via theweek.com
In honor of Albert Einstein's 133rd birthday, Israel's Hebrew University announced that it had added 2,000 newly digitized documents from the physicist's collection to its online portal. From an original handwritten draft of the Theory of Relativity (including its famous equation E=MC2) to personal letters, the collection gives a more "coherent picture" of a human being "who, more than anyone else in the first half of the 20th century, expressed his views on everything on the agenda of mankind," says Hanoch Gutfreund, the head curator of Einstein's intellectual property. And there's more to come — the university will eventually digitize all 80,000 documents in its possession. Here, six revelations about Einstein:
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