{"id":7066,"date":"2012-05-03T09:51:47","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T13:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2012\/05\/03\/dog-physics-obsessive-update\/"},"modified":"2012-05-03T09:51:47","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T13:51:47","slug":"dog-physics-obsessive-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2012\/05\/03\/dog-physics-obsessive-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Dog Physics: Obsessive Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few more links that have turned up of people talking about either <a href=\"http:\/\/dogphysics.com\/book_info.html\"><cite>How to Teach Physics to Your Dog<\/cite><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/dogphysics.com\/relativity_info.html\"><cite>How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog<\/cite><\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Andrew Johnston has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/?bookreview=how-to-teach-quantum-physics-to-your-dog\">review of the UK edition<\/a>, praising it because &#8220;it&#8217;s bang up to date, and goes beyond the basic quantum concepts into more complex areas like decoherence, entanglement and quantum teleportation,&#8221; which I like to see because that&#8217;s one of the things I especially wanted to do. <\/li>\n<li>Natasha Zaleski, a grad student, has a <a href=\"http:\/\/abitofdash.blogspot.com\/2012\/05\/emmy-physics-wonder-dog.html\">review of <cite>How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog<\/cite><\/a>, which is good but not great, because it hit the usual failure mode: the talking-to-the-dog thing wore thin for her. Which is, of course, the danger of the whole talking-to-the-dog conceit.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2012\/02\/how_to_teach_physics_to_your_p_1.php\">Polish edition<\/a> is out&#8211; I got my author copies, which are very nice. This has led to a <a href=\"http:\/\/esensja.pl\/ksiazka\/recenzje\/tekst.html?id=14082\">review in a pop-culture magazine<\/a>, between Steig Larsson and Terry Pratchett. Google Translate makes hash of it, in part because it does a literal translation of my surname, leading to sentences like &#8220;Even so, Eagle shows the world a lot of physics accessible, than does the bulk of textbooks for physics.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The vanity search also turned up a mention of the books in the <a href=\"http:\/\/raisedindoors.wordpress.com\/2012\/04\/29\/episode-23-04-08-15-16-23-42\/\">Raised Indoors podcast<\/a>&#8212; one of the hosts bought both from Amazon in Canada (thanks!), but hasn&#8217;t yet read them. Hope you like them. The podcast itself is a general-interest pop-culture thing, and the Clive Cussler rant is pretty amusing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And that&#8217;s the latest from the vanity search.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few more links that have turned up of people talking about either How to Teach Physics to Your Dog and How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog: Andrew Johnston has a review of the UK edition, praising it because &#8220;it&#8217;s bang up to date, and goes beyond the basic quantum concepts into more complex&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2012\/05\/03\/dog-physics-obsessive-update\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dog Physics: Obsessive Update<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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-7066","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\/7066","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}