Tips on Talks OR How to Keep an Audience Attentive, Alert, and Around for the Conclusions at a Scientific Meeting by H. Edward Clifton . Geological Survey, 345 Middlefield Road Menlo Park, California 94025 “Breathes there a speaker with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, As he hears his name from the podium read, I wish to hell I stayed in bed!” “First slide, please.” The hall lights dimmed, the audience hushed, and the speaker launched into his paper – the culmination of 15 years of painstaking research. An important talk, it included everything he knew on the.
