Stories by ColinWright

Xkcd: Cloud

Amazing Encounters – Apollo 13's Fred Haise

Demonstrating Rosetta’s Philae Lander on the Space Station [video]

It’s Behind You Robot Creates Feeling of Ghostly Presence

Integrating with LLVM

8 Things to Look for During Orion’s Flight

Trading places – with a rat

Verizon Inject Perma-Cookies to Track Mobile Customers, Bypass Privacy Controls

The hammer-feather drop in the world’s biggest vacuum chamber [video]

Click and Drag – A WebGL Fluid Experiment

Judge Rules Suspect Can Be Required to Unlock Phone with Fingerprint

High-achieving teacher sues state over evaluation labeling her ‘ineffective’

String field theory could be the foundation of quantum mechanics

The Birthday Problem, and how it relates to unique GUIDs (2012)

Pumpkin geometry: stunning shadow sculptures that illuminate ancient mathematics

If you don' like algorithmic filters, you won't like the future of Twitter

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences (1960)

The Happy Ending Problem [video]

Making a Binary Computer with 10,000 Dominoes by Matt Parker

Gamergate’s anti-woman agenda made clear: Felicia Day threatened for speaking up