Stories by ColinWright

“I’m gonna use my formula sheets and that’s the only way I’m gonna do stuff.”

A so-called “expert witness” fails to perform middle school math

Q: Why can’t we see the Apollo lunar landers with the Hubble telescope?

The North Pole Is Warmer Than Western TX, Southern SA, and Parts of the Sahara

Virgin customers told: we're moving you to TalkTalk and you'll lose your email

Introducing Guesstimate, a Spreadsheet for Things That Aren’t Certain

The Chimp and the Surgeon: A History of Heart Transplants

The Crypto Warrior

A survival guide for Unix beginners

GaugeMap: Thousands of river gauges, each with a Twitter account

Contrasts in Number Theory

Never Make Counter-Offers (2011)

libmilla: library that introduces Go-style concurrency to C

Kerbal: Create Your Own Space Program

This Year in Chemistry: 2015’s Biggest Chemistry Stories

Dan Meyer: Math class needs a makeover

The Anamorphic Skull in Holbein's “The Ambassadors”

The Other, Other Rope Around the Earth Problem

Watch a Computer Made Out of Dominoes Do Basic Math

Trust in Physics