A few weeks back, I spoke on the phone with a freelance writer who was doing a piece for the Albany Times Union. She was putting together a joint article on How to Teach Physics to Your Dog and the Atomville book put together by Jill Linz and Cindy Schwarz (at Skidmore and Vassar, respectively).… Continue reading How to Teach Physics to Your Dog: All the News That’s Fit to Keep Off the Web Page
Category: Physics Books
More Entropy, Less Spanking
I’m currently a bit less than halfway through Sean Carroll’s From Eternity to Here, which has leaped to the top of the literary inbox because I’ll be hosting a Book Salon at firedoglake next Saturday evening. If you want to see how my limited typing skills work in a live chat setting, be sure to… Continue reading More Entropy, Less Spanking
How to Teach Physics to Your Dog: Customer Reviews Edition
Having seen other authors led into destruction by responding to customer reviews on Amazon, I tend to approach the customer reviews of How to Teach Physics to Your Dog with some trepidation. It turns out, though, that they’re really good. And I don’t mean that in a Harriet Kalunser kind of way– the positive reviews… Continue reading How to Teach Physics to Your Dog: Customer Reviews Edition
How to Teach Physics to Your Dog: Obsessive Categorization
We’re once again in the “things are in the pipeline, but nothing has been posted recently” mode, which is a good excuse for some Amazon neepery. Since the AP review came out, and was printed in 20-odd papers, the sales rank has climbed back into the four digits, and has spent the last few days… Continue reading How to Teach Physics to Your Dog: Obsessive Categorization
How to Teach Physics to Your Dog: Obsessive Update
The college bookstore has set up a display table right at the front of the store with a bunch of copies of How to Teach Physics to Your Dog, which is kind of a kick. Some of my students asked me about it in lab yesterday. The big news, though, is that the Associated Press… Continue reading How to Teach Physics to Your Dog: Obsessive Update
Radio DogPhysics: Cincinnati Edition
Of special interest to Ohio-type readers: I’m scheduled to do an interview tomorrow, Monday the 18th with Jim Scott of WLW AM in Cincinnati. I’m scheduled to call in at 9:50 am, which looks like it’s after the regular show hours, and thus probably a taped interview. It says LIVE in the schedule I was… Continue reading Radio DogPhysics: Cincinnati Edition
How to Teach Physics to Your Dog: Obsessive Update (US Version)
The Barnes and Noble store finder finally indicated the presence of copies in the local stores yesterday, so we made a trip down to the Colonie Center, where they had a half-dozen face out in the Physics section, and probably 15-20 on the new releases table. Woo-hoo! (Now I can shift to fretting that they’ve… Continue reading How to Teach Physics to Your Dog: Obsessive Update (US Version)
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… Continue reading How to Teach Physics to Your Dog: Big in the Commonwealth
How to Teach Physics to Your Dog: Obsessive Update
Even when I’m on the road, I continue to be obsessed… A nice review at Lean Left that really gets Emmy’s role in the book: The dog asks clear questions and Orzel uses those interjections well. They very often serve as a way to clarify, or to bring up questions that the readers probably has,… Continue reading How to Teach Physics to Your Dog: Obsessive Update
How to Teach Physics to Your Dog: Obsessive Update
Miscellaneous book-related items for you to read while I spend most of the day in transit to Austin: While I have yet to see a copy in a Barnes and Noble store locally, it’s selling well enough in the national chain for them to have ordered more copies. Yay! Relatedly, the publisher has just ordered… Continue reading How to Teach Physics to Your Dog: Obsessive Update