... yourown presentations until they become outstanding. 20 THECRAFTOFSCIENTIFIC PRESENTATIONS people do not know the speaker, the audience does notknow what to expect ofthe speaker. Another reason ... targeting the audience is one common reasonfor the failure of many scientific presentations. Anothercommon reason is a failure to understand the purpose of the presentation. Few presentations have the ... advice.xi 32 THECRAFTOFSCIENTIFIC PRESENTATIONS municate? Part ofthe problem was language; he oftenintermixed German and English, neither of which washis native tongue, Danish.7 Another part...
... contains sometruth. The unexpected realization of truth then makespeople laugh. At the beginning of a presentation in which 14 THECRAFTOFSCIENTIFIC PRESENTATIONS combination of these two problems ... some of which are shown in Figure 2-1a, the presenters of the proposal used referenced facts and the opinions of ex-perts to assign a cut-off value. The establishment of thesecriteria formed the ... became the C-portion ofthe syllogism and the main evidence that contributed to the awarding of the contract.Statistics are another form of logical evidence, andtheir power varies widely. At the...
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... interest in it.Science writers and editors needn’t start off knowingmuch science. Some ofthe best of them do, but some of the best of them don’t. They must, though, be able to learn sci-ence, be ... one way or the other, sitting beside her at her desk, the manuscript on the sliding desk tray between us, I learned.I can attest to the wisdom ofthe writerly injunctionsyou’ll find in these pages ... intelligentquestions, and shake off the high intimidation quotient of adense, jargon-laden article in the Proceedings ofthe National Acad-emy of Sciences. Elise was a member of this breed; she was...
... 14 THECRAFTOFSCIENTIFIC PRESENTATIONS combination of these two problems caused many of the students to complain to the head ofthe department. How-ever, Oppenheimer was already aware ofthe ... sometruth. The unexpected realization of truth then makespeople laugh. At the beginning of a presentation in which 38 THECRAFTOFSCIENTIFIC PRESENTATIONS Presentations to Inform. For presentations ... important. 4THE CRAFTOFSCIENTIFIC PRESENTATIONS A second advantage of making a presentation is thata presentation allows the speaker the opportunity to ob-serve the reactions ofthe audience...
... it is situated at the mouth ofthe Dart. But it is no part ofthe signification ofthe word John, that the father ofthe person so called bore the same name; nor even ofthe word Dartmouth, ... fundamental, the enumeration ofthe different kinds of realities may be abridged accordingly. But to impose upon the facts in the first instance the yoke of a theory, while the grounds ofthe theory ... directly, and of themselves; some through the medium of other truths. The former are the subject of Intuition, or Consciousness;4 the latter, of Inference. The truths known by intuition are the original...
... bc,while others moved more quickly up the main waterways until, at about 1000bc, they reached the eastern edge ofthe equatorial forest in the broad area of the great East African lakes. There they ... ofthe economy at Birimi, a settlement close to the northern edge ofthe West African forest in modern Ghana. This was an outlier of the Kintampo culture whose other sites, further south in the ... Africa through the Rift Valley, although thereis no firm archaeological evidence of either of these peoples in the Great Lakesregion. And it was probably here that the Bantu learned a further skill:...
... power.12And for the most part, the initiators of totalitarian rulepursued their aims in the name of some grand moral imperative – the Aryan domination ofthe sub-human races ofthe world or the Wnalestablishment ... themselves, at the very least in the eyes of their supporters,as legitimate interests, arguing not just the contingent existence of theirdesires but the rightness and justness of their claims ... determine theirmoral justiWability or lack thereof. Whether the wartime allies did enoughto assist victims ofthe Nazi holocaust; whether America should havedropped the atomic bomb on Japan; whether...
... calculated all kinds of things with this theory. The firstthing I calculated was the rate of disintegration of the muon and the neutron. They should be connected to-gether, if this theory was right, ... is available from the British Library. would go no further—“30 percent; we cannot say morethan 30 percent”—till they were sure I had the message.Then they would shut theof ce door. “But let ... going to be all of them, or al-most all. This is going to be awful!—an old-fashioned epi-demic like none of us has ever seen!” The better the scien-tist, the larger the scruple and the more he...