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Einstein on the beach
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He's no Einstein, but ... well, yes, he is.
Arden Bercovitz started out life as a reproductive endocrinologist, earning a Ph.D. degree in the subject, and might have spent an eternity in specialized-science obscurity but for a chance discovery in 1985 that sent his satellite spinning in the direction of performance and motivational speaking. That discovery occurred at a Toastmasters meeting, where Bercovitz learned there was a demand, believe it or not, for speakers who could impersona...
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Einstein on the beach
Honolulu Star - Bulletin
; He's no Einstein, but well, yes, he is. Arden Bercovitz started out life as a reproductive endocrinologist, earning a Ph.D. degree in the subject, and might have spent an eternity in specialized-science obscurity but for a chance discovery in 1985 that sent his satellite spinning in the direction
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Picasso and Einstein walk into a bar...
Honolulu Star - Bulletin
; EVERYONE acts, just a little bit. When was the last time you found yourself saying something to someone, all the while thinking, "I can't believe I'm saying this. This isn't me." Now imagine what it's like for those famous folks with "public" personas, those people you think you know simply because
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That moonlighter Einstein
The Press
; It is 100 years since Albert Einstein burst from obscurity with five world-changing theories in one year. ROBIN McKIE enjoys the best books of a godless failed husband, bohemian pacifist and universal genius. O ne hundred years ago, a paper written by an obscure clerk in the Swiss Patent Office in
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Eternal Einstein Behind the legendary thinker's astonishing legacy and enigmatic nature
The Boston Globe
; BOOK REVIEW Einstein: His Life and Universe By Walter Isaacson Simon & Schuster, 675 pp., illustrated, $32 Few individuals in history have attained the celebrity status of Albert Einstein - a man whose name is synonymous with genius. Certainly no scientist was ever as famous, and the Einstein
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 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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PERSPECTIVE : Einstein = icon; As the world celebrates the 100th anniversary of the most important year in Albert Einstein's life, Dr Steven Cutts looks at who he was, what he did and why everybody rips him off.(Comment)
The Birmingham Post (England)
; Byline: Dr Steven Cutts Albert Einstein was born in Ulm in 1879 to liberal Jewish parents and the early part of his life was as notable as much for its mediocrity as his later life would be for its genius. After some stumbling, Einstein managed to obtain a degree from the University of Zurich but
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At relativity, a genius; as a sailor, not so muchRecalling Einstein's summer of 1939
International Herald Tribune
; ... paper. The Rothman family recently sold the scrap to a collector.The family still has numerous Einstein letters, which included news about his boat, his family and his health and his concerns about World War II. They are all typewritten on Einstein's personal ...
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 "The Sunday Independent (South Africa)")
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Einstein's road to glory 'awesomely human'.(Dispatches)
The Sunday Independent (South Africa)
; BYLINE: John Johnson The year was 1915. War and privation had come to Germany. In Berlin, a solitary man struggled with the equations for a new theory of gravity. I have been labouring inhumanly, Albert Einstein, then 36, wrote to a friend in his native German. I am quite overworked. His fellow
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The political Einstein: Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb.
Issues in Science and Technology
; ... you've thought of Albert Einstein as he's so often pictured by news media--as that famously tousle-haired, remote genius off in his ... Einstein held a wry view of his own celebrity and his role with the news media. After facing a throng of reporters when he arrived in ...
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What Einstein knew: one year and five papers that changed physics forever.(Einstein 1905 The Standard of Greatness)(The Einstein Almanac)(Book Review)
American Scholar
; EINSTEIN 1905 The Standard of Greatness By John S. Rigden Harvard University Press $21.95 THE EINSTEIN ALMANAC By Alice Calaprice Johns Hopkins University Press \ $24.95 Two thousand five promises to be a good year fin centennials. Historians will mark the hundreth anniversary of the first Russian
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Who knew? Try Einstein. Almost 100 years since his theories blew away Newtonian physics, he's still shaking up the scientific world.(FEATURES)(IDEAS)
The Christian Science Monitor
; Byline: Gregory M. Lamb Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor At the dawn of the 20th century, a curly-haired, 26-year-old Swiss physicist with nothing but pen, paper, and a big imagination shook up the world. In the 21st century, it's still shaking. In 1905, Albert Einstein's annus
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