Written and designed by the students of Danny Long’s science-writing course, Radical Science Writing, the posters in this exhibit took their inspiration from Randall Munroe’s book Thing Explainer, in which Munroe explains “complicated stuff in simple words” (to quote his subtitle), with the help of illustrations. Like Munroe, the students limited themselves to the 1,000 most common words in the English language. This is why aluminum cans are “use again cans,” why gravity is “the pulling force,” and why DNA is “the information center that makes you different.”
