Week 7 the second reading journal

Name That Tune: Identifying Whale Songs For Science

http://www.npr.org/2011/12/04/143064682/name-that-tune-identifying-whale-songs-for-science

Summary

   A Pixar's movie, Finding Nemo, shows an interesting scene. Dory tries to talk with a whale to ask where Nemo is, but the dialogue cannot make it even though Dory drawls to the whale. She says, "Maybe a different Dialect." A marine biologist, Peter Tyack says this scene is true. He is also a coordinator of "Whale FM", and he tries to recruit citizen scientists to identify the whale sounds. Today, scientists acknowledge whales has sounds, but scientists do not understand what the sounds means. The sounds is divided approximately 15,000, and Tyack hopes a lot of listeners who are interested in whale sounds, especially killer whales' and pilot whales' sounds take part in the study. The first step is that he and citizen scientists try to identify how these whales communicate and know how to categorize these whales' calls. He expects crowdsourcing the new experiment might lead some answers. He says the more people who participate the study, the better sense how reliable their judgments are.


My opinion
    Not only this study, but also any other specific studies should rely on people who are not real scientists but knows something in detail. Tyack's trial is good for researching unknown things. Some of the opinions which non-scientist gave might not match with scientists' intention, but there might be couple of keen ideas scientists cannot imagine. This is a good opportunity that people can be a scientist and join a relevant study.


Vocabularies
1)drawl
:verb
:to speak slowly, especially vowel parts in English
:speak slowly
:He tried to drawl out a reply because I did not understand English well.

2)dialect
:noun
:a variety of a language
:local speech
:I could not understand a rural dialect in Japan.(To tell the truth, I AM a rural person.)

3)crowdsourcing
:adjective(?)
:being a state which large number of people assemble to exchange their ideas
:non-synonym
:I drew out an answer from the crowdsourcing investigation.