We had a great day in Chicago after #MensaAG #MensaAG2025Chicago starting with a visit to the fabulous and huge Field Museum. We ate at all #vegan Kitchen 17.
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Some cool outfits at @americanmensa.bsky.social - first is of a woman who added her theory about why girls particularly related to #Beatles at the excellent talk by John Lyons earlier today. #Mensa #MensaAG #MensaAG2025Chicago #funClothing #funTShirts
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(picture below fr morning session w/mainly 5th/6th graders) I just had 2nd #mathisfun session @americanmensa.bsky.social
#MensaAG2025Chicago #MensaAG #Mensa - mostly 3rd-5th graders. We looked at #Pingala / #PascalsTriangle, finding Triangle Numbers incl general case of nth, etal #mtbos #iteachmath
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Shane Larson @sciencejedi.bsky.social at @americanmensa.bsky.social #Mensa #MensaAG #MensaAG2025Chicago - references he left us with: tinyurl.com/grCentennial, writescience.wordpress.com, popular books by Kip Thorne, & ‘The Starflight Handbook’ by Mallove & Matloff
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Shane Larson @sciencejedi.bsky.social at @americanmensa.bsky.social #Mensa #MensaAG #MensaAG2025Chicago - we might live in a multidimensional world like in ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ which would allow tunneling through universe; maybe tunnels inside black holes; another possibility is warping space time
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Wormholes explained by Shane Larson @sciencejedi.bsky.social at @americanmensa.bsky.social #Mensa #MensaAG #MensaAG2025Chicago - Carl Sagan wanted to obey laws of physics in a novel about space travel & talked w/Kip Thorne, CalTech gravity expert, leading to ‘Contact’ story w/traversable wormholes
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Shane Larson @sciencejedi.bsky.social on ‘Wormholes, Spacewarps, and Tunnels to Otherwheres’ at @americanmensa.bsky.social #Mensa #MensaAG #MensaAG2025Chicago -Einstein wrote 5 papers in 1905 incl on special relativity; 1915 general relativity; idea of a black hole goes back to John Mitchell in 1783
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Shane Larson @sciencejedi.bsky.social professor at Clarkson and before that Northwestern speaking on ‘Wormholes, Spacewarps, and Tunnels to Otherwheres’ at @americanmensa.bsky.social #Mensa #MensaAG #MensaAG2025Chicago writescience.wordpress.com
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@chicagotribune.com did not like Beatles in mid 60s, nor did Catholic Church or Mayor Daley (forbade Beatles staying in Chicago in 1964 for their concert and lied saying they were arriving in Midway not O’Hare) - John Lyons on #Beatles @americanmensa.bsky.social
#MensaAG2025Chicago #MensaAG #Mensa
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Buckinghams (great song ‘Kind of a Drag’) were among Chicago groups formed inspired by #Beatles - their name from Buckingham Fountain - many other groups - great sounding clip by The Daughters of Eve! — John Lyons presenting about at @americanmensa.bsky.social
#MensaAG2025Chicago #MensaAG #Mensa
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John Lyons presenting about #Beatles at @americanmensa.bsky.social
#MensaAG2025Chicago #MensaAG #Mensa - 62,000 Aug 20 1965 Chicago was their largest (not Shea Stadium) live show except for one in Philippines
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John Lyons presenting about #Beatles at @americanmensa.bsky.social
#MensaAG2025Chicago #MensaAG #Mensa - Chicago Black-owned Vee Jay Records (building down road from us at Hilton! - now a coffee shop) released their 1st record in US ‘Please Please Me’ - WLS here in Chicago first US radio airplay
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John Lyons presenting about #Beatles at @americanmensa.bsky.social
#MensaAG2025Chicago #MensaAG #Mensa - Beatlemania - folks in 1963 in England loved them and their hair - but not known yet in US. August 1966 last live concert - even then played Chuck Berry - loved soul and #Motown
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John Lyons presenting about #Beatles at @americanmensa.bsky.social
#MensaAG2025Chicago #MensaAG #Mensa - Beatles were seen as outsiders in late 1950s; Paul and John met 68y ago tomorrow; first picture of George/Paul/John - some were only 15!
