- Meet the newest (and adorable) member of our National Zoo's family. She sparked an epic cute battle on Twitter! [via WTOP]
- Maybe not so adorable, a prehistoric "badger otter." [via Smithsonian Magazine]
- The National Museum of American History's political curators were busy last weekend collecting artifacts from the Inauguration and Women's March. [via Voice of America]
- Speaking of the Women's March, they are assembling their own archive of the event.
- The preservation of digital collections and research data is an enormous challenge. Here's a newly released report on the Smithsonian's state of affairs led by our Director, Anne Van Camp.
- 17th-century artist, botanist, and entomologist, Maria Sibylla Merian, was indeed a groundbreaker. See can see some of her work in the Biodiversity Heritage Library. [via NY Times]
- 2017 best children's books from the American Library Association. [via ALA]
- A new project on visual imagery in science, Seeing Science, created by a former Bigger Picture contributor, Marvin Heiferman, and featuring our own, Marcel LaFollette. [via Hyperallergic]
- Hear Voder, a 1939 attempt to synethsize the human voice. [via Open Culture]
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