It's been 100 years since Einstein published his first major paper and we haven't viewed our place in the universe the same since. The above article offers a great overview into the life of man whose genius comes around once in a century, at best. Einstein described relativity this way: "Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity."
There's another article out today about The Next Einstein. One opinion is that education and training today is too specialized to breed another Einstein:
"Education is different, too. One crucial aspect of Einstein's training that is overlooked, says Notre Dame science historian Don Howard, is the years of philosophy he read as a teenager — Kant, Schopenhauer and Spinoza, among others. It taught him to how to think independently and abstractly about space and time, Howard says, and it wasn't long before he became a philosopher himself."
While I'm on the subject of great scientific achievement, I'll also write about some pseudo-science. Someone is claiming that the tsunami on December 26th was caused by the planetary alignment at the time. Doubtful, but interesting.
Finally, as my blog heads completely downhill, someone has calculated the number of F-Bombs dropped in HBO's Deadwood.
Season One - 1.23 FPM (F-Bombs per minute).
Season Two - 1.84 FPM.
F-Bomb Total - 1519.
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