisis

6. https://www.historytoday.com/archive/great-debates/victorian-sciences-duck-billed-enigma

7. https://daily.jstor.org/the-pomegranate-in-history-and-myth/

8. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-quiet-joy-of-being/202509/old-age-is-no-joy-why-beliefs-about-aging-matter

9. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/solar-flares-may-be-more-than-six-times-hotter-than-researchers-previously-thought-finds-new-research-180987296/

10. https://philosophynow.org/issues/169/The_Philosophical_Method_of_Exception

11. https://www.salon.com/2025/09/07/coca-cola-walks-the-maha-tightrope/

12. https://unherd.com/2025/08/vs-naipauls-glorious-failure/

13. https://www.vulture.com/article/arundhati-roy-mother-mary-comes-to-me-review.html

14. https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/8/29/sri-lankas-crisis-shows-how-debt-is-devouring-the-global-south

15. https://aeon.co/essays/why-we-should-tune-into-the-orchestra-of-the-animal-world

16. https://theamericanscholar.org/time-for-a-demotion/

17. https://daily.jstor.org/eighteenth-century-takes-on-basic-income/

18. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/19/a-climate-of-unparalleled-malevolence-are-we-on-our-way-to-the-sixth-major-mass-extinction

19. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/anger-in-the-age-of-entitlement/202508/the-mental-health-of-haters

20. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/innovative-history-artificial-limb-stretches-far-back-ancient-egypt-180986568/?itm_source=related-content&itm_medium=parsely-api

Short stories 

1. https://www.pdfbooksworld.com/The-Royal-Life-Guard-by-Alexander-Dumas

2. https://www.pdfbooksworld.com/The-Variable-Man-by-Philip-K-Dick

TED Talk Daily 

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

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJYONMUkig8

Happy Reading