Q1/ What do you say to help beginning climbers, like myself, get over any initial apprehensions and just start climbing? Mark/ Just start climbing. Sign up for an intro course with one of the local gyms. Editor’s note: You can also contact any area climbing gym and...
Q-1/ How did you get started as an artist and Mensan? Jana/ I got started as an ‘artist’ when I was around 7. My dad would take me and my brother to the bridge club, and while he played, we would color, play games, and reproduce the newspaper comic strips we...
What is Mensa? Mensa is a social club and educational organization for people who have scored in the top 2% on a recognized and accepted standardized (IQ) test. What does Mensa stand for? Yes, it is possible to think of Mensa as a social organization with something of...
Mid-America Mensa (MAM) received some well-deserved recognition during the recent 2019 American Mensa Annual Awards. In Class II, MAM was awarded a SAPPHIRE for a variety of its activities and accomplishments – earned by the local group as a whole. Basically, groups...
Q1/ What was the 2019 Mr. Mensa contest like? Can you describe it to us? Rob/ The Mr. Mensa contest is a sort of beauty pageant with legs, talent, question, and date auction segments. We had 7 men competing this year, with several doing stand up comedy routines, two...
To begin, Philosophy in Bite-Sized Chunks (published by Metro Books, 2017) reminds me of when I first had to learn Boolean logic and how that seemed very important in a way to me as a freshman. So, caring deeply about other people and the human condition are things I...
Q1/ What is science fiction (media)? Isn't it just "knowledge explored" or is it something more? A1/ I like your definition of SciFi as "knowledge explored" but I would go one step further and say that SciFi is "imagination explored" or perhaps "ideas explored". Even...
In order to make our Climbing SIG (Special Interest Group) more accessible to MAM members who may be wanting a ‘higher’ Mensan experience, a one-hour open climbing session is being offered on the 4th Sunday of any month whenever we are climbing at Apex (Overland...
Have you ever thought about IQ tests in the sense that you asked questions like: Why do they exist? What is the education behind them? And, is there something beyond them? As the shortish yet wonderful book about universal IQ tests called How Intelligent Are You?...
Most people will readily admit that they enjoy reading a good book from time to time. Some people admit to collecting them in a library where they may reside. Books help us to keep track of the wide variety of things going on in our hectic, fast-paced lives. One book,...
