Stories by ColinWright

The Last of the Iron Lungs

Andrew Wiles on the struggle and beauty of mathematics

Sir Andrew Wiles on the struggle and beauty of mathematics

This guy turned sand into a 'liquefied soup'

A Good Snowman Is Hard to Build

Impaled on a Fencepost

Revisiting the Mutilated Chessboard

What to Do When Trisector Comes [pdf]

Laptops are great, but not during a lecture or a meeting

Slaughterbots

A pile of matchboxes that can learn [video]

Higgs Boson Explained by Cartoon (2012)

How Mountaineering is like Mathematics

Looking forward to MathsJam

Life hacking considered harmful

Opus Magnum: A game for hackers to toy with alchemical engineering

Sentiment Analysis of Twitter Timelines

Ask HN: What flight search tool do you use?

No, really, what's a monad?

Time Travel in Fiction Rundown