 As a professor, my standards of boring are different from most people's, and so I may go and read a table of numbers and say, wow, what amazing numbers. But normally, when I step back and imagine handing the things that I'm reading to someone who is curious about the world but is not an academic, I realize they are going to be falling asleep, which then makes me think, what is the best way to bring the science to life to a broad audience