How to Teach Physics to Your Dog is officially released tomorrow, because Tuesdays are New Book Days, but Amazon has been shipping them for a few days now, so it’s very likely they are already appering “in the wild,” as it were. So it seems like a good time to announce a new feature at dogphysics.com: The DogPhysics.com Pet Gallery, featuring photos of, well, pets with an interest in physics. And, more importantly, a copy of How to Teach Physics to Your Dog.
The Gallery currently contains just two pictures of dogs– John Scalzi’s Kodi, and the official dog of the Digital Cuttlefish, shown with the galley proof his owner won in the poetry contest:
No matter what Emmy may think, though, creatures other than dogs are capable of learning physics. So whatever sort of pets you favor– fish, birds, hedgehogs, ferrets, even cats– if you’d like your pet in the gallery, send an image file (preferably one scaled to 500 pixels wide) to queen_emmy@steelypips.org, and we’ll add your pet to the Gallery. Even cats.
You should contact the owner of this dog–he’s a promising student of physics, since it has already been experimentally established that he “knows” calculus.
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