Showing posts with label memory. Show all posts
Showing posts with label memory. Show all posts
Monday, June 16, 2025

Memorable prop handouts for your speech audience from a dollar store

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                                            I have been skimming through a 2004 book by Robert V. Smith titled The Eleme...
Monday, July 15, 2024

Where were you on September 16, 1963, when The Outer Limits first was shown on television?

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                                      I will never forget precisely where I was. My four siblings and I were sitting in o...
Tuesday, May 28, 2024

Bite by Bite: Nourishments & Jamborees is a great book with forty brief essays about food

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                                  In the new books section at the Hillcrest branch of the Boise Public Library I found p...
Saturday, April 4, 2020

My brain is full. (I am out of memory).

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Yesterday’s Dilbert cartoon has the following dialogue: "Pointy Haired Boss: Why aren’t you working? Alice: My ...
Monday, January 13, 2020

Did a clinical trial show the dietary supplement pill Prevagen improves memory? Only when you forget about more than half of their data.

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When I watch TV, it’s hard to avoid 30-second ads for the dietary supplement Prevagen like this one and that one (on ...
Friday, August 23, 2019

In a 1984 New York Times article with a list of ten fears, did death come third (after public speaking)? No.

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On my bookshelf I have a copy of the 2011 second edition of Andy Lopata and Peter Roper’s book   titled …and death came third (The definit...
Wednesday, February 21, 2018

Remembering Fred Rogers and the Children’s Corner

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Most of Monday’s Fresh Air program at National Public Radio was about how It’s a beautiful 50th birthday for ‘Mister Rogers’ Neighborho...
Sunday, November 13, 2016

A colossal conspiracy called the Mandela Effect

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Some people have very curious beliefs. The so-called Mandela Effect is a belief originated by Fiona Broome . S...
Sunday, June 26, 2016

It also wasn’t Jerry Springer who compared the fears of public speaking and death

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People sometimes have faulty memories, and attribute a famous Jerry Seinfeld quote to the wrong comedian. On May 28th...