Aberystwyth University closed one of its campuses a few years ago. The place has been left to rot, but recently they’ve started clearing the place out, and removing all the old scientific textbooks. Most of them look untouched. Wonder how much this lot would have set students back if buying new.

  • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.world
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    Genetics: my professor was the text author. He said that the information in chapter [let’s pretend it’s # 27] was bleeding edge when he wrote it six months prior to publishing, but it was out of date by the time it published and was very out of date now, a year later.

    He gave us all his notes on the current version of the chapter and told us about the research coming in a few weeks that up render his new chapter obsolete so don’t study too close.

    I can’t imagine publishing an up to date genetics text