Hi. I am a member of American Mensa. I live in San Antonio, Texas (I am in the South Texas Mensa region), and I have been a member since April 2008. I am a graduate student at the University of Texas at San Antonio. I am in the Biology Master's program and I am studying ecology. I plan to perform conservation biology centered ecological research. I ( Read more... )

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Do intellect and offbeat humor equal attraction for you? Congratulations! At Changing Hands you’re among friends. If you self-identify as a geek, nerd, dork or dweeb, this is the place to make friends, possibly find love, or just be appreciated for who you are. Join us for a bachelor auction for ( Read more... )

One of the goals of American Mensa is to increase the diversity of its membership. How can we attract more African-American, Hispanic, and/or GLBT members?

How would YOU go about recruiting and retaining a more diverse membership? If you are a member of an under-represented minority, what attracted YOU to Mensa? What changes would YOU like to see?

Have any of you ever participated in a Mensa Process project? I did one (and it was actually kind of fun!), and was told I would be paid via PayPal 30 days after the project closed. I receive payment 6 weeks after the project closed, and only after I called them twice. I've hard that this is not an uncommon problem. Have any of you ever ( Read more... )

Copy this, email it to all your friends, have them email it to their friends, etc ( Read more... )

I've been looking for people who are ambitious social climbers, people who want influence, power, money, sex, health, and other hallmarks of what's considered a good life -- and who want it now. Who'll work for it, sure, but who want it now. Today. Yesterday. I've formed a community (urban_hunting) dedicated to that very subject, to honing our ( Read more... )

Hi ya'll. Just wondering of there were any Chicagoans or Chicago-area members over here.

I recently interviewed Sylvia Sleigh. Sylvia was a very active feminist artist in the 60s and 70s. She has long fought against sexism in the art world... and in the world in general. She is over 90 years old now, but she took the time to answer my questions. If you are interested in reading her opinions about the art world today simply find her ( Read more... )

What are everyone's favorite books?

I like the early Christopher Pike mystery novels, The Dying Earth series by Jack Vance, and the Chronicles of an Age of Darkness series by Hugh Cook.

These are just a few of my favorites. I could list more if you want, but I'm mainly interested in hearing about new books from other people.

Do other Mensa groups have factions? By this, I mean one group of local Mensans in the group who don't like another group of Mensans and the subgroups are constantly sniping back and forth at each other and talking about how terrible the people in the opposing group are? 
And if that's not enough, we've got people who actually try to get other ( Read more... )