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April 2026
Bloomfest! Newark’s Branch Brook Park’s Annual Cherry Blossom Festival

April 19 @ 11:00 am - 5:00 pm

Location: Oval, Northern Division, Newark & Prudential Concert Grove, Clifton Avenue Entrance, Newark Cost: FREE Celebrate the culminating event of the 50th Anniversary of the Essex County Cherry Blossom Festival with a full day of family-friendly fun in New Jersey’s pinkest park. Enjoy a vibrant lineup of activities including Japanese cultural demonstrations, children’s programming, live … Continue reading Bloomfest! Newark’s Branch Brook Park’s Annual Cherry Blossom Festival
William James: The Varieties of Religious Experience

April 25 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

The discipline of psychology emerged from the discipline of philosophy. In the late 19th century, the British philosopher John Stuart Mill argued that the human mind could be studied scientifically. … Continue reading William James: The Varieties of Religious Experience
Theodore Talk: Language Processing in the Brain Across Diverse Languages and Speakers

April 26 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

The April Theodore Talk, "Language Processing in the Brain Across Diverse Languages and Speakers", will take place Sunday, April 26 at 2:30 p.m. Central Time (3:30 Eastern, 12:30 Pacific). ------------- A staggering 7,000 languages are spoken and signed worldwide, and most people speak two or more. Yet, neuroscience research has largely focused on monolingual speakers of just a few … Continue reading Theodore Talk: Language Processing in the Brain Across Diverse Languages and Speakers
May 2026
Spy Games 2026

May 2 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Mechanicville, NY Mechanicville, NY, United States

Mensa of Northeastern New York is sponsoring another Spy Games. MISSION: HIDDEN SPIES Location: Mechanicville, New York Threat Level: CRITICAL Objective: Identify and apprehend deep-cover enemy operatives before their mission activates. Mechanicville doesn’t make headlines. A quaint little city with friendly people — not the kind of place you'd expect to become a battleground for … Continue reading Spy Games 2026
Geoffrey Chaucer: The Knight’s Tale and the Miller’s Tale

May 2 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

The Miller's Tale is one of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. These tales were supposedly stories that a group of pilgrims told each other as they were on their way from … Continue reading Geoffrey Chaucer: The Knight’s Tale and the Miller’s Tale
Northern New Jersey Mensa Zoom chat

May 6 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Northern New Jersey Mensa Zoom chat

Join us for an informal chat on Wednesdays, Laurie Thomas is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Join Zoom Meeting https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89573003912?pwd=hxBmwVGy1EaEHnKSWuXwQsOmIQy54z.1 Meeting ID: 895 7300 3912 Passcode: 436580 --- … Continue reading Northern New Jersey Mensa Zoom chat
Northern New Jersey Mensa Executive Committee Meeting

May 9 @ 10:00 am - 11:30 am

The Northern New Jersey Executive Committee meets by Zoom the second Saturday of each month, except for August, when it is held in conjunction with the annual picnic. Please download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system. Monthly: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/tZ0ofumqqjwrHNOhGbFsv9vtp2caZZcMW77c/ics?icsToken=DD-Gc3YAANjZCmeMHAAALAAAANjkS_rNaC6ZT1AwtDh-8NAQ9u62Dfkm9vIHPzMo4BGajotga5J_yOqP9rNh6MU6A3taqgf7cDjdiY5xZDAwMDAwMQ&meetingMasterEventId=nq63tF_OSImkbYrI7WLZUw Join Zoom Meeting https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89590247167?pwd=MVO3wgLRzlvRCopCqIwNTzdIIbYLNq.1 Meeting ID: 895 9024 7167 Passcode: 698189 --- … Continue reading Northern New Jersey Mensa Executive Committee Meeting
Euclid’s Elements

May 9 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Here's an interlinear Greek/English translation: farside.ph.utexas.edu/Books/Euclid/Elements.pdf Here's a series of videos: Euclid's elements: definitions, postulates, and axioms Euclid's Geometry was built on assumptions. But what if you altered one of those assumptions? Nikolai Lobachevsky: Non-Euclidean Geometry and Euclid's Fifth Axiom - Kronecker Wallis
Brainstorming

May 10 @ 9:00 pm - 10:30 pm Brainstorming

Ken Lawrence's Brainstorming group meets by Zoom each Sunday at 9PM Eastern Time to discuss how to build Mensa. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82908600785?pwd=Kzl4YUhFbklwSnpCTTl4TDdHN0Jsdz09 Meeting ID: 829 08600785 Passcode: 1234
French Conversation

May 11 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm French Conversation

Are you interested in French Language and Francophone Culture? All levels of French welcome. Interested Mensans, please contact: . We meet virtually on Zoom every Monday at 7pm.

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