Stories by ColinWright

People’s intuitions about longform were wrong. They love longreads on phones.

The universe doesn't care what you believe

Snowden-haters are on the wrong side of history

Pathogenic plant virus jumps to honeybees - could explain decline

If a project offered a value of 10 times its...

Harvard plans to boldly go with 'Spocs'

Zombie botnets: Why some crime networks refuse to die

Natural Language Processing for the Working Programmer

MantaRay Prototype 1230 Variable Pitch Quadrotor (video)

Rosetta comet-chaser phones home

The Design of Everyday Things

How chance in games is rarely just a roll of the dice

Are you a lark or an owl? It really is genetic.

Why Compose Functions in JavaScript like this, rather than like that?

Follow-up: The Infinite Series and the Mind-Blowing Result.

Historical Pics: A letter from Gandhi to Hitler, ... (image)

I wish my degree had been more difficult

Study doubts quantum computer speed

Laser makes ultra-light mirror out of tiny beads

Notation, Patterns and New Discoveries - free lecture (London)