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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
Today is the official release date for the paperback edition of How to Teach Physics to Your Dog, so I wanted to write up something cool about quantum physics to mark the occasion. I looked around the house for inspiration,...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 11:16 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: How-to-Teach
It's been a very long day, so I'm lying on the couch watching "Pardon the Interruption" on ESPN. They're having a boring conversation about baseball, and I'm just drifting off into a pleasant doze when: "Fear! Fire! Foes! Awake! Fear!...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 12:21 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Physics
I'm standing in the kitchen, sipping tea and watching snow blowing across the back yard. It's cold enough that the digital thermometer has stopped working, which puts it in the single digits Fahrenheit. I'm not looking forward to walking the...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:56 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Publicity
If you're still not sure whether you should be teaching physics to your dog, here's another good reason: Superconductors. The "super" in "superconductor" refers to the fact that these materials conduct electric current with absolutely zero resistance, better than the...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 1:36 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Publicity
When I saw the data generated by the sales rank tracker Matthew Beckler was kind enough to put together, I joked that I hoped to someday need a logarithmic scale to display the sales rank history of How to Teach...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 10:32 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Book Writing
A couple of quick book-related items that I can't resist posting, even while on vacation: First, the sales rank cracked the top 500 on Amazon last night, peaking at 396. I don't know if this is just a matter of...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 8:33 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Publicity
Not that I'm obsessed, or anything (current Amazon rank: 1106), but here are the results from my incomplete survey of local book stores regarding How to Teach Physics to Your Dog: Barnes & Noble: "Out of Stock" in all local...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 2:50 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Publicity
I'm typing this from the local Barnes and Noble, waiting for the dealership next door to finish changing my oil and inspecting my car. Sadly, they don't have How to Teach Physics to Your Dog on the shelves in their...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 10:10 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Publicity
Today is the official publication date for How to Teach Physics to your Dog! I've got another reason or two why dogs should love quantum physics that I'll probably post later, but if the ones posted so far haven't sold...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 8:15 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Publicity
How to Teach Physics to Your Dog goes on sale in fine bookstores everywhere tomorrow. But maybe the four previous posts explaining why dogs should care about quantum physics haven't yet convinced you to go buy a copy. So here's...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 2:51 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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