Exploring Passion, Creativity, and Intelligence
The purpose of Media Watch is to identify examples of giftedness appearing in mass media and popular culture.
Jim Parsons and UCLA alumna Mayim Bialik are among the cast, crew and executives funding a scholarship for students in science, technology, engineering and math. A co-creator and the cast and crew of the hit television show “The Big Bang Read More …
For those who are unfamiliar with my work on the subject of Bruce Lee, I wrote a number of articles and two books on Bruce Lee in the late 1990s and early 2000s. In April of 2000, I took the Read More …
In the CBS television series The Big Bang Theory, gifted physicist Sheldon Cooper is the center of a social group composed mainly of academics and intellectuals. This social circle includes his roommate and experimental physicist Leonard Hofstadter, aerospace engineer Howard Read More …
Humorous comic strip I found about an intellectually-gifted child. Click on the strip to see more.
On July 16, 2013, five separate trademark applications were filed with the United States Patent and Trademark Office for protection of the phrase “Registered Gifted.” While this might seem like a move an organization such as the National Association for Read More …
Radical Media’s THINKR channel on YouTube is spotlighting Tim Doner, a gifted 17-year-old teenager from New York who is an example of a hyper polyglot – someone who speaks multiple languages. In the case of Doner, that number is currently Read More …
This June, Warner Brothers relaunched the Superman film franchise with the release of Man of Steel. This interpretation of the Superman story takes a different approach to the revelation of the “strange visitor from another planet” with “powers and abilities Read More …
On last week’s season finale of the CBS series Elementary, a contemporary take on the Sherlock Holmes story, Sherlock learned that the love of his life, Irene Adler (whom he believed had been murdered by his mysterious arch-enemy Moriarty) was Read More …
In this past Tuesday’s episode of Fox Broadcasting’s The New Girl (titled “TinFinity”), the lead character Jess (Zoey Deschanel) meets a handsome and gifted professional football player, Jax McTavish (Steve Howey). Jess is smitten by the charismatic man until she Read More …
My classmate in the Gifted and Talented doctoral program at the University of North Texas, Joe Russell, demonstrating his burger overexcitability. That man is not exaggerating his love for that burger.