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Amelia Earhart was a major influence on modern fashion. Hulton Archive/Getty Images Today it’s not unusual for a celebrity to launch a clothing line. Everyone from Michael Strahan to Rachael Ray has designed or endorsed apparel, including a number of high-profile athletes. They owe some debt of gratitude to pioneering aviator Amelia Earhart, who was one of the...

Generation X has a lot of defining traits. Tick-Tock/iStock via Getty Images After Baby Boomers but before Millennials is Generation X, the people born between the period of 1965 and 1980 and with an age range of 41 to 56 who were the first to get hip to the internet, wore parachute pants, and who may have worried...

He is without a doubt the most famous little monkey in all of fiction. Curious George, known for letting his inquisitiveness get him into trouble and then using his ingenuity to get him out of it, has been entertaining children and their parents since 1941, when the first book of his adventures, simply titled Curious George, by the...

I first met Edward O. Wilson in 1971 when I was a student in an ecology course at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Wilson, a famous Harvard professor, was sitting in on the student project reports. After I reported my experiments on food size selection in zooplankton, Wilson remarked, “That’s new, isn’t it?” I was...

In the 1970s, psychologist Irving Janis pioneered research into a phenomenon that goes by a name most people know, probably understand intuitively, and perhaps have experienced personally. I’m talking about “groupthink.” Janis saw the symptoms of groupthink in a host of bad collective decisions he studied. He was particularly intrigued by White House fiascos, like the Bay of...

Hailee Steinfeld as Kate Bishop in Marvel's Hawkeye. Marvel Studios Marvel went out with a bang in 2021 with their final show on Disney+, Hawkeye, delivering crossovers and big emotional payoffs for longtime fans. We saw Florence Pugh make her second MCU appearance as Yelena Belova, picking up a thread from the end of Black Widow. There were...

Benedict Cumberbatch stars in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022). The Marvel Cinematic Universe will grow bigger than ever in 2022, after staging a comeback for the ages in 2021. While it was never really far from fans’ minds, the shared universe of superheroes had yet to release any new installments since 2019, after a series...

Corinne with her puppy, Flurry. American Girl Corinne Tan lives in Aspen, Colorado, where she spends most of her time skiing, training her puppy to be a search-and-rescue dog, and trying to set a good example for her little sister, Gwynn. She’s American Girl’s 2022 "Girl of the Year" doll—and the first-ever Chinese American addition to that line....

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Unclear whether this is a memoir or an autobiography. redstallion/iStock via Getty Images Plus On the literary genre spectrum, memoirs and autobiographies are right next to each other. They’re both nonfiction accounts of the author’s personal experience, usually written in first person (i.e. using I, me, and other first-person pronouns). But despite their similarities—and the fact that memoir...