Einstein's Brain...His Brain was just like Anybody Else’s

 I never liked it even for a second when I first heard that the great man's brain has been preserved. 

I thought it was creepy.

In March 2024, I read this:

"...And then we heard his screams of agony. I’ve never heard anything like that. I’ve seen soldiers bleed to death from combat wounds, I’ve heard men in sick bay grasping their intestines and speaking in tongues, flyboys cooked in jet fuel, disfigured from head to toe. But this was different. It was the Professor’s voice, but it didn’t sound like a human screaming. Nobody slept that night. Whatever they tried, didn’t take. They wheeled out his body in the morning. As they passed me, his hand dropped down from the gurney and I saw that his skin had turned black, with dime-sized white spots all over it, as if they had covered his body in electrodes and burned him to a crisp. I have often wondered if they let him rest, or if they even fiddled with him after death. It’s not as crazy as it sounds. After all, it happened to Einstein. When he died, a pathologist removed his brain without the family’s permission, and kept it for himself. It was missing for decades. When someone finally tracked it down, they saw that it had been cut down the middle and was floating inside two large mason jars. A team of scientists took those pale pounds of flesh and sliced them into wafer-thin layers to put under a microscope. They wanted to see if they could find something special, or perhaps abnormal, some pathological structure or deformation that would explain his unique genius. But they found nothing. Compared to an average human being, he had an unusual number of glia, but they’re not nerve cells at all, they don’t produce electrical impulses. As far as I know, his brain was just like anybody else’s..."

('The MANIAC' by Benjamin Labatut, 2023)

Einstein's brain was preserved after his death in 1955, but this fact was not revealed until 1978.