{"id":4612,"date":"2010-04-15T14:47:32","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T14:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/04\/15\/how-to-teach-physics-to-your-d-32\/"},"modified":"2010-04-15T14:47:32","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T14:47:32","slug":"how-to-teach-physics-to-your-d-32","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/04\/15\/how-to-teach-physics-to-your-d-32\/","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>The pace has slowed, but there are still occasional sightings of <a href=\"http:\/\/dogphysics.com\/\"><cite>How to Teach Physics to Your Dog<\/cite> in my Google vanity searches:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/4627\">turns up on library blogs<\/a> with some regularity. This particular one, from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater is nice because it&#8217;s not just a rewrite of the publicity copy<\/li>\n<li>I was really excited to see Daily Kos show up as one of the sites found by the blog search, because they have bazillions of readers. It was only a plug <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/comments\/2010\/4\/6\/9631\/14929\/347#c347\">in a comment<\/a>, but still&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>The strangest&#8211; in a good way&#8211; mention recently was this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritage.com\/articles\/2010\/04\/13\/opinion\/doc4bbf97019f096813577914.txt\">passing reference in a newspaper column<\/a> from Michigan, where <cite>How to Teach&#8230;<\/cite> is just mentioned as a jumping-off point for a story about canine geometry. It&#8217;s not really about the book, per se, but it&#8217;s very cool that they assume it&#8217;s well known enough to drop that way.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Not directly related to the book, but kind of cool: some of the Cornell students I talked with after my talk there a couple of weeks ago have started a blog: <a href=\"http:\/\/thevirtuosi.blogspot.com\/\">The Virtuosi<\/a> (one of their posts is in this morning&#8217;s Links Dump as well). They&#8217;ve got a wide range of stuff up already, and it looks like a good addition to the universe of physics blogs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pace has slowed, but there are still occasional sightings of How to Teach Physics to Your Dog in my Google vanity searches: It turns up on library blogs with some regularity. This particular one, from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater is nice because it&#8217;s not just a rewrite of the publicity copy I was really&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/04\/15\/how-to-teach-physics-to-your-d-32\/\">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":[5,67,18,142,7,51,37,132,11,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-book_writing","category-books","category-how-to-teach","category-physics","category-physics_books","category-pop_culture","category-publicity","category-science","category-science_books","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4612","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=4612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}