• “Stonehenge builders may have enjoyed mince pies.” (The Guardian)

• Revisiting Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth. (The New Yorker)

• “This dinosaur had a weapon shaped like an Aztec war club on its tail.” (Science News)

• A history of face surveillance. (Public Books)

• “For nearly three hundred years, one of the most important and idiosyncratic texts of Indigenous American literature remained forgotten, accumulating dust in some neglected corner of the Royal Danish Library.” (JSTOR Daily)

• Meet Rita Levi-Montalcini. (Nautilus)

• “How a Transylvanian Mystic Made Sprouted-Grain Bread a Californian Ritual.” (Vice)

• The philosophical ramifications of becoming a hot vampire. (Decoder Ring)

• This week in obituaries: Stephen Sondheim, Virgil Abloh, Sylvia Weinstock, Lee Elder, Marcus Lamb, János Kornai, Jakucho Setouchi, David Gulpilil, Ray Kennedy, Carrie Meek, Arlene Dahl, Joanne Shenandoah, Wakefield Poole, Ken Moffett, Norodom Ranariddh, Malcolm Molyneux, Alvin Lucier, Charles Moose, Alan Paller, Emi Wada, Kariamu Welsh, Philip Heymann, Don Demeter, Adolfo, Doyle Hamm, Noah Gordon, and Jonathan Penrose.