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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.
"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: Publicity
The pictures I posted last night aren't really the greatest for seeing the cover of How to Teach Physics to Your Dog, so here's a shot of the book jacket spread out on my desk: This isn't the greatest, either,...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 10:12 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Book Writing
Look! How to Teach Physics to Your Dog is a real book: Emmy says, very seriously, "You will buy a copy, won't you?" Of course, like everything else in this house, SteelyKid had to grab a copy:...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 6:22 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Publicity
It's not often that I regret having a cell phone that is just a phone, but this is one of those occasions-- I stopped by my publisher today to talk about marketing and publicity, and record a video for the...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 3:52 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: DonorsChoose Fundraiser
A response to a reader question, and a sample chapter of How to Teach Physics to Your Dog.
Posted by Chad Orzel at 1:21 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Publicity
In this week's issue of Publishers Weekly there's a short review (scroll down) of How to Teach Physics to Your Dog (which will be released December 22): How to Teach Physics to Your Dog Chad Orzel. Scribner, $24 (288p) ISBN...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 4:17 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Science Books
There has been a fair amount of discussion of Graham Farmelo's The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom-- Peter Woit reviewed it on his blog, the New York Times reviewed it a couple of...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 12:38 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Publicity
One of the photo caption contest winners, Nick O'Neill, has finished his galley proof, and posted an early review of How to Teach Physics to Your Dog: Casual physics intro books are quite possibly the hardest subgenre of physics books...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:14 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Book Writing
A cosmologist, a science writer, three best-selling science fiction authors, a best-selling mystery novelist, and a Nobel laureate walk into a bar-- Oh, wait, that's not the opening to a joke. That's the list of people who have provided blurbs...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:07 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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.
Posted by Chad Orzel at 11:38 AM • 26 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Publicity
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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