{"id":4350,"date":"2009-12-20T09:52:10","date_gmt":"2009-12-20T09:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/12\/20\/great-moments-in-vanity-search\/"},"modified":"2009-12-20T09:52:10","modified_gmt":"2009-12-20T09:52:10","slug":"great-moments-in-vanity-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/12\/20\/great-moments-in-vanity-search\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Moments in Vanity Searching -or- The Hotness of Physics"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was Googling for “How to Teach Physics to Your Dog” last night, to check whether a review of said book<\/a> that I know is coming has been posted yet (side question: Does anybody know a good way to exclude the umpty-zillion versions of Amazon and other sellers from this sort of search? Most of the results<\/a> are just product pages at one online retailer or another.). The review I was looking for isn’t up yet, but I did find a goodreads page<\/a>, a nice entry at the Cincinnati public library<\/a> calling it “abstract science delivered painlessly,” and this pre-publication alert from Library Journal<\/cite><\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Wait a minute,” you say. “Wasn’t your book in a preup alert back in August<\/a>?” Yes, yes it was. That’s the cool thing. The new pre-pub alert cites my book in talking about Quantum<\/cite> by Manjit Kumar<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Quantum mechanics, a theory about the nature of matter on the subatomic level that caused a revolution in early 20th-century science, sharply divided Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr. We’re still trying to make sense of it today. Here, the founding editor of Prometheus<\/cite> sheds a little light (particles? or waves?) on the subject. Physics is hot right now, with lots of books slated for the coming months, e.g., Chad Orzel’s How To Teach Physics to Your Dog<\/cite>–and this looks like a good foundational book from someone who can talk to nonscientists.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That’s just awesome. Kumar’s book sounds pretty cool, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was Googling for “How to Teach Physics to Your Dog” last night, to check whether a review of said book that I know is coming has been posted yet (side question: Does anybody know a good way to exclude the umpty-zillion versions of Amazon and other sellers from this sort of search? Most of… Continue reading Great Moments in Vanity Searching -or- The Hotness of Physics<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,18,7,51,61,37,132,11,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book_writing","category-books","category-physics","category-physics_books","category-physics_with_emmy","category-pop_culture","category-publicity","category-science","category-science_books","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}