• Using Digitized Botany Specimens, AI Excels in Simple Curatorial Tasks
• Coin-Laden Pot and Rare Pendant Among British Museum’s Record Haul
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Dog or Cat Person?
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• Did a Viral Study ‘Prove’ Dogs Are Smarter Than Cats? Not Quite
• Which Are Smarter, Cats or Dogs? New Study Gives Us the Answer
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Unusual Museums
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• Is It Time We Built a Museum of the History of American History?
• A South London Park of Inaccurate Dinosaur Sculptures That Must Legally Stay Inaccurate
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Reading Recollections
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Slip into the Library
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• A Hilarious Japanese Game Show Featuring Contestants Struggling to Climb Slippery Stairs
• Slippery Stairs Is the Japanese Game Show the World Never Knew It Needed
• The Stairs in a Viral Sensation Public Library in Ch…
Bedtime Stories
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• The 100 Best Nonfiction Books of All Time: No 92 — The Diary of Samuel Pepys (1660)
• Umberto Eco on Unread Books
• Found: A Long-Lost Copy of John Donne’s Fart-Filled Satire
• 12 of the World’s Most …
Books to School
• Jimbocho: Spending a Day in Tokyo’s Book District
• Drawn and Quarterly’s Incredible Montreal Book Store
• A Love Letter Fell out of an Old Paris Guidebook — and Set a Filmmaker on an Obsessive Quest
• New Zealand Library Cracks Case of the Missing Books
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Book Drops
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• The Horse-Riding Librarians of the Great Depression
• Blood, Bookworms, Bosoms and Bottoms: The Secret Life of Libraries
• Terry Pratchett’s Unfinished Novels Destroyed by Steamroller
• Terry Pratchett’s Unfinished Works Were Just Crushe…