Diary Illuminates Einstein's Last Years 166
b00le writes "Several sources carry versions of this story about the diary of Johanna Fantova who shared much of the last years of Einstein's life (and cut his hair) and witnessed his kindness and poltical activisim. The diary does not seem to have been translated from the German yet, but the site has extracts. According to this, Fantova tried to publish the diaries herself and of course failed to find an agent."
So why (Score:2, Insightful)
As in everything else.... (Score:2, Interesting)
Film executives don't know anything about film or movie goers. Music executives certainly wouldn't know music if they heard it, but they understand large boobies and good skin. While a perhaps surprising number of female models look like male heroin addicts. So literary agents don't know something worth reading when it's already largely written and walks itself into their office. I'm sure we could all turn to another NetOps ForceCenter book which Tom Clancy
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is this real? (Score:5, Insightful)
Einstein calling Heisenberg "a big Nazi" is surely too funny to be true. The mistake mentioned in the article (reporting Einstein phoning his sister several years after she was dead) doesn't sound like the sort of mistake a real diarist would ever make.
thoughts, anyone?
Re:is this real? (Score:4, Interesting)
They check the document before publishing it. Were as newspaper's push anything they have to the public.
Re:is this real? (Score:5, Insightful)
Why would it not be true? Werner Heisenberg did a lot of nuclear research in germany during the second world war, research that was meant to lead to a german atom bomb.
I dont think just because Einsteing was Einstein everything he said every day had to sound poetic and/or thouroughly thought thru, maybe he just spoke his mind occasionally?
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did not sympathize? (Score:4, Insightful)
Personally, I think Heisenberg was probably sabotaging the Nazi effort, but none of the evidence is compelling. He was such a convincing collaborator that it's hard to tell.
Heisenberg's actions may have intentionally slowed down the Nazi pursuit of the atom bomb, or perhaps he was actually trying hard, and just wrong or (un)lucky. All these men were perfectly fallible.
We're responsible to everyone for what we do, and who we pretend to be and. We're responsible only to ourselves for who we are.
Fiction is a good arena for the unknowable. Kurt Vonnegut's _Mother Night_ is a lovely book about these very problems and even the movie is great.
Re:did not sympathize? (Score:5, Funny)
Uncertainty principle of Heisenberg
Re:is this real? (Score:3, Insightful)
He made a lot of progress towards a German atom bomb. Could he have made more? We probably can never know the answer to that question. But from the progress he did make, there's little roo
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"ein grosse Nazi"
I doubt he would have butchered the German language, so where did you find this "fact"?
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There has been a lot of attention devoted to a meeting, in 1941, between Heisenberg and Niels Bohr, a Danish physicist, in occupied Copenhagen. There has even been a play about it, called "Copenhagen".
You can read some documents about the meeting here [www.nbi.dk].
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IAANP, and have done the kind of calculations that Heisenberg didn't (although not, I hasten to add, for bomb-making purposes!)
--Tom
no kidding (Score:2, Interesting)
Just in an alternate universe.
Yea, the Nazi's won in that one. Churchhill tripped once as a teenager and hit his head a bit too hard on the pavement. He was finally killed by the SS when they marched through London. No, not in Parliament, on the street. He was a bum.
It's quite an alternate universe, let me tell ya.
Re:is this real? (Score:5, Interesting)
This is from the article:
In close succession, Einstein received visits from physicist Werner Heisenberg, who led the Nazi German A-bomb effort, and Aage Bohr, son of physicist Niels Bohr, who became Heisenberg's rival. Fantova recounted that after the visits, Einstein called Heisenberg "a big Nazi" and commented that Bohr was more pleasant but spoke constantly.
From the context, it seems clear that Einstein is referring to Heisenberg's demeanour, perhaps also his expressed opinions and world-views. Heisenberg's past is not the issue here. Einstein was stating his personal perception of Heisenberg, as established from his own acquaintance with him.
Re:is this real? (Score:5, Interesting)
Namecalling isn't only an American pasttime.
And calling people Nazi's is one of my nations favorites pasttime.
