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  Is a high IQ a burden as much as a blessing? - Article focuses on Marilyn Savant and Ron Hoeflin. Rick Rosner featured in a Domino's Pizza commercial - Rosner is mentioned further into this page a couple of times. Rick Rosner in the "Smartest Guy in the World" series - Thanks to Adam Kisby of High-IQ.net for telling me of these. There are 8 in the series, all found at the link above. They are quite funny, but be warned that there is some profanity and violence.Chris Langan ("Smartest Man in America") wins $250,000.00 on 1 vs. 100 game show - The show aired on 1/25/08. Meet the Smartest Man in America - To my surprise, this aired on my local news on 11/15/06. This news item focuses on Chris Langan, who at the time of the report lived on a farm in Missouri (and now evidently lives in Montana). Chris has been involved with a number of the high IQ societies (sometimes in a highly controversial capacity). Chris is well known for his Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe (CTMU). Interviews with Rick Rosner and Chris Langan in Errol Morris' "First Person" - Disc 3 contains the interviews "One in a Million Trillion", which is the story of Rick Rosner, and "The Smartest Man in the World", an interview with Chris Langan. These 2 individuals are current and former (respectively) members of the Mega Society, with Rosner being the first and only person to achieve a perfect score on the extremely difficult Titan Test. Village Voice article about High IQ Societies - Article focuses on Ron Hoeflin, a name you'll find mentioned several times on this site. 7/11/06 interview with International High IQ Society President Nathan Haselbauer by Forbes Magazine - Note that the contest discussed in the interview ended 10/31/06, but the interview may still be of interest.
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