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About Christopher Langan

Christopher Langan was a contemporary American autodidact. Christopher Michael Langan is an American horse rancher and former bar bouncer, known for scoring highly on an IQ test that gained him entry to a high-IQ society and for being formerly listed in the Guinness Book of Records high IQ section under the pseudonym of Eric Hart, alongside Marilyn vos Savant and Keith Raniere. The record was discontinued in 1990, as high IQs are considered too unreliable to document as world records. Read more on Wikipedia →

Themes

  • Creativity — The spark of original thought, invention, and artistic vision
  • Science — Discovery, inquiry, and the wonders of the natural world

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