{"id":30441,"date":"2010-11-07T09:12:12","date_gmt":"2010-11-07T09:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/how-to-be-an-%e2%80%9cinstant%e2%80%9d-physicist\/"},"modified":"2010-11-07T09:12:12","modified_gmt":"2010-11-07T09:12:12","slug":"how-to-be-an-%e2%80%9cinstant%e2%80%9d-physicist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/how-to-be-an-%e2%80%9cinstant%e2%80%9d-physicist.php","title":{"rendered":"How To Be An \u201cInstant\u201d Physicist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Next month (I think on the 16th) Norton will release a new book by Richard A. Muller, <span>The Instant Physicist:&nbsp; An Illustrated Guide<\/span>.&nbsp; The book can be pre-ordered now from various distributors.<\/p><div><a href=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/3943f_The-Instant-Physicist.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7320\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/3943f_The-Instant-Physicist.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><p>Image shamelessly lifted from Amazon.com<\/p><\/div><p>I think you&rsquo;re going to enjoy this book.&nbsp;&nbsp; The format is perfect for  quick dips; on the left side, an easy-to-read (and humorous) explanation  of every-day physics, and on the right, a clever illustration (by Joey  Manfre).&nbsp; You&rsquo;ll learn how spy satellites operate (and how to hide from  them), how to calculate the epicenter of an earthquake, what really fell  out of the sky at Roswell, and many, many other nuggets.<\/p><p>This is science brought into your living room.&nbsp; It&rsquo;s interesting,  engaging, and even captured the attention of my teenager.&nbsp; I consider  that nothing short of incredible.&nbsp; Although designed for non-scientists,  it is an enjoyable read at all levels.&nbsp; With gentle wit (and great  illustrations), Muller will instill a love of physics in the ordinary  world.&nbsp; I would say it&rsquo;s definitely worth a trip to your local library  or favorite bookstore.<\/p><p>Richard Muller is a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley.&nbsp; He has published several books, including <span>Physics For Future Presidents<\/span>, a book based on his popular lecture series for non-science majors at Berkeley.<\/p><p>W. W. Norton &amp; Company is the oldest and largest independent  (employee-owned) publisher in the United States.&nbsp; Its roots go back to  1923.&nbsp; They have a solid reputation; publishing textbooks in science,  history, art and literature, along with bestsellers like <span>Helter Skelter<\/span> and <span>A Clockwork Orange<\/span>.<\/p><p>Enjoy!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next month (I think on the 16th) Norton will release a new book by Richard A. Muller, The Instant Physicist:&nbsp; An Illustrated Guide.&nbsp; The book can be pre-ordered now from various distributors.Image shamelessly lifted from Amazon.comI think you&rsquo;re going to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/how-to-be-an-%e2%80%9cinstant%e2%80%9d-physicist.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30441"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}