Reading List by Rochelle Dsouza - Year 2025 - 22nd September

Hi 

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

1. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/10/dictionary-survival-language-evolution/683976/?gift=ih3Agm7ZTQUXUY2wyHjxRK8RuzGlAmuFsUWQaYzGomg&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign

2. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/18/ai-authors-publishing-regulation

3. https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/9/15/indonesias-climate-ambitions-cant-shine-in-the-dark

4. https://aeon.co/essays/why-quantum-mechanics-needs-phenomenology

5. https://daily.jstor.org/miners-and-monkeys/

6. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/did-an-enslaved-chocolatier-help-hercules-mulligan-foil-a-plot-to-assassinate-george-washington-180987327/

7. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/national-museum-of-natural-history/2025/09/18/how-did-the-ostrich-cross-the-ocean-its-ancestors-flew-there/

8. https://theamericanscholar.org/the-great-american-travel-book/

9. https://jmarriott.substack.com/p/a-youtube-education

10. https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/art-market-reporting-doom-coverage-1234751514/

11. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/22/gen-z-generation-agonises-over-how-to-act-what-to-say-opinion

12. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/21/the-guardian-view-on-wedgwoods-challenges-potteries-face-an-existential-crisis

13. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/09/19/film/youtuber-gigguk-anime/

14. https://aeon.co/essays/how-chinese-religious-traditions-shape-corporate-generosity

15. https://daily.jstor.org/misunderstood-malthus/

16. https://philosophynow.org/issues/108/What_is_Art_and_or_What_is_Beauty

17. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/perfectionism/202509/why-perfectionists-tend-to-fear-success

18. https://aeon.co/essays/hidden-volcanoes-are-we-ignoring-the-next-big-eruption

19. https://www.historytoday.com/archive/head-head/how-have-cults-shaped-american-history

20. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/social-instincts/202509/the-no-1-predictor-of-romantic-success

Short stories 

1. https://www.pdfbooksworld.com/Four-Arthurian-Romances-by-Chretien-DeTroyes

2. https://www.pdfbooksworld.com/The-Mirror-of-the-Sea

TED Talk Daily 

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

2. https://www.ted.com/talks/amy_barnes_will_climate_change_make_your_home_uninsurable

Happy Reading