{"id":5393,"date":"2011-02-09T08:43:46","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T08:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2011\/02\/09\/talking-dogs-are-big-in-italy\/"},"modified":"2011-02-09T08:43:46","modified_gmt":"2011-02-09T08:43:46","slug":"talking-dogs-are-big-in-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/02\/09\/talking-dogs-are-big-in-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking Dogs Are Big in Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"

I haven’t been as relentless about flogging How to Teach Physics to Your Dog<\/cite><\/a> (now available in paperback!) as I was last year, because it gets kind of exhausting. I do have a vanity search set up on Google Reader that points me to the occasional review– this one<\/a>, for example, so I still see the occasional positive comment, which is good for a boost in a difficult week at work.<\/p>\n

Of course, the vanity search is world wide, which means it also picks up mentions of the international editions, such as this Italian blog<\/a> (oddly, it gets my employer wrong– I should check the Italian edition and see if that’s the blogger or a typo in the about-the-author note), which uses a comment from my book as the jumping-off point to talk about physics in general. Google Translate doesn’t really do it justice, I suspect, but it’s a kick to be stimulating conversations in languages I don’t speak.<\/p>\n

The real find of recent-ish vanity searching, though, is that there’s a science blogger in Italy, Marco Delmastro, who has completely independently arrived at the idea of explaining physics to his dog, Oliver<\/a>, with a whole series of such posts. As far as I know, it’s nothing to do with my book– the mention that the vanity search turned up was a comment pointing the book out to the blogger– which is in many ways more amusing. I guess talking dogs are big in Italy, or something.<\/p>\n

Anyway, if you like talking to dogs about physics, and speak Italian, let me take this opportunity to plug La fisica spiegata al mio cane<\/a>. I can’t vouch for the translation, but I’m fond of the original text…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I haven’t been as relentless about flogging How to Teach Physics to Your Dog (now available in paperback!) as I was last year, because it gets kind of exhausting. I do have a vanity search set up on Google Reader that points me to the occasional review– this one, for example, so I still see… Continue reading Talking Dogs Are Big in Italy<\/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":[67,18,142,7,37,132,11,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book_writing","category-books","category-how-to-teach","category-physics","category-pop_culture","category-publicity","category-science","category-science_books","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5393","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=5393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}