The world’s corporate powers wield a tremendous amount of influence on our daily lives. They largely determine which products or services we buy, they pressure lawmakers to pass favorable bills, and their missteps can have lasting consequences for anybody depending on the health of the global economy (which is pretty much all of us). But does a company need to be real to be influential? Not really. From Acme Corp. to Stark Industries, fictional companies often reach out from imaginary universes to touch the real world, if only our conception of it.

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These are independent reviews of the products mentioned, but TIME receives a commission when purchases are made through affiliate links at no additional cost to the purchaser. What does it take to live a truly good life? Money, success, great love? Robert Waldinger and Marc Schulz, the current director and associate director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, attempt to answer this age-old question in their New York Times best seller The Good Life: Lessons from the World’s Longest Scientific Study of Happiness.

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Mosquito bites are kinda just part of life if you plan on stepping outside at any pointand the more you know about how to identify them, treat them, and prevent them, the less of a pain they'll be. Your mosquito-bite guide, ahead. What does a mosquito bite look like? Most mosquito bites appear as firm, red, itchy bumps, according to Hari Nadiminti, MD, chair of dermatology at Summit Medical Group in New Jersey.