Comment Re:Einstein didn't think much of woman either (Score 1) 195
At the time that Einstein was doing his most important work (the papers which were recently republished) hardly anybody thought women had adequate intelligence for anything more taxing than reading a recipe book or a fashion magazine. My grandmother, roughly a contemporary of Albert's, went to university but that was highly unusual at the time. Women didn't even have the vote (in Switzerland they still don't) Without higher education, it was unlikely that any women were about to change his culturally ingrained view. Today it might be different........
Anyway, the thing about Einstein's brain was not just the measurement of the inferior parietal lobes, but the lack of a sulcus (groove) there which probably meant that connections were made in his brain that most of us physically couldn't make. My newspaper said this was unique (but how could they know? unusual is what they meant).
PS Anonymous Coward - in an April posting "Who will rid me of this turbulent priest?" Henry II, talking about Thomas a Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury - interesting (in view of your dyslexia) that you remembered the meaning so clearly but not the actual words.
Anyway, the thing about Einstein's brain was not just the measurement of the inferior parietal lobes, but the lack of a sulcus (groove) there which probably meant that connections were made in his brain that most of us physically couldn't make. My newspaper said this was unique (but how could they know? unusual is what they meant).
PS Anonymous Coward - in an April posting "Who will rid me of this turbulent priest?" Henry II, talking about Thomas a Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury - interesting (in view of your dyslexia) that you remembered the meaning so clearly but not the actual words.
