- We have a date - The Renwick Gallery will be reopening on November 13, 2015! [via EyeLevel blog, SAAM]
- Years in the making - Sir Arthur C. Clarke's personal papers are acquired by the National Air and Space Museum Archives. [via AirSpace blog, NASM]
- Revolutionary war veterans - These are the few that lived long enough to have their portraits taken. [via PetaPixel]
- Your questions are answered about nests and their avian architects. [via Smithsonian Science News]
- Now online from Louisiana State University's Libraries, Special Collections is the collaborative digital collection: Free People of Color in Louisiana: Revealing an Unknown Past, a project "to digitize, index, and provide free access to family papers, business records, and public documents pertaining to free people of color in Louisiana and the lower Mississippi Valley." [via Jennifer Wright, SIA]
- Digital preservation - A sneek peak inside the Digital Art Vault at the Museum of Modern Art. [via Inside/Out blog, MOMA]
- Vindication at last - John Harrison, one of the world's greatest clockmakers, invented what he claimed to be the perfect pendulum clock in the mid-18th century. His peers at the time chastised and ridiculed Harrison's plan. At the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, Clock B as it's known - was recently constructed to Harrison's specifications - and has vindicated him by losing only five-eighths of a second over a period of 100 days setting a Guinness World Record. [via The Verge]
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