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Albert Einstein, the fashion icon

Claes Britton | May 18, 2006 | 1 comments


Our initial work with the upcoming theme website celebrating the 300-year anniversary of Sweden's great natural scientist Carl von Linné (Carolus Linnaeus) has already taught us many interesting things about our planet and our human race. Why are genious scientists in general so badly dressed, for example? Well, one would presume that it's because they're above such primitive mating rituals where people, more or less consciously, invest great energy in appearance and collection of various attributes, in order to attract strong and healthy partners, in order to pass their own genes on to future generations in enhanced forms. It now turns out, however, that it was actually Albert Einstein, and no other, who introduced the ”nutty professor look”. Before him, all prominent scientists were neatly dressed in suits and ties. So it's nothing but a simple fashion thing after all, designed to signal geniality in order to attract other genius genes...   


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