- An unexpected outcome from the 37k new public domain images from The Metropolitan Museum of Art: The new Twitter account Face-Swap The Met. [via Twitter]
- Coders are working to archive NASA data. [via WIRED]
- “With this award, you recognize more than me. You recognize the power of history.” Powerful words from Lonnie Bunch, founding director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, after winning the NAACP President’s Award! [via The Washington Post]
- Post-Valentine’s Day love lessons from Art History. [via Google Arts & Culture]
- Celebrating Frederick Douglass’ birthday with a transcribe-a-thon of the 19th-century Colored Conventions (and some cake!). [via the Colored Conventions Project]
- The Internet Archive is one of eight semifinalists in the MacArthur Foundation’s 100&Change competition for projects aimed at solving a global issue. [via The New York Times]
- Dreaming of summer weekends? Meet Lonnie Johnson, the inventor of a childhood favorite--the Super Soaker. [via the National Museum of American History’s Lemelson Center]
- Amazing photos from the Washington National Cathedral’s “Seeing Deeper” exhibition. [via The Washingtonian]
- Explore every art exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art since 1929 via the MoMA Exhibition Spelunker tool. [via Open Culture]
- Saying “bye-bye” to Bao Bao, who is leaving the Smithsonian’s National Zoo for China on February 21st. [via Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute]
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