Break

This is a noisy break. People are talking with their hands and lingering in the room -- how do you get an op-ed into the New York Times? Can scientists play a role in translating other science to reporters? What do you make of the Al Gore documentary -- what's the lesson to scientists from An Inconvenient Truth? Are those panelists out of touch -- is the mainstream print media still a governing force? It's fun to overhear snippets of conversation with punchlines like, "I promise, I'll stay out of domestic fisheries!" producing knowing laughs. "My carbon footprint has dropped by 77% because I'm not travelling so much anymore."