Personal advices to give a presentation to small groups

I'm sure that everyone that had to talk face-to-face to an audience experienced the same half nervous half excitement feeling. You start talking, the presentation begin low, slow, like humbly asking for permission to talk. Then, if you are lucky, you begin feeling more confortable, you connect with your audience, let yourself go and the event go smoothly. Otherwise, if you do not get over the initial shock, this is going to be an unpleasant experience to everybody, specially you. Here I give you my own advices to fall within the first category and end up enjoying the rewarding experience of presenting your work. 

Autopilot for Bullets

Have you ever wondered why bullets seem to go so straight? Or why James Bond's gun has helical grooves? Or how does the autopilot of airplanes work? Ok, in FlashForward every plane without conscious pilots crashes after roughly two minutes but, let's face it, pilots are overestimated these days and the autopilot (aka "George") would have stand in just fine. Well, if you haven't guessed so far, let's talk about angular momentum.

Lost and Numbers stations

 Most of the fans of Lost, which are not yet lost in the details of every new enigma, still remember the strange distress signal presented during the first season. A radio emission where the omnipresent numbers were broadcasted and we could hear a woman speaking in French. The thing is that this is a clear example of actual numbers stations. Today I came across with a great entry in cabovolo, related to our previous entry, that tells the strange case of one of these stations: a unknown shortwave station that has been broadcasting from Russia since 1982. The emission has been, and still is a buzz, and something else...