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Einstein's Brain; Bigger, Better... Stolen?


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On April 18th, 1955 Albert Einstein passed away and the world lost a genius and then we lost his brain... Well, it was stolen by pathologist Thomas Harvey and he would go on to have quite the amount of road trips with the brain in a search to study it.

Find out the whole story of life after death for Einstein's brain on today's episode of Facts-Chology!

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Sources
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/secrets-of-einsteins-brain/

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32354300

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/the-tragic-story-of-how-einsteins-brain-was-stolen-and-wasnt-even-special

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/national/science/061899sci-einstein-brain.html

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4602913

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/may/22/science.research

https://historyofyesterday.com/the-story-of-how-albert-einsteins-brain-was-stolen-a17b93ee1b7f

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/einstein/timeline/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/psychology/publication-bias

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