Go visit a museum this winter—it’s good for you! [via Popular Science]
An exhibit at The Photographers’ Gallery in London will display “glitches” from Google Books—images of the scanning technicians’ hands. [via Wired]
As part of an ongoing project, San Diego State University digitized hundreds of letters from asylum seekers being held at the Otay Mesa Detention Center. [via infoDOCKET]
Historians working at York University’s Borthwick Institute for Archives rediscovered the story of a 14th-century nun who escaped her convent by making a dummy of herself. [via the Guardian]
The New York Times profiles the old shoes, films, and records that constitute the Jerome Robbins Dance Division of the New York Public Library. [via New York Times]
The Library of Congress debuted “African American Passages,” a podcast telling stories, pulled from its manuscript collections, of 19th- century African Americans. [via Kluge Center]
A new journal article in “Genetics” confirms that the programmers behind computational population genetic research in the 1970s and 1980s were largely female (and overlooked). [via the Atlantic]
A digital database of “runaway ads,” documenting some of the people who sought freedom from American slavery, just launched. [via Ed Baptist]
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