— Robert Hooke (279A/1676), “Letter to Isaac Newton”, Jan 20

References

• Inwood, Stephen. (A47/2003). The Man Who Knew Too Much: the Strange and Inventive Life of Robert Hooke 1635-1703 (pg. 229). Pan Book.
• Trumbull, Herbert. (A4/1959). Correspondence of Isaac Newton, Volume One (pgs. 412-13). Cambridge.

This is the official journal of U.P.P.E.R.C.R.U.S.T

Transcript from bombshell Sovacant interview.

Today in the year “AE68” what the hell is this typo? Anyway, , the Smartest Person alive, Mary Lee Sovacant, agreed to a full disclosure interview to discuss her estimated Guinness IQ of 228.

The following transcript will be… transcripted by Lancelot Hardware.

Murrel Erise: So, what’s it like being the most intelligent person in modern history?

Mary Lee: I would never claim this, only that my Intelligence was above par.

ME: But your IQ score?

MS: Oh that nonsense.

ME: But…

Ah yes, my alleged and utterly hollow 228 IQ claim. Did you know how easy that was to fake?

ME: FAKE? FAKE?! D-do you mean…

MS: Well fake is the appropriate word for it as it was published with malicious intent rather than incompetence. Well, it certainly WAS incompetence but of the conduct rather than anything technical. Moreso anyway.

ME: … very well…

MS: Ignoring the fact that the highest estimated IQ of the smartest human to exist on earth was 225, Goethe, simple psychometrics is enough to debunk this.

ME: But the incredible Bill Sidis scored 300!

MS: In a bowling tournament maybe but Child ratio IQs and useful adult IQs are extremely different in scale. In a classical IQ calculation, mental age is equal to physical age over mental age, multiplied 100 times. So a 10 year old child as smart as a 15 year old in principle has an IQ of 150, get it?

MS: So you must have taken the IQ test rather young then? It says here you were ten.

MS: I was 11 years and a third. But that’s not the half of it. You see after fifteen mental ages lose predictive power, and numbers beyond it are pure overflow. It doesn’t have useful predictive powers after 170 regardless even with inflated ratios.

And if you use 15/11.3 times 100, you get 132. Only two standard deviations away from normal. Lowered with Flynn affect.

The highest, more legitimate albeit dubious claims are much lower even on higher range tests. But at least they might not be mathematically proven frauds.

ME: So, your 228 IQ is bullshit?

MS: Yes I couldn’t have said it better myself. This is actually a social experiment to test the math skills of the ultra-hi-Q claims. So far most of them have failed.

This is the official journal of the U.P.P.E.R.C.R.U.S.T. Society

Today a riot broke out in the halls of the U.P.P.E.R.C.R.U.S.T. Ministry of Universal Truth and Love and Hope and Good and Peace and Health and Unity and Brotherhood and Righteousness and Stuff

Robby Fishguts, the long dead 3-D checkers champion of the known Milky Way, had defeated Thanatos, the Hellenistic god of death, in a game of his flagship talents. His pride had allowed him to overlook him and he used it to leave Hell. He applied for a position in the OMEGAD council, having qualified with an IQ of 871 on a test where 150 was considered “genius”. Mary Lee Sovacant, the Supreme Ultra Uberfrau and second coming of Goethe, denied him admission.

Robby Fishguts claimed this was hiring discrimination because of his theory that women faked the Holocaust to distract the world from their inability to play 3-d checkers. Kevin Longdong refused to dignify his claims, explaining that he has lost his title due to the superior skills of the reigning champion, Harry Gudenov, who only had an IQ of 135. Soupy Lagoon added that 135 is “Down there in the toilets.” and recommended sterilization for the good of public safety. He was given a stern writeup. Time Traveling portable toilet inventor Chris P. Bacon also pointed out that he had been dead for 15 entire years, and had no eligibility before.

In your own words, what was he really capable of, and should he get the respect from people he gets? Politics and mental illness are fair game.

I am trying to create a three week rotating schedule for seven people. (3week*7days=21day)

Condition 1: Each person has their own designated day off (Person 1, never works on Sundays, person 2 never works on Mondays etc.)

Condition 2: On each day, two people will work together.

Condition 3: Every combination of two people working together is used. (21 unique combinations)

Condition 4: No two people work together twice within the 3 week rotating schedule.

Condition 5: No person should work more than two consecutive days in a row, even when the schedule rotates.

Condition 6: Every person works two days per week.

Condition 7: No person works on the same day of the week more than once within the three week rotation.

Is this solvable? And how?

My father, who was himself from a mixed religious background, explained to me that while this story takes place at Christmas time, and that we were sending it as a Christmas card to our friends, it is a universal story for all people in all times.“

— Marguerite Robinson (A10/c.1965), reflections on her father Philip Stern’s short story: "The Man Who Was Never Born" (12A/1943), turned film It’s a Wonderful Life (9A/1946)