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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
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 • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Physics
There's been an independent rediscovery of the notion of using dogs to explain physics, as you can see in this YouTube video of Golden Retrievers explaining the structure of atoms: Emmy thinks she should get royalties, in the form of...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 8:04 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Publicity
... until the release of How to Teach Physics to Your Dog. The official release is set for December 22nd, though the books are set to start printing in about three weeks. Exciting, isn't it? Are you excited about the...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 8:54 AM • 6 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: Physics
Film critic A. O. Scott can't even be bothered to get the right names for the crucial scientific principles that he waves off as "complex and esoteric." This is a pretty sad showing, given that I can explain them to my dog.
Posted by Chad Orzel at 2:50 PM • 22 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: Publicity
Emmy is taking and answering physics questions on Twitter, tag #dogphysics. If you've got a question about physics, and have been dying to know how a dog would answer it, here's your chance.
Posted by Chad Orzel at 12:31 PM • 4 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: Physics with Emmy
One of our poetry contest winners has been reading his proof copy of How to Teach Physics to Your Dog, and posted some comments. Actually, it was posted last week, but I was at Worldcon, and not dealing with much...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 10:40 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
