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First, I have to say I love the redesigned paper. It's extremely intuitive and easy to read even for people with very little background. In text form I imagine
by owenversteeg 9y ago
First, I have to say I love the redesigned paper. It's extremely intuitive and easy to read even for people with very little background. In text form I imagine it would be accessible to ten times fewer people at least.
I don't think all papers should be done this way, but it would be fantastic if more were. Pop-science explanations of papers are almost always too simplistic and almost nobody's going to read plain study texts unless they have to.
How to explain (somewhat) difficult concepts and ideas has been a sort of hobby of mine for a while, everything from contributing to simple.wikipedia to Reddit comments explaining new studies.
I'm actually thinking of starting a website to create "comic-style" (as the author calls them) explanations of important papers and ideas in science. Would anyone here be interested in writing or explaining papers or ideas? My email's in my profile. Even just doing a bit of illustration or writing would help.
I'm also trying to figure out papers and ideas that are important. I'd like to also include some important things that aren't well explained on the internet already, or are only well known within a specific field. Anyone have any suggestions?
- scribu 9y ago> I'm actually thinking of starting a website to create "comic-style" (as the author calls them) explanations of important papers and ideas in science. There already is a hub for such projects: http://explorabl.es http://explorabl.es Perhaps you can get some inspiration and/or exposure through it.
- icc97 9y agoThat's an interesting site but doesn't seem to be picking papers the first one I picked up on was the Monty Hall game show problem which isn't a paper as far as I know.
- icebraining 9y agoThe Monty Hall problem was invented by Steve Selvin in a letter to The American Statistician journal, and it's only inspired in the game show. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem