Looks like the 🐱's out of the bag and into our digital collections!⁠ ⁠ Check out our latest Collections Blog post "Here, Kitty, Kitty . . ." as our director of Library Services and Collections Blog coeditor, Gabriela Zoller, explores all the feline friends hiding in our collections.⁠ ⁠ You'll also get to see some candids of the cutest cats *ever* submitted by our staff!⁠ ⁠ Tap the link below for some paw-sitive 🐈️ vibes!⁠ (fb)

📢 NEW PODCAST EPISODE 📢⁠ It was one of the largest epidemics in American history: 30,000 men became paralyzed over the course of a few months in 1930. A dogged epidemiologist eventually traced the cause to adulterated bottles of a medicine called “jake,” which was being sold illegally (during Prohibition) as booze. Despite the massive number of victims, historians all but forgot about the epidemic. About the only place it survived was in blues songs in the South, and historians have been using old blues lyrics to piece together certain aspects of the ailment otherwise lost to time. In the latest episode of The Disappearing Spoon Podcast, listen as Sam Kean details this huge epidemic that virtually vanishes without a trace. 🍻Tap the link below to listen now! ⬇ https://www.sciencehistory.org/stories/disappearing-pod/the-jake-leg-blues/ (fb)