Hello Mensans, In this Issue: We received a unique submission towards Lensa this time. It is an image of Trifid Nebula captured using remote imaging, taken by Rupesh Sangoi from Mensa Mumbai. I assumed at first that it may have been clicked using equipment from a university lab or he might be employed in a space research organisation. On request for more details, Rupesh said astronomy is simply a hobby of his and he observes or captures images of celestial objects using own equipment or rents them for remote imaging. I felt it deserved being on the cover page and not just be another column. More details of the nebula can be found in the cover story. It will be interesting to have more articles and photographs of Mensa events, meet-ups and gatherings from across various chapters because often SIGs interact only among group members to schedule meet-ups. Other chapters don’t get to know about it. Whenever you send pictures, please include names of participants, organiser, location of meeting, activities held and the date of meeting in your submissions. The magazine can be a record book of all activities in each chapter that members from other chapters would be interested to know and get ideas from. Please do keep sending your contributions of whatever nature articles, quizzes, puzzles, crosswords, photographs, poems and anything that you wish to be published in the forthcoming issues of MInd. Send in your articles and contributions in plain text format and pictures in high resolution .jpg format to: editor.mensaindia@gmail.com Krishnan V. Iyer Chief Editor, Mind
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Disclaimer: All contents in this magazine are opinions of the individual authors and contributors. Neither Mensa India, the society, its office bearers nor the editors are responsible for any content or views expressed.
Editorial Team: Puneet Khurana Raunak Onkar Sahil Jain Bhuvan Sharma Roshan Alva Kiran K Krishnan V. Iyer
Cover Photo: By Rupesh Sangoi, Mensa Mumbai
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Cover Story -Rupesh Sangoi, Mensa Mumbai
I am an engineer with BE degree and run my software company in Mumbai. Many years ago I started with astronomy with a small telescope to observe the planets. Over the years the hobby matured and so did the equipment. I currently use Celestron Nexstar Evolution Edge HD 8� Telescope with Starsense and different astro cameras like ZWO 294MC Pro, ZWO 120 & also Nikon D5600 DSLR. Over the period my astronomy equipment have also matured from being completely manual to fully computerized for observations & image captures. The telescopes now have auto sky scanning attachments which will scan the sky, palette solve the stars and make the telescope ready to point at any object and track it. The image capturing & processing software have also matured where they can automatically take a series of pictures, align, label them, etc. and processing software also offer a lot more options. I stay in suburban Mumbai which does offer little bit darker skies then town but apart from normal planets, one cannot capture much of deep sky objects from here. Occasionally I venture out outskirts to get best of the dark skies but that also means carrying all the equipment with me. Recently I also got introduced to remote imaging which is capturing images on a remote telescope via the internet. A lot of such remote telescopes have sprung up in different continents at very remote and dark sky locations. Capturing images are relatively easy as lots of automated scripts are available on these telescopes. A wide range of telescopes are also available from wide field 4° view to high zoom 0.5° view. These telescopes are perfect for deep sky objects like nebulas, galaxies etc. which require high exposure times and different filters for capturing them.
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M42, Orion Nebula. Clicked using Celestron Nexstar Evolution 8" Edge HD and Nikon D5600 DSLR camera. Location: Mumbai.
The Orion Nebula (also known as Messier 42, M42, or NGC 1976) is a diffuse nebula situated in the Milky Way, being south of Orion's belt in the constellation of Orion. It is one of the brightest nebulae, and is visible to the naked eye in the night sky. Distance from earth: 1,344 light years. Radius: 12 light years
On the cover page: M20, Trifid Nebula captured via remote imaging. 4 sets of 150 secs of LRGB each. Processed in Pixinsight. Trifid Nebula is an unusual combination of an open cluster of stars; an emission nebula, a reflection nebula and a dark nebula. Radius 21 Light Years. Distance 5200 Light Years.
