CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@Sarah111well Nice, thank you for sharing this! I'll take a look. And also, for checking the recordings with Merlin. I ended up downloading the app and recording the bird in a quieter environment, and it said "no suggestions" I also listened all of the birds that the app suggested for my location (including all gulls) without success. I'll try to check the website and see if I come across something...

"You also shouldn’t pretend that by cognitively offloading a task, you will magically get smarter because you can focus on more advanced and complex skills. More advanced and complex skills are based on simpler ones. If you don’t have the simpler skills, you can’t develop the more advanced ones. You can’t think strategically about chess unless you know how the pieces move. And the cognitive offload makes it less likely we will get the practice that lets us acquire the basic skills."https://substack.nomoremarking.com/p/are-we-living-in-a-stupidogenic-society

Who knows what the effects of brain drain will be long term, as more and more brilliant scientists, academics, etc. are leaving the countries that are now hostile to them. We might start seeing several stories like the one about this rocket scientist.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/opinion/visas-china-rockets-scientist-technology.html