Einstein's brain
There’s been much ado for a long time about the brain of the great genius, and even more lately. It turns out not to have been exceptionally large — indeed, it was below average for men. But it wasn’t a normal brain. “Really unusual,” in the words of Florida State University paleoanthropologist Dean Falk, who has been studying it. “On the surface at least, it looks different than others. It’s suggestive.”
Here, in a layperson-accessible story from the Wall Street Journal (and with a clickable video), is the rest of the story.