The book, Reflections on Pareidolia: Mirrored images at the University of Minnesota takes the reader on a reflected visual tour of the University of Minnesota Twin Cities Campus. At each location a photo of the location is included with information about the building's architect and its current use. Mirror images similar to those above and below follow. Most of the images were taken in 2015 and 2016. Please visit, Mirror image photography for more examples. An Amazon Kindle version of Reflections on Pareidolia is also now available.
John R. Hale's series of lectures on The Great Courses: Art of Public Speaking - Lessons from the Greatest Speeches in History offers sound advice for constructing and delivering a speech to a wide variety of audiences.
He suggests that you do not use words but only images in power point presentations. The words displayed on the screen interfere with the audiences' ability to understand what you are saying.
You don't have to start out your speech with a powerful beginning, instead use it to get a sense of the audience and create some room to maneuver. Keep the attention of your audience by avoiding being too predictable. Finish strong with a memorized conclusion and avoid immediately asking for questions upon completion of the speech.
Use triads to deliver messages. Churchill said I only have to "offer you blood, sweat, toil, and tears." Audiences have chosen to forget the word toil to make the phrase more memorable.
Professors Hale 's background as an anthropologist gives more depth to his suggestions as he is not only an expert in giving speeches, he also conducts field research and lectures on the results.
John R. Hale - Why do civilizations fall and flourish? - 12 min.
In my experience people generally respond favorably to having a door opened for them, but Lynne has often encountered indifference which is troubling. People do need to exchange phatic phrases ("Thank you. Hello. How are you? Nice to meet you.") that acknowledge that we are not in our own bubble but are interacting with the rest of the world.
How do we confront bad behavior in social situations. We have to weigh the risks. Is this person likely to do me physical harm or will my failure to correct the bad behavior cause harm to myself or others? Enforcing the no smoking rule on campus can be dependent on the situation with safety taking priority. While I was on an emergency response, a man walked up to me, took a drag from his cigarette, and asked, "So where's the natural gas leak?" I firmly but politely told him to extinguish his cigarette. I then pointed them towards the gas leak and told him that's why my meters was beeping.
High end table manners with some arbitrary rules about which way to eat peas with which utensil are used as methods of class distinction rather than assessing if some one has good overall manners. Reducing the tendency to tell people to "eff off" as Lynne puts it would go a long way to increasing civility, as would decreasing those behaviors which elicit that response.
Punctuation at English School with Lynne Truss - 19 minutes
takes the reader on a reflected visual tour of the University of Minnesota Twin Cities Campus. At each location a photo of the location is included with information about the building's architect and its current use. Mirror images similar to those above and below follow. Most of the images were taken in 2015 and 2016. Please visit, Mirror image photography for more examples. An Amazon Kindle version of Reflections on Pareidolia
is also now available. 
- Lessons from the Greatest Speeches in History offers sound advice for constructing and delivering a speech to a wide variety of audiences.
, the author describes the current state of rudeness in society. In Lynne's previous book,