Author: Laurie Endicott Thomas

The Hippocratics swore by all the gods to serve their patients but also ignored the gods while practicing medicine.

Molière's classic comedy offers vital lessons to modern audiences.

Northern New Jersey Mensa is offering some free resources for teaching reading. We want to make it easier for parents, teachers, and literacy volunteers to teach reading to children and … Continue reading Northern New Jersey’s Literacy Campaign

Northern NJ Mensa is offering free phonics textbooks, to help you teach your child to read.

On Saturday, our Great Books and World Classics discussion (sponsored by Northern New Jersey Mensa and Mensa in Atlanta) discussed Antigone, one of the three Theban tragedies by Sophocles: Oedipus Rex dealt … Continue reading Antigone, or an Ancient Greek’s Guide to Civil Disobedience

Northern New Jersey Mensa will be holding a Leadership Development Workshop from 1:30 to 4:30 pm on Saturday, September 20, at the Morris County Library, 30 E. Hanover Ave., Whippany, … Continue reading Leadership Development Workshop on Communication

A recent study showed what philosophers have been saying for millennia. Studying philosophy does help you learn to think better!

A recent study reported in the scientific journal Nature suggested that a deficiency of lithium in the brain may play an important role in causing Alzheimer’s disease.1 This finding is … Continue reading Could lithium supplements prevent or maybe even reverse Alzheimer’s disease?

Russell T. Warne is working to develop an IQ test that will be valid everywhere, even in poor countries. He needs funding.