In the idyllic vision of the uninitiated, a scientific presentation tells a story, starting with a clear description of a problem, then outlining a series of steps taken to address that problem, and ending with a special reward: a glistening
We all know speaking too fast during our high stakes moments is not good, for us or our listeners. It makes us sound nervous, disorganized and hard to understand. So what can we do in private to teach ourselves to
He was late arriving and slow getting past the hand-shakers and back-slappers, but President Obama’s State of the Union Address was a new slant on an old trope, at times uplifting (“we do big things”) and at other times evasive