- Perfect fodder for animated gifs; zootropes. [via Unfunk]
- Send SFMOMA a text and it will respond with art! [via SFMOMA]
- Eerie plaster casts of people and animals in their final moments before being buried in Pompeii. [via Atlas Obscura]
- Weighing newborn babies wasn't "a thing" until the 20th century. [via O Say Can You See, National Museum of American History]
- Archives Unleashed was awarded a new grant from the Mellon Foundation to develop web archive search and data analysis tools. [via York University]
- The provenance of major artworks is mapped with open source software. [via hyperallergic]
- Stanford researchers helped digitize 1000s of images of Rome which are now online. [via Stanford News]
- Calling all archivists, musicians, dancers, storytellers, and visual and performing artists! We need you to collaborate with us on the 2017 Archives Fair.
- Anxious about the total solar eclipse on August 21? You can find out how many eclipses there will be in your lifetime. [via Smithsonian Magazine and WAPO]
- Oh, Bei Bei. [via WAPO]
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