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Matt Springer is a graduate student of physics at Texas A&M; university. He is also an occasional writer and tinkerer, and he is probably too curious for his own good.
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Recent Posts
- Period of a Pendulum
- The Higher Math of Briscoe v. Virginia?
- The Difficulty of Teaching Magnets
- Sunday Function
- Raising the Burj Khalifa
- Owl City and the Slow Earth
- Sunday Function
- Ringing in Kepler's Year
- Pink and Cheap Is No Way To Go Through Space
- Cross-Eyed Stars
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- Anonymous on Period of a Pendulum
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- Nathan Myers on The Higher Math of Briscoe v. Virginia?
- Anonymous Coward on The Difficulty of Teaching Magnets
- Uncle Al on Period of a Pendulum
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- Matt Springer on The Higher Math of Briscoe v. Virginia?
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