'PowerPoint Is Bad For You!' Says Professor, Pointing to His Prepared PowerPoint Slides

Maybe slightly off topic here, but interesting none the less, and definitely bad news for those in the business of either putting together PowerPoint presentations or those regularly using them in their day-to-day job. The Sydney Morning Herald just covered a story coming out of the University of New South Wales how the use of PowerPoint isn’t at all effective for much of anything, particularly in functioning as it’s intended: to help people absorb and retain information.