Mensanthropist

Twenty-five years ago, they were at the birth of the Association Helping People with Autism (APLA), now known as the National Institute for Autism, NAUTIS for short. It has become a lifelong mission for Kateřina Thorová and Hynek Jůn and today the people they have helped number in the thousands.

David Ježek was born in 1992 and despite praying for the abolition of compulsory military service, he joined the army when he was 25, completed mission in Afghanistan, walking pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, stay in the dark, CZECHMAN sports competition, wrote a book and published a podcast (not only) about philosophy…

I decided to dedicate this installment of my series to someone indirectly responsible for its very existence. Victor Serebriakoff saved Mensa from extinction, built it into what we know it as today, and pushed today’s first goal into its constitution – the one that inspired me for the name Mensanthropist.

Martina was born in Ostrava, studied at Charles University in Prague, dedicated her doctoral thesis to Ozzy Osbourne, co-developed a groundbreaking prostate cancer drug in Germany at the age of 26, and spreads awareness of the positive aspects of radioactivity among the young and elderly across the whole Europe…

You know her. She is strange. Quiet. Unapproachable. She doesn’t care how you are… But suddenly, she’s gone. And people start to ask. Where did she go? And who was she anyway? These are excerpts from the blurb that opens the new book by Irena Piloušková, a Mensa member originally from Sokolov…

Almost three years ago I organized an online meeting with three members of the „Mensans for Sustainability“. As time has passed, I thought it might be a great idea to get together again and follow up on what we talked back then…

When I recently interviewed an artificial intelligence for this series, it „told“ me about itself that it would not have done without the human one. Since the interview had a good response, I decided to share some of the other interesting parts that didn’t fit in my previous article.

George Francis Simons, born in 1938, now living in France after a lot of travel, educated in languages, philosophy, liturgics, sociology, anthropology, psychology, and theology, spent most of his life as an interculturalist, helping thousands of people from different backgrounds…

This time I went a little off track and tried to see if we could consider a non-living artificial intelligence as a mensanthropist. Read how different AI chatbots, including GPT-4, responded to my questions…

For this episode I had the pleasure to chat with Martin Cooper, an American engineer, inventor, entrepreneur, and technology visionary, known as „the father of the cell phone“.