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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
So, the big How to Teach Physics to Your Dog Photoshop contest concluded on Friday. We got five really good entries, and the judges (me and Kate) had a hard time reaching a decision. After long deliberation, though, we've come...
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Category: Book Writing
I've been falling down a little in the area of shameless self-promotion, but I will be at Boskone this coming weekend, where I'll be doing three program items: Reading: Chad Orzel (Reading), Fri 19:30 - 20:00 This will be a...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 10:19 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Course Reports
Through a weird quirk of scheduling, I haven't actually taught the intro modern physics course since I started writing pop-science books about modern physics. So, this week has been the first chance I've really had to use material I generated...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 2:24 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 7:53 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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: Physics
Proving that you can find physics in everything, Sean Carroll points to a strange anomaly in the Super Bowl coin toss: the NFC has won 14 coin tosses in a row. The odds of this happening seem to be vanishingly...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 3:19 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Course Reports
It's been a little while since I wrote up what I've been doing in my "Brief History of Timekeeping" class, because I was out of town, and then catching up from being out of town. Some of this material has...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 2:42 PM • 3 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: Physics
As I keep saying in various posts, I'm teaching a class on timekeeping this term, which has included discussion of really primitive timekeeping devices like sundials, as well as a discussion of the importance of timekeeping for navigation. To give...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 10:00 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
There's been a lot written recently about academic publishing, in the kerfuffle over the "Research Works Act"-- John's roundup should keep you in reading material for a good while. This has led some people to decide to boycott Elsevier, including...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:58 AM • 21 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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