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Mensa

• FAQ's
• Mensa Benefits
• Mensa Workout
• Mensa Sites of other local groups (USA)
• American Mensa
• International Mensa
• Global Mensa Directory
• Mensa's Virtual Game Room

Unofficial Links about Intelligence

• Mensa, IQ, and Intelligence
• The Unofficial New Members' Guide - an Intro to Mensa
• From Extremely Smart:
  • Green People With Yellow Stripes
  • American Mensa's Early Years
• From The Directory of Mensa Articles and Information:
  • The Odd Way Mensa Began
  • The Beginnings of American Mensa
  • Mensa's 50th Birthday (1996)
• Estimated IQs of the Greatest Geniuses
• Famous Mensa Members
• Marilyn is Wrong!

Fun, Funny, and Fascinating

• Richard Lederer's Verbivore
• Anguish Languish Redux: A Celebration (sort) of the English Language
• World Wide Words-- "Investigating international English from a British viewpoint"
• Today's Pun
• The Pun FAQtory-- "Frequently Askewed Questions about Paronomasia"
• Oxymoronica -- "Celebrating Oxymoronic, Paradoxical, & Self-Contradictory Quotations"
• Palindromelist.com-- "A Huge List of Palindromes"
• Fairy Tales for the Erudite
• HotAIR -- "Rare and well-done tidbits from the Annals of Improbable Research"
• Physics Limericks
• The Onion -- "America's Finest News Source"
• Bizarre Stuff You Can Make in Your Kitchen
• Science Toys -- "Make toys at home with common household materials, often in only a few minutes, that demonstrate fascinating scientific principles"
• Science Groove
• M A S S I V E -- "Math And Science Song Information, Viewable Everywhere
• The Skeptics Society
• Skeptic News -- "The 'What's New' page for skeptics"
• Wacky Uses -- "Discover hundreds of little-known uses for well-known products"
• notMensa -- "Its activities include the exchange of silly jokes, discussions on irrelevant topics, mindless ponderings about trivia and research and debate into achieving world peace by placing old chewing gum into the ears of every human being on the planet."

Reference

• Choose the Best Search for Your Information Needs
• How to Choose a Search Engine or Directory
• Google Scholar -- search "specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research"
• Navigator -- "the home page used by the newsroom of The New York Times for forays into the Web"
• Assignment Editor-- "The Newsroom Home Page"
• Power Reporting -- "Thousands of free research tools for journalists"
• Writers Free Reference -- "A list of free reference sites useful to writers"
• Refdesk.com Facts and Reference -- "Best Source for Facts on the Net"
• LibraryThing -- "Catalog your books online"
• Internet Public Library
• Librarians' Index to the Internet
• Stumpers -- "a place for librarians (and others) to discuss reference questions which they are unable to answer using available resources"
• #1 GiantGlossary.com -- "The internet's best resource, research, reference, learning and calculator site"
• CIA - The World Factbook
• FirstGov.gov - Official website for searching the U.S. Government
• Fedstats -- "One Stop Shopping Federal Statistics"
• HowStuffWorks.com -- "Learn how Everything Works"
• Jim Loy's Pseudoscience Page
• junkscience.com -- "all the junk that's fit to debunk -- over 1,200,000 served"
• Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy -- "devoted to airing out myths and misconceptions in astronomy and related topics"
• The Straight Dope -- "Fighting Ignorance since 1973 (It's taking longer than we thought)"
• Scirus -- "For Scientific Information Only"
• Phibot -- "the search engine for scientists"
• New Scientist-- "The Last Word Science Questions and Answers"

Learning

• Gifted Children Resources
• MIT OpenCourseWare
• Intuitor -- "How to Succeed through Creative Learning"
• RJ Julia Booksellers - Five Feet of Books-- "which works of fiction every well-read adult should have read"
• 100 Words That All High School Graduates - And Their Parents - Should Know
• Standards For Success -- "a three-year project of the Association of American Universities in partnership with The Pew Charitable Trusts"
  • Understanding University Success
• ERIC/AE Full Text Internet Library -- "links to some of the best full-text books, reports, journal articles, newsletter articles and papers on the Internet that address educational measurement, evaluation and learning theory"
• MERLOT-- "Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching - a free and open resource designed primarily for faculty and students of higher education"
• Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators

Puzzles, Games, & Tests

• MENSArcade
• Mensa Page-A-Day Calendar
• Cryptogram -- a nifty Mensan creation
• AllTheTests.com -- "The Searchengine and Directory to all IQ-Tests, EQ-Tests, Career-Tests, Health-Tests and much more"
• Uncommonly Difficult IQ Tests
• Everyrule.com -- "Every Rule in the Universe-All Categories"
• Thinks.com -- "brain games, puzzles and pastimes"
• playwithyourmind.com - "original word games, card games, typing games, logic puzzles and mind games of all kinds"
• Puzz.com -- "Analogies, IQ Tests, Trivia, Puzzles, Contests & Games"
• Puzzler -- "UK’s No 1 Puzzle Site"
• Puzzability
• Puzzlemaker -- "A site that allows you to create puzzles and games for your newsletters, flyers, handouts, or classroom assignments"
• Puzzles.COM
• click mazes - "interactive puzzles and mazes"
• BrainJuice
• iRIDDLER.com -- "Riddles, logic puzzles, brain teasers, word puzzles, logic games"
• BrainBashers -- "Brain Teasers and Puzzles"
• IBM Research | Ponder This -- "match wits with some of the best minds in IBM Research"
• Logic Mazes
• UselessKnowledge.com -- "Facts, Quotes, Quizzes, History"
• The Implicit Association Test
• World RPS Society
  • The Official Rock Paper Scissors Strategy Guide
• The Anagram Genius Server
• Internet Anagram Server / I, Rearrangement Servant -- "anagrams, wordplay, solve, crossword, transmogrify, pangram, shuffle, fun"

Webmaster's Favorites

• Russ' Rockets--my alter ego!
• Tiny URL--Are you sick of posting URLs in emails only to have it break when sent causing the recipient to have to cut and paste it back together? Tiny URL create a tiny URL that will not break in email postings and never expires.
• Bubbleshare-- The best way to share your digital photos and the stories that go with them.

Florida Mensa Sites

• Space Coast Area Mensa
• Tampa Bay Mensa
• MenTally Online (Tallahassee Mensa)
• Palm Mensa (Palm Beach)
• Broward Mensa
• Mensa of Jacksonville
• Gainesville Area Mensa
• Central Florida Mensa
• Miami Mensa
• Manasota Mensa