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on your (trade) mark
There is an old anecdote that gets revived from time to time that goes, “Do you know the only thing more boring than track? Field!” In the case of the Olympic Games it doesn’t really matter. The Olympic ideal has … Continue reading
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Tagged Ankie Spitzer, Avery Brundage, Boris Johnson Munich 1972 commemoration, doug saunders globe and mail, Eric Liddell, Jacques Rogge, Jeremy Schaap, Jim Thorpe, john lennon imagine, Marina Hyde Guardian, Munich 1972 Israel athletes, Oscar Swahn, Sebastien Coe
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THE PRODIGIES: CHECK-MATE ON GENIUS
The cutoff for what is often considered ”gifted” is an IQ score that is among the top two percent of the population, which is a score of 130 on the Wechsler scales, or 132 on the Stanford-Binet scale. This sole … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Einstein, Andy Warhol, Bob Dylan, Bobby Fischer, Britney Spears, Catharine Morris Cox, Chris Hitchens, David Duke, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Edison, Francis Galton, Gary Kasparov, Goethe, Grady M. Towers, Handel, IQ Tests, James Woods, Jeremy Schaap, John Stuart Mill, Kevin MacDonald, Lord Byron, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Mozart, Muhammed Ali, Noam Chomsky, Paul McCartney, Robert S. Albert, Sartre, Spinoza, Stanford-Binet Scale, Voltaire, Weschler Scale, William E. Benet, William James Sidis
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