Author and journalist Benyamin Cohen discusses his book, "The Einstein Effect: How the World’s Favorite Genius Got Into Our Cars, Our Bathrooms, and Our Minds."
About the Books (from the publisher):
A fascinating look into how Einstein's genius and science continues to show up in so many facets of our everyday lives and his enduring legacy as an unlikely pop culture icon.
Albert Einstein was the first modern-day celebrity and, decades after his death, still has the world's most recognizable face. His influence is seen in much of the technology we use every day: GPS, remote controls, weather forecasts, even toothpaste. But it's not just Einstein's scientific discoveries that continue to shape our world. His legacy underpins the search for aliens, the rescue of refugees, the invention of time machines, and the debunking of fake news. He appears in new books, TV shows, and movies all the time―and fans are paying millions for Einstein relics at auction.
In "The Einstein Effect," Cohen embarks on a global quest to unearth Einstein's ongoing relevance today
About the Author:
Benyamin Cohen is a senior writer at The Forward, America’s oldest Jewish newspaper. The newspaper began in 1897, and it has covered everything from the sinking of the Titanic to the current war in Israel. Not surprisingly, it also published several interviews with Albert Einstein. Benyamin has a bizarre side job managing the official social media accounts of Albert Einstein, where he posts every day to the 20 million fans who follow the world’s favorite genius across Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. His first book was called “My Jesus Year: A Rabbi’s Son Wanders the Bible Belt in Search of His Own Faith,” a memoir about Benyamin spending 52 weeks going to 52 different churches – and how the experience made him a better Jew. For writing it, he received the Georgia Author of the Year award, and it was named one of the best books of the year by Publishers Weekly. Benyamin is based in Morgantown, West Virginia, where he lives with his wife, three dogs, a cat and a flock of chickens known as the Co-Hens.
This event is co-sponsored by the Historical Society of Princeton and the Princeton Public Library.
Special thanks to the Graduate Princeton for its support.
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