Poetry News For March 10, 2009
- — “For those of you who haven’t heard about it, it’s an award for science fiction and speculative poetry; previous winners include Margaret Atwood, Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, Jane Yolen, and Ursula Le Guin.” —
- — These days everything is ironic, so describing an anus as a violet carnation must be deliberately over the top, as tasteless as dressing a toilet roll in a crocheted tutu —
- — Shakespeare Scholar Identifies True Portrait of the Bard —
- — How many professional literary organizations do you belong to? How may literary journals do you subscribe to? —
- — “Mary Flannery is a sweet girl,” protested one of her neighbors, “but I’m afraid to go near her. She might put me in one of her stories.” —
- — “This is the Writing Dance,” Waldman said, and with that, the poetry session commenced —
- — Poet Anthony Cronin tried to see the funny side to two newspaper reports which declared he was a dead man. —
- — The juicy fruits of an eloquent narcissist —
- — Speak, O Muse, of Fallen 401(k)s and Malignant Mortgages —
| My brother Jason’s physics textbook, Force and Motion: An Illustrated Guide to Newton’s Laws, is available for preorder. Congrats!! | |
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Isaac Newton developed three laws of motion that govern the everyday world. These laws are usually presented in purely mathematical forms, but Jason Zimba breaks with tradition and treats them visually.
This unique approach allows students to appreciate the conceptual underpinnings of each law before moving on to qualitative descriptions of motion and, finally, to the equations and their solutions. |
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Zimba has organized the book into seventeen brief and well-sequenced lessons, which focus on simple, manageable topics and delve into areas that often cause students to stumble. Each lesson is followed by a set of original problems that have been student-tested and refined over twenty years.
Zimba illustrates the laws with more than 350 diagrams, an innovative presentation that offers a fresh way to teach the fundamentals in introductory physics, mechanics, and kinematics courses. About the Author Jason Zimba is a faculty member in physics and mathematics at Bennington College and has taught at Grinnell College and the University of California, Berkeley. He was the recipient in 2006 of the Majorana Prize. Product Details ISBN: |
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Thanks for the shout-out, Jilly!