{"id":6029,"date":"2012-02-13T10:19:46","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T10:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2012\/02\/13\/upcoming-appearances-boskone\/"},"modified":"2012-02-13T10:19:46","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T10:19:46","slug":"upcoming-appearances-boskone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2012\/02\/13\/upcoming-appearances-boskone\/","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming Appearances: Boskone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been falling down a little in the area of shameless self-promotion, but I will be at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nesfa.org\/boskone\/index.html\">Boskone<\/a> this coming weekend, where I&#8217;ll be doing three program items:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reading: Chad Orzel (Reading), Fri 19:30 &#8211; 20:00<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This will be a section from the forthcoming book, probably involving Emmy and particle physics. Or possibly William Butler Yeats.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to Wreck Your Career with Social Media (Special Interest Group)<br \/>\n(M), Sat 16:00 &#8211; 17:00<\/strong><br \/>\nWhat are the new opportunities for public humiliation opened by the<br \/>\nInternet?  Join this entertaining discussion about authors getting<br \/>\ninto nasty public spats with reviewers and fans, going off on long<br \/>\nunhinged political tirades, sharing a little too much of their<br \/>\nunfiltered id, and so on.<\/p>\n<p>I was originally thinking of this as a panel, but they suggested it as a group discussion instead. Lacking any experience with this format, I&#8217;m going to hope that somebody&#8217;s doing one before 4pm on Saturday that sounds interesting, so I can see what exactly I&#8217;m supposed to do. Also, suggestions of really entertaining wreckage on social media (blogs, LiveJournal, Twitter, etc.) are welcome in comments.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Every Dog Should Know About Quantum Physics (Solo Talk), Sun<br \/>\n14:00 &#8211; 15:00<\/strong><br \/>\nAuthor of <cite>How to Teach Physics to Your Dog<\/cite> and <cite>How to Teach<br \/>\nRelativity to Your Dog<\/cite>, Chad Orzel discusses the basics of quantum<br \/>\nphysics for two- and four-legged audiences.<\/p>\n<p>This is my public-lecture talk on quantum physics. It&#8217;s also the last program slot on the schedule, which makes me wonder how many people will still be around to hear it&#8230; If you&#8217;re going to be there, please do stop by.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been falling down a little in the area of shameless self-promotion, but I will be at Boskone this coming weekend, where I&#8217;ll be doing three program items: Reading: Chad Orzel (Reading), Fri 19:30 &#8211; 20:00 This will be a section from the forthcoming book, probably involving Emmy and particle physics. Or possibly William Butler&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2012\/02\/13\/upcoming-appearances-boskone\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Upcoming Appearances: Boskone<\/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":[67,18,142,7,51,37,132,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6029","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-sf","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6029","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=6029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}