Quanta Magazine does an excellent job with balancing accessible writing and advanced topics. It's just enough to get someone interested in the problem and the basic ideas to start thinking about it.
The usual Gell-Mann way - when they write an article about a topic you know very well, you see whether you find it "mildly annoying" (because there are always small inaccuracies or papering-overs that seem a big deal to us), or "hilariously bad", or "so outrageous the writer ought to be fired". The quality of the other articles you aren't qualified to judge can then be assumed to be in a cloud around where you judged this one to be.
astrange|4 years ago
sundarurfriend|4 years ago