Chicago's Newberry Library tackled medieval health advice in a recent Facebook Live event. [via Newberry Library]
More excitement in medieval medicine: Irish-language fragments of a seminal Persian text were discovered in a book binding! [via the Guardian]
Make some (voting rights) music out of “Women's Suffrage in Sheet Music,” a digital collection just released by the Library of Congress. [via infoDOCKET]
Thanks to ancient crocodile lunches, biologists recently identified two new species of ancient rodents! [via iDigBio]
![Saltwater Crocodile "Biggy" at National Zoological Park, 1973, Smithsonian Institution Archives, SIA Acc. 11-009 [73-8261]. Saltwater Crocodile "Biggy" at National Zoological Park](https://ids.si.edu/ids/iiif/SIA-73-8261/full/425,/0/default.jpg)
Psychology researchers have learned that architects and the general public don’t agree on curvy buildings. [via IMLS]
According to a newly-published study, natural phenomena are only a little more seasonal than their pageviews on Wikipedia. [via Discover]
A New York Times science writer explains how exploding grapes in microwaves might lead to new avenues of research. [via NYT Science]
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