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A 6-year-old New Jersey girl is wowing the world with her smarts. Her IQ, 138, is right at genius level. To put this in perspective, the highest average score for people under 64 years of age is 109.

Émile Zola, the French novelist, once quipped: “The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.” The very same can be said about geniuses, and, in fact, it should be said ...

A Brain Teaser is a type of puzzle or problem which is designed to stimulate the brain in a different direction. It could be a riddle, a tricky question, a visual illusion, or a logic twist that ...