Last week was the 30th anniversary of the Charleston based Renaissance Weekend, a five-day meeting of the minds that runs through New Year's. Event founder Phil Lader and his wife, Linda, founded the retreat in 1981 to bring together innovative leaders from diverse fields to share and expand upon ideas and challenges facing society and the world today.
The guest list this year includes Physics Nobel laureate Bill Phillips, HIV virus discoverer and biologist Flossie Wong-Stahl and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Charles Savage and Alex Jones, Dr. Ruth Westheimer, space shuttle commander Mark Kelly and Fr. Damian.
One of the things they did was to see the movie recent film Fair Game.
The film is based on Valerie Plame's memoir, Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House. Plame and her husband, Joe Wilson, face the fallout when her cover is blown as a covert CIA agent. Plame's status as a CIA agent was revealed by White House officials allegedly out to discredit her husband after he wrote a 2003 New York Times op-ed piece saying that the Bush administration had manipulated intelligence about weapons of mass destruction to justify the invasion of Iraq.
Afterwards Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson were there to answer questions.
One of the presentations Fr Damian found interesting was by Dr. Dan Ariely. He teaches at Duke University and is the founder of The Center for Advanced Hindsight. He studies Irrational Behavior and spoke on some of his studies on cheating. Below are a couple of YouTube videos
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