And just after the war it was bound to happen even more often - especially if you consider that Heisenberg wasn't exactly on the left side of politics, neither before nor after the war.
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"thoughts, anyone?"
Well, my first thought would be to invoke Godwin's law on Einstein's comment.
Bed Head (Score:5, Funny)
If she is the one who cut his hair, I wonder what her writings must be like. Einstein, even on portrait day, looked worse than I do on my worst bed head day. It took so long to transcribe her notes because of her shaky hand?
Big Nazi Comment (Score:3, Interesting)
"On the touched side" means "socialist" now? (Score:5, Interesting)
What exactly does that mean?
It fills me with deep apprehension to see how people who might otherwise rail against "PC revisionism" will dismiss something like Einstein's various social causes, putting them in a basket like "he was a little 'touched'" to keep them at a safe distance. Heisenberg had worked for the German war machine trying to develop an atom bomb. Do we not think Einstein could possibly have strong feelings about that? Whether this diary's legit or not, that particular point doesn't seem over the edge to me. Over-candid, maybe -- as might happen in a diary...
It' ain't just Einstein (who was an avowed socialist by the way -- boo!). A worse and weirder thing has happened with Helen Keller. Helen Keller was a hell of a woman; Winston Churchill called her "The greatest woman of our age." We've made her a curiosity, a freak show -- because we're airbrushing out her entire adult life so that she's safer for fifth-graders to read about. Okay, so these two people were socialists, and I'm not. (I'd be more of a Keynesian, along the lines of Richard Nixon, economically.) Opinions far from our own aren't inherently nuts, and we don't have to be scared of them -- do we?
Re:"On the touched side" means "socialist" now? (Score:2)
There is nothing threatening about opinions, of course. The problem is that once an opinion becomes "endorsed" by government, it's no longer an opinion -- it's pure force.
An opinion is something which is voluntarily accepted. Government is not capable of conducting its business through voluntary means -- if it did, it wouldn't be government (it would be free enterprise). By definition, government must condu
Re:"On the touched side" means "socialist" now? (Score:2)
Er, no. Most of what we call "free enterprise" operates within a sheltered framework provided by government and protected by force where necessary.
Absent government, "free enterprise" would be pleased to commit all manner of crimes--but they wouldn't be crimes without government, would they? It w
Re:"On the touched side" means "socialist" now? (Score:2)
That's what government teaches you, however the facts are that (1) no such purely capitalist society has ever existed for long enough to mature before being conquered by government, and (2) there is no evidence that services which are currently provided through forced participation (government) cannot be provided as well or better through voluntary participation.
but they wouldn't be crimes without government, would they
one of Einsteins better ideas (Score:5, Interesting)
forget the e=mc^2 stuff
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Re:one of Einsteins better ideas (Score:5, Interesting)
Given the choices like that, I think having a little "world government" isn't so bad. Maybe not to the extent you seem to be afraid of, but the UN should have WAY more power than it does now.
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Also consider that the disfunctional form of post-colonial African nations was shaped in part by the UN.
Re:one of Einsteins better ideas (Score:5, Insightful)
No, in the case of Rawanda EXACTLY 10 years ago, the UN had armed troops on the ground that were ready, willing and able to go after the weapons caches and the genocidaires but were ordered not to by the Security Council, led by the US, the UK and France.
As for the dysfunctional africa because of a post-colonial past being the foault of the UN I don't see it. The French had military advisors and soldiers on the ground supporting the Goververment of the dictator that planned and started the genocide. The Belgians turned tail and ran like simpering dogs when they lost soldiers in action (imagine that!). All outside the UN or without their approval. Only Canada, Ghana, Senagal and a bunch of useless Bangledeshi's stayed to try to do anything, under the authority of the UN.
Don't be surprised that you think the UN is corrupt and inept when it is the government of the US that undermines it in every way possible. This is called a self-fufilling prophesy.
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Rwanda is but one chapter of the disgraceful tale of colonial and post-colonial Africa. Do not use it as the yardstick to measure 100 years of imperial oppression. Blaming the pathetic state of sub-saharan Africa on the US is incredibly ignorant... Africa was and always will be within Europe's sphere of influence.
