We are Ken Jennings and John Roderick.

We are receiving this message.

We are Ken Jennings and John Roderick. We speak to you from our present, which we can only assume is your distant past, the turbulent time that was the early 21st century.

Fearing the great cataclysm that will surely befall our civilization, we began this monumental

reference of strange and obscure human knowledge.

These recordings represent our attempt to compile and preserve wonders and esoterica that would otherwise be lost.

So whether you're listening from an advanced civilization or have just reinvented the technology to decrypt our transmissions,

this is our legacy to you. This is our time capsule. This is the

omnibus. So, You have accessed entry 399.

J.B.1909.

Certificate number1917.

Einstein's brain.

What science drives for is an utmost preciseness

and clarity of concepts as regards their mutual relation and their

correspondence to sensory data.

It's a little hard to believe in hindsight and maybe even at the time that the biggest celebrity of the 20th century, the age of celebrity, was not a rock star or a screen idol, but a theoretical physicist.

A Jewish physicist from Central Europe.

Right. The thing that we all love in the 20th century Germans.

Yeah.

Well, why was that?

How did he?

Well, he was very photogenic, right?

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