- Join us and other archives around the U.S. to ask questions on Twitter Wednesday, 10/5. #AskAnArchivist [via SAA]
- A new project looking at the role photography plays in science, with an essay from our own, Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette on the credit due to scientist Rosalind Franklin. [via curator Marvin Heiferman]
- The International Criminal Court has ruled that destroying cultural sites is a war crime. [via Art Newspaper]
- UK's Natural History Museum has released 300,000 dinosaurs (including some VR) to Google's Arts & Culture site. [via Huffington Post]
- Great horn spoon! Check out these old-fashioned swear words. [via Mental Floss]
- Fun for the family: the National Archives just released a new collection of gifs! [via Washingtonian]
- Some web archiving news from SAA's 2016 Partner Meeting. [via SAA]
- The black female mathematicians who helped to put men on the moon in segregated America. [via NPR]
- The precursor to Pantone, Smithsonian Ornithologist Robert Ridgway...and check out his bird studies in our collection! [via Hyperallergic]
- And in case you missed our behind-the-scenes with Smithsonian historian, Pam Henson...
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