- Come join the fun! The DC Caucus of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archves Conference and the National Archives Assembly are having an archives fair on Thursday, April 3 at the National Archives Building in Washington, DC. [via Prologue: Pieces of History, NARA]
- Interesting fact, that may or may not be surprising to some . . . A new study coming out finds that only 11% of new Twitter users in 2012 are still tweeting. [via InfoDocket]
- Hey, be careful of that first step. On April 2, the National Air and Space Museum will be adding to its permanent collections the capsule that carried Austrian parachutist Felic Baumgartner to 39,044 meters (128,100 feet) over Roswell, New Mexico and the pressure suit and parachute that he used from an earlier jump from 29,455 meters. [via AirSpace blog, NASM]
- Seems like curatorship is everywhere these days, from peoples' Pintrest pages to curated collections at retail shops, magazines, and websites. Leslie Johnston delves into this emergent phenomena of "curation." [via The Signal: Digital Preservation, LOC]
- Another quiz you just have to take - Which Royal Institution speaker or scientist are you? (James Smithson played a part in the history the Royal Institution, not to mention being the founding donor of the Smithsonian) [via The Royal Institution]
- A call to action . . . preserving audio for the future is a race against time. [via NPR]
- Another call, this time from the National Archives to all the citizen archivists out there to help caption videos on Amara. [via NARAtions, NARA]
- Announced this week - The Canadian Museum of Nature launches a new site with 710,000 records of plants, animals, fossils, and minerals that are part of the museum’s national collections. [via InfoDocket]
- Last week we shared the awesome animated gifs of Hungarian/German graphic designer David Szakaly, this week comes the more tactile, but equally incredible mosaic patterns done in wet clay by Mikhail Sadovnikov. [via Colossal]
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