Reading List by Rochelle Dsouza - Year 2026 - 10th February

 Hi 

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

1. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/05/britain-manufacturing-power-developing-country-lessons-china

2. https://aeon.co/essays/we-cooperate-to-survive-but-if-no-ones-looking-we-compete

3. https://www.americanscientist.org/blog/science-culture/the-changing-communities-of-the-arctic

4. https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/object-museum-oldest-egyptian-drilling-tool-found-1234772829/

5. https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/please-dont-let-elon-musk-implant-a-device-in-your-skull

6. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/experimentations/202602/how-do-humans-stay-essential-in-an-ai-economy

7. https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/09/1132537/a-lesson-from-pokemon/

8. https://www.harvardmagazine.com/research/harvard-humans-walking-bipedalism-evolutionary-biology

9. https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/coffee-poets-16th-century-islam

10. https://daily.jstor.org/when-maos-mango-mania-took-over-china/

11. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/if-microbes-entered-the-olympics-these-one-celled-superstars-would-win-gold-180988135/

12. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/dear-life-please-improve/202602/how-many-days-a-week

13. https://aeon.co/essays/what-the-metaphor-of-rewiring-gets-wrong-about-neuroplasticity

14. https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/2/5/its-time-for-the-world-to-boycott-the-us

15. https://aeon.co/essays/in-solarpunk-cities-of-the-future-tech-follows-natures-lead

16. https://daily.jstor.org/how-cold-war-orphans-sang-their-way-into-american-hearts/

17. https://www.noemamag.com/society-needs-a-doctors-prescription-for-nature/

18. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/afghanistan-was-a-crossroad-of-the-ancient-world-where-hellenistic-culture-blended-with-buddhist-influences-180988065/

19. https://time.com/7372666/science-communication-extraterrestrial-life-in-space/

20. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-stoic-heart-the-human-whole/202602/the-hidden-cost-of-being-rational-all-the-time

Short stories

1. https://www.pdfbooksworld.com/Myths-and-Legends-of-Ancient-Greece-and-Rome-by-EM-Berens

2. https://www.pdfbooksworld.com/The-Game-by-Jack-London

 

Informative videos 

1. The brilliance of bridges and roads that repair themselves https://www.ted.com/talks/mark_miodownik_the_brilliance_of_bridges_and_roads_that_repair_themselves

2. A different way to measure success in health https://www.ted.com/talks/andrew_bastawrous_a_different_way_to_measure_success_in_health_care

Happy Reading