Summary provided from Wikipedia until a direct quote can be found. Concept is that the more trivial an issue, the more debate weighed on it because everyone understands the issue enough to have an opinion.

Pronounced "siz-i-jee" refers to planets coming into alignment in astronomy. When the Sun and Moon are lined up on the same side of the Earth, this state of syzygy creates higher and lower tides than are normally experienced.

A summary by Carl Sagan, not a direct quote.

Not a direct quote from the text, but a description of what the book wheel was in Ramelli's book.

Apparently this means a "lover of many offspring" which is the species that would take over the homo sapiens if population controls did not check their growth.

Summaries of important points and comments made by the speakers and audience for this session:

Chris Mooney

·         How do we correct misinformation?

·         “How I Started Worrying and Learned to Doubt the Blog”

·         Internet is second only to TVF as source of information about Science and Technology

·         Brendan Nyhan – people did not change their minds when presented with corrections that challenge their ideological point of view

·         Cultural Cognition of Scientific Facts (Kahan et al): conservative libertarians were more likely to accept an article on reducing pollution when it included headline about nuclear power.

·         “What Happened on Delibaration Day” Case _____

·         Correcting George Will: “no global warming for more than a decade” bloggers tar and feathered him, Washington Post recognized the outrage and WMO wrote letter correcting him, but Will did not apologize or correct himself.

·         Message First, Facts Second

Joshua Rosenau

·         Blogs can’t correct Texas Textbooks.

·         School Board science standards  1998 review “strengths and weaknesses” but they only wanted to review weaknesses of evolution.

·         Texas Freedom Network, texasteachers.org, Teach them Science, NCSE

·         Reach people with documentaries about Kansas, and convince them to speak at meetings.

·         Audience Research: talk about medical advances from evolution, compatibility of faith and evolution

·         Start Online, Move Offline.

·         Make it hard to be dismissed: state why your opinion matters (member of the community, scientific background)

·         If you’re in a coalition and you’re comfortable, you know it’s not a big enough coalition. – Bernice Johnson Reagon

Val Jones

·         Science Based Medicine blog.

·         80% of Americans go online for health information, but only 20% consider the source.

·         Case Study of Two Patients going to two different online sources for health information.

·         True story: colon cancer survivor who found oncologist online, breast cancer who tried alternative medicines and died in six months

·         Getbetterhealth.com

Comments:

·         November 1963: Malcom X Black Revolution

·         Margaret Sangers: planned parenthood

·         Meam Goldman: talked about birth control when it was illegal

·         George Will is into Toaster oven science, not real science. (look up article where George Will says he loves science)

·         Van: academic centers need to set up social media centers. Shout down crazy people.

·         Create peer-to-peer references that people can link to in response to people being wrong in comments sections.

·         Van: Health Blogger Code of Ethics

·         Astrology News: Astrologers said It’s true, but it doesn’t change any of the results. There’s a reason it doesn’t change any of the results.

·         Mooney: quick heuristics to determine whether to engage someone, politely say, “I don’t want to have this conversation.”

These are general notes summarizing comments from audience members and speakers for this session:

• Taking pdfs extracting text and semantically marking them up, hyperlinking reference lists to their source articles.
• Mendeley http://www.mendeley.com/
• http://www.mendeley.com/research-papers/computer-and-information-science/
• Citations have no meaning the way we use them now.
• Most papers aren’t cited, long tail graph (zitiny  ziphian curve graph?)
• Citation Graph, collaborative filtering,.
• Citations need context. How will that happen? Need to know why something was cited (ie. Disagreement).
• We don’t disagree with papers, we disagree with claims made in papers. Why can’t a citation point at a place in the article?
• Question: Is reference extraction beyond the scope of any non-commercial company? Mendeley is a company.
•                Answer: There’s no single source of open bibliographic data.
• Sage, SocialSciences,Crossref, webofscience, google scholar, etc – how useful are these sites. They provide metrics and recommendations, but not much more than going directly to the journal.
• Social Networking in article recommendations, connect content to people, conversations around papers, systems don’t encourage conversations, people don’t want to participate.
• Criticism of Mendeley: algorithms shoudl be open, academics should be able to define their own algorithms
• Mendeley's plan is to extract reference data and make it publicly available and machine readable.
• Criticism: academics need an open bibliographic data set.
• Need to explain type of citation: positive vs. negative citations, valence terms, sentiment analysis/machine vs. human curated
• Ontologies don't capture all reasons someone is citing something (ie. "Cited because I work for this journal." "Cited because Darwin will make you think I'm smart." "Cited because teacher required five citations.")
• References are separated into their own section, removing them from the text. Unlike links, which are immediate.
• Peer Review: example of a reviewer rejecting a paper because it didn't cite his own paper.
• People need to make use of the REL attribute in HREF tags.
• Citations can be used in a tribal sens, citing people in our camp and excluding others.
• Description of citations as "frozen footprints in the snow"
• Why do we need 1,000 citation styles?
• Librarian: Questions about citations styles from students are constant and frustrating.
• Orchid: cross-company effort to standardize citations.
• Let people write citations however they want, but add an identifying number.
• Mendeley is developing an open-source citation style editor.

