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Christopher Michael Langan (born c.1957) is an individual with an estimated IQ of 195 (O'Connell, 2001; Sager, 1999), and, as he pointed out to a reporter from Esquire, he has a colossal head as well: three standard deviations above the mean, to be exact (Sager, 1999). With only a small amount of college, Langan has held a variety of labor-intensive odd jobs including construction worker, cowboy, firefighter, farmhand, and perhaps most famously, bar bouncer. Accordingly, he has sometimes been stereotyped as the sort of individual who combines an extremely high IQ with little or no official recognition in the academic "real world" of intellectual commerce (O'Connell, 2001). Langan currently owns and operates a horse ranch in northern Missouri.

In 2001 Langan was featured in Popular Science magazine, where he discussed his "Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe" (CTMU), a philosophical model of reality. Langan explores the implications of this idea in various contexts including physics and cosmology, biological origins and evolution, psychology, ethics, and theology. Langan's ideas on physical and biological causality were recently explicated in Chapter 13 of "Uncommon Dissent: Intellectuals Who Find Darwinism Unconvincing", a collection of essays published by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute.

Langan is also a fellow of the International Society for Complexity, Information and Design, a "cross-disciplinary professional society that investigates complex systems apart from external programmatic constraints like materialism, naturalism, or reductionism."[1].

References

McFadden, Cynthia. (December 9, 1999). "The Smart Guy". 20/20.
O'Connell, J. (May, 2001) Mister Universe. Muscle & Fitness magazine.
Quain, John R. (October 14, 2001). "Wise Guy". Popular Science.
Sager, Mike. (November, 1999) "The Smartest Man in America." Esquire.

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 '''Christopher Michael Langan''' (born c.[[1957]]) is an individual with an estimated [[IQ]] of 195 (O'Connell, 2001; Sager, 1999), and, as he pointed out to a reporter from [[Esquire]], he has a colossal head as well: three standard deviations above the mean, to be exact (Sager, 1999). With only a small amount of college, Langan has held a variety of labor-intensive odd jobs including construction worker, cowboy, firefighter, farmhand, and perhaps most famously, [[doorman|bar bouncer]]. Accordingly, he has sometimes been stereotyped as the sort of individual who combines an extremely high IQ with little or no official recognition in the academic "real world" of intellectual commerce (O'Connell, 2001). Langan currently owns and operates a horse ranch in northern Missouri.
 In [[2001]] Langan was featured in [[Popular Science (magazine)|Popular Science]] magazine, where he discussed his "Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe" (CTMU), a philosophical model of reality. Langan explores the implications of this idea in various contexts including physics and cosmology, biological origins and evolution, psychology, ethics, and theology. Langan's ideas on physical and biological causality were recently explicated in Chapter 13 of "Uncommon Dissent: Intellectuals Who Find Darwinism Unconvincing", a collection of essays published by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute.
+Langan is also a fellow of the [[International Society for Complexity, Information and Design]], a "cross-disciplinary professional society that investigates complex systems apart from external programmatic constraints like materialism, naturalism, or reductionism."[http://www.iscid.org/fellows.php].
-Langan is a cofounder of the Mega Foundation, a nonprofit organization which aims to nurture the gifted by providing an alternative to orthodox academia, thereby encouraging intellectual discourse among intelligent people regardless of academic credentials and affiliations[http://www.megafoundation.org/Mission.html].  The first project of the Mega Foundation was the Ultranet, a network of online discussion forums launched on [[1 January]] 2000.  Participation in the Ultranet is open to  adults with an IQ of at least 164 (or equivalent), along with a limited number of provisional members. Ultranet participants communicate with each other through email lists, real-time chats, and bulletin board discussions and conferences, contributing original articles and artwork to various websites and fora within the [http://www.megainternational.org Mega International Web Complex]. Members are also invited to attend gatherings, retreats, and conferences sponsored by the Mega Foundation, usually near its corporate headquarters in the Green Hills region of [[Missouri]].
-Langan is also a fellow of the [[International Society for Complexity, Information and Design]], a society focused on the advocacy of [[intelligent design]] [http://www.iscid.org/fellows.php].
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