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For some reason, I have always had an abysmal public speaking ability. My brain will randomly deny me certain memories that I know like the back of my hand when not in front of a crowd. I also forget how to simultaneously breath and talk, taking deep breaths and not being able to find a pause in my sentence to take another. I realize public speaking is a vital tool in a person's toolbox, so I want to perfect it. For those of you who were once like me, what were some of the steps you took to improve? Thanks!

how is going? my name is john and im new member at this site. I register to this site because i really love science and because i want to improve my english. Do you have some tips how i can improve my english? Thanks in advance

When an innocent boy say to a girl (on social networking) that "i wanted to see your pics becoz............" what did that mean ? please help me out

So, I procrastinate a lot, and it can get very bad, and I am traditionally in a state of constant last minute panic. Does anyone have any suggestions on how I should tell my self not to. Thanks

From last 2 practicles my teacher isnt letting me to sit on pc and the reason she give is you know it and have pc at home so let others do it but i know that others olso have pc at their home so why me and if they didnt then its not my mistake and then she called my parents what can i do?? please help

I have managed to re-find on u tube this amazing 5 minutes of mood, power , etc You tube dr who at the proms(2013) - the rings of akhaten sort of astronomy, time, fantasy, moving entertainment. http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NGcvbuHLw6M&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DNGcvbuHLw6M It's gone a little viral with 115,000 views and rising . Very moving 5 minutes ! Mike

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This doesn't really have anything to do with anybody who is likely to read this, and is wholly of a personal context which will not be explained. I felt like declaring eternal and infinite personal bitterness, I have before, and having lived long enough, that too faded. But really, I'm just terribly sad.

The night my heart stopped and I flat-lined On the 18th August 2011, I my heart stopped beating numerous times, at home and then in the Sunninghill Hospital (clinically death) I had taken nap on that Thursday night, and a dear friend of mine, Tony was somehow moved to phoned late that night, a thing he had never done before, I woke up with heart going crazy almost stopping, my wife immediately called the for the ambulance and they got to my home in ten minute flat, the hospital is less than a half kilometer from my home and I was there in five minutes and went I got attention immediately. Note! If my friend of some thirty five years,Tony , had not phone me, fr…

My ex used to swear on letting red wine 'breath' before drinking, even if it was a cheap bottle. To be honest, the difference in taste is marginal to nil (and I couldn't really tell if it tasted better or not), also alcohol bonds with oxygen to form acetic acid (vinegar) so what exactly is the purpose in letting wine breath, and is there a 'connoisseur's' limit to the amount of time you let wine breath for ? I'm just not convinced that it adds to the pleasure of drinking red wine. If anyone knows better, then I'd be interested, as to why it should improve the taste, and what their preferred 'breathing limit' is with their favourite wine. I like dry Chilean, and fr…

http://www.phrases.org.uk/quotes/last-words/ http://www.phrases.org.uk/quotes/last-words/ Famous last words, death bed statements Thomas Jefferson--still survives... ~~ John Adams, US President, d. July 4, 1826 (Actually, Jefferson had died earlier that same day.) This is the last of earth! I am content. ~~ John Quincy Adams, US President, d. February 21, 1848 See in what peace a Christian can die. ~~ Joseph Addison, writer, d. June 17, 1719 is it not meningitis? ~~ Louisa M. Alcott, writer, d. 1888 Waiting are they? Waiting are they? Well--let 'em wait. In response to an attending doctor who attempted to comfort him by saying, " General, I fear the ange…

A warning from Planet Earth to Humanity Aug 7th, 2010 at 9:11am I will brush off that, which hurts and irritates me mere mortal man! My lungs, veins and blood are dirty and I have fever because of you, mere mortal man!. I am ill and my warnings go unheeded, listen no before it is too late mere mortal man!. Listen humanity! it is a privilege to live on my skin, not a right, mere mortal man! You do nor own me and have no right to abuse me like you are doing, mere mortal man! Heed my warnings or it will be too late and I move my plates causing unimaginable disaster mere mortal man! If you refuse to listen I will crack open my skin and spill out…

Hi. Bring some smiles by sharing friends' nicknames you remember from school years. Or workplace if preferred. Funny, cruel, near offensive, ugly, nasty, from all of them around you along the years... Will let you start this time.

