[Babase] Another babase announcement revision

Karl O. Pinc kop at meme.com
Fri Feb 29 10:36:18 EST 2008


On 02/29/2008 07:20:32 AM, Susan Alberts wrote:
> Karl, this looks very good to me. Suggested changes in all caps below  
> in a couple places. [I'm sorry, even if "data" is a singular word in  
> computer world, I can't handle it, I don't know why --a fatal flaw in  
> my personality? It just sounds like we're saying something like "All  
> the books is carefully put away."

:-)  I understand.

>> Babase may have use as an example of how science
>> is done.  Although the collected data ARE not available to the
>> public, the field data collection protocols and much else
>> that is publicly available sheds light on the design and
>> execution of scientific RESEARCH and, perhaps, the
>> management of a long-term scientific project.

Ok.

>> 
>> Babase is a product of the Amboseli Baboon Research Project,
>> http://www.princeton.edu/%7Ebaboon/, [IN THE MESSAGE, THE LAST PART  
>> OF THIS CAME OUT LOOKING REALLY FUNNY, NOT LIKE THE ~baboon THAT IT  
>> IS SUPPOSED TO BE] which has been
>> continuously monitoring a wild baboon population
>> since 1971.

Oddly enough, this is not an error.  %7E is the "offical" way
to write ~ in urls.

Karl <kop at meme.com>
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