biology explained at a “3d grade reading level”

There’s finally some hope for me and biological understanding.

Wouldn’t you thrive if all your competitors were wiped out and there was food everywhere?

Actually, at least in the US, we now have community-acquired MRSA, so this is incorrect.

And how did you come to that realization? The very process of getting into medical school almost necessitates being able to read and understand advanced material. I find it hard to believe someone could sail through a “hard science” university program without ever being confronted with information presented at an advanced. The ability to comprehend what you read is, in fact, 1/3 of the medical college admissions test.

Back when there was a Bell Laboratories, one thing they made new employees do was take a writing course, because a fundamental part of our jobs was communicating with engineers, managers, installers, and various other people. One of the key points (besides “write like a journalist, not a grad student, be clear and direct, and put the interesting and important bits at the beginning so people can figure out whether to read the rest”) was that the more complex the topic you were discussing, the simpler your writing style should be, so it doesn’t distract from the parts that are supposed to be hard.

And there were these new cool computerized tools for measuring writing complexity, so we could tell if we’d hit the target of a 10th-grade reading level for most material, or could dial it back to 8th-grade level for hard stuff, and save the 17th-grade sociology-grad-student writing style for papers we didn’t want anybody to actually read.

3rd-grade style is perhaps a bit extreme (:-), but it got me past the eyes-glaze-over-TL;DR stage, and the limited content per slide meant I could actually page through in a couple of minutes.