Previous posters made reference to the notion that the UN "doesn't go far enough" and that the UN should be a world gov
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Please pardon my ignorance; I will be sure to read something deeper than US media blurbs about it.
If you could suggest a book or article about the Rwanda troubles, I would be most appreciative.
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And a World Government would suck because for the first time in history, if the government isn't being nice to you, you have (in the absolute sense) nowhere else to go.
Re:one of Einsteins better ideas (Score:4, Interesting)
The Yanks are always whining that they don't want to be the "world's policeman" but then won't pay their UN dues or allow the UN to take over that role for them (but I suppose that would require them to support the International Criminal Court and the International War Crimes tribunal).
Imagine a UN with the recources and logistics to prevent the next Rawanda or to actually capture indicted war criminals in Bosnia or to have enough troops and weapons to deliver aid to Somolia without the US getting it's hand dirty...
Not a world government, but an international body with some teeth, like NATO or TANZAC.
Re:one of Einsteins better ideas (Score:2)
If an institution cannot police the power and influence it putatively has, then by definition does it not in fact lack that power and influence?
Crocodile tears? Regardless of what US citizens might be saying, the present US leadership seems more eager to "police" the world than I w
Re:one of Einsteins better ideas (Score:2)
Because the UN was not set up with an enforcement arm. Hmmm, who could have wanted that? Given that they have no "police force" or standing army, the UN does a very good job at enforcing it's resolutions, all things considered. I dare say the state of New York couldn't do as well with out the New York State Police, the NYPD or the New York National Guard.
The col
Re:one of Einsteins better ideas (Score:2)
There's just too much potential for abuse, particularly as (contrasted with national armies) such a force would have no legitimate ongoing "defense" role. Idle hands... As it is, even national armies get misused on a fairly regular basis (c.f. recent US actions).
I totally agree with you about the meagre requirements of Rawanda -- I ju
Re:one of Einsteins better ideas (Score:2)
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But what safeguards against the abuse of power would a world government have? I don't think abuses of power have ever been limited to particular religions or economic system; why would it be different this time?
Look at what's currently happening in the EU with software patents (for example). No rabid Christians or Turbo-Capitalists involved (well, maybe Turbo-Capitalists).
What prevents a meta-government
Re:one of Einsteins better ideas (Score:2)
And a UN with teeth doesn't mean anyone can do anything he feels is good because he feels something was violated into the UN charter.
Einstein's vision of the UN role seems to me too much idealistic. Something like the great worldwide governement anyone expect the great omni power (call it God if you wish) to establish. Reality is just too far away from such a picture.
In a government
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However, the UN is a post-WWII organization mainly built by WWII winners. That's what the security council reflect.
As known today, the UN is no longer an effective organization. Corruption is a known fact for a long time. Oil vs Food program is proving this at an never ever reached scale. Would you still trust an organization which members may have been bought a long time ago by a Saddam Hussein through a ver
Re:one of Einsteins better ideas (Score:2)
How bout you judge the UN by the other programmes which work quite well, like UNICEF, UNHCR and the World Court? I can tell you, I can certainly find a lot of scandal and corruption with the Bush administration, should we decide that the US system of democracy doesn't work?
"Don't throw the baby out with the bath water"
Re:one of Einsteins better ideas (Score:2)
Before you judge me to harshly or think I'm some kind of nut, please read Shake Hands With the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rawanda [amazon.com].
I've was shocked that the world did nothing when the genociode was going on (and I remember it going on), but after reading Gen. Daillaire's book I was horrified how absolutely preventable it was. His first hand account of the tragedy has coloured my thoughts about these kinds of t
Re:one of Einsteins better ideas (Score:2)
Why is it any less bearable for countries to have their laws influenced by other countries than to have the laws of your own country influenced by other people?
In any case, countries' laws are already heavily influenced by other countries - it just tends to be that weaker countries acquiesce to the demands of stronger countries. For recent examples, look at laws regarding IP, pornography, dru
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Yeah, what a great fuckin' idea, as exampled by America and what happens when you cross her oil charter (you know, the one that says America owns all the world's oil and has a God-given right to consume it all).
