Emmy and I are in Buffalo today, after a long drive last night, made longer by the NY Thruway authorities decidin to randomly sprinkle lane closures along the westbound portion of I-90. They also made the sadistic move of putting on the “tune to this radio station for information” flashers before the big back-up, and then playing only a recording saying that they were updating the messages on the information network. For at least an hour. Nice work, Thruway idiots. That was positively Pennsylvanian.<\/p>\n
Anyway, we’re here in scenic Buffalo, where it isn’t snowing yet, so don’t ask. Which means I won’t be around to do lots of social-media stuff today, but I do have a question I’ve been meaning to crowd-source, as the cool kids are saying:<\/p>\n
\nWhat should go in a Teacher’s Guide for How to Teach Physics to Your Dog<\/cite><\/a>?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
You see, the paperback edition is due out in December, and that’s at a price point where you might conceivably use it as a supplemental text for a non-majors course in college, or an advanced science class at a lower level. This would, of course, be Very Cool, and to help anybody who would like to do such a thing, I’d like to put together a Teacher’s Guide for the book, with pointers to additional resources and suggested topics for discussion, and that sort of thing. For example, the chapter on the Uncertainty Principle obviously connects to things like Michael Frayn’s “Copenhagen,” and could also include something like “Google up an example of somebody using the Uncertainty Principle as a metaphor and getting it wrong.”<\/p>\n
I’ve got some ideas along these lines, but I’m sure I’m missing good stuff. So, if anybody out there has suggestions for things that ought to go in this sort of Teacher’s Guide, leave them in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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