Joyful Public Speaking (from fear to joy)

Saturday, August 23, 2025

What happens when you misuse a scanning electron microscope (SEM)?

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                          You can badly misinterpret what you see. I saw an article by Mick West at Metabunk on August ...
Thursday, August 21, 2025

Kidney beans just are the seeds from green beans

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              We can be surprised by something that we didn’t ever think about. I grew up in a city (Pittsburgh) and neve...
Wednesday, August 20, 2025

The Cambridge Dictionary recently added over 6,000 new words including delulu, skibidi, and tradwife

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                                                  An article by Katie Phoenix at Cambridge News on August 18, 2025 is t...
Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Conversations are discussed in an excellent new book by Alison Wood Brooks titled Talk: The science of conversation and the art of being ourselves

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                             On August 16, 2025 I blogged about Fifty excellent Table Topics questions from the appendix ...
Saturday, August 16, 2025

Fifty excellent Table Topics questions from the appendix to Alison Wood Brooks’s 2025 book Talk: The science of conversation and the art of being ourselves

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                                Table Topics is the impromptu speaking part of a Toastmasters club meeting. Members each...
Tuesday, August 12, 2025

Become a success by stacking your talents or skills

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                      There is a post by Bo Campbell at the Davidson Blog in 2018 titled Talent stacking – the key to s...
Sunday, August 10, 2025

There is a big difference between an anecdote and an antidote

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                                                            There is a post by Dr. John Livingston at the Gem State Patr...
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Richard I. Garber
This blog is about public speaking. The author is Richard I. Garber, ACS, a Toastmaster. From July 2008 to June 2010 he was Vice President-Education for Capitol Club Toastmasters in Boise, Idaho. From July 2017 to June 2019 he was Vice President Public Realtions for Saint Al's Toastmasters. Opinions expressed on this blog are those of the author alone, and are not the official positions of Toastmasters International, etc. Richard is retired. He has over twenty years of experience as a consultant on failure analysis (figuring out why things busted or rusted) and a Ph.D. in Metallurgical Engineering & Materials Science. His email is r_i_garber at hotmail.com
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