How Mensa Works

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

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🗓️ 14 April 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Most of us know Mensa’s a smart people club. And that Geena Davis is a member. But did you know it was originally intended as a rolodex when the government needed the UK’s most intelligent minds? And that the Kansas City chapter staged a revolt in the 60s?

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on the I Heart Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.5	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio.
0:41.4	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
0:43.1	I'm Josh Clark.
0:44.2	There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant and Jerry Rowland's lurking in the background.
0:51.1	And this is Stuff You Should Know, a smarty pants-a-dish.
0:54.7	We're doing Mensa, right?
0:59.0	Oh God, no.
1:00.7	I thought we were doing a cage-free redux.
1:04.7	Oh no.
1:06.0	Yes, this is about Mensa.
1:08.8	That's what I have pulled up too, Chuck, so this worked out just fine.
1:12.0	All right, let's do it.
1:13.7	So Dave Rooze helped us out with this one.
1:16.8	And he mentioned a bit of news that if you looked up Mensa recently, it'd be hard to
1:22.8	miss.
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