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IQ Award
The IQ Award is a prize donated by the high- IQ association Mensa to honor people and organisations who have made remarkable contributions to public welfare by an intelligent idea, scientific research about human intelligence or the positive image of intelligence in the public. Candidates can be nominated by Mensa members and former award winners. After being checked by an internal commission, all Mensa members can vote for which nominee to win the award. History The German IQ Award is held annually since 2004. The winners are: * 2004: Albrecht Beutelspacher for his Mathematikum * 2005: Günther Jauch for his TV show "Der Große IQ-Test" (''The big IQ test'') * 2006: ''Die Sendung mit der Maus'', a children's TV series * 2007: Ranga Yogeshwar, a German TV host * 2008: Dieter Nuhr, a comedian * 2009: Harald Lesch, an astrophysicist and TV host * 2010: Spektrum der Wissenschaft, the German issue of ''Scientific American'' Since 2011 the award is issued in the two categories "Wisse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mensa International
Mensa is the largest and oldest high-IQ society in the world. It is a non-profit organisation open to people who score at the 98th percentile or higher on a standardised, supervised IQ or other approved intelligence test. Mensa formally comprises national groups and the umbrella organisation Mensa International, with a registered office in Caythorpe, Lincolnshire, England, which is separate from the British Mensa office in Wolverhampton. The word ''mensa'' (, ) is Latin for 'table', as is symbolised in the organisation's logo, and was chosen to demonstrate the round-table nature of the organisation; the coming together of equals. History Roland Berrill, an Australian barrister, and Lancelot Ware, a British scientist and lawyer, founded Mensa at Lincoln College, in Oxford, England in 1946, with the intention of forming a society for the most intelligent, with the only qualification being a high IQ. The society was ostensibly to be non-political in its aims, and free from all ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Porzsolt
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Franz may refer to: People * Franz (given name) * Franz (surname) Places * Franz (crater), a lunar crater * Franz, Ontario, a railway junction and unorganized town in Canada * Franz Lake, in the state of Washington, United States – see Franz Lake National Wildlife Refuge Businesses * Franz Deuticke, a scientific publishing company based in Vienna, Austria * Franz Family Bakeries, a food processing company in Portland, Oregon * Franz-porcelains, a Taiwanese brand of pottery based in San Francisco Other uses * ''Franz'' (film), a 1971 Belgian film * Franz Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language See also * Frantz (other) * Franzen (other) * Frantzen (other) Frantzen or Frantzén is a surname. It may refer to: * Allen Frantzen (born 1947/48), American medievalist * Björn Frantzén (born 1977), Swedish chef and owner of the Frantzén restaurant * Jean-Pierre Frantzen (1890–1957), Luxembourgian gym ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One Dollar Glasses
1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1. In conventions of sign where zero is considered neither positive nor negative, 1 is the first and smallest positive integer. It is also sometimes considered the first of the infinite sequence of natural numbers, followed by 2, although by other definitions 1 is the second natural number, following 0. The fundamental mathematical property of 1 is to be a multiplicative identity, meaning that any number multiplied by 1 equals the same number. Most if not all properties of 1 can be deduced from this. In advanced mathematics, a multiplicative identity is often denoted 1, even if it is not a number. 1 is by convention not considered a prime number; this was not universally accepted until the mid-20th century. Additionally, 1 is the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniele Ganser
Daniele Ganser (born 29 August 1972, in Lugano) is a Swiss author and conspiracy theorist. He is best known for his 2005 book ''NATO's Secret Armies'', an adaption of his 2001 dissertation. Background His father Gottfried Ganser-Bosshart (1922–2014), whose parents were Germans, was a Protestant pastor of the Federation of Swiss Protestant Churches (SEK). His mother Jeannette Ganser was a nurse. He has a sister named Tea.''Illegale Kriege: Wie die NATO-Länder die UNO sabotieren. Eine Chronik von Kuba bis Syrien'' p. 6 Daniele Ganser was a senior researcher at the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Der Freitag
''Der Freitag'' (English: ''The Friday'', stylized in its logo as ''der Freitag'') is a German weekly newspaper established in 1990. It is published in Rhenish format. The place of publication is Berlin. Its publisher and editor-in-chief is Jakob Augstein. History The newspaper was founded on 9 November 1990 with the name ''Freitag''. It had some predecessors, one with the name of ''Sonntag'', which was established in 1946. The paper originally described itself as "the East West Weekly", being established in the year of German reunification, but underwent a substantial rebranding in 2009, including the addition of the definite article (it was previously just Freitag) as well as the new claim "das Meinungsmedium". This followed the 2008 acquisition of the paper by Jakob Augstein. The rebranding was judged a success by the Society for News Design, judging it one of the three "World's Best Designed Newspapers" in 2010.Society for News Design, 16 February 2010Three judged SND World's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Snowden
