Neatorama » Einstein http://www.neatorama.com The Neat Side of the Web Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:07:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 The Einstein Quiz http://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/25/the-einstein-quiz/ http://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/25/the-einstein-quiz/#comments Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:11:10 +0000 Miss Cellania http://www.neatorama.com/?p=23503

Today’s Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss revolves around the site’s mascot, Albert Einstein. Think you know Einstein? I scored a miserable 40%, which, as a mental_floss blogger, I should be ashamed to admit. No doubt you will do better! Link

]]> http://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/25/the-einstein-quiz/feed/ 3 You Know Who's Born on Pi Day? Einstein. http://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/14/you-know-whos-born-on-pi-day-einstein/ http://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/14/you-know-whos-born-on-pi-day-einstein/#comments Sat, 14 Mar 2009 17:54:56 +0000 Alex http://www.neatorama.com/?p=23346 Like Miss Cellania posted earlier, today is Pi Day. But did you know that someone really famous was also born on this day? It’s only fitting that today is also the birthday of Albert Einstein (born March 14, 1879).

Neatorama articles about Einstein:

- 6 Things Inspired by Einstein
- 10 Strange Facts About Einstein
- Four Things Einstein Got Wrong
- 13 Photographs That Changed the World

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John’s post on the script of The Godfather turned into a visual art reminded me of this Einstein Word Portrait by Jeff Clark of Neoformix: Link

Previously on Neatorama: 10 Strange Facts About Einstein

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On November 18 in 1881 Albert Einstein’s (1879–1955) sister Maria – called Maja – was born in Munich. Her Jewish parents, Hermann Einstein and Pauline Einstein, nee Koch, had moved from Ulm to Munich in June 1880 with their two-year-old son Albert. There Hermann Einstein and his brother Jakob had founded the electrical engineering company Einstein & Cie. When little Albert saw his sister for the first time he thought she were a kind of toy and asked: “Yes, but where does it have its small wheels?” Maja and her brother Albert got along very well all their life. (Source)

Link [wikipedia] – via Cliff Pickover’s Reality Carnival

Previously on Neatorama:

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