Ideas
I recently came across the Memory Palace where the authors presents very quirky bits of history such as this mp3 file presented in episode 4.
Most of us know his portrait, but are we familiar with the flip side of his coin?
A while back, a friend lent me a copy of the book Comment je vois le monde (Champs/Flammarion, 1979). It touches on a topic I have not read much about: Einstein's vision of life. Like many people, I was aware of his achievements in physics and the role he played in the creation of the atomic bomb. Simply said, I knew a lot about the physicist, but not much about the man.
This little book of 189 pages explains through letters, interviews and other writings, Einstein's perspective on a variety of topics: the meaning of life, pacifism, war, religion, good and evil, politics, economics and, of course, physics. One part of the book that particularly caught my attention was Einstein's exposing his views on education.