Government sucks, and world government will suck the most. You don't put a stop to things like genocide by transforming the killers into policemen by just adding badges.
Re:one of Einsteins better ideas (Score:2)
Instead of working to increase the availability of power, we should be working to diffuse or eliminate it. Logically, the less power available to the governing elite, the less problems they will cause.
Re:one of Einsteins better ideas (Score:2)
But thanks for playing, you fucking Imperialist.
Who will be the dentist then? (Score:2)
Better? I am not so sure. We could have a UN with teeth, but who will be the dentist?
Who and when to chew on is a tricky problem too.
Alas, how would the one being chewed on react? Lean towards the other side - the anti-UN?
Re:Who will be the dentist then? (Score:2)
I love it - vi rocks
I think the best thing that could happen to the UN is to eliminate the veto power held by The Big Five. Resolutions would still be just what they are now, a public world statement, but you could still get some resolutions through that don't now just because a significant minority state finds it unflattering from political or idealogical grounds.
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As for wanting Burundi and Madagascar to have equal say as Germany and the US, I actually do think that's a good idea. Maybe the world will take notice of things that aren't in the strategic interests of the US
Einstein's childhood (Score:4, Funny)
The successful de-politicization of Einstein... (Score:5, Interesting)
An example from the right rather than the left would be Charles Lindbergh.
I remember being surprised by my discovery, in the sixties, that a) many people of my parents' generation at least recognize the tune and words of The Internationale, that virtually nobody from the sixties generation does--not even the real lefties--and that people from my parents' generation were largely unaware that people from the next generation don't know it. A song and a political emblem, into the memory hole without benefit of telescreens.
Re:The successful de-politicization of Einstein... (Score:4, Interesting)
A couple highly personal observations:
* Einstein's genius was in part the ability to envision abstract relationships, possibly at the expense of understanding human relationships. He had a (perhaps overly) simple vision of a simple and just social order. I admire it and share in his probable wish that people could lead simple, straightforward lives and help the less fortunate along the way.
* Journalism, in its attempt to be sexy, has tried to make Einstein sexy. Humanitarianism is about as un-sexy as it gets, which just kills my own idealism by the way. So of course we don't know about that part of his life. Instead we are left thinking about how he helped bring about the very sexy Atom Bomb.
Re:The successful de-politicization of Einstein... (Score:5, Informative)
And that's pretty sad. Helen Keller in particular: the part of her life where she first managed to overcome some part of her disabilities is remembered, but the campaigning work she did afterwards is forgotten. It's just about the most patronizing thing I can think of.
With respect to Einstein, I think that he earned the right to have his views heard (though not automatically agreed with of course!) In that spirit, here's Einstein on socialism [monthlyreview.org].
Re:The successful de-politicization of Einstein... (Score:4, Interesting)
> life where she first managed to overcome some part of her
> disabilities is remembered, but the campaigning work she did
> afterwards is forgotten. It's just about the most patronizing
> thing I can think of.
Great comment. My history professor in college referred to this as "chaining to a pedestal". Elevating one aspect of a person (or group of people) with the intent to suppress another aspect.
Re:The successful de-politicization of Einstein... (Score:2)
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The first thing he addresses in it is what someone here already responded, why does it matter what an expert (or genius) on physics thinks about political matters? His first answer is that since physics is a physical science, e.g. a "real" science, while economics is a social science, pretty much anyone can have an opinion on a social science and have it be of possible equal validity since there's no scietific method of finding a "correct" answer. He also says that the violent, predatory nature of the existing system intrudes on a scientific study of political economy (for example, property "rights" are enforced by...force). His second answer is that this is a social-ethical question more than a scientific question. So in other words, he dismisses the notion that there are experts in economic or social matters whom one can objectively say know more than the average person. It would be like a theologian telling an atheist he understands the nature of the universe better than the average person.
