{"id":7049,"date":"2012-04-26T16:09:14","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T20:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2012\/04\/26\/book-roundup-people-talking-ab\/"},"modified":"2012-04-26T16:09:14","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T20:09:14","slug":"book-roundup-people-talking-ab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2012\/04\/26\/book-roundup-people-talking-ab\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Roundup: People Talking About Dog Physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/05\/i-f71a4ed1b30ba721a274013a218ef0ce-sidebar_relativity_cover.jpg\" alt=\"i-f71a4ed1b30ba721a274013a218ef0ce-sidebar_relativity_cover.jpg\" \/>I&#8217;ve been falling down on the shameless self-promotion front, lately, but that doesn&#8217;t mean I&#8217;m not tracking <a href=\"http:\/\/dogphysics.com\/relativity_info.html\"><cite>How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog<\/cite><\/a> obsessively, just that I&#8217;m too busy to talk about it. Happily, other people have been nice enough to talk about it for me, in a variety of places:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The most significant, in terms of probable impact on sales, is this <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2012\/04\/26\/how-to-teach-relativity-to-you.html\">excerpt at BoingBoing<\/a>, which is the text for the dog dialogue from Chapter 8. This is the same dialogue that became the &#8220;Looking for the Bacon Boson&#8221; video, and, indeed, they were nice enough to include the video in the post, too. Woo-hoo!<\/li>\n<li>Over at Backreaction, <a href=\"http:\/\/backreaction.blogspot.com\/2012\/04\/book-review-how-to-teach-relativity-to.html\">Bee gave the book a nice review<\/a> (&#8220;a flawless popular science book that gets across a lot of physics in an entertaining way. If you always wanted to know what special and general relativity is all about and why it matters, this is a good starting point.&#8221;). This is a huge relief not just because she said nice things about it, but because she didn&#8217;t spot any huge mistakes, which I&#8217;m always paranoid about when I see actual physicists writing about my stuff.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>There are also some more random mentions of both books, courtesy of the vanity Google search:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A commenter at a <a href=\"http:\/\/susannacarr.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/monday-contest-20\/\">romance author&#8217;s blog<\/a> gives a nice plug for both books.<\/li>\n<li>The cover of the first book is used to illustrate an <a href=\"http:\/\/misscellania.blogspot.com\/2012\/04\/dog-and-cow.html\">unrelated joke involving a talking dog<\/a>. But hey, there&#8217;s a recommendation of the book, too, so yay.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s also <a href=\"http:\/\/cambodianescapades.blogspot.com\/2012\/04\/tiga-dua-satu.html\">beach reading for a Peace Corps volunteer in Cambodia<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s also suggested as an antidote to <a href=\"http:\/\/madartlab.com\/2012\/04\/25\/not-so-good-vibrations\/\">quantum quackery about jewelry<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The new one was <a href=\"http:\/\/theludwigs.com\/2012\/04\/this-weeks-books-design-relativity-capitalism-and-the-short-serpent\/\">not quite approachable enough for some<\/a>. Which I&#8217;m a little sorry to see, but not surprised. It&#8217;s tough material, and there&#8217;s only so much the dog can do to help.<\/li>\n<li>And, finally, it was one of the best sellers in a <a href=\"http:\/\/boswellandbooks.blogspot.com\/2012\/04\/sunday-is-for-bestsellers-and-whole-lot.html\">store in Wisconsin<\/a> a couple of weeks ago. Which might conceivably be related to my having cousins in that area, but I doubt it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve probably missed a few, too, because the vanity search mostly returns a whole slew of pages featuring sidebar widgets that embed text from this blog, or Bee&#8217;s, and I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll see nine million duplicates of the BoingBoing post. It&#8217;s nice to see it out there getting talked about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been falling down on the shameless self-promotion front, lately, but that doesn&#8217;t mean I&#8217;m not tracking How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog obsessively, just that I&#8217;m too busy to talk about it. Happily, other people have been nice enough to talk about it for me, in a variety of places: The most significant,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2012\/04\/26\/book-roundup-people-talking-ab\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Book Roundup: People Talking About Dog Physics<\/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":[67,18,142,7,51,37,132,11,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7049","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-science","category-science_books","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7049","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=7049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}