Reading List by Rochelle Dsouza - Year 2025 - 29th September

Hi 

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

1. https://jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-of-the-post-literate-society-aa1

2. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/28/the-guardian-view-on-ai-and-jobs-the-tech-revolution-should-be-for-the-many-not-the-few

3. https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/9/25/from-auschwitz-to-bosnia-to-gaza-the-price-of-silence

4. https://daily.jstor.org/papering-over-history/

5. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/close-encounters/202509/the-social-power-of-live-events

6. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/can-scientists-help-oysters-thrive-again-180987331/

7. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/09/29/the-art-of-the-impersonal-essay

8. https://thecritic.co.uk/timeless-temples-of-the-written-word/

9. https://aeon.co/essays/the-planet-and-human-social-life-depend-on-peasant-farmers

10. https://daily.jstor.org/a-massive-eruption-74000-years-ago-affected-the-whole-planet/

11. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/marsquakes-allow-researchers-to-investigate-deep-into-the-red-planets-interior-180987286/

12. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2025/08/alchemy-gold-nuclear-fusion-marathon/683811/

13. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/29/german-car-industry-eu-ban-petrol-cars-2035

14. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/raising-resilient-children/202509/the-power-of-the-almost

15. https://philosophynow.org/issues/169/The_Meaning_of_a_Good_Life

16. https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/ai-investment-boom-pointless-unless-boosts-productivity-by-jim-o-neill-2025-09

17. https://aeon.co/essays/should-we-intervene-in-evolution-the-ethics-of-editing-nature

18. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/28/the-guardian-view-on-the-2025-booker-prize-bringing-posh-bingo-to-the-booktok-generation

19. https://aeon.co/essays/if-memory-is-precious-to-you-then-go-ahead-and-record-everything

20. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-find-both-a-medieval-dungeon-and-roman-burial-beneath-a-market-square-in-england-180987404/

Short stories 

1. https://www.pdfbooksworld.com/our-mutual-friend-pdf

2. https://www.pdfbooksworld.com/Nostromo-A-Tale-of-the-Seaboard-by-Joseph-Conrad

TED Talk Daily 

1. https://embed.ted.com/talks/kanika_chawla_inside_india_s_astonishing_solar_revolution

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

Happy Reading