- Please pass the salt: Artist Motoi Yamamoto poured one of his immense, twisting clouds of salt, title "Floating Garden" recently at the Mint Museum Uptown in Charlotte, North Carolina. The piece was created over several weeks from February through March before a crowd of attendees was permitted to destroy it. [via Colossal]
- Newly on display at the National Museum of American History is a Philadelphia-style fire engine. [via O Say Can You See?, NMAH]
- While we may take for granted our ability to instaneouly share images with people across vast distances, in 1926 the ability to do so was a really big deal. [via PetaPixel]
- To compliment the One World, Many Voices: Endangered Languages and Cultural Heritage portion of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival is this piece on photographer Chris Rainier and his efforts to document endangered societies in New Guinea, South America and Africa. [via Lens, The New York Times]
- The National Library of Medicine recently launched their new blog, Circulating Now, which features items from its historical collections. [via InfoDocket]
- The Smithsonian Envrionmental Reseach Center launched a new video series, "Ecosystems on the Edge," which looks at environments that are both literally and figuratively on the edge of collapse. [via Smithsonian Science]
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Link Love: 7/5/2013
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