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.