5/20/22: Scan new readings; graduation video; etc.

AGENDA AND MINUTES

1. Updates:

  • Next week - no meeting, I and some others are not available. Have a good Memorial Day weekend.
  • Graduation!
  • SD. Graduated!
    • RS. VB will try compressing the video recording and send it to RS for uploading that way.
    • PT. Continuing on SLR, hope to finish in a week or so.
    • HA. Working on discussion & conclusion for the paper on the women in space project. 
      • https://plos.org/resource/how-to-write-conclusions/ gives some writing guidance for discussions and conclusions
      • Also the link:
        • https://www.google.com/search?q=scholarly+paper+conclusion+vs+discussion+section&rlz=1C1GCEA_enUS917US917&oq=scholarly+paper+conclusion+vs+discussion+section&aqs=chrome..69i57j33i160l3.15448j1j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
      • HA has noted the new reference suggestions but needs to review and if appropriate cite them in order to include them in the references section. 
      • DB suggested dividing it into two papers, one with all the details and one with the core elements.
      • Forum(s) to be determined after article is done. HA may be able to present at a conference if we get something accepted. 
        • One set of possibilities is at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics - may have a conference we could submit it to. https://www.aiaa.org/events-learning/events has a long list of possibilities. 
        • OK Acad. of Sci. has submittal deadline of Aug. 15.
        • Feminist journal.
      • JS contribution needs. 
    • (No report requested) Th 11th Southeast Symposium on Contemporary Engineering Topics (SSCET) will be on Friday, September 16th in Little Rock. DB will list everyone as co-presenters.
    2. Reading and discussion
    • Possible readings/videos that have not yet been scanned and voted on. Read/view paragraph/minute or two of each and vote: Should we read it in more depth? 5=strongly agree, 4=agree, 3=neutral, 2=disagree, 1=strongly disagree. 
      • Background paper(s) related to the women in space project. 
        • 5/20/22: We read the enlarged font paragraph at the beginning of "Women's Place in Space Exploration, 1996, ...\femaleAstronauts\relatedArticles\WomenPlaceInSpaceExplorationRef2.pdf. Vote was 3 1/3.
        • 5/20/22: We read the first paragraph of "A Forgotten Moment in Physiology: the Lovelace Woman in Space Program (1960-1962)", 2009, ...\femaleAstronauts\relatedArticles\WomenInSpaceRef3.pdf. Vote was 4.
    The meeting ended here.
      • https://www.planet4589.org. Scan one link deep from the astronautics page at https://planet4589.org/space/index.html. Don't read large documents through entirely.
      • One of McDowell's *yearly* (not the more frequent news) reports, in particular, the most recent one: https://planet4589.org/space/papers/space20.pdf. 
      • Goldin et al., The Productivity Paradox, 2019.
      • https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/techno-optimism-for-2022
      • James Pethokoukis, https://fasterplease.substack.com/, tech foresight blog by former Jeopardy! champ.
      • Chad Jones, https://web.stanford.edu/~chadj/, writes about endogenous growth theory.
      • Pantelis Koutroumpis, The Productivity Paradox, a report.
      • Some interesting videos are at the Kartik Gada channel such as at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuRX67CJhaOT98Jdjh85CEQ which we discussed previously.
      • Future Spaceflight Meditations, a cosmist perspective, by Jiulio Prisco, physicist formerly with the ESA.
    • In-depth readings:https://ourworldindata.org/technological-change. We discussed up to "Price changes in consumer goods and services in the USA" so we will start there next time. (Vote average was 4.4, but we can always re-vote as we go along.)
    • Readings that we previously scanned and voted on that might or might not be read in more depth at some point. Listed in decreasing order of vote score. 
      • 5/20/22: We read the first paragraph of "A Forgotten Moment in Physiology: the Lovelace Woman in Space Program (1960-1962)", 2009, ...\femaleAstronauts\relatedArticles\WomenInSpaceRef3.pdf. Vote was 4.
      • Already voted on: Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology. Let's find out more about it. We skimmed https://www.picmet.org/main/ and the question next is whether we want to read through the site in more detail. Do we search this site for another paper/papers to read? Vote was 3 11/12.
      • Already voted on. We found that the paper at https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-40896-1_3 seems like it might be a good paper for us to read. Vote was 3.9.
      • Already voted on: One candidate: https://hrcak.srce.hr/file/394111 is a recent account of using DEA (which is part of TFDEA). We rechecked the abstract and read the first paragraph. Votes were: 3,5,2,5,4, averaging 3.8. 
      • 5/20/22: We read the enlarged font paragraph at the beginning of "Women's Place in Space Exploration, 1996, ...\femaleAstronauts\relatedArticles\WomenPlaceInSpaceExplorationRef2.pdf. Vote was 3 1/3.
      • Already voted on: The Institute for Progress. They address questions like what policies and social factors affect technological progress. We will try out a bit of https://progress.institute/immigration-powers-american-progress/ to see if we want to read it in full. Vote was 3 2/7.
      • Voted on 4/15/22: One of McDowell's update reports, available on the website. Link is: https://planet4589.org/space/jsr/jsr.html. We checked #804. Vote was 3 1/12.
      • For general reference here are some generic questions about articles (and videos):
        • What is the source?
        • What is the most significant advance in the human knowledge presented in the paper?
        • Why is that advance important?
        • What important questions arise from the paper for future research?
        • What important questions would it be nice if the paper answered, but does not answer?
        • What does the paper present that is novel (no one else has provided that before)?
        • What is the relevance of the paper to our satellite research goals?
        • Questions from the group?

       


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