Reading List by Rochelle Dsouza - Year 2026 - 22nd April

Hi 

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

1. https://www.noemamag.com/why-ai-needs-a-sense-of-smell/

2. https://hedgehogreview.com/web-features/thr/posts/the-man-who-invented-the-future

3. https://aeon.co/essays/you-know-what-consciousness-is-you-live-in-soul-land

4. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/21/the-guardian-view-on-the-true-cost-of-the-iran-war-bombs-kill-but-so-does-the-economic-fallout

5. https://daily.jstor.org/islands-of-the-imagination/

6. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/to-end-human-trafficking/202604/why-people-risk-their-lives-for-animals-in-war

7. https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/morocco-development-story-improvisation-not-grand-schemes-by-abdelmalek-alaoui-2026-04

8. https://philosophynow.org/issues/173/Islamic_Law_Reform_and_Philosophy

9. https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/panipat-rise-mughals

10. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/22/masculinity-gender-climate-crisis

11. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-does-this-newly-discovered-2000-year-old-stone-slab-depict-a-roman-emperor-as-an-egyptian-pharaoh-180988549/

12. https://www.theglobalist.com/the-true-meaning-of-civilizational-erasure/

13. https://daily.jstor.org/the-immigrant-photographers-who-shaped-a-nations-image/

14. https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/4/16/legal-migrants-remain-vulnerable-to-trafficking

15. https://aeon.co/essays/lessons-from-the-fairness-of-african-fractal-societies

16. https://aeon.co/essays/how-understanding-bioenergetics-can-help-our-brain-health

17. https://daily.jstor.org/how-america-racialized-the-robot/

18. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/blindspotting/202604/why-leadership-traits-dont-determine-a-successful-leader

19. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/whatever-happened-to-the-ozone-hole-acid-rain-and-ddt/

20. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/ancient-humans-mastered-fire-now-burning-fossil-fuels-and-blazing-landscapes-threaten-to-undo-the-world-180988531/

Short stories

1. https://americanliterature.com/author/ts-arthur/short-story/an-angel-in-disguise

2. https://americanliterature.com/author/f-scott-fitzgerald/short-story/the-diamond-as-big-as-the-ritz

Informative videos 

1. Why do you love your favorite songs? https://www.ted.com/talks/scarlet_keys_why_do_you_love_your_favorite_songs

2. The problem with billionaires — and the debut of True Net Worth https://www.ted.com/talks/randall_lane_the_problem_with_billionaires_and_the_debut_of_true_net_worth

Happy Reading