- A new blog I’m loving: the US National Archives’ Preservation team profiles their work on a Tumblr blog.
- How in the world did the tiny town of Oak Ridge, Tennessee become the secret site for the US government’s WWII program that developed the atom bomb? The Atlantic gives a peek behind the scenes with a set of archival photos.
- In honor of a new exhibit, Books That Shaped America, the Library of Congress has released a list of 88 books that shaped our country. They have asked the general public to nominate more titles for the list—you can give your input at the Library of Congress website.
- From Brain Pickings: 10 centuries of visualizing the human body in rare archival Images at The National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland.
- Could you tell if you were chatting with a human or a computer? Test yourself with one of the computer programs profiled over at Smithsonian Magazine.
- Could online databases be the key to saving the world’s languages? Google has launched the Endangered Languages Project—an online resource to record, access, and share samples of and research on endangered languages:
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