Einstein wasn't a big zionist type studying the torah and waiting to return to the promised land,
Just some historical nitpicking, but "Zionist" is a political descriptor, not a religious one. Particularly in Einstein's time, the word would have meant something more like "socialist commune member" than "observantly religious person".
In fact, most usages of the term "Zionist" today are wrong, since the word is used more often by its enemies than by its supporters.
I agree with you on this---its a political term nowadays , and im in DC so i fairly commonly come across all the uses (and i even have distant cousins in Israel, my closer ones came through ellis island from russia around 1910, have some distant ones who died in the holocaust, etc.). but technically i'm goy through genetics and/or descent. (other half of my family were essentially expelled from britain because they were a dissident protestant sect---the brethren, related in a way to the mennonites. they werent involved in salem witch trials, nor indige...
There are two insights from Bayesianism which occurred to me and which I hadn't seen anywhere else before.
I like lists in the two posts linked above, so for the sake of completeness, I'm going to add my two cents to a public domain. This post is about the second penny, the first one is here.