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Mensa: Food for thought
Gillespie Life
fbgstandard01, on July 6, 2017
Mensa: Food for thought

When I entered the room at my very first Mensa meeting, I didn’t expect the topic to be colonoscopies. After all, these people represent the top two percent of intelligence in the world. “That just happened to be what we were talking about,” explained Larry Arnold, one of five members at the

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