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Poem An Ode to a Moderately Successful Man They do not interview him on television He has never given any TED speech. No conferences where he wins awards No leadership lessons does he teach. There are no investors behind his back No startup founders waiting for his call. He is just a moderately successful man He might be big fish, but his pond small. I honestly do not believe the story But there are some folks who say. That he too was destined for greatness They thought he’d make it big someday. But hey, please don’t get me wrong He is pretty good at what he does. Pays his bills on time and the taxes too Away from limelight, far from the buzz. He lives life on his own terms, of course Though some say he has missed the bus. He protests he has different priorities now And doesn’t understand what’s the fuss. There are days when he remembers How he once had it all figured out. But now with more experience, he knows Only fools are sure, the rest always doubt. So next time you meet him, keep in mind That our life has its own grand plan. Don’t believe the news, for the world is run By the moderately successful man… -Rejoy Kurup, Mensa Delhi Rejoy Kurup has been a Mensa member for more than a decade, originally aligned to the Delhi chapter. For the past few years though, he has been based in the Middle East and has worked for leading consulting firms as well as many regional banks. His interests include reading, writing, sports, quizzing and travelling.
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Tech Talk Mechanism For Tracing Damped Waves Having designed mechanisms to plot wave patterns of any wavelength and amplitude and even add them together, a course in the third year sent me on another quest. It was a course on advanced vibrations that came close to real life – vibrations that diminished with time or the so-called damped vibrations! Can we plot the diminishing wave forms that represent it? I kept ideating and sketching various options for months but to no avail. Meanwhile, we were approaching the biggest festival in Maharashtra – Diwali – the festival of lights. Celebrated over 4-5 days, the festival brings some traditional treats. One of them is a deep fried, spiral savoury called chakali. I decided to design a mechanism that would trace a spiral while extruding the dough. That was to be the Diwali gift for my mom. But as it turned out, it held a long-awaited gift for me too – the secret of plotting damped waves! Fig. 1
If a point goes around in a circle Fig. 1[a] and if we plot its projection Fig. 1[b], we get an undiminishing sinusoidal wave. But if the point starts spiralling inward Fig. 1[c], then the amplitude (height) of the wave gradually dies down Fig. 1[d]. And that was just what I was looking for! The rest was easy.
You can watch the animation of this design in action by clicking the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tTSgs3bHjk What next? Plotting spirals can really make one greedy Because there are so many exciting variations! For example, the gap between the spiral’s turns could be held constant or made to increase as a table 2,4,8,16... The spiral could be circular or polygonal e.g. hexagonal spiral with gradually diminishing sides spiralling inward. Can we plot them? That should be real fun too!
-Ujjwal Rane, Mensa Mumbai
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AI Application In Risk Modeling Discerning geo-political volatility with AI and predictive modeling
Introduction Politics is one of the most interactive professions in the world even more so than traditional sales roles which were thought to be the most resistant to the onset of AI. Political risk analysis, has been a domain dominated by expert opinions with analysis of political commentators reigning supreme, some of which may be just based on the “gut feeling” alone. While it had served the world well for a long time, as the impact of fake news is felt more and more and the news cycle shortens, grappling the same with gut alone becomes demanding. Human nature is unpredictable as ever but a new method to model the same has been attempted by combining the two disciplines of Machine learning and Behavioural Economics. While scant interest was shown at first, the onset of the global trade tensions has made companies relook at the potential of the predictive analytics models using Artificial Intelligence to model behavioural economics to determine Political risk.
Major challenges and breakthrough Computers are masters at solving objective problems with objective right or wrong answers. The main approach has been to model real-world scenarios into mathematical models for analysis. It was a path breaking invention for modeling of physical phenomena with definite results which has been the issue with their implementation over more ambiguous social scenarios with more than one correct answer. This is where the implementation of AI for solving more subjective scenarios comes into play. As the economies of the world get more and more intertwined, the risk of small national events cascading to large crisis are going to be increasingly common.
Subjective Artificial Intelligence Modeling of social phenomenon has been the Holy Grail for AI. Most of the earlier neural nets which made the foundation of AI focused on pattern recognition mostly via a trained data set with no underlying logic or explanation of the answer other than it matches with the earlier training dataset. The condition while necessary and sufficient for the academic implementation, regulators have an alternate view of asking questions not on the results but on the basis of the results of the model. This implementation of subjective AI will be one of the critical shifts in the AI implementations especially in the corporate and financial services industry.
