Simple equation predicts the shapes of carbon-capturing wetlands

The Everglades are not pleasant. Vast swarms of mosquitoes decend on any people like a black cloud. They're a vast, flat grassland (about 75 miles across and more N-S) full of gators, snakes (including rattlers, water moccasins, cotton mouths, boas, anacondas), gators, Florida panthers, gators, bears, gators. And did I mention crawling with gators?

I read a lot of Scientific American when I was a young teenager. Really loved science, but wouldn't have had enough of a background to understand differential equations and such.

So I've always imagined a similar target audience for Quanta. People who like science but lack any strong math background. Might be a plumber, might be a teenager.

(1) For the audience, yup, uh, curiosity is a likely ingredient.

(2) For the purpose, think of the real cause, James Simons and his background, e.g., in

May 10, 2024, Remembering the Life and Careers of Jim Simons, By Thomas Sumner

at

https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2024/05/10/remembering-the-...

So, yup, there is Quanta, but more advanced there is the Web site of that article.

For more, there is, as I recall, what he has done with the old NYC Flatiron building. Then there are other science/math promotion efforts.

(3) For the article mentioned in the OP, uh, just say that it is "unusual" for Quanta.

One aspect to like: There's a lot of junk in society and on the Internet, but Quanta is not part of it.

It’s for people who are interested in science but aren't formally educated in that field. For the people who are trained in that field, they might read the actual primary papers or review articles with 150 sources, and scoff at all the gell-mann amnesia they see daily in the popular press.