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University Makes 80,000 Einstein Documents Publicly Available
orgelspieler writes "The Hebrew University of Jerusalem has scanned in some 80,000 of Albert Einstein's documents. According to the university's press release, the documents cover more than just scientific matters. The broad range of subjects include his solution to the Jewish-Arab conflict, a postcard to his mother, and a letter from one of his mistresses asking for assistance getting to America. Some documents have been translated and annotated and are completely searchable."
Not just a genius but had numerous mistresses when most nerds cant even get 1 girl. Yet another reason to admire him more.
once pointed out on ESPN that it doesn't take a genius to coach or play in the National Football League. A genius is someone like Norman Einstein.
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Why would the Hebrew University of Israel, in the center of the Religiocentric Region of the world want to keep documents published by Albert Einstein who discovered Relativity and is an atheist?
I can't help but think that this is wonderful that the Hebrew University of Jerusalem went out and did this. I am sure that they are riding the good PR wave and all, but it is a wonderful thing to have someone in this day and age find funds to make something and give it away for free. Truly wonderful.
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There was a story I'd heard of Einstein years ago (who knows if it's true) , wherein after talking a while with a student on campus, he asked the student, "Tell me; where was I walking from when we met?" The student pointed toward the dining commons; Einstein smiled and said, "Ah, good, I ate lunch then."
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The search page says "Since many items in the Einstein Archives can presently be dated only within a certain range of uncertainty...". So it seems they experience trouble determining simultaneously where the document is and when he wrote it.
i searched through and not once, not even once, does he mention linux.
Taken together Newton and Einstein had on average a normal sex life.
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Why not post the documents in a format which is accessible instead of zoomable small windows? Even to watch small documents like the grades of Einstein at highschool, one needs to zoom in and watch the document at differentheights just to read the grades. I understand that such institutions want to protect their exhibit from being copied, but in this case the archiv is almost useless. Its certainly work in progress also since when accessing the database most is not linked to the actual documents. Simplicity would be key here: make one page with a list of all the documents and let google do the rest.
Well, if you include the stuff his wife wrote and he claimed ownership of, it could add up. Perhaps some of that relativity stuff was hers after all!
The good part is of course that they make it available. Universities should do that and not publish in journals where you have to pay to have access to publicly funded research. The sad part is that they had to use flash for the site.
Or is that on purpose so that I can't download the documents as simple Pdf files? I don't know if I miss anything, but the documents are only available via flash?
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Well, if you include the stuff his wife wrote and he claimed ownership of, it could add up. Perhaps some of that relativity stuff was hers after all!
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Some documents have been translated
I wonder why, he spoke and wrote very good German.
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