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- Influential women's tech network shuts down unexpectedly https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw0769446nyo 69 comments
- Pro-female and anti-male biases are more influential than race and other factors in Implicit Association Tests https://www.psypost.org/2023/03/pro-female-and-anti-male-biases-are-more-influential-than-race-and-other-factors-in-implicit-association-tests-74335 328 comments science
- How Influential Election Deniers Have Fueled a Fight to Control Elections https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/05/us/politics/america-first-secretary-of-state-candidates.html 6 comments politics
- Top five most influential cryptocurrency people of 2021 https://finance.yahoo.com/news/top-five-most-influential-cryptocurrency-113027529.html 6 comments cryptocurrency
- Virus-battling scientist named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people of 2021 https://www.thefirstnews.com/article/virus-battling-scientist-named-one-of-time-magazines-100-most-influential-people-of-2021-24834 7 comments upliftingnews
- China's Huawei to be excluded from influential JPMorgan bond indices https://finance.yahoo.com/news/chinas-huawei-excluded-influential-jpmorgan-084420596.html 9 comments wallstreetbets
- Orbán: V4 Slated to be ‘Influential’ in European Politics if They Grow as a Bloc https://hungarytoday.hu/orban-v4-influence-european-politics/ 3 comments europe
- Influential advertising firm urges clients to boycott Facebook https://nypost.com/2020/06/19/advertising-firm-360i-urges-clients-to-boycott-facebook/ 4 comments worldnews
- Indonesia is capable of becoming a major power in the coming years. Why isn't it more influential and talked about as a part of the balance of power in the future? Will it join a power bloc or go its own way? If it does, which one? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Indonesia 147 comments geopolitics
- Vladimir Putin, Director of Influential Pro-Trump Super-PAC, Endorses Reelection http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/12/vladimir-putin-endorses-trump-russia-reelection-2020.html 481 comments politics
- The Nobel Prize in Literature 2019 was awarded to Peter Handke "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience." https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2019/summary/ 4 comments worldnews
- Unpredictable, influential, ‘one of a kind’: Ravens great Ed Reed enters Hall of Fame as unique star https://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/ravens/bs-sp-ravens-ed-reed-hall-of-fame-unique-20190801-rz5uvwdawvai5fekz2gl2232eu-story.html 24 comments nfl
- Traffic violation incident: Case against warden, 18 others for ‘standing up to’ influential person https://www.dawn.com/news/1483931/traffic-violation-incident-case-against-warden-18-others-for-standing-up-to-influential-person 7 comments pakistan
- [PFF] Since our PFF Draft Board seems to be pretty influential to the Cardinals drafting, here’s our top guys available going into day 3: CB Amani Oruwariye (36th overall), WR Hakeem Butler (42nd), S Amani Hooker (44th), CB Julian Love (45th), S Chauncey Gardner-Johnson (49th) https://twitter.com/pff_cardinals/status/1121984910221299713?s=09 34 comments nfl
- Popular children to be recruited as anti-drug 'influencers' in UK Government funded project - Teenagers, who have been voted by their classmates as the most influential, will be trained to discourage their peers from taking illegal substances. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2019/04/23/popular-children-recruited-anti-drug-influencers-government/ 16 comments worldnews
- Mohamed Salah: The 100 Most Influential People of 2019 http://time.com/collection/100-most-influential-people-2019/5567841/mohamed-salah/ 5 comments soccer
- Twitter bots more influential than people in US election: research https://www.smh.com.au/national/twitter-bots-more-influential-than-people-in-us-election-research-20180913-p503jw.html 39 comments politics
- Most Popular and Influential Programming Languages 2018 https://stackify.com/popular-programming-languages-2018/ 4 comments programming
- Nawazuddin Siddiqui's Mother Mehroonisa Is One Of BBC's 100 Most Influential Women https://www.ndtv.com/entertainment/nawazuddin-siddiquis-mother-mehroonisa-is-one-on-bbcs-100-most-influential-women-1756198 17 comments india
- Post-Brexit trade deals 'threaten UK's animal welfare standards' | “Overwhelming” support in the UK for high animal welfare standards is under threat from Brexit, an influential parliamentary committee has said. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jul/25/uks-animal-welfare-standards-threatened-by-post-brexit-trade-deals 8 comments worldnews
- Retirement Rumors Ramp Up For Influential Supreme Court Justice http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/anthony-kennedy-retirement-rumors-supreme-court_us_594f0186e4b02734df2ac9ec 8 comments politics
