Hands: so useful, yet so problematic! What to do with them? Shove them into pockets? Use them to clutch the sides of the lectern with last-lifeboat-off-the-Titanic fervor? Flick away invisible flies?

Everyone “talks” with their hands at least sometimes. Some people’s hand-talking or gesturing matches their message well. Other people have a tendency to make overly large gestures that can be ...

It is not rude to point at things, but it’s rude to point at people. Or at least sometimes — it really depends on where you live. Why is it rude to point? If you grew up in the United States, you were ...