{"id":4465,"date":"2010-01-24T16:46:50","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T16:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/01\/24\/how-to-teach-physics-to-your-d-21\/"},"modified":"2010-01-24T16:46:50","modified_gmt":"2010-01-24T16:46:50","slug":"how-to-teach-physics-to-your-d-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/01\/24\/how-to-teach-physics-to-your-d-21\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Teach Physics to Your Dog: All the News That&#8217;s Fit to Keep Off the Web Page"},"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 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 <a href=\"http:\/\/dogphysics.com\"><cite>How to Teach Physics to Your Dog<\/cite><\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/smallworldbooks.wordpress.com\/about\/\">Atomville book<\/a> put together by Jill Linz and Cindy Schwarz (at Skidmore and Vassar, respectively). The piece was published today: &#8220;Physics without limits: Area writers explain quantum mechanics to adults, kids.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the Times Union has a policy of reserving some stories for the print edition, and so there&#8217;s no way to link to it. So, unless you have a way to get your hands on a paper copy of the Sunday, Jan. 24 Times Union (page 6 of the Life section), you&#8217;ll just have to take my word for it that it&#8217;s a nice article about both books.<\/p>\n<p><p>I haven&#8217;t read the Atomville book, but Jill Linz gave a colloquium talk about it a while back, and it sounds like a neat idea. SteelyKid&#8217;s probably a bit young for it yet, but I may pick up a copy just in case&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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).&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/01\/24\/how-to-teach-physics-to-your-d-21\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How to Teach Physics to Your Dog: All the News That&#8217;s Fit to Keep Off the Web Page<\/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":[67,13,142,7,51,132,11,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book_writing","category-education","category-how-to-teach","category-physics","category-physics_books","category-publicity","category-science","category-science_books","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4465","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=4465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}