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Rhett Allain is an Associate Professor of Physics at Southeastern Louisiana University. He
enjoys teaching and talking about physics. Sometimes he takes things apart and can't
put them back together.
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- Greater is Greater
- Surface Tension vs. Floating
- Graduation Rates
- Oak Trees are awesome
- Teaching, Teaching About, and Learning
- Density of Wood
- Apolo Ohno's Slime Jump
- Diver in a bottle
- Re-thinking physical science
- Could cars slow down the Earth?
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