- There's a new sea slug on the block, the leaf sheep, aka Shaun the Sheep. If you can't get enough sea slugs, we have several illustrations of these fantastical creatures! [via My Modern Met]
- Our Smithsonian American Art Museum's Renwick Gallery will display 6 outdoor, large-scale artworks from Burning Man, including a five-ton cast cement bust, “Maya’s Mind” paying homage to Maya Angelou. [via Curbed DC]
- The Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute has released 500 variable harlequin frogs in Panama to reintroduce this endangered species to its environment. [via AOL]
- Exquisite visualizations of the human brain by the father of neurology, Santiago Ramón y Cajal, are on exhibit at NYU's Grey Gallery. [via NY Times]
- A new database of 20,000 musical instruments from 200 UK collections is now online. [via Classical Music]
- Cool research tool alert! Text Analyzer by JSTOR Labs lets you upload your own documents, analyzes it for native language and key topics, and then finds related content in JSTOR. [via Info Docket]
- A new Andrew Mellon-funded project, "Enslaved: The People of the Historic Slave Trade”, is creating an amazing Linked Open Data resource for African American geneologists and researchers studying the slave trade in America. [via Smithsonian Magazine]
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