Two new links for today’s Obsessive Update: The first is a nice article from Union’s press office, with the headline “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks, but what about physics?”. I spent half an hour or so talking with one of the staff writers (who has a science background, which is a nice… Continue reading How to Teach Physics to Your Dog: Obsessive Update
Category: Science Books
How to Teach Physics to Your… Lizard?
Not much news on the book front this morning– various promotional things are in progress, including an on-campus thing tomorrow afternoon, but there’s nothing new to link to. We do, however, have the first non-mammal added to the DogPhysics Pet Gallery: a lizard, sent in by Marcella McIntyre. It’s not actually a pet, per se,… Continue reading How to Teach Physics to Your… Lizard?
How to Teach Physics to Your Dog: Obsessive Update
Not a whole lot new, but it’s been a few days. Also, it’s a challenge to remain ambulatory at the moment, thanks to this cursed cold, so I’m not really prepared to turn out Significant Blogging. — This morning’s vanity search (why yes, I am searching for “How to Teach Physics to Your Dog” on… Continue reading How to Teach Physics to Your Dog: Obsessive Update
How to Teach Physics to Your Dog: Obsessive Update
Today is the first day of classes, and to celebrate, I’ve come down with the Martian death virus that Kate and SteelyKid have had the last few weeks. Joy. This calls for a How to Teach Physics to Your Dog update, to distract myself from the cotton balls and vacuum pump oil that have apparently… Continue reading How to Teach Physics to Your Dog: Obsessive Update
How to Teach Psychics Physics to Your Dog
In talking to a reporter about How to Teach Physics to Your Dog on Wednesday, I learned of a mistake in the text of the book– a footnote on page 71 says that Scientific American published an article on how to make your own “quantum eraser” in April 2007, when in fact it was May… Continue reading How to Teach Psychics Physics to Your Dog
How to Teach Physics to Your Dog: Obsessive Update
I should probably start date-tagging these updates about miscellaneous How to Teach Physics to Your Dog news. I don’t really mean this to become a second daily links dump, but it’s kind of looking that way… — As a general matter, it’s dangerous for authors to acknowledge the existence of Amazon customer reviews (acknowledgment leads… Continue reading How to Teach Physics to Your Dog: Obsessive Update
Move Over, Schrödinger’s Cat
A couple of quick book-related items that I can’t resist posting, even while on vacation: First, the sales rank cracked the top 500 on Amazon last night, peaking at 396. I don’t know if this is just a matter of relative sales volume being low, or what, but it’s a huge kick all the same.… Continue reading Move Over, Schrödinger’s Cat
Local Bookstore Report
Not that I’m obsessed, or anything (current Amazon rank: 1106), but here are the results from my incomplete survey of local book stores regarding How to Teach Physics to Your Dog: Barnes & Noble: “Out of Stock” in all local stores. Has never been in stock, really. Borders in Crossgates Mall: “Likely in store” according… Continue reading Local Bookstore Report
How to Teach Physics to Your Dog Is Out Today!
Today is the official publication date for How to Teach Physics to your Dog! I’ve got another reason or two why dogs should love quantum physics that I’ll probably post later, but if the ones posted so far haven’t sold you on the book, how about a really nice review from Cory Doctorow at Boing… Continue reading How to Teach Physics to Your Dog Is Out Today!
Quantization of Books 2: What Does One Sale Get You?
I’ve been playing around with the spiffy sales rank tracker Matthew Beckler wrote, because I’m a great big dork, and enjoy playing with graphs. Here’s a graph of the sales rank vs. time through 2pm EST today (plotted in Excel from the data table at the bottom of the page): As I noted in my… Continue reading Quantization of Books 2: What Does One Sale Get You?