Now on ScienceBlogs: Charles Darwin February 12, 1809 - April 19, 1882
Thoughts on physics, politics, and pop culture, by a physics professor at a small liberal arts college, plus occasional conversations with his dog.
You've read the blog, now try the books! How to Teach Physics to Your Dog is published by Scribner, and available wherever books are sold. How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog is published by Basic Books and will be available 2/28/2012, as foretold by the Maya.
"Uncertain Principles" features the miscellaneous ramblings of a physicist at a small liberal arts college. Physics, politics, pop culture, and occasional conversations with his dog.
"Prof. Orzel gives the impression of an everyday guy who just happens to have a vast but hidden knowledge of physics." (anonymous student evaluation comment)
Emmy is a German Shepherd mix, and the Queen of Niskayuna. She likes treats, walks, chasing bunnies, and quantum physics.
Category: Book Writing
I have a Google alert set up to let me know whenever my name or the title of one of my books turns up in one of the sources they index. This is highly imperfect, sometimes missing interesting articles, and...
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Category: Book Writing
A quick reminder: How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog (cover in the left sidebar) will be released at the end of the month. If you'd like to win a signed copy early, though, you can enter our Photoshop contest....
Posted by Chad Orzel at 10:08 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Book Writing
It's now officially February, and the release date for How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog is only a few weeks off-- the official release date is Feb. 28. Of course, I've got a copy already: If you would like...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 11:58 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Book Writing
I was going to write something about the politics of scientific publishing, but instead, I want to focus on what's really important in modern publishing: That's right, I got a couple of early copies of How to Teach Relativity to...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 11:54 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Publicity
I will eventually do a "Year in Blog" post with a bunch of links to top posts and so on, but not until the year is actually over. At the moment, I'm too busy prepping next term's class to do...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 12:24 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Book Writing
Three quick items relating to science in book form: 1) It's that time of year again when every media outlet of any consequence puts out a "Year's Best {Noun}" list, and John Dupuis is checking the lists for science books...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 11:22 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Book Writing
I'm looking at an email from my editor when Emmy wanders by the computer, sniffing around just in case a crumb of food has fallen on the floor in the last five minutes. "Hey," I say, "Come here and look...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:31 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Publicity
When we got home from visiting Kate's family yesterday, there was a large shipping envelope from my agent waiting for us. This can mean only one thing: author copies of foreign editions! That's the Czech edition, Jak naučit svého psa...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 8:35 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Book Writing
I've been going through the manuscript for the book making up a list of glossary words (a frighteningly long list), and also noting miscellaneous pop-cultural references-- quotes, direct mentions, paraphrases, etc. I'm sure I've missed a few-- many of them...
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Category: Dog
"Hey, Dude, what'cha doin'?" "I'm checking out the dog drawings I commissioned for the book-in-progress. Here, take a look:" "Hey, wait just one minute. That looks like me!" "That's the idea. Since you're in the book, I thought it would...
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