The Cosmic Calculator. A Vedic Maths Course for Schools by Kenneth Williams and Mark Gaskell Delhi, India: Motilal Banarsidass, 2002; Revised edition, 2005. This book, designed for 11-14 year old school children, is a wonderful introduction to math. Whereas many other approaches to math cause emotional distress, children are often moved to the enjoyment of [...]

More on the controversy surrounding this book is available here. Meanwhile, this article in the Tikkun Daily Blog devotes more attention to the book itself and its contemporary background, life in today’s Palestine. Novel About Palestinian Girl Draws Ire by Craig Wiesner Tikkun Daily April 7th, 2010 While admitting that she hadn’t read the book, [...]

Chapter 1 of “Unknown Transmission” consists of 12 brief communications from deep space, a setting described as follows : — A communications specialist in the year 2185 is marooned in deep space by his ship’s assistant. Just outside the horizon of a supermassive black hole, he begins to send messages back to record his actions [...]