Monday, August 28, 2006

First Meeting 3PM, 9/3/2006

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Ho

Princeton psychologists show that length of time of exposure to a face doesn't change one's opinion of it (even if it's just a flash of 100milliseconds): http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S15/62/69K40/index.xml?section=topstories

They say, when we've made up our minds, we don't tend to change it.

I say to you, Princeton: "Isn't it great that your research has confirmed what we knew all along?"

First Meeting 3PM, 9/3/2006
Compiled Topics List
(we won't use all of them this week)
For sure:
  • Q&A about UVA student life
  • Q&A about libertarianism
Maybe:
  • Power only comes from the end of a gun.
  • Hard Science vs. soft science in governing human society
  • Opening science grants to market based competition
  • Obligations to the first amendment
  • Constitutionality of the Pledge of Allegiance
  • Rights of illegal immigrants
  • Treatment of disabled persons
  • Guantanamo bay detention facility

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