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Introducing an Untitled Science Book About Science

Rhett Allain
4 min readOct 7, 2021

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Photo: Rhett Allain. White light as seen through a diffraction grating.

I really like to write stuff about science. I mean, I think that should be obvious. Well, what about books? Yes, I have published some actual books:

There are a couple of others — The Official MacGyver Survival Manual: 155 Ways to Save the Day (but I actually only wrote a little bit of that). Also, there’s Just Enough Physics — a self publish book on Kindle.

I’ll be honest. Books aren’t nearly as much fun as blog posts. They just take so long and there is the endless editing. Blogs are lighter, more carefree, more full of spirit. They are just fun (for the most part). But I get it. People add extra weight to content that is published with dead trees. It’s like those trees that Saruman pulled down in Isengard — except of using them to make orcs, we make books.

But alas. I probably should write another book. OK, but how about this? I write a blog series that I can turn into a book (or maybe NOT turn into a book if things don’t work out)? Yup, that’s my plan.

What is this book about?

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Rhett Allain
Rhett Allain

Written by Rhett Allain

Physics faculty, science blogger of all things geek. Technical Consultant for CBS MacGyver and MythBusters. WIRED blogger.

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