E x t r a o r d i n a r y performance that urges sharing : ---->www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzV32kQNJDM Enjoy.-

I watched a video last night, about an hour and a half long that asserted that the USA and other world powers had done some speculative war games based on an alien invasion. The video was well produced and had some good graphics but the reasons for an alien invasion were weak to say the least. I gave it some thought and I couldn't really come up with a reason good enough to travel light years for a planet, the video finally came up with an invading robots scenario wanting to harvest earths forests for reaction mass for propulsion. Considering how unlikely a planet enough like Earth exists, for us to travel there to do war with the inhabitants seems like a loosin…

Have you had an experience or an event during your life, that you cannot explain rationally? I have had a few very odd moments over the span of my somewhat protracted life, but will not write about them, unless other members show interest in the topic.

On the way home from picking up my boys for the weekend, we witnessed this wreck happen literally right in front of us. We were stopping at the intersection and was the first car at the stop light when this van came speeding through the red light at the same time as the red Dodge. Both vehicles were traveling at the posted speed limit for each road, which is 55 mph on HWY 77 / Flood and I assume 40 mph on Tecumseh. The lady in the van was going South on HWY 77 / Flood and ran the red light at 77 / Flood and Tecumseh in Norman, OK right in front of the On Cue gas station. The van exploded (not in the fiery sense) sending shards of glass and metal everywhere. I was first on…

In art class, I have to make a mask for our final project. I don't know as of yet what I should make. I should note that is has to be complicated, have eyes, nose, and a mouth(i.e. it can't be a Jason mask) Any thoughts would be appreciated. Joshua

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I can't find anywhere to hide from sour ludicrosity. I have a pretty rotten attitude around here because a focused and small constituency of this community is top-notch while the rest is just as trashed as everywhere else -- this is not reasonable behavior, but it is the simple truth behind my behavior. Isn't there a better place to hide?

This is a wonderful place we have here on these forums. I'd like to take a moment to thank a few people who I feel have contributed to my comfort and satisfaction with life. These are all amazing people who I am indescribably grateful for having the opportunity to experience. Michio Kaku Your intelligence is astonishing and the passion you have for science is invigorating. I enjoy seeing you on the science channel and can't help but wonder if you spend time on the forums as well. I'd be interested to hear what you think about cognition, it's a very hot topic and I think that physiopsychoneuromechanics needs an opinion from a guy like you. Noam Chomsky We preach …

Read this!!! The subject was Dear Friend(God Belss You) YES BLESS WAS SPELLED WRONG My Dear Ms. Diana Morokat is my name. I am the only daughter of late Pnkhmto Morokat, who was slain by the rebel forces during this ongoing civil war in our country Syria. I am 23 years old. I am an under-graduate, level 200 medical student at University. I managed to escape into government refugee camp in London through the help of some Red Cross Personnel's working in our country. I have an estimate of TEN Million Dollars in cash that my father left in a Bank vault. Now that he is no more, I want to transfer the ownership of the fund to you for safe keeping and relocate to your…

'I know nothing but the fact of my own ignorance.' Socrates ( 469bc - 399bc ) 'What I say is 'just' or 'right' means nothing, but what is in the interest of the stronger party.' From 'The Republic' ( c.380bc ) Plato ( 429bc - 347bc ) 'We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little lives are rounded with a sleep.' From 'The Tempest' ( 1812? ) William Shakespeare ( 1564 - 1616 ) 'We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars!' Spoken by Lord Darlington, From 'Lady Winde…

I just think I.Q. is so snobbish, bigoted and subjective!!! It doesn't show the love and passion a person feels for his subject, it just gives a cold, distorted, false, superficial and subjective number to view someone's intelligence as an abstraction. It is so cold and superficial!!! it may be useful to indicate someone with a very low I.Q., to be able to see the areas they need help in, and the level of their mental handicap!!! Richard P. Feynman's ( 1914 - 1988 ) high school I.Q. was a barely respectable 125, which although being good is for argubley the lad who was going to become the greatest theoretical physicist scince Einstien ( 1879 - 1955 ) not g…

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