As I have done before with other books I give here a modified extract of the first few pages of my book The Grail Mystery, which is published today by Lulu Books. Just go to www.Lulu.com as usual and put 'Douglas Buchanan' in the Search box, or click on “Buy this book" on the blog page. Here is the extract:

In the 60’s, in England, when American students were entered into the high school where I taught, they invariably tested about two years below the academic standard of their age group. My friends in other European countries observed the same thing. The students certainly weren’t stupid or unintelligent, but they were terribly uninformed compared with their age group in other countries.

Some time ago our Netflix subscription brought us the DVD of Artificial Intelligence. I have always been fascinated by the concept of intelligence of any kind, artificial or otherwise. I have studied the kind of intelligence that produces very young geniuses in the three pattern perceiving realms of mathematics, music and chess. In these realms a nine year old can be more capable than people who have spent years studying these subjects.