University Makes 80,000 Einstein Documents Publicly Available 63
orgelspieler writes "The Hebrew University of Jerusalem has scanned in some 80,000 of Albert Einstein's documents. According to the university's press release, the documents cover more than just scientific matters. The broad range of subjects include his solution to the Jewish-Arab conflict, a postcard to his mother, and a letter from one of his mistresses asking for assistance getting to America. Some documents have been translated and annotated and are completely searchable."
Truly a great man (Score:1)
Not just a genius but had numerous mistresses when most nerds cant even get 1 girl. Yet another reason to admire him more.
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Yeah, I had to re-read that part a couple of times. One of his mistresses? Implying that he had several?
Man, those old school geeks really got around.
Re:Truly a great man (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, I had to re-read that part a couple of times. One of his mistresses? Implying that he had several?
Well, the exact number depends on your frame of reference.
Re:Truly a great man (Score:5, Funny)
Good lord, do you mean to tell me that his mistresses gained mass the faster he went with them?
Re:Truly a great man (Score:4, Informative)
Teaspoonful is volume. If that were neutron star material...
[A neutron star is so dense that one teaspoon (5 milliliters) of its material would have a mass over 5.5×10^12 kg, about 900 times the mass of the Great Pyramid of Giza.]
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Re:Truly a great man (Score:5, Insightful)
I'm starting to form an alternative theory about why Einstein gets more tail than you do.
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Yeah, I bet it's because he respected women so much that he had to fuck other women on the sly, because his wife couldn't take all the thick, gooey respect.
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Yeeea, I had some of the same problems with that, lol. I'm just gonna stick with "wow, he said cool shit!" and figure, in his words, "the rest is detail."
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You definitely hear "let's just be friends" and "you're like a brother to me" more than I do. More than zero, specifically.
Of course; why would a whore say that to her john unless he asked her to? And then you might have to pay extra for the "brother" thing. ew.
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I'm starting to form an alternative theory about why Einstein gets more tail than you do.
Ah so you're one of those "nice guys" who can't be honest about what he sees.
You definitely hear "let's just be friends" and "you're like a brother to me" more than I do. More than zero, specifically.
There is a difference between being honest and just being a misogynistic asshole.
Whore is a degrading word that indicates a woman will perform sexual acts with any man for money. That's it.
In this context, whore is definitely not appropriate at all. A woman deciding on whether or not she is going to have a relationship with a man, let alone sexual activity, based on his attributes is not being a whore at all. Money is only a small part of that. While money can be linked with stability, most women are in
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So... the basic nature of a woman is that of a whore?
Your misogyny appalls me.
It's a damn good thing there are no women who understand technology and read Slashdot to be offended by you.
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Don't go there, Rush!
You know the joke (Score:3)
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Nah, it was farked last night and probably never recovered.
Religion vs. Science (Score:2, Insightful)
Why would the Hebrew University of Israel, in the center of the Religiocentric Region of the world want to keep documents published by Albert Einstein who discovered Relativity and is an atheist?
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It doesn't matter whether Einstein himself was religious or not. He's not around to say "yea, I said that" or "wait, you're misquoting me!" when it comes to what's being put up from the university. How many times have we seen overzealous Christians twist everything Einstein said around so that it looks like he WAS super-religious and supported the idea that God exists? It's not the danger of Einstein twisting what he said, it's those holding the documents we need to be wary of. They can do what movie compan
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yeah, and i want to see "Einstein's solution to the Arab/Israeli conflict, i wonder if that document has not been "doctored up" since it was written
The solution is: e=mc^2. Israel has apparently already manufactured the device.
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The doctoring up (or skewed interpretation ) won't have happened in the actual document. This usually happens in the articles about the document. .
Yesterday this was published, which discusses just such a case (namely another article in the independent) http://mondoweiss.net/2012/03/einsteins-crime.html [mondoweiss.net]
Einstein's proposal does not suport the idea of a jewish state. There is a lot of mythology about Einstein being supportive of zionism. He was not - not in the sense it's used now. Says Fred Jerome http://www [einsteinonisrael.com]
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To quote Jerry Haber (http://www.jeremiahhaber.com/2010/05/beinart-and-future-of-liberal-zionism.html) Yes, there was a humanistic Zionism -- the Zionism of Buber, Magnes, Einstein, Arendt, Kohn, Ernst Simon -- but it died with the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948.
Re:Religion vs. Science (Score:5, Informative)
It's possible the article may shed some light on this.
"Albert Einstein was a founder of the Hebrew University and one of its most loyal supporters. In his will he bequeathed all of his writings and intellectual heritage to the Hebrew University, including the rights to the use of his image."
Re:Religion vs. Science (Score:5, Insightful)
As an atheist, a resident of Jerusalem and a student of an institution that's part of the Hebrew University campus I find it hard to imagine what kind of misapprehension of Israel and its academic institutions you might have to make that kind of comment.
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You do have to admit, being an atheist in Jerusalem, from what I'm told and what I've seen of the city myself, really does suck. Other cities/states/countries have blue laws. Jerusalem has non-blue laws as the exception. The whole city apparatus is bent around accomodating the Haredim and the Arabs.
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Apparently he wasn't an atheist. He seemed to be something of a agnostic/deist/pantheist/Spinozan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein's_religious_views#Agnosticism_and_rejection_of_atheism [wikipedia.org]
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Because Jews respect human intellect. You would have to be anti-jewish to not keep them.
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Most of Einstein's thoughts are summarized in his book 'Ideas & Opinions', which I had as a kid. In that, in one of his writings on Religion & Science, he wrote that 'Religion w/o science is blind, and science w/o religion is lame'. That's a far cry from the average Atheist that one would imagine. I've read that book. Einstein was a socialist who somewhat romanticized the Soviet Union, but wanted the transformation to socialism to be a persuasive exercise.
The above AC who said that he compared
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Because Einstein was a Jew and a Cultural Zionist, as I recall, something like one of the founders or early Presidents of Hebrew University.
Kudos to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Score:4)
I can't help but think that this is wonderful that the Hebrew University of Jerusalem went out and did this. I am sure that they are riding the good PR wave and all, but it is a wonderful thing to have someone in this day and age find funds to make something and give it away for free. Truly wonderful.
Lunch won't be 'til yesterday (Score:3, Interesting)
There was a story I'd heard of Einstein years ago (who knows if it's true) , wherein after talking a while with a student on campus, he asked the student, "Tell me; where was I walking from when we met?" The student pointed toward the dining commons; Einstein smiled and said, "Ah, good, I ate lunch then."
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Einsteins Uncertainty Principle? (Score:1)
sad day for linux. (Score:5, Funny)
i searched through and not once, not even once, does he mention linux.
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well, he did claim time travel was impossible.
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Stephen Hawking Disagrees [dailymail.co.uk]. And so do Rority and Gumal.
Farside (Score:2)
Well, if you include the stuff his wife wrote and he claimed ownership of, it could add up. Perhaps some of that relativity stuff was hers after all!
obligatory [photobucket.com]
presentation of the documents (Score:2)
Why flash (Score:2)
The good part is of course that they make it available. Universities should do that and not publish in journals where you have to pay to have access to publicly funded research. The sad part is that they had to use flash for the site.
Or is that on purpose so that I can't download the documents as simple Pdf files? I don't know if I miss anything, but the documents are only available via flash?
Translated? (Score:2)
Some documents have been translated
I wonder why, he spoke and wrote very good German.