Sea Snakes, Panama, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, 1986, by Carl C. Hansen. Smithsonian Institution Archives, Acc. 11-009, Image no. 89-5407.

Link Love: 9/4/2020

Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.
September 4, 2020, by Deborah Shapiro

Help the End of Term Web Archive collect .gov web captures for 2020! [via End of Term Web Archive]

The Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center is beginning to unlock the mysteries of the realm of birds having baby birds. [via Smithsonian Magazine]

Find cross-cultural, time-traveling art doppelgangers with a new algorithm from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology! [via artnet]

The contents of an Arkansas attic revealed new photos from the day Central High School was to be desegregated. [via Arkansas Times] 

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Atlas Obscura profiles the Fantastic Grandmothers, a group of senior divers who study sea snakes! [via Atlas Obscura]

Delve deep into the Renaissance with the Newberry Library's new “time machine.” [via Digital Newberry] 

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Digital humanist Lidia Ponce de la Vega discusses how new digital initiatives could begin to decolonize Latin American biodiversity knowledge. [via Biodiversity Heritage Library]  

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