- Proving yet again that there are still many mysteries left to be solved in the world, an unknown insect builds an intricate fence around their eggs. [via Colossal]
- Thousands of World War I soldiers' last wills and letters home are now available online. [via Motherboard]
- By now, most children across the country have started their new year of school and hundreds of thousands of "first day of school" pictures were taken. Cheri Frost at PetaPixel offers this humorous/educational piece on printing images to preserve them. [via PetaPixel]
- In the spirit of "back to school," the Library of Congress has compiled a list of video resources that K-12 educators can use to help teach about digitial preservation. [via The Signal: Digital Preservation, LOC]
- The power of maps and satellite imagery: Take a glimpse at what Chicago looked like before the Great Fire. [via Smithsonian Magazine]
- The QWERTY keyboard, DOS, VHS, and Blu-Ray, are but a few examples of standards that came to effect our lives in subtle ways. Take the number layout on your phone, seems pretty straight forward now, but in the 1950s Bell Labs tested no less than 17 different layouts before coming to what we use today. [via Paleofuture, Gizmodo]
- Keeping it straight: A discussion of the how to tell seemingly identical digital files apart from one another. [via The Signal: Digital Preservation, LOC]
- The National Library of Medicine recently released online a rare 1921 silent film on cancer prevention. [via Circulating Now, NLM]
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