Well here's Quanta's piece on the Tracy-Widom distrbution from a few years ago: https://www.quantamagazine.org/20141015-at-the-far-ends-of-a-new-universal-law/

Well here's Quanta's piece on the Tracy-Widom distrbution from a few years ago: https://www.quantamagazine.org/20141015-at-the-far-ends-of-a-new-universal-law/ https://www.quantamagazine.org/20141015-at-the-far-ends-of-a... More people will have heard of phase transitions than T-W and it's certainly not inaccurate while also using somewhat familiar analogies; so I think your criticism doesn't make much sense for a popular science article.