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| DATE | 2017-04-02 |
| FROM | ruben safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [Hangout of NYLXS] Good links
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On 04/01/2017 07:11 PM, RSNorman wrote:
>> Yeah, the problem is the same with a lot of the websites I have
>> encountered over the years. The TO Archive has lost a lot of activity
>> since '06, they don't even post the POTM anymore, the Panda's Thumb has
>> now changed to a new format, Palaeos is still scrounging in the dirt,
>> UCMP hasn't been updated in ages et cetera.
>>
>> Wikipedia is up to date, but there are a lot of stub pages on
>> paleontology, Wikipedia editors seem more concerned with Dinosaurs, a
>> subject I don't have much preference for, I prefer fossil mammals, and
>> there's always the inevitable [citation needed]. I look at journal
>> papers, but a lot of the big stuff are behind fire walls.
>>
>> On the website I posted, there are also some expired links as well,
>> something which I feel has hit the independent scientific web page
>> community hard.
> The active research in the scientific community runs along quite
> nicely outside of the scientific web pages. Those are most often done
> as educational ventures. That Darwiniana web site was at the end
> maintained by the International Wildlife Museum,
I don't know about that either. If anything, basic research is finding
it harder than ever to get funding and the money for basic education is
dried up. University centers and research facilities have become puppy
mills for H1B visas, and library access has shrived up to nothing, on a
pay by page and you can't copy anything restriction.
From where I sit, here in Brooklyn, it has never been bleaker and the
gap between our inner city minority youth, hell, even our working class
white families, and the upper parts of the research and educational
systems haven't seen this kind of gap of inaccessibility since before WW2.
Add to this that universities now view their research facilities and
profit centers and we have a HUGE problem.
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