Meet ‘Dr. Tatiana,’ the professor getting people on TikTok excited about physics

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During a Summer Science Safari demonstration at Texas A&M University in 2022, Dr. Tatiana hits a knife down to make the potato go up. It’s not magic, it’s inertia. Ryan Carmichael

Ryan Carmichael

College professors these days face an ever-higher bar to grab the attention of their students, forced to compete with the stimuli of smartphones and laptops in large lecture halls.

But when your professor is a social media star, it’s a little bit easier.

Tatiana Erukhimova, who teaches physics at Texas A&M University, has managed to get her students,

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