I have updated the Public Speaking pages at Pivotal Points.

I added two new Articles:

Conquer Your Fear of Speaking

How to Be A Great Speaker-Tomorrow,

and

a Speech Making Success Tip.

The Public Speaking Resource of the week is:
Pivotal Quotations.

Tag: Public speaking

We need our myths and legends. We have the little girl in the red hood and the big bad wolf, and we have the moon landing. It has become the stuff of legend, too – pride in our achievements as a race. Look at the language used in it – “one small step …” suitable to any myth or legend.

My sons listen to a song that says “Space may be the final frontier/but it’s made in a Hollywood basement …” More vivid language and another myth about the moon landing – an urban myth.

And now to add to this whole melting pot, the news:

NASA can’t find original tape of moon landing

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. government has misplaced the original recording of the first moon landing, including astronaut Neil Armstrong’s famous “one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind,”

From a Librarian’s point of view this is very sad. What were they thinking – stuff of myth and they don’t even know where it is!! and why didn’t they put it on microfiche and store it properly? We must preserve our history! We must preserve out mythology!

Tags: Moon landing, Library, Mythology

Are you left-handed?

I grew up in the days where left-handed people were treated as slighly deficient, at school. They certainly had a probelm when it came to writing – forced to adopt that crabbed, over-the-top hand position which just did not work, in those days of pen and ink. So it was a pleasant surpise to read this news article …

Higher paychecks: a left-handed compliment?

Left-handed men, often seen as having an advantage over right-handed counterparts in sports like tennis, also enjoy much better paydays, a new study says.

Left-handed men with at least some college education

Read on …

Tag: left handed

I have updated the Whizz Kids pages at Pivotal Points.

These pages got new material:

Books & Reading
Arts, Crafts and activities
Fun & Games

Tag: kids