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With television writers – presumably the brains of the whole operation – going back to work after their four-month strike, it seemed like the perfect question to ask: What are the smartest TV series of all time? Star Trek? Hill St. Blues? Taxi? West Wing? Boy Meets World? Fancast posed the question to Jim Werdell, Chairman of MENSA International, the worldwide organization for “people from every walk of life whose IQ is in the top 2 % of the population.” In addition to a soaring intellect, the 63-year-old retired Northern California government official enjoys his TV. Werdell keeps his set...

Some people think that TV rots your brain, but the head of an organization for smart people has a list of what he said are the smartest shows ever made. Jim Werdell, the chairman of Mensa International, gave his list of the 10 most intelligent shows ever in honor of the end of the Hollywood writers' strike. In an interview with Fancast.com, he said the top 10 shows of all time are: "M*A*S*H" "Cosmos" (with Carl Sagan) "CSI" "House" "West Wing" "Boston Legal" "All in the Family" "Frasier" "Mad About You" "Jeopardy" He said some excellent current shows are "NCIS,"...

Ingeniously: Albert Einstein had a IQ of 160. The intelligence quotients of personalities of the last centuries were determined by psychologists.IQ 86 - Andy be-get (painter, film producer)IQ 117 - John F. Kennedy (politician)IQ 122 - Napoleon Bonaparte (politician, army leader)IQ 125 - George W. Bush (politician)IQ 126 - Abraham Lincoln (politician) Übersicht 1 / 55 (Overview 1-55)

Her parents knew Georgia Brown was bright. After all, she could count to ten, recognised her colours and was even starting to dabble with French. But it was only when their bubbly little two-year-old took an IQ test that her towering intellect was confirmed. Georgia has become the youngest female member of Mensa after scoring a genius-rated IQ of 152. Georgia Brown has an official genius-rated IQ - Intelligence Quotient - of 152 This puts her in the same intellectual league, proportionate to her age, as physicist Stephen Hawking. According to an expert in gifted children, Georgia is the brightest...

PENSACOLA, Fla. -- Escambia County officials have charged a jail inmate with inciting a fight between two women he had dated, one of whom died during the dispute. Authorities say 19-year-old Lavon Mars was recorded telling his girlfriend to beat an ex-girlfriend, who was pregnant with his child. According to investigators, Mars' former girlfriend had accused him of domestic violence. While on the phone with Mars, 19-year-old Latodra Dees attacked 18-year-old Tia Richardson in Richardson's living room. Richardson killed Dees while defending herself with a seven-inch steak knife.

The Washington Post's Mensa Invitational once again asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing of one letter, and supply a new definition. Here are the 2005 winners: 1. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period. 2. Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an a**hole. 3. Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with. 4. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly. 5. Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding...

Women who are obese have less chance of being brainy, doctors claimed yesterday. Medics have found that too much fat can cause loss of brain tissue.The damage is to areas known as the temporal lobes, which control memory, speech and hearing. And the risk increases by 16 percent with every kilogram of excess weight.Obesity could even trigger dimentia in older women, researchers discovered in a 24 year old study of Sweden.Team leader Dr. Deborah Gustafson said: 'Fat is a risk for women. Other studies have reported similar things.'More than a third of people are overweight. Researchers say obesity creates an...

The average IQ in St. Paul may skyrocket this Fourth of July week when the city hosts a convention of the Mensa society.More than 1,500 members of the international high IQ society will gather at a downtown hotel today through Sunday and put their minds to work on trivia contests, math games and arcane topics such as the psychology of Elvis, cryonics and SPAM."By no means are they all rocket scientists and brain surgeons," said Catherine Barney, a spokeswoman for the American Mensa headquarters in Arlington, Texas. "We have everything. I know we have a lot of educators, a lot...

OK, let's combine into a single thread(easier to bookmark) all our favorite images of the stupid anti-war protests. Ironic or altered, all are welcome. Here's a few to start: On the other hand... This one actually was pretty good...