Thursday, March 7, 2013

Smartest Brain Ever?

     There has been a lot of brilliant minds in the last couple of centuries but one sticks out the most. Albert Einstein is considered to have one the greatest minds of the 20th century. Autopsy pathologist, Thomas Harvey, got Einstein's family permission to dissected Einstein's brain into about two-hundred and forty parts after he died in New Jersey in 1955. During the dissecting, Harvey took dozens of photos. Over the last couple of years, scientists studied the photos and observed things like abnormally wide parietal lobes - parts of the brain associated with spatial perception and math. When Harvey died in 2007, he left the pictures of Einstein's brain to the National Museum of Health and  Science in Maryland. Scientists looking at more than a dozen newly available images, have concluded that Einstein's brain is "bumpier" than other brains. This means that he may have had more neurons, the cells that deliver and receive information. The pictures may provide insight into the mysterious nature of genius. One scientists who spoke to NPR, "Einstein's aura lives on."
    

     I did not think that it was possible that someone's brain could be more advanced than others.I also find it amazing that scientists have the technology/knowledge to notice the smallest/biggest differences in people's brains. I find that it is more astonishing that even though Einstein was dyslexic, he is considered to have the greatest mind in the 20th century. As a child, Einstein was picked on. His teachers never believed in him but that did not matter, he believed in himself. The reason why he had a brilliant mind is because he never gave up, he always tried his hardest. I hope that in the future, scientists will be able alter someone's brain to make them a genius like Albert Einstein. If they could do that in the future what would be like? Will someone's brain be just as advanced as his within the next century or even the next decade? I believe that if Albert Einstein was still alive the world would be different in the science world.     

   

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