Stories by ColinWright

Recent Math Breakthroughs That Could Be Taught in Elementary School (but aren’t)

The Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma after Press and Dyson

How do magnets work?

Physics Shows Batman's Cape Is Suicide Machine

Driving Sales: Ways That Consumers Are Hopeless at Math

Technology and crime: Inside a knife-point mugging

Peter Norvig's TED talk reflecting on the online AI course

A transistorized 4-bit digital computer made out of discrete DTL

Thousands face Internet loss as FBI shuts off servers

High Anxiety (raganwald on Go and learning new things)

Singularity: Kurzweil on 2045, When Humans, Machines Merge

A business ripe for disruption: The parcel conundrum

Facebook and Yahoo settle patent and form ad alliance

Darpa announces Integrated Hypersonics program.

Model ships made from human bones.

Short notice, temporary announcement: Royal institution, today, 14:00

Problems with the scientific method

Multiple of PCs sold vs Macs (image)

Unpublished Fraud-Detection Tool Could Shake Up Psychology

Air France crash 'due to pilot & technical failure' (Final report on 2009 crash)