As far as socialism, it never really made much of an inroads in the USA. If it's dealt with it all, it's said that it's "big government"...which sounds more like good old American New Deal Democrat liberalism. It's kind of like Plato's cave, the only reference to the body of socialism would be the shadow of liberalism. Einstein came from Europe where socialism was quite a big thing (as was communism) in the 20th century (in the east and the west - the largest political party in France was communist until 1956, Italy practically elected a communist government in 1976 losing by 5% of the vote, Germany's parliament was majority socialist and communist prior to Hitler, Spain had an anarchist/communist war against fascism in 1936 and was under a military dictatorship for decades afterward, and so on and so forth - socialism, anarchism and communism dominated Europe in the 20th century alongside fascism and Christian democrats). Einstein was steeped in these politics in Europe and had a much more intimate understanding of them then most Americans would. I've found most Americans think they know a lot about 20th century European history and the political philosophies of socialism, communism, anarchism, fascism and so forth, but they really don't. For example, you always hear how the USSR "forced" Hungarians to be communist. You'd never have known Hungary had had a bolshevik revolution in 1919, which lasted until Romania invaded. Of course, Russia had some influence on eastern Europe, but the US could be said in many respects to have "forced" France and Italy to be capitalist - especially Italy - the post-war elections were a total fraud, and as late as 1976 there were secret plans drafted by the USA to have NATO invade Italy if they voted communists into power in the 1976 election, which nearly happened. I don't know which is more disturbing - that Americans know so little about all of this, or that they know so little about all of this but think they do know all of this.
Re:The successful de-politicization of Einstein... (Score:2)
Did you know:
The USA has un-to-date plans to invade:
Canada,
Mexico,
Eastern Montanna,
Noam Chomsky's Bathroom.
The US Militairy has plans for just about any contingency - unfortunalty some of those plans are kept a bit *too* secret. Like NORADS plans for dealing with a hijacked airplane, where the hijackers inteneded to crash it into a 'famous building.'
Re:The successful de-politicization of Einstein... (Score:2)
Well, putting aside the Mexican-American war, don't forget that General Pershing marched into Mexico with his troops in 1914 during the Mexican revolution. I don't think the US is on the verge of invading Mexico right now, but the Foreign Affairs crowd is much more concerned about Mexico than most people probably realize. Don't forget that Clinton bailed out their economy in 1995. Steve Forbes also called Mexican immigration a "safety valve for domest
One of his famous quotes... (Score:4, Interesting)
It's surprising that someone so respected would need to chase a carrot like that. It sounds like that solitude extended indefinitely. Maybe extreme genius demands solitude.
Any thoughts?
Re:One of his famous quotes... (Score:1, Insightful)
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I'm not sure I get your metaphor. This is how I view Einstein: more comfortable around equations than people. A logical mind finds that people are complex AND annoyingly difficult to understand at their core; equations are complex but are at least a fixed target.
Both can be extremely interesting, but I suspect Einstein ultimately chose solitude because he found most people frustratingly difficult to understand.
Re:One of his famous quotes... (Score:2)
Do you really think he chose solitude?
Re:One of his famous quotes... (Score:2)
Yes. His quote suggests that it was painful realizing in his earlier years that he wasn't a witty socialite and probably didn't excel at friendships. As he aged, he accepted his strengths and weaknesses and learned to use them to good effect.
Personally, I'll bet he had some awesome daydreaming skills. Socializing would have probably interfered with the exercising of this talent.
Re:One of his famous quotes... (Score:2)
That sounds as though you are rationalizing emotions. Feelings aren't at all rational. For some reason he was alone as a youth and it hurt him, but as he grew older he grew to enjoy being alone... It doesn't mean he chose solitude... he was probably like most geeks, a quirky outcast who was difficult to live with.
We're all governed by emotions and horomones. Our bodies and our needs change as we grow older.
... or I'm overanalyzing it and he was just responding to being a g
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I don't disagree. The word "chose" as I originally meant it is not expressive enough. If the world had been full of people he understood and who understood him, I'm sure he would have been a happy socialite. I'm projecting my own experiences onto him here, but I believe his quote mentioned at the start of this thread indicates that solitude was a painful adjustment but one that he ada
Re:One of his famous quotes... (Score:2)
I know many elderly people who live in much greater solitude than that.
