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  • American Mensa’s Mensa Works

    Don’t get lost on the commercial job boards. American Mensa’s Mensa Works is an online employment marketplace uniquely tailored for Mensa members. Whether you’re looking for a new gig — or to grow your own workforce — visit Mensa Works today.

    HAHAHAHA!

    Imagine thinking you’re one of the smartest people in the world yet you still can’t get a job without your special club for alleged geniuses helping you.

    Wonder how many of those people flunked their interview by mentioning their IQ.

    Digital Membership Verification

    We’ve partnered with Credly, an online credentialing platform, to provide digital badges for members and Life Members, allowing you to easily share your service, achievement, and pride on social media, with your contacts, and across other digital platforms.

    Vanity email aliases

    Mensa International offers free vanity email aliases to all current Mensa members. If you’d like a “@member.mensa.org” address, you can have it free along with access to both American Mensa’s online Community and Mensa International’s global online community — for as long as you remain a current member of American Mensa.

    This is just pathetic and certainly not beating the narcissism claims.












  • Radiation, in this context, is light. Everything from old school AM radio, to microwaves, to infrared, to visible light, to UV, and finally gamma rays are all just photons. For light, there are two energy metrics: how much energy the individual photons have, and how many photons are being emitted per unit of time. Only the energy level of the individual photons determine if the radiation is ionizing, as in, powerful enough to rip electrons off what it hits, including important molecules like DNA. Ionizing radiation starts at the UV range, so anything below that is not ionizing. This is why you can get skin cancer from UV but no amount of visible light can cause cancer. And microwaves are well below even visible light so they aren’t ionizing either.

    Also, Wi-Fi and cellular networks operate in the microwave range. In fact, your microwave oven is 2.4 GHz, which is what older Wi-Fi equipment exclusively used, which is why your Wi-Fi connection used to crap out when you microwaved something. The reason you don’t feel your hand heating up from the microwave rariation coming out of your phone is because the number of microwave photons per second being emitted by your phone is far less than a microwave oven. Your phone’s antennas are 1 or 2 watts while your microwave is over 1000 watts.












  • We speak Mandarin at home and microwave in Mandarin is 微波 “way bo” (literally means “micro wave”). To “microwave” as a verb usually gets shortened to the first character in colloquial speak. We 微 “way” our leftovers.

    微波 means microwave as in that particular frequency range on the electromagnetic spectrum. When referring to the kitchen appliance as a noun, we specifically say 微波炉 “way bo lu” which means “microwave stove.”

    Additional fun fact: If you think it sounds like Weibo the website, you’re right. It has almost the same pronounciation but has a tonal difference on the second character. Weibo means “micro blog,” same first character but the second character is 博 which is a loan word for blog.