Stories by ColinWright

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

Elon Musk Favorite Books

Wishing for some way to cross-correlate and cross-link submissions

New Microscope Collects Dynamic Images of the Molecules that Animate Life

Infinite is easier than big

A Git user's first (and hopefully last) foray into SVN-land

A Hazmat-Trained Hospital Worker: Here's What No One Is Telling You About Ebola

Watch That Windows Update: FTDI Drivers Are Killing Fake Chips

The man with the golden blood