{"id":4664,"date":"2010-05-05T09:24:55","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T09:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/05\/05\/how-to-teach-physics-to-your-d-33\/"},"modified":"2010-05-05T09:24:55","modified_gmt":"2010-05-05T09:24:55","slug":"how-to-teach-physics-to-your-d-33","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/05\/05\/how-to-teach-physics-to-your-d-33\/","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>It&#8217;s been a  couple of weeks since I did an update on <a href=\"http:\/\/dogphysics.com\/\"><cite>How to Teach Physics to Your Dog<\/cite><\/a>, but that&#8217;s been as much laziness as a lack of news. Some developments, mostly relating to foreign lands:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/How-Teach-Physics-Your-Dog\/dp\/1416572295\/ref=tmm_pap_title_0\">US paperback edition<\/a> is slated for December release. I&#8217;m working on a Teacher&#8217;s Guide to go with it&#8211; suggestions on what ought to be in there are welcome, as I have no idea<\/li>\n<li>If you do the right search, you&#8217;ll also find a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/How-Teach-Quantum-Physics-Your\/dp\/1851687793\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1273058982&#038;sr=1-2\">forthcoming UK edition<\/a> which will be out this fall with a slightly different title. There&#8217;s a production schedule for this, and everything&#8211; more information as things become official.<\/li>\n<li>I exchanged a number of emails with a physicist in Brazil, who was consulting on the Portuguese translation, so that is also in progress, and will be a real book (&#8220;um livro real&#8221; according to Google, which also suggests &#8220;coelhinhos feitos de queijo&#8221; as a key term for the book). No word on when it will be out, or what it will look like.<\/p>\n<li>The Italian and Czech rights have now been sold, bringing the total of other-rights sales to eight (Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Italian, Czech, UK English, audio). It&#8217;s pretty cool to think of my book in all those different languages. I don&#8217;t really envy the translators, though.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And that&#8217;s where things stand at the moment, in case you were wondering. Upcoming appearances:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;m tentatively scheduled to do a talk for local high-school students on the 24th of May, which isn&#8217;t really a public appearance, but whatever.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m going to be at <a href=\"http:\/\/damop2010.rice.edu\/\">DAMOP<\/a> May 25-29. No appearances are scheduled, but if you&#8217;re in Houston and have suggestions of things to do, I&#8217;m happy to hear them.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ll be doing a signing at the <a href=http:\/\/www.opendoor-bookstore.com\/\">Open Door<\/a> bookstore in Schenectady on June 19th, 1-2:30 pm.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There&#8217;s one other probable appearance, but I still need to confirm it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a couple of weeks since I did an update on How to Teach Physics to Your Dog, but that&#8217;s been as much laziness as a lack of news. Some developments, mostly relating to foreign lands: The US paperback edition is slated for December release. I&#8217;m working on a Teacher&#8217;s Guide to go with&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/05\/05\/how-to-teach-physics-to-your-d-33\/\">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":[67,18,142,7,51,37,132,11,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4664","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-science","category-science_books","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4664","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=4664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}