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Where did Albert Einstein's brain go?

Posted on 7/27/26 at 11:43 am
Posted by Everyday Is Saturday
Member since Dec 2025
2473 posts
Posted on 7/27/26 at 11:43 am
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Things I learned from reading this article:

The pathologist who conducted the autopsy, Dr Thomas Harvey, had gone further than simply identifying the cause of death - a burst aorta. He had sawed open Einstein's cranium and removed its celebrated contents.
- Without Einstein's permission
- Kept pieces parts in mason jars
- Passed some out here and there to other people / scientists
- Dr. Harvey's life went south (lost job, failed marriage, worked at factory to make ends meet end of life). I bet time moved slow in factory (E=MC^2)!

Einstein's brain had some unique anatomical features:
- Toward low end of brain weight as compared to human avg brain weight
- had more so-called glial cells for every neuron, compared to a control group of brains. Glial cells - which get their name from the Greek for "glue" - fix neurons into place and keep them supplied with oxygen and nutrients. In previous research on rats, Diamond had shown that a stimulating environment can lead to an increase in glial cell count. Perhaps the low ratio of neurons to glial cells in Einstein's brain sample reflected a life devoted to the biggest and most stimulating scientific puzzles?
- the number of neurons was equivalent to brains in a control group, but they were more tightly packed, allowing, perhaps, for faster processing of information.
- Einstein's inferior parietal lobule - the part of the brain responsible for spatial cognition and mathematical thought - was wider than normal, and seemed better integrated.
- extra ridge on his mid-frontal lobe, the part used for making plans and working memory. Most people have three ridges but Einstein had four.
- Einstein's unusual corpus callosum, the bundle of fibres connecting the left and right hemispheres of the brain. The researchers found Einstein's was thicker than in control groups, suggesting enhanced co-operation between brain hemispheres.

But these brainiacs land indecisive...

The question arises: Are these features that Einstein developed throughout a life devoted to higher thought, or was he born with them?

My conclusions:
- May your end of life wishes re your body be fulfilled, unlike Einstein's
- Selfish acts (Dr. Harvey) do not go unnoticed (Einstein's ghost?)
- May you have a long life, like one near a black hole (Thanks, Einstein!). In so doing, may one of you figure out why brainiacs cannot solve cause/effect here?

Good read!





Posted by SECCaptain
Member since Jun 2025
2460 posts
Posted on 7/27/26 at 11:57 am to
Anyone ever consider how strange it is that e=m*c^2 is the same formula as area of circle=pi*r^2
This post was edited on 7/27/26 at 3:37 pm
Posted by Night Vision
Member since Feb 2018
23554 posts
Posted on 7/27/26 at 12:07 pm to
JFK's brain disappeared.
Posted by RGT
Member since Aug 2024
2107 posts
Posted on 7/27/26 at 12:09 pm to
Yea JFKs brain was on the trunk of the limo.
Posted by Night Vision
Member since Feb 2018
23554 posts
Posted on 7/27/26 at 12:16 pm to
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Yea JFKs brain was on the trunk of the limo.


The part that was saved after autopsy disappeared.
Posted by Shexter
Prairieville
Member since Feb 2014
21531 posts
Posted on 7/27/26 at 12:18 pm to
quote:

JFK's brain disappeared.


Richard Lipsey was at that autopsy. Is he a suspect?
Posted by beerJeep
Louisiana
Member since Nov 2016
39078 posts
Posted on 7/27/26 at 12:22 pm to
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May you have a long life, like one near a black hole (Thanks, Einstein!).


I don’t wanna go spaghetti…..
Posted by Spaceman Spiff
Savannah
Member since Sep 2012
20575 posts
Posted on 7/27/26 at 12:38 pm to
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Without Einstein's permission


A dead man can give permisson?
Posted by UptownJoeBrown
Baton Rouge
Member since Jul 2024
11243 posts
Posted on 7/27/26 at 12:39 pm to
Sir Issac Newton was smarter IMO.
Posted by IamNotaRobot
OKC
Member since Nov 2021
2040 posts
Posted on 7/27/26 at 1:17 pm to
They were both brilliant. Smarter than at least 75% of OT posters.
Posted by Everyday Is Saturday
Member since Dec 2025
2473 posts
Posted on 7/27/26 at 1:19 pm to
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Smarter than at least 75% of OT posters.


But only 60% of MT posters. Maybe less.
Posted by Broke
AKA Buttercup
Member since Sep 2006
65486 posts
Posted on 7/27/26 at 1:33 pm to
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Anywhere ever consider how strange it is that e=m*c^2 is the same formula as area of circle=pi*r^2



Not once in my entire life
Posted by teamjackson
call me Walnut
Member since Nov 2012
7279 posts
Posted on 7/27/26 at 8:21 pm to
Where is RFKs brain, then?
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