{"id":4548,"date":"2010-02-17T08:37:38","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T08:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/02\/17\/how-to-teach-physics-to-your-d-26\/"},"modified":"2010-02-17T08:37:38","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T08:37:38","slug":"how-to-teach-physics-to-your-d-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/02\/17\/how-to-teach-physics-to-your-d-26\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Teach Physics to Your Dog: Obsessive Update"},"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 reviews, an offer, and a mystery regarding <a href=\"http:\/\/dogphysics.com\/\"><cite>How to Teach Physics to Your Dog<\/cite><\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><strong>The reviews<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A review at <a href=\"http:\/\/sciencebooks.suite101.com\/article.cfm\/how_to_teach_physics_to_your_dog_by_chad_orzel\">suite101<\/a> that went up a while ago, but I somehow missed in the vanity search. It&#8217;s a nice, detailed review, and if I had to pick a pull quote it would probably be: &#8220;You can be prepared for a good scientific romp throughout Orzel&#8217;s How to Teach Physics to Your Dog. Thinking like a dog is a big help.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Scott at a <a href=\"http:\/\/teachingphysics.wordpress.com\/2010\/02\/15\/how-to-teach-physics-to-your-dog\/\">physics teaching blog<\/a> has a more recent review: &#8220;I often pick up books and don&#8217;t bother finishing them.  This book kept pulling me back to discover what oddity was next.  I knew about the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics and I&#8217;ve never felt like it made sense.  In the book I learned about the &#8220;many worlds&#8221; interpretation.  While they have the same outcomes, they take different paths at understanding superposition.  I&#8217;m not sure any of it really makes sense, but the book does a real nice job bringing quantum mechanics down to the science minded lay person.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The offer<\/strong>: A <a href=\"http:\/\/community.livejournal.com\/con_or_bust\/35203.html\">signed copy is being auctioned<\/a> for the <a href=\"http:\/\/community.livejournal.com\/con_or_bust\/\">Con or Bust<\/a> fundraiser. Details over there.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The mystery<\/strong>: Monday morning, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mbeckler.org\/dog_physics\/\">sales rank tracker<\/a> saw the ranking shoot up into the triple digits again, and I have no idea why. Googling for the book title doesn&#8217;t turn up any new mentions in major news sources or blogs. I&#8217;m not complaining, mind, but I&#8217;m puzzled. If anybody knows what happened Sunday or Monday to cause a bunch of people to go buy my book at Amazon, I&#8217;d love to know what it was.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve got for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of reviews, an offer, and a mystery regarding How to Teach Physics to Your Dog: The reviews: A review at suite101 that went up a while ago, but I somehow missed in the vanity search. It&#8217;s a nice, detailed review, and if I had to pick a pull quote it would probably be:&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/02\/17\/how-to-teach-physics-to-your-d-26\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How to Teach Physics to Your Dog: Obsessive Update<\/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-4548","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\/4548","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=4548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}