Stories by ColinWright

How to write a compiler

Programming is the start not the end: develop thinking & problem solving skills

Team of scientists date Monet masterpiece down to the minute

Escher's "Ascending and Descending" in Lego

Scientists find secret to writing a best-selling novel

Head space: Finding a way to do 3D surgery on the brain

The Statwing Prize – for most interesting analyses of the General Social Survey

Where is Rosetta? Interactive model of the Solar System

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