The National Museum of American History remembers comedian Phyllis Diller, and takes a peek into her "gag file" at the museum.- A giant labyrinth constructed from 250,000 books [via Mitch Toda, SIA].
- New "beautiful books" added to Stanford’s Digital Repository, including “the universe as Galileo showed it to his contemporaries . . . (and) Dr. Johnson pitching his idea for the first serious English dictionary” [via Effie Kapsalis, SIA].
- The Field Book Project reports on some of the incredible entomology field books of Harrison Gray Dyar (1826-1929), which include beautiful watercolors of his specimens.
- Half of the world’s languages face extinction.
- More Wikipedia news: our former Wikipedian-in-Residence, Sarah Stierch, talks about the Archives’ successful Women in Science edit-a-thon and what Wikipedia is doing to get more female editors and content on one of the world’s most popular websites.
- The Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility was renamed was renamed the Chandra X-ray Observatory in honor of the late astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, who passed away this week seventeen years ago. In honor of "Chandra," as he was nicknamed, explore the Chandra X-ray Observatory set on the Smithsonian Flickr Commons [via Effie Kapsalis, SIA].
- The Smithsonian Institution Libraries won an Emmy Award for this video, which highlights the treasures in what is the world’s largest museum library system:
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