As far as I know... (Score:1, Insightful)
Einstein was a Socialist (Score:2)
Anyway, this was something never mentioned at least in my primary and secondary education.
You can also add to that list George Orwell, which although it may sound counterintuitive, was a staunch Socialist to h
Re:Einstein was a Socialist (Score:2)
People like Einstein get a hard time because of misconceptions like this.
If someone says they're a socialist, it may mean they're a state socialist, or it may mean they believe in some of the concepts in socialism, and their views on the state could be many things.
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If that education was done in the U.S.A., that's not surprising.
Remember all that swearing to a flag they had you do? That's what "education" is in the states: indoctrination.
To the U.S., socialism is evil (I believe that the United States of America indeed has a state religion, and that it is called Capitalism). Therefore there will be no talk associating something evil to someone called a genius.
(Genius good, socialism ba
Depressed Parrot (Score:4, Informative)
Godel (and Einstein) were mundane... (Score:5, Interesting)
Godel lived a rather mundane life. He was no Feynman. He was quiet. While Einstein seemed to enjoy, if not ask, to be treated as a scientific god, Godel seemed to hate such exclusion. Often times, mathematicians and philosophers feared to even talk to the great Godel. Even Von Nuemann (who seemed to have little respect for Einstein [see Ulam's autobiography]), referred to Godel as the greatest philosopher since Aristotle. Facts, as found in Wang's book, such as Godel's fondness for "chicken and biscuits" or Godel spending Sunday mornings in bed reading the Bible are mundane. However, these men were mundane. They're world was completely of the mind. Often these men quirks are the only really interesting things about them. They were virtually indisguishable in public. In fact, in Martin Davis book, "The Universal Computer" Davis' wife exclaimed, upon first seeing Einstein and Godel together at Princeton, that see had seen "Einstein and his lawyer".
In the case of this woman's diaries, I'm more concerned she deified Einstein, thus tainting her view. I believe the publishers may have been right in this case. Her diaries probably read more like notes. They probably would have requried some extensive work or further research before being worthy of a book.
I nitpick so you don't have to. (Score:2, Informative)
I really wish the Guardian would check their facts before printing mistakes like this. (It has to be an editorial mistake by the Guardian, since someone alive at that time would have known better.)
The House Un-American Activities committee was a committee of the House of Representat
department (Score:2, Funny)
Actually it has [slashdot.org].
They Wrote Books (Score:3, Interesting)
Heisenberg's Physics and Beyond [amazon.com] is, on the other hand, a brilliant chronicle of the development of quantum physics. Heisenberg's disgust at faculty loyalty oaths and other trappings of National Socialism is clear. Heinsenberg also records the brilliance and humor of his colleagues, like Wolfgang Pauli, "There is no God and Dirac is His prophet!" Heisenberg is quite gracious to Einstein, so it is sad Einstein couldn't rise above his petty bitterness to all things quantum (what a cranky idiot savant).
Since this is Slashdot, there is of course no need to urge folks to read Stan Ulam's Adventures of a Mathematician [amazon.com]. Y'all got it next to Feynman on your shelves, right?
Hrm, according to my book on the subject... (Score:2)
He spent most of the rest of his life taking cold showers.
Same situation, different era (Score:2, Interesting)
Just as the celebrities of our time are just as outspoken. Actors, actresses, musicians--their comments on Bush, Iraq, Blair.
It's just a different era and those that have the public's ear are not th
And... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:This just in.... His FINAL entry... (Score:1)
At last it makes more sense that way... though it's just hard to convey the right message in text... maybe:
GOTCHA
Re:"Am looking for Einstein brain" (Score:1)
Re:"Am looking for Einstein brain" (Score:2)
It's a somewhat long story, and pieces of it have been doled out to a number of people over the years, by Dr. Thomas Harvey, the person who originally did the autopsy on Einstein and removed his brain for scientific analysis. The stories of why and how this happened are varied, but suffice it to say that it was done for "scientific purposes".
Dr. Harvey had been "keeper of the brain" since Einstein's death in 1955. He took it home with him and it stay
Re:MODS This is all true (Score:3, Informative)
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