Mensa members are provided membership strictly because of their high-IQ scores.
Hansén is also a member of Mensa, a social organization whose members are in the top 2% of intelligence as measured by an IQ test entrance exam.
In German, the term Mensa is used to refer to a university cafeteria
The infrastructure includes the Auditorium Maximum (called Audimax) lecture hall, the central library, a broad park area, student residences, a kindergarten, a sports and fitness center and the canteen (Mensa), also several small cafeterias and a student pub.
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He has been a member of Mensa, and the board of directors of the Miami chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
Many high IQ societies, such as Mensa, can map their entrance requirements to early AGCT scores.
Ayi Mensa is a village in the Ga East Municipal district, a district in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana.
Most recently in 1992 she painted "Vision" for the Pretoria Eye Institute and some of her other commissions including the painting "Flight" for South African Airways, 1983, the tapestry "Guardian Angel of the Arts" for t he State Theatre of Pretoria, 1981, and her mural in oils "Mensa sana corpore sano" for the Department of Health in Pretoria, 1980.
Author of many acacemic papers and two books, she is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Society, has received a distinguished scholar award from the National Association for Gifted Children, and in 2004 the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Mensa Education and Research Foundation.
A group of Mensa high school students are rewarded for their academic efforts by going on a 14-week ocean cruise.
Mensa (the table; originally "Mons Mensa" for table mountain) was named after Table Mountain in South Africa where his observatory was located; the remaining dozen were named after scientific instruments and apparatuses like the telescope, microscope, and reticule.
Mr. Petersen is a member of the Business Council, the National Academy of Engineering, SAE, the Engineering Society of Detroit and Mensa.
Mensa wrote in its newsletter that, second to the man credited with the original idea for cryonics, Robert Ettinger, the Chamberlains have contributed more than anyone to the field of cryonics.
In television, the Simpsons episode "They Saved Lisa's Brain" has Principal Skinner saying that, thanks to the city being under Mensa's control, the city's trains are not only running on time, but they are running on metric time, while looking at an analog clock with numbers 1–10 (which indicates decimal time).
Common among most hackers, SF fans, and members of several other connected leading-edge subcultures, including the pro-technology 'Whole Earth' wing of the ecology movement, space activists, many members of Mensa, and the Discordian/neo-pagan underground (see geek).
Peter Assheton Sturgeon (November 22, 1916 – July 22, 2005) was founder of the American branch of Mensa and the older brother of noted American science fiction writer Theodore Sturgeon.
Rumors that women were required to be members of Mensa were false; in fact, women did not need to meet any particular intellectual requirement.
Talberg, a member of Mensa International, lives and works in Offenbach and Southern France.
He is a prominent member of several Tolkien-related organizations (such as The Tolkien Society, the Mythopoeic Society, and Mensa's Beyond Bree).
Montague grew up in the UK, travelling to the United States at age 16 to attend Smith College where she joined the Reserve Officers' Training Corps and Mensa.