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News & Notes

KEEPING IT LOCAL EDITION In the very beginning of local group structure, a group of London members went with Bernard Billings (who was the very first Local Secretary, or LocSec for short) to the coffee bar in the Stork Hotel at Birmingham to lay plans for the very...

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What Are You Thinking?

What Are You Thinking?

The 'Your Thought Counts' poll is now online. Please vote! What is it? Find the 'Your Thought Counts' poll near the top of this website, along the right-hand sidebar. The poll works like a multiple choice question with four possible answers for you to choose from and...

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News & Notes

Note: Updated on Monday, April 27, 2020, with information about Mensa testing. What can we expect in May when the times they are a changing? Well, at the very least, it will involve continued social distancing, or giving other people the power distance that they...

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MAM Responds

Editor’s note: Significant portions of this report were contributed from an email conversation with MAM’s LocSec, Kim Jackowski. First and foremost, we hope this response to the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak and pandemic finds everyone safe and healthy. As...

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News & Notes

IMPORTANT NOTICE:  The weeks ahead will likely pose unknown challenges as we deal with the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Imagine if you will how the limitations of this new normal will continue to effect MAM’s scheduling interests. For example, the Board...

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March Promotions

March Promotions

Do you know what your score is on a standardized IQ test? Maybe you also wonder what has happened to your score(s). Perhaps you think you have a Mensa-quality capacity to deal with information and produce Mensa-type appropriate behavior – besides, you have shown how...

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News & Notes

The leaves around here show that Spring is about to spring upon us. March brings the vernal equinox for us in the Northern Hemisphere. So, day and night should be exactly twelve hours long in terms of our clocks. Now, let’s take a look at what is happening in...

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Mensa Test in February

We currently have the following test session scheduled in this area. Saturday, February 29, 12:00 pm Central Resource Branch Johnson County Library 9875 W. 87th Street, Overland Park, KS The test session will be held in conference room number 2. Please arrive 10 or 15...

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February Promotions

February Promotions

"Now to the intelligence we rate so highly, the conceptual intelligence that deals in symbols, solves larger problems and begins to comprehend the universe." ~ Victor Serebriakoff, 1985 (Mensa, pg. 197) We all get to a place where we need to be instructed, so that our...

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News & Notes

Once falling at the end of the Roman year, February was made with less days than the other months. This year, while February is still frosty and cold, it offers an extra day just so we can all ‘leap’ into the next month with a good measure of levity and luck....

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MAM Wins Emerald Award!!

Today in History

1848: Marx publishes Manifesto
1885: Washington Monument dedicated
1965: Malcolm X is assassinated
1972: Nixon arrives in China for talks