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PowerPoint Kills 7

There’s an interesting article about how a PowerPoint presentation led to the death of 7 people. The article is here.

Basically, on January 16th 2003, NASA Mission STS-107 launched the Columbia shuttle. During launch, a piece of foam broke off and collided with the underside of the left wing, damaging a protective tile. During re-entry, this damage caused the wing to overheat, and in turn, the shuttle disintegrated, killing the 7 crew members.

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Power to the Point

Have you ever sat through an awful presentation? I think that we all have. Too many slides. Too little time.
“Good morning class.  Today we have to move a little fast.  We’ve got 1 hour and 60 slides, so no questions until the end.”
Or, there’s the presenter who crams his whole presentation into the slides.

“Um, excuse me… are you just going to read each slide to me?  It seems like your not adding anything, so can I just have a copy of the slides and I’ll go back to work?”
Here is a nice rule of thumb for Powerpoint presentations (from this blog):

It’s quite simple: a PowerPoint presentation should have ten slides, last no more than twenty minutes, and contain no font smaller than thirty points.