Chat Thread: Chopsticks and teacups

[Maze]

TeaDidikai

Keep in mind that while the size of the brain was not an indicator of intelligence, the weight of it was according to my 7th grade Biology class.

Hm, I'll take it into consideration. I suppose if nothing else, it gives me something else to threaten pester Google with. Thank you. 3nodding  

[TeaDidikai]

Maze

Hm, I'll take it into consideration. I suppose if nothing else, it gives me something else to threaten pester Google with. Thank you. 3nodding

Knock yourself out. Sometime look up how much Albert's brain weighed. I think it was something like three pounds. eek  

[Maze]

TeaDidikai

Maze

Hm, I'll take it into consideration. I suppose if nothing else, it gives me something else to threaten pester Google with. Thank you. 3nodding

Knock yourself out. Sometime look up how much Albert's brain weighed. I think it was something like three pounds. eek

Actually, this article on Meducator (official website of the McMaster Meducator, a student-run publication showcasing articles researched and prepared for by McMaster University undergraduate students, who hope to provide a unique educational experience to explore medical research and health ethics issues) observes that the first study of his brain showed it to weigh "1230 grams", but also that this was "within the normal range for a male of his age."

However, they also note that, for instance, areas 9 and 39 (frontal cortex; planning behaviour, attention, and memory and parietal lobe; language and spatial functions) on both the left and right hemispheres "the neuron-to-glia ratio of Einstein’s brain was much smaller compared to those of the specimens of the eleven normal brains" (of the same age, same gender), which..

.. Is anyone even interested in that here? XD; *stops spamming*  

[TeaDidikai]

~is interested~  

[patch99329]

Also interested!!

I've decided that I am going to become a classical art thief 3nodding Sorta like thomas crown. xd  

[Autumnal Light]

Might as well add that I'm interested, too!

And I'll become a detective specializing in forensic linguistics! Just like... well, actually I don't know of anyone like that. sweatdrop  

[saint dreya]

omg, i won the election for Grove Treasurer. and against the prior Senior Druid! 12 to 11, with two who voted for him writing me in for another position...

eek i'm sooo stupified right now...  

[patch99329]

Wow! Congrats!

What does your new position involve?  

[saint dreya]

patch99329

Wow! Congrats!

What does your new position involve?

keeping track of membership dues, budgeting and funds, monitoring expenditures...just dealing with the moneys, thankfully.  

[TeaDidikai]

Congrats Phoenix!  

[Maze]

Congrats, phoenix. biggrin

@Patch: If you need some help planning heists, let me know. ninja

And, since it's apparently not as uninteresting to you people as I thought (not to mention really all that long XD)..

Meducator also notes that the earliest research found that "the neuron-to-glia ratio of Einstein’s brain was much smaller compared to those of the specimens of the eleven normal brains" (of the same age, same gender) in areas 9 and 39 (frontal cortex; planning behaviour, attention, and memory and parietal lobe; language and spatial functions) on both the left and right hemispheres.

(They didn't research the other areas, so there's no mention of the ratio elsewhere. Also, in case unclear which lobe part is where, picture, but considering Einstein's track record, they likely picked these areas for that reason.)

This might mean that Einstein's brain required more energy than the average man's, which was the basis for the whole 'increased energy usage enables higher level of thinking' theory.

The next part of the research compared 35 average male brains with Einstein's, and showed that not only was Einstein's brain 15% wider than the average human (which translates to roughly 1cm on both parietal lobes), the grey matter grooves (sulci) had a unique shape due to the "strikingly upward deflection into the postcentral sulcus (of the Sylvian fissure) and was noticeably shorter than the normal specimens" as shown here (1-3; normal human male, 4-6; Einstein).

"Witelson theorized that this unusual parietal and fissure configuration provided more favourable connections between the neurons in this region. Since the parietal area is also involved in math and spatial reasoning, these improved connections could hypothetically account for Einstein’s mastery of spatial reasoning and advanced mathematics."

And that was it. 3nodding  

[patch99329]

Yay for us geeks!
And thanks for posting blaugh

Einstein was dyslexic I believe.  

[Maze]

There's no definitive proof of that, apparently. A lot of pages definitely claim so, though.

There are some articles discussed that supposedly 'say so for certain sure', but they aren't available online.

Libraries should have them, however.

Link to discussion regarding the probability of dyslexia in Albert Einstein.  

[saint dreya]

thanks patch, Tea and Maze.

@ Maze, oddly, it sounds very fascinating.  

[Maze]

phoenix shadowwolf

thanks patch, Tea and Maze.

@ Maze, oddly, it sounds very fascinating.

Now if only it answered my original question, hehe..