A Little Bit About Albert Einstein

on Sep 13, 2026

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There's Something About Einstein

Bobby and Peter Farrelly, the brother writing-directing duo responsible for the comedy hits, "There's Something About Mary" and "Dumb and Dumber" are fans of the mad genius just like everybody else. To dazzle the crowds, Bobby Farrelly has taught his three-year-old son a few tricks to flaunt his own future genius. He's taught him 10 answers to some very advanced questions for a tot of his age, one of which is, "Who came up with the theory for E=MC2?" Playing the crowd with contemplation on his face, his son toes the ground with his sneaker and finally and timely answers, "Albert Einstein". Now that is genius.

Einstein's Brain

By chance a man named Thomas Harvey performed the autopsy on Einstein in 1955 shortly after the genius passed away. He wasn't scheduled to do so, the guy that was, wasn't able to make it. So, Mr. Harvey got the honors of handling Albert's most private matters, including his priceless grey matter. Without proper permission to do so, although Thomas attests to being given the nod of okay from an Einstein relative, Mr. Harvey pulled a modern day Robin Hood and snatched the scientist's brain. For decades he kept it in a secret location, dishing out pieces of it to researchers around the world. Mr. Harvey meant well, he intended to do elaborate research on the brain himself and have the findings published, but ultimately that endeavor never came to fruition.

Brainwash

The brain had seen better days, transformed from the greatest mind of a modern time to chicken-colored chunks floating in a smelly, yellow, formaldehyde broth, diced into varying bits and encased in Tupperware. A great deal of the time, the brain was hidden in a cookie jar at Mr. Harvey's girlfriend's house. Then one day, willing to make amends with the Einstein family, Mr. Harvey decided to return the long lost brain to Einstein's granddaughter, Evelyn in San Francisco.

Driving Mr. Albert

Enter journalist Paterniti hailing from Portland, Maine. Having written an article on Mr. Harvey and the missing brain, Paterniti's friendship with Harvey grew to the point where he was willing to drive Harvey and the brain from New Jersey to California, after all, it's not the destination, but the journey that counts. The unlikely trio - a freelance writer, an elderly pathologist and the Albert Einstein sans life and limb - traversed America in a borrowed Buick Skylark. Stopping here and there, visiting old friends of the two living members of the convoy. From an adobe ranch house south of Santa Fe, New Mexico to stay with old friends of Paterniti to the most unusual detour of the journey, to see William S. Burrough's in Lawrence, Kansas. As it turned out, Mr. Harvey and Mr. Burrough's knew one another and so, Einstein's brain had dinner with the author of "Naked Lunch".

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