By: Gorden Russell
Next, somebody needs to sequence his genome so we can snip out the genes that gave him his cognitive abilities and turn loose some baby Einsteins.
View ArticleBy: Bernard
Perhaps the cart is being put before the horse here. Studies done on London taxi drivers showed that the part of their brains dealing with orientation were more developed than the average persons....
View ArticleBy: cameronarndt
How long before we can catalog all the positive adaptations that we have recorded in different vocations and encourage “normal” minds to reorganize themselves into the best patterns we have seen.
View ArticleBy: Bri
Einstien was a bit of a stumble bum. His father thought he was a failure. In one of Einstien’s letters, he was soupset with his lack of success that he alluded to suicide. He had trouble with the math....
View ArticleBy: Dr.Pratt
Bri: I have studied Einsteins life thoroughly and you are full of crap. Einstein did all of the Math and no one else did it for him. HIs old friend took physics notes for him in his university years,...
View ArticleBy: MechanicGuy
According to wikipedia, IQ is a fixed parameter. That’s a myth. I believe that a lot of people who scored low in IQ tests could have done much better if they had put themselves in prime mode. Actually,...
View ArticleBy: Mr.X
I completely agree with Dr.Pratt. Afaik Einstein visualized things with his famous “thought-experiments”, and then later used the language of math to formalize what he has found.He wasn’t the first to...
View ArticleBy: Beatriz Valdes
Another conclusion we could reach from the “abnormalities” detected in Einsteins´s brain is that our own grey matter is probably evolutioning that way, and more and more gifted humans will be showing up.
View ArticleBy: Bliss
I once read, that when Einstein’s brain was removed, the surgeons were shocked to find an unusually thick layer of ‘fat’ covering it. This fat was removed to expose the brain tissue (that we see in the...
View ArticleBy: Cole Vincent Hutchinson the 1st
I am convinced that I am God Bred. Without drugs, I use over 50% of my brain regularly.. My communication skills are far greater than anyone I’ve ever heard; the only one who can compare wrote a book...
View ArticleBy: melajara
On the other hand, one could argue that taxi drivers from London “chose” to become taxi drivers in London because they had more facility in orienting themselves than the average Joe. To settle the...
View ArticleBy: GatorALLin
….. sounds like a great idea…. If the cost is coming down to $1,000 and you had a sample you could test with… I bet these guys would do it for free http://www.iontorrent.com/ (also wish that before...
View ArticleBy: GatorALLin
…I like the last one… “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.” – Albert Einstein “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein...
View ArticleBy: Bernard
They also chose to spend several years riding around London on their bikes acquiring “the knowledge” before they did the exam for their licence and had an average of around thirty years experience when...
View ArticleBy: Wanderer
If you look at the study the brain scans were taken before and after their taxi driving experience. The related Part of the hippocampus became larger as their experience grew.
View ArticleBy: Wanderer
I think this is incorrect. There were 79 aspiring taxi drivers and 31 control group at the beginning of the 4 years who were given MRIs and the hippocampus looked very similar. At the end of the 4...
View ArticleBy: eldras
I’ve looked @ his brain for some years. The myolin sheaths were thicker as well. But IMO his intellectual effort affected his brain.
View ArticleBy: Christian Gehman
He thought a lot, so his brain got brain increased in functionality? This might perhaps account for writers doing their best work as they approach age 50. … Writing takes a lot of cogitation ….
View ArticleBy: Christian Gehman
The work – that’s the first importance. But for future generations, how he did the work (produced the thoughts) may be more important. Form and function are interdependent.
View ArticleBy: Mr.X
@Eldras: “The important thing is einstein’s work” I think this is a very shortsighted view.If we’d think more along the lines of Christian’s comment, how knows how many more works from other people...
View ArticleBy: Bri
I never said that Einstien didn’t do his math. I don’t remember the mathematician who almost stole Einstiens work, but I will look it up. Mathematics wasn’t his strong point. The daydreaming of what it...
View ArticleBy: Mr.X
“If someone were to judge him before his great successes they would have had a totally different opinion of him.” Tell me one person where this isn’t the case.Just one. It seems you like “magical...
View ArticleBy: Dipntus
“I use over 50% of my brain regularly” …so does everyone else, genius. You study neurology you said?
View ArticleBy: Enigma8
“The search for truth is more precious than its possession.” – Albert Einstein Wouldn’t the possession of truth be more precious? If you are constantly searching for truth, that means you do not...
View ArticleBy: Davide
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_percent_of_brain_myth I think this might clarify a few things for you.
View ArticleBy: Vin
Possession of truth can only ever be an assumption when searchers discover there is no absolute frame of reference.
View ArticleBy: Rick Thurman
Are you sure? Hominin can refer to all the Hominidae/ great apes (human, chimp, gorilla, and orangutans) but without the orangs. Hominid, it appears, can currently refer to either the Hominidae as...
View ArticleBy: Walter
Einstein’s brilliance was the result of a brain anomaly. Most geniuses are abnormals.
View ArticleBy: Mr.X
@Walter: Reading your comments I know where you’re from, and have an idea of your age.If I am right, this implicates you don’t think that much for yourself. Maybe you should start thinking instead of...
View ArticleBy: Percival
The “Einstein is the definitive Genius” bandwagon has been rolling long enough. It was really unnecessary for this blog to jump on as well. By all accounts Einstein was a modestly gifted man who worked...
View ArticleBy: Kris Knight
Wonder what our comments would be here if we had read Kurzweil’s new book…….HOW TO CREATE A MIND. The plasticity of the brain is a key factor here and the person who theorized that perhaps his brain...
View ArticleBy: Allen Esterson
“…I like the last one…” Several of these “quotations” are spurious – most notably the last one.
View ArticleBy: Allen Esterson
I made a mistake in my previous response. I meant to pick out this one as notably spurious: ““The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.” As for the last one, very bright people...
View ArticleBy: GatorALLin
http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_c2#/video/bestoftv/2012/11/29/ac-gupta-albert-einstein-brain.cnn
View ArticleBy: EmpyCee
“he was really talented at maths [sic], his teacher bought him an advanced maths [sic] book and send [sic] him away” X marks the spot.
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