These three people, and one conveyor belt, are digitizing millions of plant specimens

The Washington Post 2017-02-08

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At the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, three young museum scientists have taken on the mind-numbing but important task of the digitizing millions of dried plant specimens. This is what it's like.
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