Stories by ColinWright

Why Our Analemma Looks Like a Figure 8 (2009)

Earth closest to sun for 2015 on January 4

Things you need to know about the future of math

Glowing Hobbit sword helps you find unsecured Wi-Fi

Why I Drilled Holes in My MacBook Pro and Put It in the Oven

Pronunciation errors that made the English language what it is today

A philosopher, a mathematician and a student walk into a bar

'Intervals Roasting' – The Most Educational Christmas Carol Ever

What We Talk about When We Talk about Holes (2014)

Merge Sort vs. Quick Sort [video]

Apollo 11 Flight Plan – Final [pdf]

What We Talk about When We Talk about Holes

A virtual machine in Excel

Infographic showing which languages are the hardest for English-speakers

Best Paper Awards in Computer Science (since 1996)

Flipping bits in memory without accessing them [pdf]

Why are planar graphs so exceptional?

The trick is to choose to be polite by default

A MIPS R3000 Microprocessor on an FPGA (2002) [pdf]

How ‘Deprogramming’ Kids from How to ‘Do School’ Could Improve Learning