Stories by ColinWright

Kilogram conflict resolved at last

Declassified documents offer a new perspective on Yuri Gagarin’s flight

The Importance of Recreational Math

That exam problem with the crocodile

Uncovering the Secret History of Myers-Briggs

Teaching Math to People Who Think They Hate It

New Study Confirms Depressing Truth About Names and Racial Bias

For what n does n have n decimal digits? What about other bases?

The Verge – HoloLens mixed reality gaming demo

Minecraft Scientific/Graphing Calculator – Sin Cos Tan Log Square Root

The Hunt for Red October as hard science fiction

Mutilated chessboard problem

How crowd disasters happen, and how they can be avoided

Lost, then returned two years later: Grand Canyon from the Stratosphere

Letter to a calculus student, the sequel

Peeple, so-called “Yelp for people”, may be vaporware

Peeple the thing versus Peeple the app

Why Kindergarten in Finland Is All About Playtime

Estimating Pi with the Mandelbrot Set [video]

The Rise and Fall of the Cash Railway