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"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.

You've read the blog, now try the book: How to Teach Physics to Your Dog will be published December 22nd by Scribner.

Chad Orzel "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)

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How to Teach Physics to Your Dog Poetry Contest

Category: Publicity

The second of two contests for a chance to win an advance proof copy of my book six(-ish) months before you can buy it.

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How to Teach Physics to Your Dog Caption Contest

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The first of two contests to win an advance proof copy of my book, six(-ish) months before you can buy it.

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The Dark Art of Blurbing

Category: Book Writing

Tom Levenson's series about the writing of his Newton and the Counterfeiter continues with a piece on the getting of blurbs for the cover: Newton and the Counterfeiter (Amazon, Powells, Barnes and Noble, Indiebound) is by far my best-blurbed book,...

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New Adventures in Retail

Category: Pop Culture

Over at Tor.com, they've unveiled the new Tor.com store, enabling you to buy your books via your favorite SF publisher. It's pretty bare-bones at the moment, so the most worthwhile feature is probably the special picks feature, where they collect...

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Book Promotion Ideas

Category: Publicity

Tom Levenson has another post up in his ongoing series about the writing and publishing process of his new book, this one about generating publicity. At this point, he's gone past what I've experienced so far, but this is fortuitously...

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Matter and Interactions: Post-Mortem

Category: Academia

OK, it's not really a full post-mortem, because I haven't graded the final exams yet, but I wouldn't tell you about those, anyway. Still, I wanted to take a moment to reflect on the past term, which was my first...

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The Physics of NASCAR by Diandra Leslie-Pelecky

Category: Physics

When this first came out, I didn't pick it up, despite a glowing recommendation from Jennifer Ouellette, because NASCAR is one of the few things on ESPN that interests me less than baseball. I didn't really think I'd be interested...

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DAMOP Day Two

Category: Meetings

Condensed matter analogues, astro-combs, and fast cars.

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Would You Like Some Calculus With Your Physics?

Category: Academia

It's a nice demonstration of the oddity of the blogosphere that a libertarian political blog has become my go-to-source for thoughtful blogging about physics education. Thoreau had two good posts yesterday at Unqualified Offerings, one on the problems created by...

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Women, Fast Cars, and Physics

Category: Physics

I'm speaking, of course, about this past weekend's Bloggingheads conversation between Jennifer Ouellette and Diandra Leslie-Pelecky. They both blog at Cocktail Party Physics, and Diandra has written The Physics of NASCAR. It's a good Bloggingheads, covering a wide range of...

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