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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...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 2:21 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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: The Pip
We send SteelyKid to preschool at the Jewish Community Center in Schenectady, because when we looked at day care programs back in the day, they had the one we liked best. This is a mixed blessing in a number of...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:14 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Pop Culture
In a book that I read recently (either The Cloud Roads or The Serpent Sea-- I finished the first and immediately started the second), as some characters are traveling from one place to another, there's a passing mention that they...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 7:59 PM • 8 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: 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: Course Reports
I'm using Dava Sobel's Longitude this week in my timekeeping class. The villain of the piece, as it were, is the Reverend Dr. Nevil Maskelyne, who promoted an astronomical method for finding longitude, and played a major role in delaying...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:32 AM • 22 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Book Writing
I was going to write something about the politics of scientific publishing, but instead, I want to focus on what's really important in modern publishing: That's right, I got a couple of early copies of How to Teach Relativity to...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 11:54 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Video
So, back when How to Teach Physics to Your Dog was coming out, I did a few "dramatic readings" of bits of the book, such as this one on the Quantum Zeno Effect: This was made with Windows Movie Maker,...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 10:24 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
