Making the Incomprehensible a Little More Comprehensible

Wow! Seems like everyone has been writing for awhile now about how incomprehensible Shinichi Mochizuki's "proof" of the ABC conjecture is... leave it to Mathbabe to find someone, Brian Conrad, willing to take a stab at making it a little MORE comprehensible! Long, informative (but still technical) post (certainly the best effort I've seen to address the topic... IF you can set some time aside):

http://mathbabe.org/2015/12/15/notes-on-the-oxford-iut-workshop-by-brian-conrad/