{"id":4352,"date":"2009-12-21T10:23:15","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T10:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/12\/21\/teaching-physics-to-other-peop\/"},"modified":"2009-12-21T10:23:15","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T10:23:15","slug":"teaching-physics-to-other-peop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/12\/21\/teaching-physics-to-other-peop\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Physics to Other People&#8217;s Pets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dogphysics.com\/\"><cite>How to Teach Physics to Your Dog<\/cite><\/a> is officially released tomorrow, because Tuesdays are New Book Days, but Amazon has been shipping them for a few days now, so it&#8217;s very likely they are already appering &#8220;in the wild,&#8221; as it were. So it seems like a good time to announce a new feature at dogphysics.com: The <a href=\"http:\/\/dogphysics.com\/pet_gallery.html\">DogPhysics.com Pet Gallery<\/a>, featuring photos of, well, pets with an interest in physics. And, more importantly, a copy of <cite>How to Teach Physics to Your Dog<\/cite>.<\/p>\n<p>The Gallery currently contains just two pictures of dogs&#8211; John Scalzi&#8217;s Kodi, and the official dog of the Digital Cuttlefish, shown with the galley proof his owner won in the <a href=\"http:\/\/dogphysics.com\/contests.html\">poetry contest<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-5688ec2dc2d925411e6b13a40156aabc-sm_cuttledog.jpg\" alt=\"i-5688ec2dc2d925411e6b13a40156aabc-sm_cuttledog.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>No matter what Emmy may think, though, creatures other than dogs are capable of learning physics. So whatever sort of pets you favor&#8211; fish, birds, hedgehogs, ferrets, even cats&#8211; if you&#8217;d like your pet in the gallery, send an image file (preferably one scaled to 500 pixels wide) to <a href=\"mailto:queen_emmy@steelypips.org\">queen_emmy@steelypips.org<\/a>, and we&#8217;ll add your pet to the Gallery. Even cats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to Teach Physics to Your Dog is officially released tomorrow, because Tuesdays are New Book Days, but Amazon has been shipping them for a few days now, so it&#8217;s very likely they are already appering &#8220;in the wild,&#8221; as it were. So it seems like a good time to announce a new feature at&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/12\/21\/teaching-physics-to-other-peop\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Teaching Physics to Other People&#8217;s Pets<\/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":[67,50,132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book_writing","category-pictures","category-publicity","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4352","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=4352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}