Showing posts with label newspapers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label newspapers. Show all posts
Saturday, January 24, 2026

Superficial research in an article about fear of mass shootings

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                          There is an article with superficial research by James Alan Fox at USA Today on January 14, 2...
Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Use relatable units when reporting numbers

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                            On October 13, 2024 I blogged about Chopping a number down to size by using the right unit c...
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Would you like to write headlines like those in The Wall Street Journal?

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                                There is a recent article by Tom Corfman at Ragan on April 15, 2025 titled How to write...
Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Ten Far Side comics about fear of public speaking

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                                Gary Larson created a famous single-panel comic strip called The Far Side that ran in n...
Saturday, November 2, 2024

Finding speech topics in unusual places – like a Learning Express article about 525 writing prompts in the New York Times

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                                    The November 2024 issue of Toastmaster magazine has an article by Mackenzie Eldred o...
Tuesday, September 24, 2024

A newspaper article by Harvey Mackay on the joy of public speaking and Toastmasters

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                                  At the Coeur d’Alene Press on September 22, 2024 there is a useful article by Harvey ...
Saturday, August 17, 2024

First look at the data, then look at the words

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                          Via interlibrary loan, I recently got a 2024 book by Hasan Merali titled Sleep Well, Take Risk...
Friday, May 3, 2024

An extremely thin alibi for four murders

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                              Bryan Kohlberger has been charged with the November 13, 2022 murders of four University of...
Thursday, March 28, 2024

Living with a popcorn brain

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                                        There is an article by Tracy Swartz at the New York Post on February 18, 2024 t...
Thursday, September 7, 2023

A bad article at the Gem State Patriot News - inspired by notorious quack Dr. Joseph Mercola

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                                    At the Gem State Patriot News blog on September 4, 2023 there is a bad article (pos...
Tuesday, September 5, 2023

Bad storytelling about product recalls

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                      I recently read about a product recall involving steering in some recent Nissan Sentra compact cars...
Sunday, May 14, 2023

The Lori Vallow Daybell murder trial media circus finally is over

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                        On Friday we finally got the guilty verdicts in the Lori Vallow Daybell murder trial held at the ...
Sunday, April 30, 2023

Trying to break a Guinness World Record for speeches given in 24 hours

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                                    Until today I was not aware there is a Guinness World Record for the number of speech...
Friday, April 7, 2023

Did a Chinese spy balloon make multiple passes in figure-eight patterns over U.S. military sites?

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                                                          Back on February 13, 2023 I blogged about Government and media...