- Prepare for Hurricane Florence with advice on emergency preparedness, stabilizing paper damaged by water, and basic emergency response. [via The Bigger Picture]
- A graphic essay by Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell underscores the vital role of libraries and librarians — but you don't have to tell us twice! [via the Guardian]
- Morning Edition’s first installment of "The Keepers" profiles the Hip-hop Archive & Research Institute, a center for hip-hop scholarship at Harvard's Hutchins Center for African and African American Research. [via NPR]
- This fall, the National Museum of African American History and Culture's Sweet Home Cafe will be coming to book form! Preview the Sweet Home Cafe Cookbook, which features over one hundred recipes from NMAAHC's cafe. [via New York Times]
- Archaeologists studying funerary practices have discovered a jar of "lykion," or prescription eye cream (!?), in a tomb in western Turkey. [via Smithsonian Magazine]
- Over 6,000 art photographs from UC Santa Cruz's Pirkle Jones and Ruth-Marion Baruch Collection have been digitized, documenting decades of social and political change in California. [via INFOdocket]
- SAPIENS, a digital magazine for anthropology research, has launched a "podcast for everything human." [via SI Human Origins]
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