Reading List by Rochelle Dsouza - Year 2026 - 8th July 2026

Hi 

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

1. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/05/the-guardian-view-on-gene-edited-humans-darker-uses-must-be-acknowledged-alongside-medical-ones

2. https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/7/7/the-world-cup-is-exposing-the-contradictions-of-national-identity

3. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/08/england-world-cup-joy-national-belonging

4. https://www.noemamag.com/when-the-machines-deserve-our-consideration/

5. https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/jun/30/theres-this-deep-mystery-of-what-actually-is-this-thing-the-philosopher-inside-google-deepmind

6. https://aeon.co/essays/the-radical-reasons-why-you-dream-of-making-things-by-hand

7. https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/christiaan-huygens-model-modern-scientist

8. https://daily.jstor.org/the-hidden-rules-of-fine-dining/

9. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-algorithmic-mind/202607/how-childrens-brains-pay-for-ai-twice

10. https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/how-ukraine-developed-world-leading-drone-technology-by-yuriy-gorodnichenko-et-al-2026-07

11. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/early-humans-may-have-used-fire-1-8-million-years-ago-nearly-doubling-the-age-of-the-oldest-known-evidence-for-the-feat-180989015/

12. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/ukraine-lesson-taiwan-keeps-missing

13. https://www.harvardmagazine.com/undergraduate-column/harvard-joseph-murray-transplantation

14. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/06/ai-open-ai-anthropic/687689/?gift=2DPnH7-w5PunRuGFjgT5W65-e70SL58v2FEQ4zHE2kI&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

15. https://aeon.co/essays/how-little-we-really-know-of-the-mighty-ming-dynasty

16. https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/theology-chocolate

17. https://daily.jstor.org/rudyard-kiplings-buddhism/

18. https://daily.jstor.org/the-return-of-floridas-wild-flamingos/

19. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/relationship-emporium/202607/why-grit-without-passion-is-just-suffering

20. https://philosophynow.org/issues/174/A_Critique_of_Antinatalism

Short stories

1. https://www.pdfbooksworld.com/A-Journal-of-the-Plague-Year-by-Daniel-Defoe

2. https://www.pdfbooksworld.com/Persuasion-by-Jane-Austen

Informative videos

1. Does working hard really make you a good person https://www.ted.com/embed/azim_shariff_does_working_hard_really_make_you_a_good_person

2. Why democracy requires renewal 

https://embed.ted.com/talks/michael_dimock_why_democracy_requires_renewal

Happy Reading