too many words by laura lemay

was Einstein a space alien?

Its been 100 years since Albert Einstein had his annus mirabilis, the miracle year in 1905 when at the age of 26 he published no less than five papers that revolutionized physics, all written in his spare time.

There’s a lot of discussion about Einstein going on this year. NASA suggests jokingly in a very friendly, well-written and approachable article{.broken_link} that Einstein was so brilliant, so creative, so unusual, that perhaps he wasn’t of this earth at all.

(I got it from Science Blog{.broken_link}.)