- Help transcribe wine labels for the University of California, Davis, to contribute to the understanding of the post-Prohibition wine industry. [via Hyperallergic]
- Getty hired its first semantic architect, Rob Sanderson, who will work on their open culture initiatives. [via Iris]
- A hidden Degas portrait revealed by a particle accelerator! [via NY Times]
- The California Academy of Science's "Science in Action" TV series is now on the Internet Archive. [via Internet Archive/Twitter]
- A Chrysler crushed by a large boulder goes on display at the Hirshhorn tomorrow. Here's the man who did it. [via Smithsonian Magazine]
- Ancient Egyptian papyri reveals details about the labor used to build the pyramids. [via Hyperallergic]
- There are now 500,000 sounds on Europeana! [via Europeana Sounds]
- New evidence made possible by archives (including ours) and forensic science: how 19th century Smithsonian naturalist Robert Kennicott's died on expedition. #ArchivesMystery solved! [via Washington Post]
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