I loved these when I was a kid, and started playing them for my son when he was 6 or so. They're entertaining but not dumbed down. They show science in an exciting light.
About Time and The Strange Case of Cosmic Rays are the best in a very good series.
I don't know about "no difference".
Some sofers make nice even letters. Others start the line well enough but then buncheverythingup as they get to the end. Others realize they're going to get to the end of the line too quickly and stretch out some letters (which is allowed) to the point where they're hard to read.
And on one torah I read from, the sofer went crazy with the crowns. We called that the 'trippy torah'.
Here's a link to a sofer's site with lots of pictures and explanations: http://www.bayit02.freeserve.co.uk/index.html
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I loved these when I was a kid, and started playing them for my son when he was 6 or so. They're entertaining but not dumbed down. They show science in an exciting light. About Time and The Strange Case of Cosmic Rays are the best in a very good series.
I don't know about "no difference". Some sofers make nice even letters. Others start the line well enough but then buncheverythingup as they get to the end. Others realize they're going to get to the end of the line too quickly and stretch out some letters (which is allowed) to the point where they're hard to read. And on one torah I read from, the sofer went crazy with the crowns. We called that the 'trippy torah'. Here's a link to a sofer's site with lots of pictures and explanations: http://www.bayit02.freeserve.co.uk/index.html