• New: a previously unseen profile of James Baldwin. (Literary Hub)

• Now available: Hannah Arendt’s complete archives. (Library of Congress)

• “Who ever heard of having to pass a bill to feed hungry people?” On Fannie Lou Hamer’s Freedom Farm Cooperative. (Atlas Obscura)

• On our “preoccupation with soap bubbles.” (JSTOR Daily)

• A history of teaching machines: “People have been using technology in the classroom since the beginning.” (EdSurge)

• Ancient Andean “Echenique Disc” returns to Peru. (Hyperallergic)

• The rise of the devil from Dante to Goethe: “How did a somewhat minor character from the Old Testament evolve into a versatile shorthand for all manner of human evil?” (Aeon)

• “In 1883, the New York Times announced that ‘many women…if they had the opportunity, would select other women as husbands rather than marry men.’ ” (London Review of Books)

• A bird in the mouth—found in the eighteenth-century skeleton of a Polish preteen. (LiveScience)

• Unearthed from a Byzantine-era settlement: “The archaeologists were shocked to discover the fragile ancient chicken egg, which was perfectly preserved a millennium ago by being initially pillowed in soft human poop inside the cesspit.” (Times of Israel)

• This week in obituaries: Kenneth Kaunda, Martha White, Rezo Gabriadze, Jack Weinstein, Ei-ichi Negishi, Ned Beatty, Lois Ehlert, Carol Jarecki, Richard Baron, Lee Ross, William vanden Heuvel, Mudcat Grant, Karla Burns, Gottfried Böhm, Damaris Hayman, Lisa Banes, Brigitte Gerney, Richard R. Ernst, Donald York, Milton Moses Ginsberg, Ben Roberts, Ailsa Land, James Crawford, and Janet Malcolm.