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http://www.boingboing.net/2009/05/19/gesturing-helps-you.html

One wonders whether they also looked at whether gesturing makes one more persuasive (i.e., 'hand-waving'). :)
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http://www.boingboing.net/2009/01/14/the-pet-dragon-by-ch.html

Now that I think of it, this is really a natural venue for teaching these characters, or at least those that are still vaguely close to being pictograms. (Those of you who read Sinfest regularly may recall that they do something similar (rarely).
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courtesy of [livejournal.com profile] zandperl: what happens (notionally) when someone lays the "those who can, do; those who can't, teach" schtick on an articulate and passionate teacher--or at least this one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxsOVK4syxU&mode=related&search=

(That is, a few minutes later they require cosmetic surgery to remove the footprint from their ass, and possibly to rehinge their jaw after it's bounced off the floor.)

Update: A transcript is on the teacher's (Taylor Mali's) site here:

http://www.taylormali.com/index.cfm?webid=13

although, as [livejournal.com profile] zandperl points out, the presentation adds a lot.
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This one is totally for [livejournal.com profile] hypgnosis.

via AccordionGuy's post on the subject: a website devoted to "how-to" videos using scantily-clad women as narrators...somewhat ambiguously called How To Do Girls. (No, not _that_ kind of instruction manual.)

Specifically, they have a DVD for calculus lessons. Totally not making this up. Unfortunately, the production quality, direction, and acting are all rather low quality (the whole thing screams "LOW BUDGET"), but at least they apparently don't take themselves entirely seriously. And besides, one of the girls apparently has a master's in nuclear engineering, according to her bio.

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