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Established in 1982, this international society brings together highly gifted individuals from the top 1 in 30,000 people and offers online discussions, newsletters, and online tools to connect these profoundly gifted people.
http://www.prometheussociety.org/
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Albert Einstein Online has all you need to know about Albert Einstein. This website includes:
- Overviews about Einstein
- Einsten Moments
- Physics
- "In His Own Words" section
- Pictures of Einstein
- And much more...
http://www.westegg.com/einstein
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This article brings attention to the fact that giftedness is found not only in children but also in adults. Gifted adults should achieve their high potential and realize their talents.
http://talentdevelop.com/ATSG.html
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This piece, by Mary-Elaine Jacobsen, Ph.D. and posted on the Talent Development Resource's website, distinguishes the differences between the confusing signs of identifying an adult as gifted. Such confusing notions are asynchronous development, exceptionally high standards, extra-sensitivity and arousal, independence and perceptivity.
http://talentdevelop.com/ETGSAFTFT.html
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Hosted on the Talent Development Resources website, this article by Sharon Lind, discusses the difficulties an adult may go through in identifying themselves as gifted. Some adults realize that while teaching, guiding, and/or parenting their gifted children, they see similar traits in themselves. Lind focuses on five key affective needs of gifted adults: acknowledging your own gifts; nurturing your identity development; giving yourself permission to be a growing, changing, imperfect person; taking advantage of and coping with over excitabilit...
http://www.sengifted.org/articles_adults/Lind_FosteringAdultGiftedness.shtml
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This website is a great introduction to past and present Nobel Laureates. Articles written by Laureates, biographies and autobiographical essays as well as photos and some video footage are on the site. Fascinating information into the lives of these accomplished intellectuals.
http://nobelprize.org/index.html
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The Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC), developed by David Wechsler, is an intelligence test for children between the ages of 6 and 16 inclusive that can be completed without reading or writing. The WISC generates an IQ score. "Expanded and updated norms, new improved psychometric properties, and updated stimuli are just a few of the many benefits of the newly revised Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale®—Third Edition (WAIS®–III). Based on one of the most comprehensive standardization samples ever, WAIS–III scales have been co-normed...
http://harcourtassessment.com/HAIWEB/Cultures/en-us/Productdetail.htm?Pid=015-8980-727
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Covering such personalities as Aretha Franklin, Pablo Picasso and Frank Lloyd Wright, authors Goertzel and Hansen remember their incredible contributions to our world. We wonder whether today's world will nurture and support the emergence of great potential to the same extent as previous decades. Provactive reading!
http://giftedbooks.com/productdetails.asp?id=57
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According to Booklist Review, "...Streznewski is alone in addressing, for the general reader, what happens to those gifted kids after high school. Writer-educator Streznewski interviewed a highly diverse collection of 100 gifted adults to see what her own gifted children--and her students--would face in the "real world." The author chose many interviewees according to informal criteria for giftedness that she developed as a teacher: curiosity and energy, speed, sensitivity, heightened perception, sophistication and humor, and some accept...
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Alissa Quart shows how a gifted childhood that is "relentlessly tested, totally overscheduled and joylessly competitive" is being created by some parents and concludes that "enrichment" not only doesn't necessarily work, it may be harmful.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/books/2003251271_hothousekids11.html
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Lives of Promise provides a vivid picture of the challenges talented young people must navigate in translating academic ability and achievement into successful adult careers and lives.
http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/oclc/32430068
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In George Johnson's biography of Nobel Prize-winner Murray Gell-Mann,`we see Gell-Mann as a child prodigy; Gell-Mann entering Yale at fifteen; Gell-Mann the world traveler and master of particle physics.
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Jane Piirto designed this book to cover both the characteristics of gifted students and to present important information on how to teach them It contains the latest results of federal research projects, suggestions for inclusion, and definitions of who is gifted and talented.
http://www.bestwebbuys.com/Talented_Children_and_Adults-ISBN_0130961469.html?isrc=b-search
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Are you relentlessly curious and creative, always willing to rock the boat in order to get things done . . . extremely energetic and focused, yet constantly switching gears . . . intensely sensitive, able to intuit subtly charged situations and decipher others' feelings . . . a truth-teller who pushes toward perfection, driven by a sense of personal mission . . . ? If these traits sound familiar, then you may be an Everyday Genius, someone who shares qualities with figures as diverse as Bill Gates and Mother Teresa. These are people who break t...
http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780345434920&view=toc
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This book is a follow-up study of the world-famous high-IQ "Quiz Kids" of radio show fame from the 1940s radio show "The Quiz Kids." The author, a former profoundly gifted Quiz Kid herself, tracked down as many of her Quiz Kid cohort as possible and administered a questionnaire, then chose a selection of the Quiz Kids to interview in-depth.
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Pletsch offers the reader the fruits of his long and creative journey into Nietzshe's world of ideas and humanity, which have broad implications for intellectual history, human development and creativity.
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