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I just read a book about this, 2 years ago, called, if I remember, "Driving Mr. Albert". Sorry, I don't remember much, but, vaguely... The guy drove cross-country with the now-old guy who'd had it for years, who still had large parts of it and was passing it on to somebody. The old guy had been a medical researcher, but had never really found anything significant about it, that I remember. It ended up in some medical facility.
We probably ate it at a Chinese take-out restaurant. ;)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein's_brain
Einstein's brain was removed, weighed and preserved by Thomas Stoltz Harvey, the pathologist who performed the autopsy on Einstein. He claimed he hoped that cytoarchitectonics would reveal useful information. Harvey injected 10% formalin through the internal carotid arteries and afterwards suspended the intact brain in 10% formalin. Harvey photographed the brain from many angles. He then dissected it into roughly 240 blocks (each about 1cm3) and encased the segments in a plastic-like material called celloidin. Harvey may also have removed Einstein's eyes, and given them to Henry Abrams. He was apparently fired from his position at Princeton Hospital shortly thereafter for refusing to relinquish the organs.
In 1978, Einstein's brain was rediscovered in the possession of Dr Harvey by journalist Steven Levy. The brain sections had been preserved in alcohol in 2 large mason jars within a cider box for over 20 years.
In 1999, further analysis by a team at McMaster University in Hamilton Ontario, Canada revealed that his parietal operculum region in the inferior frontal gyrus in the frontal lobe of the brain was vacant. Also absent was part of a bordering region called the lateral sulcus (Sylvian fissure). Researchers at McMaster University speculated that the vacancy may have enabled neurons in this part of his brain to communicate better.
I took it.
I have it hooked up to electrodes and then I used a headphone which I jacked into the Wernicke's Area so I could hear his dictates. He has been great company especially at dull moments.
Science trying to quantify the soul is like capturing the wind by trapping the air. Tis a fool's errand which is why they have found nothing.
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Thanks Blob.
by Highlander is semi-retired from AB on August 2nd, 2007