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How to Train your AI The best aspect for the development of AI for identifying political risk is unlike the most common algorithms that need personal data to be trained to sell to people, the data used for the assessment of the political risk is mostly public data, free available and accessible for anyone to use. This makes the cost of development much lower. Strikingly, one of the best sources of data is not just public news broadcasts and programs which may have some subscription costs but the one source that you are asked not to trust: Wikipedia. The importance of accessibility wins over here as the articles can be edited by anyone, but only a few are authorized to edit it. Pages for political events are an important source of insight offering current data aggregated by users who are interested in the event, even controversial pages which are likely to be tampered with are crucial as the tampering itself gives data on the political impact.
Conclusion Most applications of AI have been in relatively simple fields of pattern recognition. There is also a case for the prediction of some black swan event prominent among which is the FPI outflow which was visible in the weeks after the budget. While most of the traditional sources had predicted more reforms from a government with strong majority, an unexpected tax structure from the current government had dashed the hopes of the markets leading to something akin to a fire sale with FPIs selling as much as INR 2,881 Crores in just the first two trading sessions of August 2019. With most political parties already using analytics for forecasting of results and now even campaign planning, the use of AI for discerning the geo-political volatility is just the next natural step.
-Sahil Jain, Mensa Delhi
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Events Career Guidance Meeting With Dhruv Scholars
Mr Kishore Asthana, President, Mensa India along with Mr Prabhat Agarwal, Chief Coordinator, Project Dhruv and Ms Diyva Jain, Co-ordinator - Project Dhruv (Delhi - NCR region) held a meeting with Dhruv scholars who passed out of class XII to discuss their future goals. "It was nice to have met some our Mensa scholars who have graduated from Class XII this year. Most have good plans and we are discussing with the still undecided ones how to chart their future". said Mr Asthana.
Dhruv scholars with Kishore Asthana (top centre), Prabhat Agarwal (second row) and Divya Jain (centre – front row). About Project Dhruv: Project Dhruv is the underprivileged gifted child identification and nurturing program, an initiative of Mensa India, Delhi. Most of the Mensa Dhruv Scholars have an IQ in the range of 130-145. Some are even more gifted. Their parents are in occupations such as day-labourers, housemaids, rickshaw pullers, weavers, drivers, carpenters, small store owner, street vendors etc. Some have lost one of their parents. Some others have fathers who are alcoholics. They have all seen tough, often violent days. For more details, visit: www.mensaprojectdhruv.in
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Pages From Mensa World Journal Mensa International Limited is a company registered in England and Wales under registration number 00848100. Mensa's registered office is Slate Barn, Church Lane, Caythorpe, NG32 3EL, United Kingdom MWJ Editor: Ms Kate Nacard 407/23 Corunna Rd, Stanmore NSW 2048 Australia mwjeditor@mensa.org T: +61 402152858
From the Director of Administration
Wanted: Your ideas Dear Mensa Members, During the last twenty years of volunteering for various organizations and offices, I found Mensa an outstanding example of creativity, inspiration and innovation, spreading ideas across countries and cultures. I am deeply honoured to have the chance to contribute as Director of Administration to the development of Mensa International as well as supporting national groups. Writing this text is one of my first tasks in this role. When you read it, the new ExComm will be busy with the last preparations for the IBD Meeting in Kuala Lumpur (October 10-13). If you’d like to join in, check out the program: www.ibd2019.mensa.my One of our agenda items will be the appointment of new committees and officers who all - like their predecessors - make a big contribution to our society. However, two-year terms will not fit for all potential volunteers, no matter how devoted they might be. Nor will they fit for all projects some might require a higher agility and flexible teams. I am a big fan of Kaizen, lean and agile management principles. Tools and processes should support all volunteers to make things happen. We should eliminate activities that absorb resources but create no value. Thus it is an important goal for me to improve collaboration among ExComm, IBD and all other volunteers. It is great to see what Mensa means and does for 140,000 members today - but we could do so much more, offering better services for you. That’s why I want to use this chance to ask for your help! Take a few minutes of your time and share your ideas - no matter how small or big, no matter if you are new member reading the MWJ for the first time or an experienced volunteer. What seems small can have a ripple effect, creating a cascade of improvement. A volunteer once asked if he could get a pennant for his local events. Subsequently a countrywide poll among our LocSecs selected the best design and identified their demand. We finally ordered several hundred table bow flags and even exported some of them to Mensa groups all over the world. What would you expect from Mensa International to offer for our global membership or for national Mensas to support their development? What can be improved? How can we help volunteers to do their jobs? If you are even interested in volunteering for such new (or current) projects - get in touch! I am looking forward to aligning individual goals and interests with Mensa projects to promote both personal growth and the enhancement of Mensa! You can use either use http://bit.ly/mensa2020 or contact me: Isabella Holz Director of Administration admin-mil@mensa.org +49 15159234734 www.linkedin.com/in/isabellaholz www.facebook.com/iholz Reprinted from the Mensa World Journal, September, 2019, issue 080,Editor Kate Nacard.
