External links
Collections
NOTE: It seems many people like to put together collections of puzzles and label them IQ Tests.
You should be aware that the professionals and businesses who construct and publish clinical and academic tests of intelligence spend literally millions of dollars developing and norming them. They do not make them available to the general public, let alone publish them and their answers on the World Wide Web. Any self-styled IQ tests
you find on the Web should be understood for what they are: A collection of challenging puzzles to be solved for your own amusement. Mensa does not accept scores on any of them as proof of qualification for membership.
Amusements
- Interactive Crossword (The Boston Herald)
- Interactive Crossword (uComics)
- Interactive Crossword (USA Today)
- Stillsonworks (Our own Alan Stillson's puzzle page.)
- Web Puzzler (Interactive graphic puzzles.)
Booksellers
- Advanced Book Exchange (Rare and out of print books)
- Alibris (Out of print and rare books.)
- Amazon.com (We are an Amazon.com affiliate. See our Book Store page.)
- AntiQbook (Antiquarian booksellers online.)
- Barnes and Noble
- Bibliocity (Now merged with Alibris.)
- Book Finder (Search for out of print and used books.)
-
BookCloseOuts.com
(
5 million books at blow-out prices.
) - BooksEnthusiast.com (Large selection of hard to find books and brochures. The collection covers a wide range of subjects including art, literature, science and much more.)
- Borders
-
Powell's Books
(
The largest new and used bookstore in the world.
) - Second Hand Book Search
- The Internet Bookshop (UK)
-
Toby Press
(
Exclusive Fiction from Today's Finest Writers... Direct to You
)
Humor
- Science Jokes (Lots of them.)
Kid stuff
- Ask Dr. Universe
- CIA Kids Page (Yes, _that_ CIA.)
- KidsClick! (Web search for kids by librarians.)
- Leonardo Home Page (da Vinci, of course.)
- StarChild (A learning center for young astronomers.)
- The Electronic Zoo
Libraries
- Electronic Text Center Holdings (Texts on-line at the University of Virgina.)
- Huntington Library
- Library of Congress
- Los Angeles Public Library
- Project Gutenberg (Public domain texts on-line.)
Miscellaneous
- The Rhodes Scholarships
- This day in history (The History Channel.)
Museums
- Griffith Park Observatory and Planetarium
- Los Angeles County Museums and Exhibits
- The Exploratorium (San Francisco)
- The Smithsonian Institute (Washington, D.C.)
References
- CIA Maps
- CIA World Factbook 1998
- Dictionary.com
- How Stuff Works (Explanations by Marshall Brain)
- Internet Hoaxes and Warnings (Things you should not pass on via email or usenet.)
- Merriam-Webster OnLine (Dictionary, thesaurus and more.)
- One Look Dictionary
- Roget's Thesaurus
- Searchenginez (Internet search tools.)
- Shakespeare (Someone else's search engine)
- Shakespeare (MIT's search engine)
- The Encyclopedia Britannica (Yes, that Britannica, and it's free.)
- The Encyclopedia Mythica (Give me that old time religion...)
-
The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(No, it doesn't include Monty Python's
Philosophers Song.
) - Visual Thesaurus (By Plumb Design)
Resources for the gifted
- College Degrees Without Classroom Attendance (Courtesy of David P. Hayes)
- Gifted Development Center (A service of the Institute for the Study of Advanced Development)
- Gifted Resources Organization Page
- The Rocamora School, Inc. (Resources on talent development, giftedness, awareness work and practical spirituality for adults.)
Science
- Cosmic and Heliospheric Learning Center (NASA)
- Earth & Sky (The radio show's Web site.)
- Geostationary Satellite Views (Your NOAA tax dollars at play)
- Nanotechnology (Itty Bitty Machines)
- National Geographic
- New Scientist
- PlanetDiary (What's going on in the world.)
- Science a GoGo (News)
- Scientific American
- Stephen Hawking's Universe (PBS)
- The Alternate View
High IQ societies
Minimum percentile in parentheses:
- Mensa International (98)
- Top One Percent Society (99)
- Intertel (99)
- Glia Society (99.9)
- International Society for Philosophical Enquiry (99.9)
- IQuadrivium (99.9)
- Triple Nine Society (99.9)
- One-In-A-Thousand Society (99.9)
- Prometheus Society (99.997)
- Mega Foundation (99.997)
- Mega Society (99.9999)
NOTE: Some of these societies have multiple Web pages, all claiming to be official.
Politics within small organizations can be quite vicious (perhaps because the stakes are so miniscule). This can lead to multiple factions and splinter groups. We’ve done our best to choose among them, but can make no guarantees as to authenticity. The list below contains only societies for which some kind of Internet presence could be found.
For an interesting discussion of High IQ societies, see Darryl Miyaguchi’s History of High IQ Societies.
G-rated. However, we have no control over what other Web sites link to. Once you leave our Web site you are on your own and we have no responsibility for what you may find. Appearance in this Web site of a link to another Web site in no way implies any recommendation or endorsement of that Web site’s sponsors or content on the part of Mensa or GLAAM.