{"id":4433,"date":"2010-01-17T09:20:23","date_gmt":"2010-01-17T09:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/01\/17\/how-to-teach-physics-to-your-d-16\/"},"modified":"2010-01-17T09:20:23","modified_gmt":"2010-01-17T09:20:23","slug":"how-to-teach-physics-to-your-d-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/01\/17\/how-to-teach-physics-to-your-d-16\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Teach Physics to Your Dog: Big in the Commonwealth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dogphysics.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-1e8ca3d6f1057cdc4f9532702467bc29-sm_cover_draft_atom.jpg\" alt=\"i-1e8ca3d6f1057cdc4f9532702467bc29-sm_cover_draft_atom.jpg\" \/><\/a>A couple of nifty bits of news from the British Commonwealth:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The BBC&#8217;s Magazine Monitor blog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/blogs\/magazinemonitor\/2010\/01\/web_monitor_136.shtml\">noted<\/a> my <a href=\"http:\/\/seedmagazine.com\/content\/article\/the_dog_particle\/\">Seed article<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Better yet, <a href=\"http:\/\/dogphysics.com\/\"><cite>How to Teach Physics to Your Dog<\/cite><\/a> makes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sundaytimes.lk\/100117\/Magazine\/sundaytimesmirror_07.html\">Smriti Daniel&#8217;s list of &#8220;the best books to emerge in 2009&#8221;<\/a> in the Sunday Times of Sri Lanka. The other books on the list: <cite>The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind<\/cite> by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer, <cite>Her Fearful Symmetry<\/cite> by Audrey Niffenegger, <cite>Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India<\/cite> by William Dalrymple, <cite>Drood<\/cite> by Dan Simmons, and <cite>Unseen Academicals<\/cite> by some guy named Pratchett. That&#8217;s pretty awesome company to be in&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So that&#8217;s the latest really cool international news. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/How-Teach-Physics-Your-Dog\/dp\/1416572287\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1263737268&#038;sr=8-1\">UK version<\/a> of <cite>How to Teach Physics to Your Dog<\/cite> goes on sale Wednesday, at least according to Amazon, so mark your calendars for that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of nifty bits of news from the British Commonwealth: The BBC&#8217;s Magazine Monitor blog noted my Seed article. Better yet, How to Teach Physics to Your Dog makes Smriti Daniel&#8217;s list of &#8220;the best books to emerge in 2009&#8221; in the Sunday Times of Sri Lanka. The other books on the list: The&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/01\/17\/how-to-teach-physics-to-your-d-16\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How to Teach Physics to Your Dog: Big in the Commonwealth<\/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":[67,18,142,7,51,37,132,143,11,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book_writing","category-books","category-how-to-teach","category-physics","category-physics_books","category-pop_culture","category-publicity","category-sales","category-science","category-science_books","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4433","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=4433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}