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Member Profile John Blinke, American Mensan and compiler of SuppleMentally, has been a longserving contributor (nearly 35 years!) to the Mensa Bulletin (US), the Mensa International Journal, and the Mensa World Journal. Below, he shares his burgeoning interest in science from an early age...
“My grade school science teacher,” writes John, “played a game with his classes. He would pose a question such as “What is on the top shelf of that locked cabinet?” We had to find out by asking him questions. We could say Is it wood? or Is it steel? But we could not ask “What is it made of?” We didn’t know it, but those were the kinds of questions that can be answered by experiments. He had sixth graders doing virtual lab work! He even took his classes on tours to different schools where some educators in the audience seemed incredulous. We didn’t understand why. We were just doing our normal classroom thing. “Of course I became a science geek! I had the highest science grades in my high school graduating class. I entered Wayne State University in 1969 with the intention of studying physics. But I actually graduated with a BA in English and then became an electrician in a factory! That’s life. “ I joined Mensa in 1984. Initially, my main contact with the organization was reading the Bulletin and the local Mensa newsletter. I started writing SuppleMentally for the American Mensa Bulletin in about 1985. Those were prehistoric days when electronic file transfers were unknown outside of academia. I composed articles on my Macintosh 128 and mailed paper printouts to the editor. Later, I sent floppy disks — but still included printouts as insurance. When 1200 baud modems became available, I was able to send attachments via AOL. That was slow and unreliable, but the telephone modem made neat sounds! “ I was born at the perfect time to appreciate the US space program. I watched most of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo launches before leaving for school. I had just graduated high school in 1969 when the Apollo 11 moon landing took place. These days I enjoy all of the efforts by NASA, ESA, JAXA and the others. LIGO and Virgo are breaking into a new area of gravitational observation. The Event Horizon Telescope has imaged a black hole. Several probes have sampled asteroids and comets. Wow! What a great time to be a science geek! “I enjoy a number of hobbies, including ham radio, amateur astronomy, crystal growing, and flying model rockets, while I continue to work full time. My very latest toy is a very smart quadcopter drone. Others include a go-to telescope, digital microscope, several rockets (some with cameras). Of course, much time is spent keeping up with current science. So I get Science, Science News, New Scientist, Harvard Health Letter and online sources like Eurekalert and ScienceDaily. An ongoing challenge is to convince people that some news sources can be trusted while others cannot. How is the average layman supposed to know the difference?”
John Blinke
Reprinted from the Mensa World Journal, September, 2019, issue 080,Editor Kate Nacard.
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Mensa Slovakia’s IQ Olympics 2019
In spring 2019, Mensa Slovakia organised its 9th year of a competition aimed at the development of logical thinking for students aged 10 to 15 – the IQ Qlympics. This year, over 11,000 students from all over Slovakia joined this amazing IQ championship. Taking part in this competition is free and the first round of questions is answered on-line in participanting schools. Regional rounds and the state final round are always supervised by the volunteers of Mensa Slovakia. IQ Olympics was organised under the auspices of the president of Slovak Republic, Mr. Andrej Kiska.
