How well do you really know a subject? I think the best way is if you can teach the concept to someone else new to the idea. If you really want to test yourself, try explaining it to a 5 year old.

What makes a scientist a good communicator? It turns out the scientific community has become more interested in figuring that out. Explaining science is something reporters, especially science ...

Children diagnosed with ADHD often don’t have the tools yet to explain it to others. But it’s important to be open about this diagnosis. It’s especially key as your child ages, as peers, educators, ...

Explaining consciousness is one of the greatest challenges in science and philosophy, right up with the origin of the universe, the existence of dark matter, and whether there is intelligent life on ...

When I was a child in Saskatchewan in the 1950s, my parents and their friends smoked cigarettes, most women were housewives, birth control and homosexuality were illegal, and pornography was scarce.

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Overexplaining is not a personality defect. It is a learned habit of ensuring one’s safety ...

In the first part of this series I wrote about why we think we should explain how artificial intelligence and machine learning work, what they’re good and bad at, and what their effects can be. In ...