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Practice Listening: Select Missing Word
ID: #35570
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Wikipedia
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If Wikipedia had been around a couple hundred years ago we probably would have had an article that says that the sun revolves around the Earth because that was what we understood to be true. We no longer understand that to be true thanks to advances in science and physics, but if tomorrow we were to wake up and learn that in fact time being relative really does upend the way that we think about the world Wikipedia would have to evolve in order to describe that. So we're not really in the business of truth or facts, we are in the business of what is known, and what has been determined through consensus – scientific consensus or otherwise. And I think that that actually provides some clarity on how to understand what information you're looking at. One thing that I think is really unique about Wikipedia is there's only one version for the whole public. There's no feed that's curated for you or for me. We all are looking at ….
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