Sometimes it’s a challenge to be the smartest person in the room. It can be a bigger challenge if you are a kid. Mensa has resources that can help gifted youth with that challenge. We have more than 3,000 members under the age of 18. It is the fastest growing...
Beginning Tuesday, Jan. 6, "Child Genius" will air on the Lifetime Network as an eight-episode, weekly unscripted docu-series following high IQ kids and their families. The kids compete in a competition throughout the series, which was developed with the cooperation...
Define �Significa�: What some big brains do for fun
Do good tests turn you on? Does racing someone to finish the Times crossword enliven your lunch hours? Do you know so much that no one who knows you will watch JEOPARDY! with you, let alone play Trivial Pursuit�? If you answered yes, know that you are not alone.
In the mosaic of America, three groups that have been unusually successful are Asian-Americans, Jews and West Indian blacks � and in that there may be some lessons for the rest of us.
Ingo Angermeier almost gave those attending the 16th annual Toast of the Town more than they wanted to see.
Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System’s president and CEO began to gyrate, removing his jacket, tie and shirt to a jazzy showgirl tune, before stopping at his undershirt, which had the Salvation Army’s logo on the back.
For a crossword puzzle addict, this is nirvana.
I�m in the lobby of the Brooklyn Marriott Hotel, which resembles nothing so much as a combined Star Trek/Mensa convention. Wandering the halls is a grizzled middle-aged man clad in crossword-themed regalia. Plunked down in lounge chairs are throngs of crossword aficionados, deep into today�s brain-twisting New York Times puzzle.
SPRINGFIELD � If I think of it in mid-swallow, a scene from the 1978 film “Foul Play,” can still make me shoot milk out my nose.
While solving a mystery, co-stars Chevy Chase and Goldie Hawn are on a fire escape peering in at two elderly women playing Scrabble. On the board, the smiling old ladies have plunked down the mother of all hyphenated bad words.
I fear this memory may have put me in an odd frame of mind for the first Altrusa Club Scrabble tournament.
An explosive new vocabulary builder
For every tactic tried by energetic educators, some subjects just aren’t fun to learn. Vocabulary words seem to be one of them.
Yet it’s hard to imagine that something called Wordgasm could be tedious. Or that this “steamy program” – that’s how the vocabulary-building CD set is billed on its box – would fail to keep you alert. Apparently, hearing poems about hunks you lusted after in high school can help you grasp the meaning of words like lachrymose and invidiousness.
Every fortnight, Israelis with IQs in the top two percent of the general population meet at caf�s and households around the country to discuss matters of common interest.
Barrera’s law degree is just another of boxing’s quirks
Boxers are more rounded than we suspect. Some have kept pet snakes � some have even been friends with Rasputin