Summaries of comments made during the science art session by artists and audience members:

• Hawks – interested in reconstruction, detailed realism, Neanderthal terminator, there is a tradition in anthropology of illustrating, Neanderthal are reconstructed to look doomed and confused, like it when illustrators and artists bring humanity into them, humor, Kenise Brothers give smiles to them, pose them, which isn’t scientific because we don’t know these things, but also more scientific because it isn’t so clinical
• Orr – orogenic.blogspot.com geometric, abstract illustrations of birds
• Links ot other artists on the wiki page: Carl Buell, etc http://scio11.wikispaces.com/Science-Art
• Radiohead/Nine Inch Nails Model: put a lot free stuff online in hopes of eventually being hired to do something custom, people expect images for free
• Criticism of Mellow's Darwin painting: the steps were too linear, it should have been a bush growing out of his head
• Svpow.wordpress.com – fantasy images of brachiosaurs, not scientifically accurate, but memorable. Brian Ang.
• My Favorite Anthropology Sculpture of Homo Erectus at the Hall of Human Origins - post a link to this image in the wiki.
• The monkey rising to become man iconic image is really wrong and hurts evolution’s image outside of the field. Mitochondria is another example, in cells they are not blobs, but are networked.

These are various notes from session hosts and members of the audience during this session:

• www.blueearth.org – neat wave effect on the site.
• Escaping the Ivory Tower – photography publicizes work.
• We create visual narratives about ourselves on facebook.
• It’s important for people at organizations to take their own photos for people to use. The photo is the first thing to catch your eye.
• Strobist.blogspot.com – light tutorials, photoshop and gimp for post production,
• Graphitti archeology project – photo documents the evolution of walls over time. Scientists photograph environments, documenting change.
• Neil _____: building a community of science photographers
• Online photography community is enormous, amateurs who want to take photos but don’t know what to shoot.
• Naturescapes.net
• Birdphotographer.net
• Bugguy.net
• Bloggers think of photographers as collaborators.
• Photos illustrate, convey ideas, create visual representations of concepts
• Kids might not have professional cameras, but it’s good to get them taking photos with their phones as a means of getting them into photography.
• Gigapan Project: a camera robot takes thousands of photos, which get stitched together and allow you to zoom in for incredible detail
• What’s the best image? Steve from Scientific American: If you can get a shot that gets rid of 400 lines of copy.
• Science in the Triangle writer: break out of the average, learn how to use the camera and turn off its automatic feature
• Zenfolio – more professional photos
• Should writers do the photography, or should they collaborate with photographers. Photographers can miss things the writer thinks are important.
• “The best camera is the one you have with you.” – the photographer’s maxim
• Deviantart
• Istockphoto - $1 to $10 photos
• Discrimination Learning: everything looks the same at first, pay attention to the images that interest you to become more distinguished
• Fillflash – use it, good for evening out shadows, especially at noon or in bright light
• Caption images in your head as you take them.
• Stories Behind the Greatest Photos in Sports – HBO documentary
• 365 Project – take and post one photo a day for a year
• Visualscience at discover website
• Theartofscience.posterous.com – photos through microscopes