{"id":5180,"date":"2010-11-09T12:29:25","date_gmt":"2010-11-09T12:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/11\/09\/how-to-teach-quantum-physics-t-2\/"},"modified":"2010-11-09T12:29:25","modified_gmt":"2010-11-09T12:29:25","slug":"how-to-teach-quantum-physics-t-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/11\/09\/how-to-teach-quantum-physics-t-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog: Obsessive Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t been doing these as regularly as I was earlier in the year, but here are a few interesting bits of news about <a href=\"http:\/\/dogphysics.com\/\"><cite>How to Teach Physics to Your Dog<\/cite><\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.alibertieditore.it\/?p=5307\">LA FISICA SPIEGATA AL MIO CANE<\/a>, is now available. That&#8217;s the Italian edition, which Google translates to something like &#8220;Explaining Physics to My Dog.&#8221; Emmy is disappointed in that translation&#8211; she was hoping it had something to do with spaghetti, preferably with meat.<\/li>\n<li>This appears to be a <a href=\"http:\/\/asptest.myphysics.dyndns.org\/wordpress\/?p=5464\">review of the Chinese edition<\/a>, though I can&#8217;t read a word of it, and Google Translate isn&#8217;t really up to the task, rendering one whole paragraph as &#8220;Back to Kaohsiung in the car, I read the first time, there is still groggy melon head, after all, quantum mechanics junior to me, already a distant memory, I am the only impression the original textbook Stop being a hypocrite, a operand stack strange. (I say how nice pass, I really forgot).&#8221; While I like the phrase &#8220;groggy melon head,&#8221; I can&#8217;t say this improves my understanding of the author&#8217;s point. But, hey, at least one person in China has read it&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>I got an author copy of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/How-Teach-Quantum-Physics-Your\/dp\/1851687793\">UK edition<\/a> last night in the mail, and it looks very nice. It&#8217;s also apparently selling briskly in WH Smith&#8217;s stores in the UK, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.writersandartists.co.uk\/2010\/11\/teach-your-dog-quantum-physics\/\">mentioned in this publishing blog<\/a>, which also says nice things about the concept. The numbers there are a little off (based on what the publisher told me), but not too inflated, which is a kick. That&#8217;s without any publicity activity from me, either, though if anybody wants to buy me a plane ticket to the UK to promote the book, I&#8217;m open to the idea&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And that&#8217;s about all I have for today. Sean Carroll is visiting Union today, giving a physics colloquium shortly, and a public lecture tonight, which should be fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t been doing these as regularly as I was earlier in the year, but here are a few interesting bits of news about How to Teach Physics to Your Dog: LA FISICA SPIEGATA AL MIO CANE, is now available. That&#8217;s the Italian edition, which Google translates to something like &#8220;Explaining Physics to My Dog.&#8221;&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/11\/09\/how-to-teach-quantum-physics-t-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How to Teach Quantum 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":[67,18,142,7,51,37,132,143,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5180","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_books","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5180","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=5180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}