Reading List by Rochelle Dsouza - Year 2026 - 28th January

 Hi 

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

1. https://colinmcginn.net/a-really-brief-history-of-knowledge/

2. https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/1/21/ais-growing-thirst-for-water-is-becoming-a-public-health-risk

3. https://daily.jstor.org/a-history-of-fakery-on-film/

4. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/play-your-way-sane/202512/new-research-on-the-cognitive-science-of-creativity

5. https://thepointmag.com/criticism/through-animal-eyes/

6. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2026/01/27/climate-change/ready-rise-extreme-heat-scientists/

7. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/case-upending-world-trade

8. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-british-crown-enslaved-thousands-at-the-height-of-the-trans-atlantic-slave-trade-new-research-reveals-their-stories-180988005/

9. https://www.noemamag.com/the-politics-of-planetary-color/

10. https://aeon.co/essays/anyons-the-two-dimensional-particles-that-reframe-reality

11. https://aeon.co/essays/sure-ai-can-do-writing-but-memoir-not-so-much

12. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/26/the-guardian-view-on-a-second-ice-killing-in-minneapolis-midnight-in-america-

13. https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/1/27/why-neoliberalism-cant-build-peace

14. https://philosophynow.org/issues/88/Ecological_Ethics

15. https://www.harvardmagazine.com/harvard-kennedy-school-of-government/harvard-kennedy-center-creators-podcasts-democracy

16. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/27/air-pollution-kills-thousands-london-ulez

17. https://www.historytoday.com/miscellanies/creatures-devoured-leningrad

18. https://daily.jstor.org/memorys-role-in-chiles-democratic-rebirth/

19. https://hedgehogreview.com/issues/place-and-revolution/articles/the-sword-and-the-secular-state

20. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/feeling-good/202601/how-scientists-finally-learned-to-measure-the-placebo-effect

Short stories

1. https://americanliterature.com/author/stephen-crane/short-story/a-dark-brown-dog

2. https://americanliterature.com/author/o-henry/short-story/the-cactus

 

Informative videos 

1. 3 possible futures for AI — which will we choose?- https://www.ted.com/talks/alvin_w_graylin_manoush_zomorodi_3_possible_futures_for_ai_which_will_we_choose

2. What I learned from cooking my way across a continent - https://www.ted.com/talks/dieuveil_malonga_what_i_learned_from_cooking_my_way_across_a_continent

Happy Reading