The smartest brain ever?

• Position: Biology - Albert Einstein's brain - Brief article

For E=[mc.sup.2] and his Theory of Relativity, Albert Einstein is considered one of the greatest minds of the 20th century. But was his brain different from everyone else's? lt appears the answer is yes. With permission from Einstein's family, autopsy pathologist Thomas Harvey dissected Einstein's brain into 240 parts in the hours after his death in New Jersey in 1955; he then took dozens of photos. Over the years, scientists examined some of the photos and observed things like abnormally wide parietal lobes--sections of the brain associated with math and spatial perception. When Harvey died in 2007...