Speeches delivered at Toastmasters

Every Toastmasters club has its own personality. This video provides guidelines for preparing and serving that role at the ArtTalkers Toastmasters club of Kyiv.

Every Toastmasters club meeting has evaluators of technical skills: fluency, grammar and concision. They are called the Ah Counter, Grammarian and Timer. This video describes what is expected of them at the ArtTalkers Club of Kyiv, Ukraine.

Table Topics is a session of two-minute impromptu speeches, on the agenda of every Toastmasters club throughout the world. ArtTalkers Club of Kyiv, Ukraine has its own interpretation. This describes to our members how to lead a Table Topics session

Table Topics, a session of two minute impromptu speeches, is an integral part of the Toastmasters program. The ArtTalkers club of Kyiv has some unique wrinkles. This is how we do it.

A guide for members of the ArtTalkers Toastmasters club of Kyiv, Ukraine to writing speeches.

Tips on how to evaluate a speech delivered at the ArtTalkers Toastmasters club

After spending a week or so writing and practicing a speech, it is time for the presentation. What should a speaker do before the meeting, while giving the speech, and during the evaluation?

First-time visitors to a Toastmasters Club want to know what the program is about. Members of other clubs want to know what's different about us.

Why nuclear energy has been stymied for seven decades, and why that must change sometime. Perhaps now?

Why nuclear is safe. How bombs work, how reactors work and why they are different. Breeder reactors - fully using fission - and fusion, the quest for unlimited energy.

Very short introduction. What I know about oil and gas from reading. Invite comment from those who know more

A short history of polio, as described by Maready, with observations from my own life.

I escaped America to Ukraine. If the Russians force us to leave Ukraine, where can we go? These are my ideas of where and why.

My short summary of an important 2 1/2 hour conversation between Forrest Maready and Bret Weinstein on Darkhorse on the history of polio. I'm giving it the title, "That's Funny," because those words were what started Maready on this intellectual quest. My intention is first to expose you to this more comprehensive explanation of the history of polio, and to encourage you to watch the Darkhorse episode here on Rumble and/or read Maready's book

I primarily describe the role of the hippocampus in memory, touching on other topics in the book.

Draft of a Toastmasters speech. It is not scheduled for delivery. It can be improved, and I welcome suggestions.

A Toastmasters speech. Telling a story - a personal glimpse of the wonderful man who raised me.

A speech for Ukrainians who are thinking of getting a university education in the USA.

Evolution is a two-way street. Human intelligence increased only as long as the more intelligent people remained the most fertile. In a process that Helmut Nyborg, Richard Lynn, Ed Dutton and others have named dysgenics, things have gone into reverse. Human intelligence is falling. We continue to look for political solutions to what is and evolutionary problem. There will not be any.

You cannot expect a political solution to a problem of evolution

Toastmasters speech on giving parties, to be delivered August 5

My experience speed dating in 2011 in Washington, D.C.

My observations on speed dating as a single guy in Washington, D.C. fifteen years ago, and as a means of meeting people in Kyiv in 2023.

A Toastmasters speech on the subject of finding a guy. To be delivered June 3. Vitaliy Rulov will deliver a speech on the same subject. There is lots of room for different opinions.

Toastmasters speech on why evolution is to blame for what's wrong with today's world - and the usual named villains evolved to be who they are.