Recently Ian Tucker sat down with a group of the world’s top science writers at the Royal Society’s annual book prize event in London.  The results of the interview are filled with gems of insight and humor that frame how these writers think about explanation and making ideas easier to understand.  The first addresses a question I hear often - how do you explain something without talking down to people?  Tucker asks the question in this form: When you are writing where do you set the difficulty... Continue Reading