Main Coordinator, Daniela Metesova (pictured above), explains, “We started organizing the competition in 2011, initially as a linear encryption game, and students solved the questions given in teams. The first year of the competition was attended by 46 students, but as interest in the competition grew, we gradually added new and stimulating types of tasks to the competition, and the number of participants grew rapidly. “The third year was the first to be organised as a national competition. Although students now compete individually, the idea of team-work has remained in the so-called practical intelligence task. Kids in groups of three try to solve a logical problem with no exact rules set to solve it. Although they don’t know each other prior to the competition, they have to collaborate and thus social skills and cooperation are developed. For instance, this year the problems were Braille alphabet reading by touch, tangrams, Fibonacci spirals or the most exact weight guess of polystyrene balls and three dice. “For the teachers escorting the students many interesting lectures were given on new educational methods, brain development from early childhood to puberty, and a presentation of a game Financial Odyssey developed by a successful Mensa Slovakia member. “State final rounds are organised in beautiful historical locations throughout Slovakia – Orava Castle, Smolenice Castle or this year’s beautiful Renaissance Wedding Palace in Bytča. Many positive reactions, thanks, and words of praise mean that our volunteering work makes sense.” The winners of IQ Olympics in Slovakia 2019 were: Martin Cigler, Banska Bystrica Ondrej Juhás, Čečejovce Peter Beňo, Levice Daniela Metesová danka@metes.sk www.iqolympiada.sk
Reprinted from the Mensa World Journal, September, 2019, issue 080,Editor Kate Nacard.
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From the Director of Development First of all, I would like to thank you for your valuable trust and support in electing me to this role again. During my previous two terms as Director of Development, I was able to assist many countries in their development endeavours, resulting in thirteen country status updates within four years. Many volunteers in many countries have done a wonderful job to make that all happen. With your active contribution and good connectivity, I am sure we can have a very successful period together again. I am available at many forums and you should never hesitate to contact me. There are two major aspects of development, both requiring different sets of skills and information: one is to create brand new Mensa groups, and the other is to help existing groups to grow and prosper. Throughout their life-cycle, national Mensas can only benefit from maintaining good contact with Mensa International (MI). When groups first begin, they are inevitably managed by MI, nurtured through their initial stages where the members are scattered Direct International Members (DIMs), then brought together by someone in the country who is willing to spend the effort under our guidance. They then progress to Emerging National Mensa (ENM) stage, where the members are still officially DIMs, even if the local members now feel connected to each other locally. When they eventually progress to Provisional National Mensa (PNM) and even Full National Mensa (FNM), their focus is inevitably their own group. However they should not forget the benefits of connection to Mensa International and other groups. They may be members of Mensa X, but, more importantly, they are members of a worldwide organization and they will be missing out on the wider experience, unless they retain that connection and allow themselves to share in, and learn from, the experiences of other Mensa organizations. Keys to development activity are volunteer energy and information - and, of course, an actively helping hand from Mensa International. Countries need information and know-how to be able to grow and attain higher development status as well as to maintain that. They should learn from each other, exchange experiences and very importantly, know the rules. Currently, we are in a very favourable situation as we have the brand new international website in place, serving as an information hub, providing an easy-to-access pool of know-how, information, experiences and documents. Now, there is no more excuse for ‘not knowing’ – let’s get down to business! Please pay particular attention to the Knowledgebase tab providing special know-how and structured information for national groups and to the International Governance tab that is a massive collection of rules and a document repository. The latter may seem daunting, but it needs to be actively consulted to ensure sound development and the maintenance of status attained. Country reporting will now happen entirely via mensa.org, putting a great responsibility on national groups to regularly maintain their country profile and send in the necessary reports. There is no room for laziness; maintaining your country profile, browsing the features of other Mensa countries, as well as learning, are all fun!
