Informative - Speech and Research Topics
HEALTH, MEDICAL
Self-mutilation 
Exercise addiction
Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (or other disorder, such as autism or dyslexia)
Biomedical ethics
Biological rhythms
Bodybuilding
Orphan diseases
Teenage depression
Fad diets
Drug testing
Alternative medicine
Medical ethics
Anti-aging products (hGH – Human  growth hormone)
The truth about inebriation myths
Liposuction health risks
Implanted body parts
Women and heart disease
Medical mistakes
Vitamin supplements
Head injuries from sports
Medical information on the Internet
Gene therapy
Insomnia on the rise
Surgery conducted from afar
Health benefits of yoga
Obesity as a disease
Teenagers and nutrition
Improving one’s sleep
Chronic fatigue syndrome
Resistance to antibiotics
Lymphatic filariasis (disease)
Macular degeneration
Mapping your medical history
Tuskegee Syphilis Study
Color blindness
Ritalin abuse
Virginity pledges as birth control
Anesthesia in surgery
Obesity in America's children
Walking for fitness and weight control
Treatment for Alzheimers (also vaccines) (including COGNI shunt)
Prevention of Alzheimer's
Affects of alcohol on fetus
Walking as exercise
Botox
Progeria (aging disease)
Fetal alcohol syndrome
Chronic pain (what it is and how to cope with it)
Help for stuttering
 
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY 
Genetically engineered foods
Amphibians (or reptiles, flowers, etc.) of Kansas
Animal behavior
Drug use among athletes
Spiders (or beetles or any other group of “bugs”)
Cloning
Genetic engineering
Organic gardening (or farming)
Pesticides and the environment
Animals (or plants) of the rain forest
Genetic disorders
Neanderthal (or Piltdown) man
Effects of decline of beluga whales
Scientific benefits of the Hubble
The latest technological gadgets
Disposition of obsolete computers
The many uses of plastics
New technology gadgets, games, etc.
Gadgets for senior citizens 
An emerging technology 
Genetically engineered babies
 
INTERNET
Internet crime; Internet drug sales
Dark side of the internet
Internet hoaxes currently circulating and how to do your part to discourage them
The dark side of the Internet
Cyber-terrorism  
On-line dating 
Keeping kids safe on the Internet
Internet Disorder Addiction
 
SPORTS
NASCAR
Baseball cards (or sports cards in general)
Bullfighting (other non-Kansas spectator sport)
The appeal of extreme sports  
Pro wrestling’s influence on children
Professional athletes as criminals
Recruiting of college athletes
Cheerleading as a sport (with dangers)
Big money for baseball players
Team sports as a creator of leaders 
 
HISTORY 
Pullman Strike of 1894
Women of the American Revolution
Anasazi Indians (or any other tribe)
Concentration camps of World War II
Roanoke Colony
Andersonville prison
Results of the Battle of the Alamo
Calvary in the Middle Ages
Thomas Jefferson’s family  
 
PSYCHOLOGY
Effect of advertising on consumers
Behavior modification
Compulsive gambling
Hate crimes (or hate groups)
Multiple personality
Body language
Parapsychology
Personality disorder
Psychological warfare
Psychology of color
Mass hysteria
Autism
Detection and treatment of dyslexia
Anger management
Bereavement at death of a pet
Causes of job stress
Suicide in senior citizens  
 
ENIGMAS AND OTHER CURIOSITIES
Clairvoyance
Mystery of Easter Island
Cryptography
Signs and symbols (such as symbols dealing with nature or religion)
Funeral rites & ceremonies
Near-death experiences
Prophecies of Nostradamus
Occultism
Shroud of Turin
Crop rings
Voodoo
Mediums
Dowsing
Atlantis
Alchemy
Ancient astronauts
Poltergeists
Dragons
Jinxes and curses
Nazca lines
Out-of-body experiences
Psychic surgery
Sea monsters
Shamanism
Speaking in tongues
Spontaneous human combustion
UFO coverups
Vampires (or werewolves)
Horse whispering
Mystery of Machu Picchu
Druids and sun worship
Aphrodisiacs  
 
EDUCATION
Home schooling
College hazing
The charter school movement
The alternative school movement
Classroom harassment
Teacher education
Hazing
School choice (vouchers, charter schools)
Teacher shortage
School for witches
Why can't Johnny read?
The increase of plagiarism in schools
 
FAMILY AND CHILDREN
International adoptions
Children of divorced parents (or of drug addicts, etc.)
Runaway teenagers
Abandoned babies
Dead beat dads
Siamese twins
Effects of divorce on children
Lesbian/Gay couples as parents
Babies abandoned at hospitals
Living together replacing marriage
Professional wrestling and children
Children's anxieties
Children as victims in divorce
Violence in children's tv programs
 
CRIME, LAW
Sexual harassment
Prohibition in Kansas
Clergy committing crimes
Correctional system for juvenile delinquents
Methods of execution
Amber Alert system
Botulism as Terrorism
Identity Theft
False identification/wrongful conviction
Frivolous lawsuits
Federal Advertising Law
 
OTHER
Mad Cow disease
Alcatraz (prison)
Amish (or other religious groups, such as Hittites, Shakers)
Folklore about animals
Places of interest in Kansas (or other state)
Cannibalism
Funeral industry in the United States
Druids and Druidism
Extinct animal (or animal in danger of extinction)
Ghost town of Kansas
Service dogs
Gypsies
1960s (or 1970s, etc.) culture
Lotteries
Mummies
National emblems (or emblems of a particular state)
Religion of Native Americans
Yoga
Kirlian photography
Tourism in the Bahamas (or other location)
Aleuts (or other group of people, such as Nomads, Basques, Celts, Etruscans)
Women as soldiers
Rise of feminism
Monogamy, polygamy and religious groups
Euphemisms
Knighthood training
Get-rich schemes
Bagpipes
Lucrezia Borgia
“Facts” that aren’t true (common misconceptions)
Names & faces synonymous with popular food products:  Betty Crocker, Mrs. Butterworth, Aunt Jemima, Chef
Boyardee
The origin of common sayings
Rudeness of American society
Graffiti as an art form
Stars’ effects on teen fashion
Funeral practices in the US
Managing credit cards
Discovery and use of coffee
The culture of tea and tea drinking
Influence of the Beatles
The power of Oprah
Convertibles (cars)
Bottled water
Ballistics (forensic science)
Bullet trains (high speed railroad systems)
Sign language as foreign language
Men as "doofuses" in current sit coms
Surviving a terrorist attack
The life of a super-model
How dating has changed over the years
Eating competitions
Odd superstitions
Racial profiling