Interesting Articles

Four and a half months out of the womb, Avery Yarbro spoke her first sentence.
Yes, reports her mother, her first sentence, not word.
“I said, ‘I love you, I love you, I love you,” Alyssia Yarbro said. “She looked up at me and said, ‘I love you.'”
What Avery’s Olive Branch parents suspected, Mensa affirmed before the girl reached her third birthday.

Kit and I are back from Denver, where we both spoke at U.S. Mensa’s Annual Gathering. Several readers have asked what a Mensa gathering is like. Mensans simply have one thing in common: they’re all in the 98th percentile of intelligence — pretty smart people.

Smart doesn’t necessarily mean they’re well educated (though they tend to be), nor does it mean they necessarily have any common sense, nor does it necessarily mean they have any social skills, nor any other particular trait not related to intelligence. All in all, most of them are pretty normal people …with a few “outliers” that help to give Mensa its reputation for being weird or nerdy. Some can be stand-offish and superior, but most are humble, interesting people.

Which animals sit on Hamilton’s coat of arms? Who is the Speaker of the House of Commons? How many Inuit live in Canada? On our national day, test your knowledge of our fascinating home and native land and its people. Mensa Canada’s annual Canada Day Trivia Quiz covers everything form music to history to sports and everyday life. Few Mensa Canada members could pass the entire quiz. Why not try it, eh? Here are the first dozen questions.

Just before Thanksgiving I volunteered on a nonprofit farm near Princeton, chopping beets to donate to local families in need. While we worked, I started chatting with one of the workers. He appeared to enjoy his work, and seemed like a nice guy – until we got on the subject of the people we were helping.

Poor people, especially those on welfare, are “lazy,” he said. “They” sit on their stoops in Trenton in the middle of the day, “when they should be out looking for work.” He said he knew they were on welfare because of their skin color.

On the first and third Monday of every month � except in summer months when only one Monday will do � in an old building on a downtown street wanting for bustle, the Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons of Wellsburg Lodge No. 2 meet. Members only, and only men.

1) a) Mary Magdalene b) For God so loved the world

1. In the New Testament:
a) Who was the woman from whom Jesus cast 7 demons? ____________________
b) Often seen on signs at football games, how does the quote from John 3:16 begin?

VietNamNet Bridge – Put a license plate in front of most 3-year-old boys and they will probably add it to their building block collection. Not so for Lieu Bao Bao. This little boy from the Nung ethnic group in the northern province of Lang Son will look at the numbers and add them all up. Then he will memorise the sequence and repeat it again anytime anyone wants to hear.

Some things just don’t make any sense: Elton John and 50 Cent? The Godfather (I and II) and When Harry Met Sally?

Or, better still, Mensa club, winemaking, and mixed martial arts — all from a guy who’s not to high on getting punched.

That’s like asking Manny Ramirez to play nice with the Yankees.

But for Team Wolfpack’s Aaron Stark, the aforementioned anomalies may just describe him in a nutshell, and he’s perfectly fine with that.

Do you agree?

1. The Simpsons
2. Seinfeld
3. All in the Family
4. Mary Tyler Moore Show