- One of Europe's most influential investors gave a brutal example of AI wiping out white-collar jobs - "predicted that automation will wipe out up to 70% of white-collar roles, pointing to legal and insurance firms in particular." http://www.businessinsider.com/fred-destin-artificial-intelligence-will-wipe-out-white-collar-jobs-2017-6?r=uk&ir=t 61 comments technology
- Influential conservative group: Trump, DeVos should dismantle Education Department and bring God into classrooms https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/influential-conservative-group-trump-devos-should-dismantle-education-department-and-bring-god-into-classrooms/2017/02/15/196bf872-f2df-11e6-8d72-263470bf0401_story.html?utm_term=.882351aeff03 16 comments politics
- In wake of Trump's win, even some in Silicon Valley wonder if Facebook has grown too influential http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-election-media-20161109-story.html 288 comments politics
- TIL taking a cue from the Hindu caste system, certain influential, erudite and wealthy New England families called themselves Brahmins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/boston_brahmin#brahmin_families 34 comments india
- The 50 Most Influential Living Philosophers | The Best Schools http://www.thebestschools.org/features/most-influential-living-philosophers/ 17 comments philosophy
- What were the most influential pieces of hardware released in the last 20 years? https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/4lzdb1/what_were_the_most_influential_pieces_of_hardware/ 68 comments hardware
- Sanders tops Time reader poll of 100 most influential people http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/276284-sanders-tops-time-magazine-reader-poll-of-100-most 21 comments politics
- Indian Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear a Muslim woman's petition seeking to declare 'Triple Talaq' and polygamy in Islam unconstitutional, despite strong opposition from influential Islamic bodies of judicial scrutiny of Muslim personal law practices http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/unfazed-sc-to-study-triple-talaqs-legality/articleshow/51592046.cms 212 comments worldnews
- Christian pastors in Iowa are influential players in the 2016 Republican presidential campaign http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/298704251.html 10 comments politics
- AP Exclusive: GOP Donor's School Grade Changed--Schools chief Tony "Bennett and his staff scrambled last fall to ensure influential donor Christel DeHaan's school received an "A," despite poor test scores in algebra that initially earned it a "C." http://abcnews.go.com/us/wirestory/ap-exclusive-gop-donors-school-grade-changed-19807123 29 comments politics
- 42 Rotten Tomatoes "Consensus": "Though it might be a little too safe and old-fashioned for some, 42 is an earnest, inspirational, and respectfully told biography of an influential American sports icon." http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/42_2013/ 11 comments baseball
- A cry in the dark :She was gangraped by 16 boys, nine of them juveniles. She was beaten, cut up and her genitals mutilated. She made it to hospital, but was sent home with first-aid. When she survived to fight, she ran into an indifferent administration and influential accused. http://www.indianexpress.com/news/a-cry-in-the-dark/1098688/0 34 comments india
- How influential has Apple been in the mobile industry? After 20 years without any changes, the SIM card is about to be reinvented for the second time in 2 years because of the iPhone. http://www.bgr.com/2012/09/04/iphone-5-nano-sim-leak-photo/ 50 comments apple
- George Washington | The 20 Most Influential Americans of All Time | NewsFeed | TIME.com http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/07/25/the-20-most-influential-americans-of-all-time/#george-washington 3 comments history
- Religious fundamentalism in the US - The US media has been downplaying a radical Christian theology that is increasingly influential in the Republican Party. http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2011/09/20119616562393932.html 2 comments politics
- The most influential dissertation ever written: Claude Shannon's "A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits" https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0bz9o7r2iqi0ny2fmmwrmnzqtnwqwzc00njg2lwi0yjitn2jhnwiym2uwzja3&hl=en 11 comments compsci
- Bilderberg:About 150 of the world's most influential powerbrokers in government, industry, banking, media and academia are meeting from May 14 to 17 at the Nafsika Astir Palace Hotel in Vouliagmeni, Greece. http://www.independent.ie/opinion/letters/mystery-group-in-the-driving-seat-1733972.html 16 comments politics
- Bilderberg:About 150 of the world's most influential powerbrokers in government, industry, banking, media and academia are meeting from May 14 to 17 at the Nafsika Astir Palace Hotel in Vouliagmeni, Greece. http://www.independent.ie/opinion/letters/mystery-group-in-the-driving-seat-1733972.html 12 comments worldnews
- The Most Influential 3D Video Cards in History http://www.gameplayer.com.au/gp_documents/graphic-card-history.aspx 10 comments technology