Joyful Public Speaking (from fear to joy)

Friday, June 12, 2026

My dad told me to use a banana to clean my shoes, and I can’t believe it worked. Now, how do I get these chimps to stop following me around?

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                    When I recently looked at Apple News on my iPhone I found an article by Pallavi Mehra at Apartment Therapy from ...
Thursday, June 11, 2026

What Is Selective Mutism?

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                            There are two articles in Toastmaster magazine that discuss an uncommon childhood anxiety disorder called s...
Wednesday, June 10, 2026

Strikingly Similar is a recent book by Roger Kreuz about plagiarism and intellectual appropriation

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                                        There is a detailed 2026 book by Roger Kreuz titled Strikingly Similar: Plagiarism and Appropri...
Tuesday, June 9, 2026

The 2025 commencement speaker at Smith College admitted plagiarizing her speech and then relinquished her honorary degree

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                                      Smith College held its 147th commencement on May 18, 2025. An article by Darin Zullo at Boston.co...
Sunday, June 7, 2026

Does pushing that button really do anything?

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                                    There is an interesting article by Justin Pot at Popular Science on May 24, 2026 titled 3 buttons ...
Friday, June 5, 2026

Do Disfluencies Increase With Age? Evidence From a Sequential Corpus Study

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                        There is a detailed article by Eleonora J. Beier, Suphasiree Chantavarin, and Fernanda Ferreira at Psychology a...
Wednesday, June 3, 2026

An Incidental Comic by Grant Snider about not needing a bookmark

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              Sometimes a comic strip can show you something very creative. On November 29, 2025 Grant Snider at Incidental Comics had ...
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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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