• Found: fossil of a dinosaur that may have died the day of the asteroid strike. (The Guardian)

• Reconsidering the work of the Polish artist Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz. (The Public Domain Review)

• “A hole in a Triceratops named Big John probably came from combat.” (Science News)

• Visit an exhibition that asks, “What Does This Seventeenth-Century Painting Smell Like?” (SmithsonianMag.com)

• How to make the most accurate movie concerning Viking history ever: “On a bad day, you’re in the tenth month of the edit and you’re trying to deal with notes from a test screening in Texas, where the audience was befuddled by the Nordic accents, character names like Leifr Seal’s Testicle, and the unsettling moral outlook of tenth-century Iceland.” (The New Yorker)

• “Perhaps the most important supporter of maple sugar was Thomas Jefferson.” (JSTOR Daily)

• Listen to some Renaissance music. (New York Times)

• “Susan Strasser, a historian of American consumer culture, stressed that consumer expectations in the U.S. are a corporate creation. She pointed to the example of the mail-order business in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, brought about by companies such as Sears and Montgomery Ward. Previously, most people relied a lot on things that were locally produced, often by people they knew. When they were able to order by mail from catalogues sent to their homes, the whole system changed. ‘What it meant was everything American manufacturing was producing was available to people,’ she said. ‘That kind of consumption, that kind of distribution, that kind of merchandising coincided with an avalanche of stuff.’ ” (Vox)

• This week in obituaries: Patrick Demarchelier, Estelle Harris, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Patricia MacLachlan, Doris Derby, Budi Tek, Eric Boehlert, Nehemiah Persoff, Lygia Fagundes Telles, Alan J. Hruska, Richard Howard, Tommy Davis, C.W. McCall, Ted Mooney, John Bushnell, Michelle Materre, Donald Baechler, Richard Rome, Roland White, Francisco González, June Shagaloff Alexander, Joe Messina, Margaret M. McGowan, Bobby Rydell, and Terry Wallis.