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PowerPoint makes you dumb

This article offers an interesting argument that the effort to strip down information so that it fits into PowerPoint's limitations (I've definitely had the resolution problem) creates overly dumbed-down presentations with sometimes tragic results (the effect is implicated in the recent shuttle crash). Ultimately, it's the presenter's responsibility to verbally fill-in the gaps, but it's still an interesting phenomenon.

Here's a review of Tuft's booklet that is referenced in the NYTs article.

Here's a pretty good (though brief) description of what went down with PowerPoint and Columbia.

(link courtesy of Metafilter)