- There is mini baby boom at the National Zoo! A female Przewalski's horse — the first to be born via artificial insemination — was born in July and the Sumatran tiger, Damai, gave birth to two cubs on Monday. [via e-Torch, SI]
- The One Week | One Tool team launched Serendip-o-matic, a search tool that takes in any text, such as an article, song lyrics, or a bibliography and then extracts key terms, delivering related results from the collections of the Digital Public Library of America, Europeana, and Flickr Commons. [via Effie Kapsalis, SIA]
- The power of photographs and their ability to capture singular moments in one's life can't be overstated. Recently Sports Illustrated writer Richard Deitsch asked his Twitter followers to share their photographs of the single best moment in their life. [via PetaPixel]
- Behind the scenes: National Air and Space Museum and Museum Conservation Institute interns get an inside look at how spacesuit gloves are made at the International Latex Corporation Dover. [via AirSpace, NASM]
- As Shark Week winds down, SIA's Courtney Bellizzi reflects on hammerheads and searching for sharks in the Archives. [via Smithsonian Collections Blog]
- In memoriam: Marvin Sadik, former director of the National Portrait Gallery, 1969-1981, passed away this past May in Falmouth, Maine. [via facetoface, NPG]
- Stories told and saved, StoryCorps and digital preservation at the Library of Congress. [via The Signal: Digital Preservation, LOC]