Edward Joseph Snowden (born June 21, 1983) is an American and naturalized Russian former computer intelligence consultant who leaked highly classified information from the National Security Agency (NSA) in 2013, when he was an employee and subcontractor. His disclosures revealed numerous global surveillance programs, many run by the NSA and the Five Eyes intelligence alliance with the cooperation of telecommunication companies and European governments and prompted a cultural discussion about national security and individual privacy. In 2013, Snowden was hired by an NSA contractor, Booz Allen Hamilton, after previous employment with Dell and the CIA. Snowden says he gradually became disillusioned with the programs with which he was involved, and that he tried to raise his ethical concerns through internal channels but was ignored. On May 20, 2013, Snowden flew to Hong Kong after leaving his job at an NSA facility in Hawaii, and in early June he revealed thousands of class ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonny Lee Miller
Jonathan Lee Miller (born 15 November 1972) is a British film, television and theatre actor. He achieved early success for his portrayal of Simon "Sick Boy" Williamson in the dark comedy-drama film ''Trainspotting'' (1996) and as Dade Murphy in ''Hackers'' (1995) before earning further critical recognition for his performances in ''Afterglow'' (1997), ''Mansfield Park'' (1999), '' The Flying Scotsman'' (2006), ''Endgame'' (2009) and ''T2 Trainspotting'' (2017); for ''The Flying Scotsman'' he received a London Film Critics' Circle nomination for Actor of the Year. He was also part of the principal cast in the films ''Melinda and Melinda'' (2004), ''Dark Shadows'' (2012) and ''Byzantium'' (2013). He has appeared in several theatrical productions, most notably ''After Miss Julie'' and ''Frankenstein'', the latter of which earned him an Olivier Award for Best Actor. Miller starred as the title character in the ABC comedy drama ''Eli Stone'', for which he received a Satellite Award ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auticon
Auticon (stylized "auticon") is an international information technology consulting firm that exclusively employs adults on the autism spectrum as Information technology (IT) consultants. Auticon identifies as a social enterprise. Services mainly focus on IT quality management, including transformation, migration, data analytics, data analysis, security and deep web analysis, as well as compliance and reporting. Auticon is based in Berlin and currently employs more than 200 members of staff, around 150 of whom are on the autism spectrum. Auticon has offices in the United Kingdom, United States, Germany, France, Switzerland, Canada, Australia, and Italy. History Dirk Müller-Remus, who has a son on the autism spectrum, launched Auticon in 2011 with an investment of the Munich-based Ananda Social Venture Fund. The launch was inspired by the Belgian company Passwerk. Auticon's concept to employ people on the autism spectrum as ICT consultants has since been acknowledged intern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ScienceBlogs
ScienceBlogs is an invitation-only blog network and virtual community that operated initially for almost 12 years, from 2006 to 2017. It was created by Seed Media Group to enhance public understanding of science. Each blog had its own theme, speciality and author(s) and was not subject to editorial control. Authors included active scientists working in industry, universities and medical schools as well as college professors, physicians, professional writers, graduate students, and post-docs. On 24 January 2015, 19 of the blogs had seen posting in the past month. 11 of these had been on ScienceBlogs since 2006. ScienceBlogs shut down at the end of October 2017. In late August 2018, the website's front page displayed a notice suggesting it was about to become active once again. History ScienceBlogs was launched in January 2006 with 15 blogs on the network. For the launch blogs, Seed invited some of the best-known independent science bloggers and allowed them to blog about whichev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eckart Von Hirschhausen
Eckart von Hirschhausen (born 25 August 1967) is a German physician, talk show host and comedian. Academic career Born in Frankfurt, von Hirschhausen studied medicine, supported by a scholarship from the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German Academic Scholarship Foundation), at the Free University of Berlin, the University of Heidelberg and the University of London. The subject of his doctoral thesis was 'Efficiency of intravenous immunoglobulin therapy on pigs in the hyperdynamic phase of endotoxemia' and he graduated magna cum laude from the University of Heidelberg. From 1996 to 1997, he studied scientific journalism at the Free University of Berlin, but without taking a degree. Journalism and television In 1996, von Hirschhausen started writing, mainly for ''Focus'' and ''Der Tagesspiegel''. His first appearance on television is believed to have been as a guest contestant performing magic tricks in Jürgen von der Lippe's show ''Geld oder Liebe'' ('Money or Love' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
