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Need presentation advice!

I'm giving a two-hour seminar to a mixed audience of faculty, medical professionals, students and the general public at my graduate school in a couple of months. The title of the presentation is "The Truth About Cholesterol: Separating Fact from Fiction".

Because of the varied nature of the audience, I will be expected to present a fair amount of data - but to do it in such a way that the layperson with no scientific training could understand.

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Freeware, fullscreen writing for OS X?

Freeware, fullscreen writing for OS X?

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What to do with Old Letters, Memorabilia, Notes...

What to do with Old Letters, Memorabilia, Notes...

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[Whitepaper, haha] My System for GTD

[Whitepaper, haha] My System for GTD

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Digital Notepads

I visited my local Apple store this weekend looking for Christmas gifts and ideas. The new Wacom 'Bamboo' graphics tablet looked interesting, and I started thinking about ways to justify its purchase. I basically had similar thoughts to those being expressed on the various recent 'paper' articles here on 43F. So I'm browsing the Apple section at my local CompUSA later that same day and I notice one of these Bamboo units hooked up to a MacBook. I played with it briefly.

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webbased GTD app. Betatesters wanted

webbased GTD app. Betatesters wanted

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Anti-Distraction-Vana for Windows

Anti-Distraction-Vana for Windows

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Is there a desktop sticky program like google?

Is there a desktop sticky program like google?

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'Getting Things Done...FAST!' audio

"Getting Things Done...FAST!" audio

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Merlin used to crank. He’s not cranking any more.

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