{"id":5351,"date":"2011-01-20T07:50:58","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T07:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2011\/01\/20\/links-for-2011-01-20\/"},"modified":"2011-01-20T07:50:58","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T07:50:58","slug":"links-for-2011-01-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/01\/20\/links-for-2011-01-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2011-01-20"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrewlownie.co.uk\/2011\/01\/13\/what-editors-want\">Andrew Lownie Literary Agency | What Editors Want<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">A big list of editors talking about what they&#8217;re looking for at their publishing houses, including this, from Oneworld i the UK: &#8220;We also love quirky non-fiction for our Autumn list, when shoppers are looking for something a bit different. We had great success last year with How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog by Chad Orzel and Mary Roach&#8217;s hilarious Packing for Mars (popular science) as well as Peter Cave&#8217;s Do Llamas Fall in Love (philosophy). Books like these that offer intelligent but highly readable introductions to interesting questions will always find a place on the shelves, and on our list.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/books\">books<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/publishing\">publishing<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/business\">business<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/physicistfeminist.wordpress.com\/2011\/01\/16\/how-to-give-effective-oral-presentations\/\">How to give effective oral presentations | Physicist\/Feminist<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;While I was at AAS, I attended a professional development workshop about giving effective oral presentations.&nbsp; The instructor was Jean-luc Doumont, author of the book Trees, Maps and Theorems: Effective Communication for Rational Minds, and an engineer who has a PhD in applied physics from Stanford.&nbsp; He went over how to structure your talks, how to get your message across, how to construct a good powerpoint, how to build confidence, and how to answer difficult questions.&nbsp; Giving effective oral presentations is something that many people, including myself, struggle with.&nbsp; I wanted to share some of the tips he gave; I found them extremely useful, and I am actually excited to give an oral presentation so I can put these tips into action!&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/talks\">talks<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/presentations\">presentations<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/education\">education<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Lownie Literary Agency | What Editors Want A big list of editors talking about what they&#8217;re looking for at their publishing houses, including this, from Oneworld i the UK: &#8220;We also love quirky non-fiction for our Autumn list, when shoppers are looking for something a bit different. We had great success last year with&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/01\/20\/links-for-2011-01-20\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Links for 2011-01-20<\/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":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5351","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=5351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}