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I’m excited to be at a Beatles talk at @americanmensa.bsky.social
#MensaAG2025Chicago #MensaAG #Mensa by Professor John Lyons. #Beatles
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I loved working w/ mainly 5th/6th graders sharing #mathisfun at @americanmensa.bsky.social
#MensaAG2025Chicago #MensaAG #Mensa. Lots of topics-sevenths as decimals, spaghetti/pizza/watermelon/hyperwatermelon numbers, partitions, fwd differences, #Pingala / #PascalsTriangle, etal #mtbos #iteachmath
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Day 2 of teaching children #mathisfun at @americanmensa.bsky.social
#MensaAG2025Chicago #MensaAG #Mensa - ages 10-12 now and a younger group in afternoon. #mtbos #iteachmath
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We had #mathisfun in my 2 #Mensa classes at #MensaAG #MensaAG2025Chicago w/ children as young as 3 & up to about 8-10. We looked at really big numbers w/ children drawing and sharing stories, and with older kids discussing ideas of infinity and ‘infinite hotel’ (Hilbert, Cantor) #mtbos #iteachmath
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I’m excited to be teaching first 7-9 year-olds then 4-6 year-olds #mathisfun at #MensaAG2025Chicago #MensaAG #Mensa - and then more classes tomorrow. My daughter is teaching as well - #origami - and is wrapping up her 1st session now. #mtbos #iteachmath
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125 years of submarines in the US Navy-talk by 24y veteran Robyn Weimer at #MensaAG2025Chicago #MensaAG #Mensa - fun technical details and interesting stories including of why our Submarine Force is nicknamed ‘Silent Force’ due to a 1943 Congressman Andrew May’s press comments; she shared good refs
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Talk about 125 years of submarines in the @usnavy.bsky.social by 24y veteran Robyn Weimer at #MensaAG2025Chicago #MensaAG #Mensa
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‘The Wonderful World of Pun Competitions’ by Greg Siegel at #Mensa #MensaAG #MensaAG2025Chicago - he wrote an article in ‘The Journal of Wordplay’ and rec the journal www.journalofwordplay.com; he explained word swaps as just basic punning #pun #humor
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‘The Wonderful World of Pun Competitions’ by Greg Siegel at #Mensa #MensaAG #MensaAG2025Chicago - he punned on 54 artists in 2 minutes
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‘The Wonderful World of Pun Competitions’ by Greg Siegel at #Mensa #MensaAG #MensaAG2025Chicago - some have 60 puns in a 2-minute soliloquy!
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‘The Wonderful World of Pun Competitions - A Modest Travelogue’, Greg Siegel at #Mensa #MensaAG #MensaAG2025Chicago - Punderdome virtual session during pandemic
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‘The Wonderful World of Pun Competitions - A Modest Travelogue’, Greg Siegel at #Mensa #MensaAG2025Chicago - he started 2018-9; used to write jokes for others and came to a #MensaAG and heard of O’Henry Pun Off www.punoffatx.brushsquaremuseums.org; tried a local improv and punned on rock band names
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‘The Wonderful World of Pun Competitions - A Modest Travelogue’ by Greg Siegel at #Mensa #MensaAG #MensaAG2025Chicago
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Sean Carberry, @npr.org at #Mensa #MensaAG #MensaAG2025Chicago -fascinating stories of coverage in places like Lebanon, Libya and Arab Spring,Afghanistan,Congo, Pakistan,more - psychological impact led him to gambling, abusive relationship & thoughts of suicide-now advocating for mental health help
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Talk by Sean Carberry, @npr.org - some are ‘vulture journalists’ who cover indifferently at any cost, others are more humanitarians than journalists, he’s in middle; story of covering a Pakistani Christian community who were victims of being called infidels #Mensa #MensaAG #MensaAG2025Chicago
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