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We can serve you via this information and connectivity hub only if you take part in enriching it. We need your and your national board’s active contribution, particularly in keeping your member profile and country profile updated, contributing to and using the idea pool, sending in news and interesting items, reporting, and, moving to integrated systems in terms of national membership database. With all that in place, everyone can fully leverage the new website that now really provides a pool of know-how, information and experiences. Most importantly, please do not hesitate to ask for assistance if you have questions, you are uncertain or encounter problems. It is always better to ask first than make mistakes later, out of misbeliefs. My ultimate aim is to reach out to countries of various development stage, give impetus to them, explore new development opportunities, connect those who need with those who know, and last but not least, to be at disposal on short notice with all the necessary guidance. I hope, you will keep me very busy in the coming years! Public Relations, SIGs and DIMs also belong to my remit – I will talk about those in later articles. Floreat Mensa! Bibiana Balanyi Director of Development
Reprinted from Mensa World Journal, Issue #081, October 2019, Editor KateNacard
Editorial Positions Vacant I am hoping to expand our Editorial Team to include a more culturally-diverse staff. I am looking for representatives from Asia, Africa, the Mediterranean and South America to be responsible for keeping me informed about events in your respective areas. These monthly reports need only to be short, with a 400-500 word annual report of your region’s activity. The role of Features’ Editor is also vacant. This would require a monthly, 400-500 word article on recent research into intelligence. Finally, there is a vacancy for the position of Profiles’ Editor. This person would seek out members worldwide who have achieved great success in their personal lives, with the aim of featuring a monthly Member Profile column. Please address all enquiries to:mwjeditor@mensa.org
Reprinted from Mensa World Journal, Issue #081, October 2019, Editor Kate Nacard
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Mensa Youth Festival in Kuala Lumpur 12-13 October, 2019 The Mensa International Gifted Youth Committee in collaboration with the Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival (JRMF.org) and the Malaysian Mensa Society (mensa.my) is proud to present the launch of the Inaugural Mensa International Youth Festival 2019. Calling all Mensa Youth (9-15 years old) and Gifted Children as we encounter two days of creative and exciting learning. Multiple activity stations provide children with the opportunity to think critically and explore the richness and beauty of mathematics through collaborative, creative problem-solving. Join like minds from around the world in this celebration of youth, logic, and intelligence. Register now at: https://ibd2019.mensa.my/youth-festival/ Tell your friends by downloading this Leaflet and sharing it with your members. https://bit.ly/2ZaVcvg Reprinted from Mensa World Journal, Issue #081, October 2019, Editor Kate Nacard
EMAG 2019! in Ghent, Belgium
(Picture: Dancing at the Gala Dinner at EMAG in Ghent, Belgium, 2019)
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The first European Mensa Annual Gathering (EMAG) was held in 2008, in Cologne, Germany, and at the time, the media declared that Cologne was the “the most intelligent city in Europe”. Many other countries have successfully hosted an EMAG. After Cologne in 2008 came Utrecht, Prague, Paris, Stockholm, Bratislava, Zürich, Berlin, Krakow and Barcelona. Belgrade was the 11th EMAG conference city in 2018. In early August this year, Mensa Belgium held the event in Ghent. It was attended by some 650 members from 43 countries. It was five days of lectures, workshops, tourist activities, partying, and, from all reports, fun! There was everything from Beer tasting, a chocolate workshop, speed dating, Yoga sessions, numerous Escape Rooms, a Merengue Bootcamp, and Kajak Torch Tour, to the more serious lectures on Working for the EU, The Million Dollar Decision - how to choose, start, and run your own business - and the Bicameral Mind, which discussed at which point in evolution humans became self-aware. Synthetic Biology was another topic, as were the Race to Mars, Power Tools for High IQ Students, North Korea - how it really is - and, Neurofeedback: How Far Can We Improve Brain Performance by Self-Training? Lectures particularly geared to addressing the topic of Giftedness included Mindset: How to Fulfil your Potential as a Gifted Person, Too Smart to Succeed: Fear of Success Among Gifted People, Emotional and Conversational Intelligence, and, Measuring High Intelligence Using IQ Testing and EEG Brain Mapping. And then, of course, there was the Karaoke, the competitions, the cafes, the Ice-breaker, the Gala Dinner, dancing well into the early hours, and the Farewell Brunch! Congratulations and many, many thanks to the wonderful organising team led by Stephanie Querriere! Thank you Andronikos Babatsikos (from Mensa Greece) for supplying the fabulous photos of the city and of the event!
Reprinted from Mensa World Journal, Issue #081, October 2019, Editor Kate Nacard
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