New Year’s resolutions to make for 2010

If you want to make two resolutions for 2010, here’s what I recommend. One for scientific presentations: I will not start my talks with an “Outline” slide. Instead, I will motivate my talk with something to grab the attention of the audience and get them interested in what I am about to say. Read more […]

Outlines in Scientific Presentations

I asked my friends and colleagues for quotations that I could put in the book.  I had way more than I could use.  Here is one that was not used. This might be controversial, but I never start a talk with an outline of what I’m going to talk about.  If it’s a short talk […]

Why you should use sans serif fonts for figures, posters, and slides.

Serifs are those little vertical lines and flourishes at the ends of letters (like the vertical lines at the ends of the capital S or the horizontal line at the bottom of the lower-case r). Use sans serif fonts (Helvetica, Arial) because the near-uniform width of the strokes keeps the font readable when reduced in […]

Excerpt: Three Items of Essential Reading

This is an excerpt from the For Further Reading section at the end of the book.

PowerPoint Tricks You May Not Have Heard About

Microsoft PowerPoint is so pervasive, yet discovering little tricks to assist your presentation are out there. Here is a list of the ones I find most useful or have great potential to be put to use by speakers.

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