How to Teach Physics to Your Dog: Big in the Commonwealth

A couple of nifty bits of news from the British Commonwealth:

• The BBC’s Magazine Monitor blog noted my Seed article.
• Better yet, How to Teach Physics to Your Dog makes Smriti Daniel’s list of “the best books to emerge in 2009” in the Sunday Times of Sri Lanka. The other books on the list: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer, Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger, Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India by William Dalrymple, Drood by Dan Simmons, and Unseen Academicals by some guy named Pratchett. That’s pretty awesome company to be in…

So that’s the latest really cool international news. The UK version of How to Teach Physics to Your Dog goes on sale Wednesday, at least according to Amazon, so mark your calendars for that.