Lia Thomas
First openly transgender athlete to win an NCAA Division I national championship --wikipedia
Social impact
Audrey Hepburn
"she was ranked by the American Film Institute as the third-greatest female screen legend from the Classical Hollywood cinema" --wikipedia
Marilyn Monroe
Famous for playing comedic "blonde bombshell" characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and early 1960s and was emblematic of the era's sexual revolution. --wikipedia
Henry David Thoreau
American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher. Calibrated by request.
Jimmy Kimmel
In 2018, Time named him as one of "The World's 100 Most Influential People". Kimmel is the longest-working of all current late-night talk show hosts in the United States --wikipedia
Gal Gadot
one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in 2018 and has placed twice in annual rankings of the world's highest-paid actresses. --wikipedia
Hulk (character)
a green-skinned, hulking and muscular humanoid possessing a limitless degree of physical strength, and his alter ego Dr. Robert Bruce Banner, a physically weak, socially withdrawn, and emotionally reserved physicist. --wikipedia
Adam Sandler
Social impact and personal LoC
Ariana Grande
Calibrated as a pop star
Jeff Zucker
Former president of CNN Worldwide, former president and CEO of NBC Universal. Calibrated for social impact.
Whoopi Goldberg
A recipient of numerous accolades, she is one of 16 entertainers to win an Emmy Award, a Grammy Award, an Academy Award, and a Tony Award (EGOT). --wikipedia. Recently suspended from The View for saying the Holocaust was not about race.
Michael Avenatti (update)
Today, convicted on charges of wire fraud and identity theft, celebrity lawyer Avenatti faces up to 20 more years in prison. He is currently serving 30 months for attempting to defraud Nike of $13 million.
lab grown meat
properly known as cell-cultured meat because the scientific process by which the meat is made is cell culture or tissue culture. Fat or muscle stem cells are taken from either a live, healthy animal via a painless biopsy, or one which is already in the meat processing system. --nhm.ac.uk
false flag operation
"an act committed with the intent of disguising the actual source of responsibility and pinning blame on another party" --wikipedia
Mehmet Oz
Dr. Oz of Oprah fame, running in 2022 as a Republican for US Senate in Pennsylvania
--by request