- The 2018 public domain graduates, including Aleister Crowley, René Magritte, Alice B. Toklas, Pierre Bonnard, and Winston Churchill! [via Public Domain Review]
- The history of dealing with lack of light in Scandanavia, and Happy Solstice! [via Mosaic Science]
- Aww, baby pictures of the internet from 1973! [via Open Culture]
- Close-ups of Jupiter from NASA look like impressionist art. [via Colossal]
- Our research fellow, Marcel LaFollette, weighs in on talking about science like it's magic. [via The Pulse, WHYY]
- Architect and photographer, Hiroshi Sugimoto, is revamping the Hirshhorn's lobby and it promises to be beautiful! [via Architectural Digest]
- One of the Smithsonian's Regent's, Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson, the first African-American woman to receive a PhD from MIT, is indeed remarkable. [via Technology Review]
- Who knew? Women took over the role of department store Santas during WWII. [via Smithsonian Magazine]
- The Minneapolis Institute of Art is starting a Center for Empathy and the Visual Arts "to convene philosophers, writers, artists, thought leaders, and others to research ways that the arts can make people more compassionate." [via Art News]
- Clio award-winning commercials will now have a permanent home at the Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive. [via IU Bloomington]
- Keep your eye out for this in 2018; a new podcast from NPR about "activist archivists, rogue librarians, curators, collectors and historians." [via Kitchen Sisters]
- A time-lapse of the shortest day of the year in Alaska. [via Vox]
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