Sometimes, it takes an outside to ask the decisive question. Our global culture, dominated by the internet, instant availability to the world’s scientific literature, and dominance of the anglo-American worldview, makes it hard to remain a true outsider. This doesn’t mean we have to entirely forego the view of outsiders: We some questions, can ask how others, who were been steeped in our culture, approached them. This includes the many and well-trained scientists of the Soviet Union. Here is an archive of Soviet Research papers, their full text searchable and translated into English. The pointer comes from Slime Mold Time Mold.
Unfortunately, my own areas of biology and medicine aren’t included, so I can’t judge the usefulness.
The other big corpus of scientific literature that was isolated from the English-American world is German, from the 19th century to the end of World War II. I’m looking forward to a similar effort to AI-translate and make available the German-Austrian scientific literature up to 1950.
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