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From the Radiolab podcast: When Albert Einstein died, someone stole his brain — and kicked off a scavenger hunt for the origin of genius.
Albert Einstein asked that when he died, his body be cremated and his ashes be scattered in a secret location. He didn’t want his grave, or his body, becoming a shrine to his genius. When he passed away in the early morning hours of April, 18, 1955, his family knew his wishes. There was only one problem: the pathologist who did the autopsy had different plans.
In the third episode of “G,” Radiolab’s miniseries on intelligence that first aired back in 2019, we go on one of the strangest scavenger hunts for genius the world has ever seen. We follow Einstein’s stolen brain from that Princeton autopsy table, to a cider box in Wichita, Kansas, to labs all across the country. And eventually, beyond the brain itself entirely. All the while wondering, where exactly is the genius of a man who changed the way we view the world?
Listen to more of Radiolab's "G" series here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLHAUHF-RPhnrPTs7sr-KW5ZIS_vwANdj
Check out the Einstein Papers Project here: https://www.einstein.caltech.edu
At the top of this episode, co-host Lulu Miller introduces us to a new podcast series called Blindspot: The Plague in the Shadows from The HISTORY® Channel and WNYC.
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From the Radiolab podcast: When Albert Einstein died, someone stole his brain — and kicked off a scavenger hunt for the origin of genius.
Albert Einstein asked that when he died, his body be cremated and his ashes be scattered in a secret location. He didn’t want his grave, or his body, becoming a shrine to his genius. When he passed away in the early morning hours of April, 18, 1955, his family knew his wishes. There was only one problem: the pathologist who did the autopsy had different plans.
In the third episode of “G,” Radiolab’s miniseries on intelligence that first aired back in 2019, we go on one of the strangest scavenger hunts for genius the world has ever seen. We follow Einstein’s stolen brain from that Princeton autopsy table, to a cider box in Wichita, Kansas, to labs all across the country. And eventually, beyond the brain itself entirely. All the while wondering, where exactly is the genius of a man who changed the way we view the world?
Listen to more of Radiolab's "G" series here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLHAUHF-RPhnrPTs7sr-KW5ZIS_vwANdj
Check out the Einstein Papers Project here: https://www.einstein.caltech.edu
At the top of this episode, co-host Lulu Miller introduces us to a new podcast series called Blindspot: The Plague in the Shadows from The HISTORY® Channel and WNYC.
You can listen to full episodes of Blindspot on YouTube: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUQrcRVuC9YIU4kGVzjspMV7Zx4PrWp6P
Or listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts: bit.ly/485ULow
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Photo illustration by Deborah Lee, with edits by Jared Bartman
Video by W. Harry Fortuna
