http://videogum.com/523971/tiny-today-show-genius-has-to-...
When you gotta go, you gotta go. The youngest member of Mensa, with an IQ of 135 didn't care that she was on national television. Ratings be damned!
Music Buzz I think he should do Don McLean's “American Pie” next.
Culture Buzz These Russian corpses are really Putin on the Ritz. (I'm so sorry.) Anatoly Moskvina robbed the graves of over two dozen women and then played dress up with their bodies in his cramped three bedroom apartment. The most horrifying episode of Hoarders ever.
Here's a vintage clip of the Gza (Genius), ODB (Ason Unique), and Rza (Prince Rakeem) from the Wu-Tang on a public access show called Rhythm & Soul promoting GZA’s first LP “Words From The Genius”. “Been doin' it for a long time. Tearin' up parties. Waxin' MCs.”
I will never eat another sandwich again unless it is cut into two separate slices shaped like dinosaurs (no crusts, please). Seriously, what's the point after you've seen this?
Science Buzz This quiz, adapted from the MENSA membership test, can accurately measure your IQ in a few simple questions.
It's child prodigy week on Twitter - (apparently thanks to Ashton Kutcher). Help out and add some other child prodigy videos below so we can make this a collection. Akiane Kramarik is a 13-year-old “genius” who paints better than you do. Don't feel bad, though - she has God in her corner, which is kind of cheating, IMO.
Catvertising: the practice of using cats as tiny roaming billboards. Specifically, black cats, on Friday the 13th, to catch the attention of superstitious persons and encourage them to buy the video game FEAR 2. This is for sure a great idea, although Warner Brothers' claim that the cats are specially trained is dubious at best.
http://www.snuggiepubcrawl.com/
A couple of GENIUSES in Chicago are organizing a Snuggie Pub Crawl on March 21. I'm pretty sure this needs to be a national phenomenon. Possibly international! Remember, the Snuggie is machine-washable, so there is absolutely no reason not to wear it out to a bar.
Albert Einstein' has a messy desk - click to see the picture that proves it. Hopefully this picture will make you feel better about being a total slob.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/10/20/081020fa_fa...
Malcolm Gladwell’s new article in the New Yorker about genius and age is the talk of the web. The article’s based on the work of David Galenson, whose Old Masters and Young Geniuses is one of Kottke’s favorite books of the last few years.