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

Hi 

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

1. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/08/punctuation-internet-texting-generational-divide/687632/?gift=2DPnH7-w5PunRuGFjgT5W416IM_cs0qoixOsQXByY9I&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campai

2. https://aeon.co/essays/uncovering-a-global-ancient-history-beyond-greece-and-rome

3. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/20/the-guardian-view-on-humanities-cuts-in-universities-academic-departments-are-more-than-cost-centres

4. https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/7/18/europe-should-look-to-africa-for-heatwave-solutions

5. https://daily.jstor.org/what-happened-to-the-bones-of-the-american-bison/

6. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/nurturing-resilience/202607/creativity-and-curiosity-are-still-important-in-the-age-of-ai

7. https://www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/inequality-electoral-democracy-piketty-cage-history-of-political-conflict-by-harold-james-2026-07

8. https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/american-architecture-sprawl-suburbs-postmodernism/

9. https://www.americanscientist.org/article/policies-support-miners%E2%80%99-health

10. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/could-life-exist-on-this-nearby-world-in-a-first-astronomers-find-an-atmosphere-on-an-earth-like-exoplanet-in-the-habitable-zone-180989149/

11. https://www.noemamag.com/why-we-demand-perfect-machines-yet-tolerate-human-carnage/

12. https://aeon.co/essays/the-rural-french-priest-who-preached-atheism-to-the-people

13. https://aeon.co/videos/why-we-should-think-of-intelligence-in-terms-of-goals-not-brains

14. https://www.historytoday.com/archive/behind-times/british-bombs-down-under

15. https://daily.jstor.org/the-debate-over-pictures-in-science/

16. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/lets-talk/202607/the-importance-of-understanding-regret

17. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/darwins-subterranean-world/202607/darwin-racism-canva-and-ai

18. https://hedgehogreview.com/issues/the-fading-promise-of-higher-education/articles/foot-soldiers-of-financialization

19. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/this-19th-century-diary-written-by-an-enslaved-maryland-man-is-a-crucial-record-of-his-life-and-family-historyand-the-only-one-of-its-kind-found-in-the-united-states-180989146/

20. https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/gratacap-curator-in-lost-worlds/

Short stories

1. https://americanliterature.com/author/f-scott-fitzgerald/short-story/the-ice-palace

2. https://americanliterature.com/author/guy-de-maupassant/short-story/a-grandmothers-advice

Informative videos

1. Why Big Tech is incompatible with democracy https://www.ted.com/talks/bruno_giussani_why_big_tech_is_incompatible_with_democracy

2. The power of imagination — onstage and off https://www.ted.com/talks/suki_hillier_the_power_of_imagination_onstage_and_off

Happy Reading