The new National Geographic series about Albert Einstein, Genius, has been promoted widely. My synagogue, Keneseth Israel in Philadelphia, has a tie in to this Jewish genius. KI, now celebrating it’s 170th birthday, has been home to many celebrity members, from the Gimbel family to the Rosenwalds of Sears fame, to William S. Paley. One…
More than six decades after his death on this date in 1955, Albert Einstein continues to inspire generations of students in the sciences. But let don’t the mop of white hair and distinguished mustache fool you. Einstein was “a stud muffin theoretical physicist,” according to Geoffrey Rush, who stars at the man himself in the…
On April 18, 1955, Albert Einstein passed away. In the following days, the groundbreaking physicist’s death was met with grief on all fronts. Then-President Dwight Eisenhower eulogized the scientist, commenting “No other man contributed so much to the vast expansion of 20th century knowledge.” The New York Times, in an obituary, lauded Einstein’s moral courage,…
One person dressed as Albert Einstein is a lovable eccentric, two are liable to draw jokes about disruptions in the time-space continuum, and 404 are something to positively celebrate. The next Einstein competition happening @MaRSDD – will they break world record and come up with world changing idea? pic.twitter.com/09iPJWUPQc — Joanne Thomsen (@joannethomsen) March 28,…
According to an article in Mental Floss, the first time Albert Einstein came to America, he found himself caught up in a whirlwind of media frenzy – of prying reporters, flashing cameras, and an alternatively eager and dismissive public (one woman called Einstein’s achievements “highbrow bunk” – among the most quintessentially American phrases ever uttered). The year…
As many around the world worry about Donald Trump’s presidency and the potentially fascist future of the United States, it is worth remembering a little known anecdote about the famed mathematician and logician Kurt Gödel. You likely know Gödel’s name in relation to the “incompleteness theorems” – two theorems of mathematical logic dealing with axiomatic systems…
In 2017, contention for the title of the day’s worst piece of news is tight. Is it the portent of a coming crackdown on voting rights? The felony charges for 6 reporters covering protests of President Donald Trump’s inauguration? (Ok, that was earlier this week, but still.) The doubling of membership fees at exclusive clubs…
National Geographic has released a trailer of its new scripted series about Albert Einstein and other great American minds. Einstein devoted his life to the clean and elegant expression of complicated ideas, from the relativity of time to the constantly expanding nature of the universe. But his own history was a series of twists and…
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