San Diego Mensa SIGs, online

• Mensa - main list

  announcements & chat

• Mensa - traditional recurring events

  most of these have been around for years

• Evolutionary Biology

  This group is for those who are interested in Biology and its ancient history. All existing living species evolved from earlier forms, so placing Biology in its evolutionary context is enriching and can furnish deep insights regarding Life on Earth. If you or your kids like Dinosaurs, Prehistoric Mammals (e.g., Sabretooths and Marsupial Lions), the evolution of Humans, etc., then this SIG is for you.

• Games

  The San Diego Board Games Players group is for anyone living in the San Diego, California area who would like to get together on a Saturday evening to play various board games. (associated with SDM Games Night)

• GeneSIG

  Genealogy Special Interest Group....open to any Mensa member.... who is interested in tracing his/her ancestral roots

• Gifted Kids

  This is the Special Interest Group of San Diego Mensa for gifted kids and their families. SIG participants don't have to be members of Mensa, but this group is centered on benefiting our young members through various programs, social & academic events, scholarships, resources, research, guidance & advice for growing up gifted, emotional and other forms of support, etc., providing a forum where parents of gifted kids can connect and share experiences & tips, and where various issues of gifted kids can be shared in a friendly venue towards their resolution.

  • Children & Teens Intellectual Games Days: Children, teens & their families are invited monthly to meet & play games designed to make use of & enhance intellectual ability. This event is also intended as an opportunity to make new friends. Games to be played include: SET, Muggins, Da Vinci's Challenge, Deflexion: The Laser Game
  • Curious Kids is a group devoted to providing events of interest to pre-school kids (Generation Z :-) & their families. Events take place once or twice a month.
• Gymnastics

  This group is for those who are learning or practicing gymnastics, or who enjoy watching the sport. The group is open to kids & adults.

• IHIQS

  a convenient outreach & meeting group for members of the International High IQ Society (95% and up)

• Intertel-through-Mega

  a convenient outreach & meeting group for members of high IQ societies from Intertel (99%) through Mega Society (99.9999%) and beyond...

• Junto - San Diego

  for those interested in voluntaryist self- and community- improvement

• Liberty

  This is a group of libertarians in the San Diego area who are either members of or friends of Mensa. While membership in the San Diego Libertarian Party is not required, chances are very good that we'll be hanging out with that group now and then, especially at their monthly supper club meetings. Others who may find this group of interest include: Objectivists, Classical Liberals, Free Market Advocates, AnarchoCapitalists, etc.

• LifeExtension / Immortalism

  This group is for those who have an interest in Life Extension and/or Immortality. Topics include, but are not limited to: dietary methods (e.g., caloric-restriction), supplements, exercise, stress reduction, bio-identical hormone replacement, genetic therapies, cryonics, medical nanotechnology, etc.

• Linguistics

  This group is for those who have an interest in some aspect of the general field of Linguistics. Topics can range from the brass tacks of spelling, syntax, grammar, phonetics, phonology, morphology, alphabets ... to the perhaps more profound subjects of etymology & the origin/evolution of languages, semantics, pragmatics, semiotics, psycholinguistics, animal communication, language acquisition, etc., up to the philosophy of language and my favorite, general-semantics.

• Math Lovers

  This group is a fuzzy set of people who live in or frequently visit the San Diego area, who are members of or friends of Mensa, and who like & enjoy at least a significant subset of the field of mathematics.

• NeuroScience

  This group is for those who are interested in some or all aspects of Neuroscience. Topics include, but are not limited to: how brains work, various studies as they are published, the care and feeding of human brains, physiological correlates of intelligence & consciousness, evolutionary psychology, smart drugs and nootropics, neuro-cognitive training techniques, etc.

• Opera

  The San Diego Opera season lasts five months, one opera a month from January through May (inclusive). OperaSIG accordingly meets three times during each of these five months: one Sunday late-morning, at a nearby bistro, for brunch, before the matinee performance; one Monday evening, in La Jolla, while that month's opera is still in rehearsal, for the Preview Lecture; and one Thursday late-afternoon, at the downtown Civic Center, while that month's opera is still in rehearsal, for the Artists' Roundtable.

• Robotics / Nanotech

  This group is for those who have an interest in Robotics, Nanotechnology, Bionics, Telepresence, Remote Automated Exploration, etc.

• Space Exploration / Astronomy

  This group is for those who are interested in space exploration, manned and unmanned missions anywhere in (or beyond) the solar system, astronomy, cosmology, space industry & tourism, satellite remote sensing of the earth, rocket science, etc.

• Student Clubs - college, and K-12

  the effort to establish Mensa clubs for students on college campuses and in all of the K-12 regions in San Diego County

• Systems Theory / Cybernetics / Chaos & Complexity

  This group is for those who enjoy Systems Theory and its many relatives. Included under this umbrella are: Butterfly Effect, Cybernetics and Control Theory, Feedback Loops, Chaos Theory, Catastrophe Theory, Nonlinear Dynamics, Connectionism, Information Theory, Fractals & Self-similarity, Game Theory, Systems Analysis & Design, Complexity Theory, Self Organization & Spontaneous Order, Adaptive Systems, Cellular Automata, Strange Attractors, Emergence, and more.

• Wealth

  This group if for those who want to build and enjoy their wealth. For some, this will mean getting out of debt and becoming financially stable. For others, it will mean achieving financial independence as soon as possible. For others, it will mean amassing capital to use in founding a new industry, or to strategically benefit others to maximize the amount of good they can do in the world, etc. This group is to be money-friendly, wealth- positive, & unabashedly pro-capitalism, in the very best sense of that word.

• Young M's - events, & light chat

  This is the main group currently for Generations X & Y "to organize Mensa activities of primary interest to younger members. ....to introduce themselves to the group, describe their interests, and brainstorm ideas for events."

• Young M's - uncensored, politically incorrect, free-for-all discussion & links

  This is the "anything goes" free-discussion companion list for the San Diego Young Ms SIG. No topics are off-limits, though politeness to each other is a must. Because of some potential content that may get posted here, members of this group will need to be 18 or older.