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In the World Genius Directory currently 157 high IQ societies are listed, and that list is not exhaustive – there are several more than these. At the same time communication via Internet resources is highly developed, and many high IQ people are connected to each other via Facebook. In the following essay I want to investigate whether high IQ societies make sense nowadays. We all know the story of Mensa: two passengers in a train noticed that both of them enjoyed solving logical puzzles, and so they decided to found a club for people who enjoy solving logical puzzles. Now the question is why they made an IQ of 130 the requirement for joining this club. After all, enjoying logical puzzles does not necessarily require a particular IQ. So perhaps the basic idea of Mensa is wrong; instead of requiring a high IQ, they should select their members for whether they enjoy solving logical puzzles. Mensa might be based on a categorical mistake. However, that does not mean that the idea of high IQ...

Briefly I don’t really like talking about IQ—really! But someone asked me recently what I thought with the question, “What do you think IQ is?”, so I answered them with the following. Hopefully, forgiving my ignorance on the subject, this note is at least anecdotally noteworthy and sardonically entertaining if not even completely and utterly untrue. The Note Take IQ to be a measure of intelligence and intelligence to mean after Piaget, “...what you use when you don’t know what to do: when neither innateness nor learning has prepared you for a particular situation.” In other words, intelligence is what you use when anything puzzles you, when you find something confusing, baffling, ambiguous, difficult, obscure or just downright incomprehensible and IQ is an operational measure of such an endowment or talent of handling that said bewilderment. For the standard IQ test, this represents a presentation to the tester of a series of questions generally administered under some acceptable ti...

Welcome to the eleventh issue of Prudentia Journal! A month after the tenth issue, I present a new issue of the journal to you. This time with an article named "A Note on IQ", written by Kenneth Myers, and a piece I wrote, called "On High IQ Societies". I hope you will like these articles. Of course feedback is welcome. Enjoy reading! Claus Volko, cdvolko (at) gmail (dot) com

The Medicine SIG is one of two special interest groups within Prudentia. Medical doctors and biologists with a university degree may become full members and those just interested in the matter subscribers. Here are some interesting articles related to medicine from the past month. How blood stem cells maintain their lifelong potential for self-renewal https://phys.org/news/2021-01-blood-stem-cells-lifelong-potential.html Researchers reveal recipe for engineering ribosomes https://phys.org/news/2021-01-reveal-recipe-ribosomes.html Genome-editing tool TALEN outperforms CRISPR-Cas9 in tightly packed DNA https://phys.org/news/2021-01-genome-editing-tool-talen-outperforms-crispr-cas9.html Epigenetic mechanisms that regulate macrophage inflammation discovered https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-01-epigenetic-mechanisms-macrophage-inflammation.html AI Machine Learning Used to Predict Psychosis https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-future-brain/202101/ai-machine-learning-used-predict-psy...

There is no God. At least these days. So I should say there is no God but there used to be. Back in the day, back in the olden days, God existed. People went out each day knowing good and well, there is a God, or rather, was a God. Then—Well, then people woke up to all this nonsense and absurdity. They became scientific and technological , and God, well; He just became downright silly and in a nutshell; Unnecessary . However, a problem developed. What problem? It seems actually two problems developed. One: people needed something to worship. That’s a problem. Two: people, for the most part and with few exceptions, having a natural endowment toward immorality and evil, are not to be trusted, at least with themselves. This lead smart people to question their predicament. They knew they couldn’t bring back God. He’s dead. And we, with all our infinite wisdom, still cannot resurrect a God from the dead. For Death has total dominion. -------- So let’s look at the immorality (evil) problem f...

OPINION; is in my view and to coin a prosaic cliché, a matter of mind. Mind, it matters little. After all, is not it just each of us considering, commenting, and contending obsessively over beliefs, thoughts, notions, feelings, sentiments, and judgments; thus, leading another into a position where they consider, comment, and contend over us and based on their opinion and then by a kind of legerdemain, prestidigitation, shell game or theoretical sleight of hand, not to pull a fast one on the reader; posture opinion onto another as well? Opinion, from my viewpoint, thus achieves nothing. It does not; change one’s way of thinking, another’s articles of faith; it doles out no advice, creates no popular or public advantage or disadvantage, and does not tell it like it is or anything else as a matter of real alacrity and indifference. Concisely; it does not add or detract from human life, experience or values. All it does is: opinion . Countless hear and read these opinions, to be sure. And ...

Welcome to the tenth issue of Prudentia Journal! While Prudentia has grown to more than fifty members and the first special-interest groups have been formed, I have invited Prudentia members to join the first official Prudentia writing competition. The deadline has been January 31st, 2021, and until that date two contributions from Kenneth Myers arrived. Thus Kenneth is the winner of the writing competition. In this issue of Prudentia Journal you can read his articles. In addition, I have included a collection of links to news items for the Medicine SIG. Enjoy reading! Claus Volko, cdvolko (at) gmail (dot) com