Rather than using my normal search techniques, I headed straight to Find A Grave, a very helpful, if morbid, resource I’ve used in the past. The site came through once again, informing us that Albert Einstein was cremated and his ashes were scattered near an unspecified river in New Jersey. The site made no mention of it, but I had heard rumors that Einstein’s brain had been preserved. I tried a search on “einstein brain” to get to the bottom it. A page from University if Washington filled me in.
Albert Einstein died on April 18, 1955, at the age of 76. His body was cremated, and his brain was preserved for scientific study, although whether or not Einstein or his family gave permission to save his brain is up for debate. Dr. Thomas S. Harvey, a pathologist at Princeton Hospital, conducted the autopsy. No one knew what happened to Einstein’s brain after Dr. Harvey removed it.
In 1978, Steven Levy, a curious reporter for the New Jersey Monthly, set out to track down the famous brain. After much hunting around, Levy learned that Dr. Harvey still had Einstein’s brain in two mason jars in his house in Wichita, Kansas. You can read an abbreviated version of the discovery online.
After Einstein’s brain resurfaced, so to speak, several studies were conducted comparing it to “average” human brains. Several key differences were noted that may help explain the great man’s genius.
And that’s all there is to this (gray) matter.
i did not know that yesterday! 
That is cool. Einstiens Brain. Guess it was too big to fit in one jar!
Here’s a question, if you choose to answer. Why is gasoline in the US always whatever and 9/10’s of a cent? It can’t be five dollars a gallon, it has to be five dollars and nine tenths of a cent. why o why?
Hi mark,
This is what ask yahoo has to say about it 😉
Why is gas priced to nine-tenths of a cent?
Nick L. Dimed
Dear Nick:
It does seem cruel. Everyone (well, almost everyone) buys gas no matter what it costs. So why do gas stations tease strung-out customers over a tenth of a cent? Is the industry run by evil hucksters? Perhaps, but that’s not the reason for the unorthodox pricing.
Theories abound, but none are definitive. The Mail Tribune newspaper in Medford, Oregon, quotes Craig Randolph, an oil company’s V.P. of retail operations. He says the nine-tenths of a cent is just a marketing gimmick that likely begun during the 1970 “gas wars.” Over the years, it became the standard.
This site on Arizona gas prices offers a different theory. It argues that the precision of nine-tenths gives motorists a “false sense of accuracy” over their purchase. It goes on to state that this method of pricing “requires that almost all purchases be rounded to the nearest whole cent,” which benefits oil companies.
Dr. James Madachy believes it’s primarily a marketing thing (“It looks cheaper”), but acknowledges charging nine-tenths of a cent can be unfair to the consumer. According to Madachy, the state of Iowa “outlawed the practice for four years during the 1980s.” However, the movement (if you can call it that) didn’t have much success.
Gas stations are free to set prices however they see fit — the nine-tenths isn’t a tax regulated by the government. And as these photographs illustrate, they have the same practice north of the border, though the number after the decimal varies.
Thank you. verrrrrry interesting!