Reading List by Rochelle Dsouza - Year 2025 - 6th October

Hi 

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

1. https://hedgehogreview.com/issues/lessons-of-babel/articles/the-kafka-challenge

2. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/montana-mountain-king-marco-polo-argali-sheep-cloning-labs.html

3. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/how-shawarma-became-a-soul-food-of-syrias-diaspora-in-berlin-180987437/

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

5. https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/noahs-ark-and-slave-trade

6. https://aeon.co/essays/one-womans-eye-witness-account-of-life-under-taliban-rule

7. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/06/positive-thinking-can-make-success-feel-like-the-only-acceptable-option-but-humility-allows-for-grace

8. https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/10/3/nepals-leaderless-gen-z-revolution-has-changed-the-rules-of-power

9. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/jane-goodall-legendary-primatologist-and-anthropologist-dies-at-91-180984251/

10. https://time.com/7322887/japan-sanae-takaichi-ldp-leader-election-first-female-prime-minister/

11. https://daily.jstor.org/the-bee-dance-debate/

12. https://www.harvardmagazine.com/health-medicine/harvard-mass-general-anitmicrobial-resistance-antibiotics

13. https://culturedump.substack.com/p/defining-gothic

14. https://aeon.co/essays/how-nothing-has-inspired-art-and-science-for-millennia

15. https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/oct/04/my-cultural-awakening-ratatouille-film-insomnia

16. https://www.derekthompson.org/p/the-end-of-thinking

17. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/raising-resilient-children/202510/the-case-for-gifted-education

18. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/raising-resilient-children/202510/the-roots-and-evolution-of-psychological-science

19. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/decades-old-data-from-saturns-moon-enceladus-hints-at-favorable-conditions-for-life-180987439/

20. https://nautil.us/the-divers-who-stretch-the-limits-of-human-biology-1240106/?_sp=c795fbc5-f0a0-46c0-a761-baa67611d154.1759733306486

Short stories 

1. https://www.pdfbooksworld.com/The-Defenders-by-Philip-K-Dick

2. https://www.pdfbooksworld.com/The-Sign-of-the-Four-by-Arthur-Conan-Doyle

TED Talk Daily 

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

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

Happy Reading