{"id":4461,"date":"2010-01-23T10:51:37","date_gmt":"2010-01-23T10:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/01\/23\/how-to-teach-physics-to-your-d-20\/"},"modified":"2010-01-23T10:51:37","modified_gmt":"2010-01-23T10:51:37","slug":"how-to-teach-physics-to-your-d-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/01\/23\/how-to-teach-physics-to-your-d-20\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Teach Physics to Your Dog: Customer Reviews Edition"},"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>Having seen other authors led into destruction by responding to customer reviews on Amazon, I tend to approach the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/How-Teach-Physics-Your-Dog\/product-reviews\/1416572287\/ref=cm_cr_dp_all_summary?ie=UTF8&#038;showViewpoints=1&#038;sortBy=bySubmissionDateDescending\">customer reviews of <cite>How to Teach Physics to Your Dog<\/cite><\/a> with some trepidation.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out, though, that they&#8217;re really good. And I don&#8217;t mean that in a Harriet Kalunser kind of way&#8211; the positive reviews are thoughtful and positive, and the negative comments that have been made are for the most part legitimate criticisms of the book. And then there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/review\/RC8UQ9Q4DJ6OP\/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm\">this one<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>My 11 year old son is nuts about physics, so I got this book to see how it would go over with him. It did, perfectly. The whole ruse of explaining physics to a dog was hilarious to him and really made concrete some of the things that the author was trying to explain. I had my son explaining to me, laughing, how a dog could walk through a tree if he went slowly enough (with all the physics behind that crazy statement) and then hilariously illustrating what would happen if the dog didn&#8217;t go quite slow enough. (He&#8217;d bonk his head). You&#8217;d think he was recounting a Calvin and Hobbes joke. The entire time my son was reading this he kept coming to me with, &#8220;did you know&#8230;&#8221; and &#8220;wow! I never realized that&#8221; epiphanies. He did say that some of the stuff being explained was really hard, although he jumped to the author&#8217;s defense saying that he thinks it&#8217;s not that he did a bad job explaining it, it&#8217;s just that some of it was, well, tough. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s just awesome. I wonder if I could get that on the book jacket?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mbeckler.org\/dog_physics\/\">3001 book, 3797 Kindle<\/a>. Lest you think I&#8217;ve forgotten.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;re really good. And I don&#8217;t mean that in a Harriet Kalunser kind of way&#8211; the positive reviews&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/01\/23\/how-to-teach-physics-to-your-d-20\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How to Teach Physics to Your Dog: Customer Reviews Edition<\/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-4461","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\/4461","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=4461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}