Willing to pay $9,99? Got an iPad? Then you're all set for downloading Einstein's brain -and we are not talking about Admiral Freebee's song here. ("complexity of the human psyche")
Einstein died in 1955. A medical museum in Chicaco scanned and digitized 350 slices of his brain. Einstein wanted no fuss after his death but there was a pathologist who performed an autopsy and removed the brain. Don't expect a 3D model of Einstein's brain or even a detailed mapping of the slices in relation to the anatomic region they belong to ... the app is meant for non-medical users who want to look what a genius's brain actually looks like.
Whether Einstein would have appreciated the pricing, we don't know. He never actually donated his brain to science, it got ... pinched.
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