Counterintuitive Fall 2024

1. Music affects your mood
2. Music effects on the brain 
3. How music affects the development of your brain and emotions 
4. Listening to music can increase your brain matter and release dopamine
5. Listening to music helps your learning and improve your memory and makes you happy 
6. Improved mood can affect everything around you and improve your education 

1. Education
   1. Is what we learn in school useful?
   2. Is there learning in education?
   3. Do skills come from education?

2. We get an education to learn.

3. People go to school so that they can be educated for their future.

4. The American Education system is designed to educate young students and prepare them for their futures in the real world. 

5. We are led to believe that one goes to school in America for a worthy education; to learn the life skills needed for the future and though students are educated, they do not learn. 

6. Incorporating useful life skills into education (including the standard English or algebra class) would help students learn more about how to be active participants in society instead of being taught abstract concepts that would never show what the real world is like.

1. How an individuals are affected by their childhoods
2. Someone’s childhood defining them in adulthood
3. Psychological affects someone’s childhood has on them
4. The lessons learned during childhood that individuals carry throughout their life
5. Perfect childhood’s don’t challenge an individual
6. Children who experience a “perfect” childhood, never learn to adapt to things later on in life

1. The legal drinking age

2. The legal drinking age and the brain

3. The effects of the legal drinking age in connection to the brain’s long term function and development

4. Raising the legal drinking age to twenty-five would greatly decrease these long term effects on the brain

5. Raising the legal drinking age to twenty-five would create more physical, mental, and economical stability in the youth

6. Raising the legal drinking age to twenty-five to help decrease the damaging long term effects to the brain would result in the physical, mental, and economical stability of the youth

1. Sports and children
2. Competitive sports and schools
3. Popularity of sports in the United States
4. Sports and the media
5. Medias influence on sports
6. Is the medias influence negative or positive for players of a sport.

1. Food can make more food
2. Soup is made of other foods
3. The changes in the way humans perceive soup
4. Soup is made up of other foods to create a popular side dish
5. Soup, being made up of many scrumptious foods, is often seen as not a primary meal
6. Soup is made up of many ingredients that could exist as a dish on their own, making soup the superior food, when it is often seen as a side dish or appetizer.

1.  players in NBA
2. Rookies in the NBA
3. The effect of high school basketball players going to college before going to the NBA
4. High school basketball players going to college before the NBA will lead them to getting a degree or more doors opening in the future. 
5. High school basketball players getting a college degree before the NBA will open more doors for their future. 
6. Some sort of a college degree should be mandatory before entering the NBA.

1. Fetal origins 
2. Babies learn before they are born
3. The effect that mothers have on their unborn baby
4. Pregnant women who go through traumatic events are most likely to have children born with the same PTSD.
5. While inside their mother’s stomach, babies take after their mother in ways such as; recognizing their mom’s voice right away, enjoying the foods their mom ate while pregnant, and experiencing all the trauma their mother did while pregnant with them.
6. A baby’s learning stage does not start when they are born, it starts at the crucial 9 months they are in their mother’s womb by soaking up everything their mother is saying, eating, and experiencing.

1. Cheating in baseball

2. Steroids in MLB

3. The effects that steroid-users had on MLB

4. Players using steroids had a positive impact on MLB’s attendance and ratings

5. Promoting cheating would increase MLB ratings

6. Permitting cheating in MLB would skyrocket the league’s ratings and restore baseball as America’s pastime

1. School Lunches

2. School lunches effects

3. School lunches affect on student education

4. School lunches affect on student education vs homemade lunches affect on student education.

5. Kids who bring their own lunches majority of the time are better academically then kids who buy lunch majority of the time.

6. Students who bring lunches from home majority of the week are better focused and receive better grades over those who buy lunches majority of the week because of the better ingredients inside of store bought food than school made food.