Stories by ColinWright

Teaching Math to People Who Think They Hate It

A 1939 Map of Physics

McEliece cryptosystem – a candidate for post-quantum crypto

How Computers Boot Up (2008)

Timeline of computer viruses and worms

What's up with the number 163?

Has LinkedIn lost control of its user email database?

Cling: an interactive C++ interpreter, built on top of Clang and LLVM

King of the swingers: photographer builds giant pendulum to make amazing art

Acoustic location

Explaining banding in a scatterplot of Goldbach’s function

An Updated Mars Exploration Family Portrait

NASA Invents a Folding Solar Panel Inspired by Origami

How to explain zero-knowledge protocols to your children (1998) [pdf]

Mythbusting: Nvidia Debunks Lunar Landing Conspiracy

Doodling in Math and more: Vi Hart's videos in one place

16-Year-Old Invents a New Way to Communicate – Using Only Your Breath

Oracle's Larry Ellison steps down as two successors named

Follow-up to “Functional Programming Doesn't Work”

Two Stories of Simplicity