Topic: Einstein Should Be Grateful He Didn’t Have Email

[sam]

’m reading an interesting new book, Bursts by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi. It’s just released today, but I scored an advance copy by virtue of sharing the same publisher. The basic idea is simple: human behavior obeys power laws! That is, things we occasionally do tend to be clustered together, rather than simply occurring with uniform probability. I can’t vouch for either the truth or usefulness of the claims put forward in the book; we all know that power laws can be slippery things. But the stories related along the way are pretty amusing. (And there’s a very spiffy web page.)

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2010/04/29/einstein-should-be-grateful-he-didnt-have-email/

[Clive]

People such as Einstein are so clever that they can excel at almost anything.  Academics are particularly good and quick at letter writing so I'm not surprised he was so prolific. 

[Rik]

Leonardo da Vinci was another, of course.

[Clive]

Yes indeed. 

[Sandra]

Apparently with both hands at the same time too 

[Rik]

He was very popular as a result.