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  2. Great Vowel Shift - Wikipedia

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    The Great Vowel Shift was a series of changes in the pronunciation of the English language that took place primarily between 1400 and 1700, ...

  3. Metaphysics - Wikipedia

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    Metaphysics is the study of the most general features of reality, including existence, objects and their properties, possibility and necessity, space and time, change, causation, and the relation between matter and mind.

  4. Depressive realism - Wikipedia

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    Some have argued that the evidence is not more conclusive because no standard for reality exists, the diagnoses are dubious, and the results may not apply to the real world. [28] Because many studies rely on self-report of depressive symptoms and self-reports are known to be biased, the diagnosis of depression in these studies may not be valid ...

  5. Twitch (service) - Wikipedia

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    At the same time, Justin.tv's parent company was re-branded as Twitch Interactive to represent the shift in focus when Justin.tv was getting shut down in August 2014. [9] The same month, the service was acquired by Amazon for US$ 970 million, [10] [11] which later led to the introduction of synergies with the company's subscription service ...

  6. OpenAI - Wikipedia

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    Former headquarters at the Pioneer Building in San Francisco. In December 2015, OpenAI was founded by Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Ilya Sutskever, Greg Brockman, Trevor Blackwell, Vicki Cheung, Andrej Karpathy, Durk Kingma, John Schulman, Pamela Vagata, and Wojciech Zaremba, with Sam Altman and Elon Musk as the co-chairs. $1 billion in total was pledged by Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Elon Musk, Reid ...

  7. Human sexuality - Wikipedia

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    There is considerably more evidence supporting innate causes of sexual orientation than learned ones, especially for males. This evidence includes the cross-cultural correlation of homosexuality and childhood gender nonconformity, moderate genetic influences found in twin studies, evidence for prenatal hormonal effects on brain organization, the fraternal birth order effect, and the finding ...

  8. Cognitive shifting - Wikipedia

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    Cognitive shifting is the mental process of consciously redirecting one's attention from one fixation to another. In contrast, if this process happened unconsciously, ...

  9. The Day After Tomorrow - Wikipedia

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    The Day After Tomorrow is a 2004 American science fiction disaster film [2] conceived, co-written, co-produced, and directed by Roland Emmerich, based on the 1999 book The Coming Global Superstorm by Art Bell and Whitley Strieber, and starring Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Sela Ward, Emmy Rossum, and Ian Holm.