• “The Robot Guerrilla Campaign to Re-create the Elgin Marbles.” (New York Times)

• Why Picasso’s Guernica was initially hated by critics and viewers. (TheAtlantic.com)

• The history of Disney’s World War II propaganda films: “Mobilizing soldiers bound for combat and engaging civilians on the home front also led Disney to paint the enemy as immoral or even inhuman, most prominently in short films like Der Fuehrer’s Face, a 1943 cartoon starring Donald Duck; Commando Duck, which finds Donald facing down caricatured Japanese snipers in the Pacific; and Reason and Emotion, which argues that Hitler destroyed Germans’ reason by appealing to the emotions of fear, pride and hate.” (SmithsonianMag.com)

• “Posing as a scholar, a Chinese woman spent years writing alternative accounts of medieval Russian history on Chinese Wikipedia, conjuring imaginary states, battles, and aristocrats in one of the largest hoaxes on the open-source platform.” (Vice)

• Revisiting Nietzsche’s On the Uses and Disadvantages of History for Life. (The Hedgehog Review)

• “Cosmopolitan Africans, Before Colonialism.” (Moya)

• On the fight to integrate American golf courses: “The first fight was actually a class-based one. The sport was largely seen as a rich person’s pastime, but in the early 1900s, there was a push to provide public golf courses. As reported by a journalist in 1913, ‘Golf is and ought to be brought within the reach of all, poor or rich…in the interest of a better and saner citizenship.’ Such arguments worked, and cities across the nation began building municipal golf courses.” (JSTOR Daily)

• “After millions of years of frog evolution have elapsed, why are females still drowning during sex?” (Live Science)

• This week in obituaries: Luis Echeverría Alvarez, Francis X. Clines, Peter Mackridge, Ivana Trump, José Eduardo dos Santos, Gerald W. McEntee, Spider Webb, Monty Norman, Mark Fleischman, Adam Wade, Larry Storch, Barbara Thompson, and Ho Wang Lee.