know, like, my question what was like the reason like to bring Jack Davis here like to speak with,
you know, a lot of people who are like
the university has a very old and an established and distinguished history of environmental research. And I've known Jack's work, I have a great interest in the sea and in water and then fish, I read about literature relevant coasts. And so his book about the Gulf of Mexico was very familiar with. And so I also like to watch birds, lots of people during COVID started looking in the sky because they couldn't go anywhere, but the birds could. birdwatch? So you've probably spoken with the bald eagle. And we have a research partnership also between the humanities center here and the University of Florida. So it was a nice way both to build up the conversation and to share some interests and to find a subject that people in Athens would love to learn about as well.
It seems like a lot of you know, like seats are built
it's nice eventually you feel like you're doing something whenever you have lots of different generations.
And just like just like
I learned there like like a like like a nother thing to be heard him right on which speak I guess I can briefly like upon on. Like, I'm like, like, a wind
turbines, and like cabling.
I've heard about them in Ireland. It's a conversation I heard in Europe before. And actually, if you've ever flown, if you've been in Europe, you fly over from Ireland or England across the North Sea, you could see them a lot in the ocean. There's a lot of competition is interesting with AI, because we had a lecture yesterday about AI and the humanities. So it's interesting that these conversations keep popping up in totally different places. Yeah. We still like when that'll be like,
yeah, what would you say? Right? For lay down like, right, like and like, like, like, getting, like will be like a weight gain, like a serious way topic like, like the like, have we sit down right, like the future?
I don't think so. So to me, and you should ask Jack about how he understands these books, but it's more like a gateway to something. It's a book of general interest. He's deeply read and knows the subject. But it's not the same as an ornithologist telling you about the bone structure of a bald eagle. And it's not the cinephile environmentalist telling you what the technology doors are, how it works. So I suppose a lot of these books and it's a great thing about them and like a broad stroke, and a word or a passage and it catches your imagination and different people will be getting interested in differently. And that's the kind of the gift of writing like that, I think about being open and he talked a lot about the like misconceptions with the bald eagle. Like that'll impact like other species and stuff like that as well. Was you ever hear I don't know where you live in Athens. But you ever hear the COVID? I will downtown neighborhoods where it's the plaza and we come down on the Hancock compound as your neighborhood sort of off millage on the far side. I was driving down there on Sunday morning. And have you ever saw that great film. Fantastic, Mr. Fox, you know, the animation that was submitted. And at the end of it was standing in Fox looks like she's kind of loose at the bottom of the stream standing there. And so it does make you think differently, okay, you might actually keep chickens you might as a chicken, magnificent animal to have incredible and even here if you walk around campus, both of you can see red tailed Hawks. And often you can see all the board oils which you can hear in the springtime. I mean they're magnificent raptors, that kind of thing. Oh, yeah, they were just there. But like I grew up in Ireland. We had two boys. Yeah. So it's, you know, it's just it's even in a place like this downtown and Athens. At the moment in my neighborhood, cedar waxwings are flying through and they're all coming back from as far south as Mexico and Florida making their way up the eastern shore. Going back up for the summer in the Northeast somewhere. So anyway, you woke up on Athens. If you ever go to Sandy Creek to the lake at the moment, the Transformers if you go Early in the morning, you can see them drinking roller. They flew up from the Yucatan, and they're gonna go north. So I mean, that's incredible. You're in the middle. You think it's all cars and dorms
to interrupt you. I'm just wondering if everybody's Yep, thanks very much for being
here. Thank you anyway at all they're even in the middle of it especially whenever you're sitting downtime that whatever you're doing and the the turkey vultures are completely fascinating birds and their serpent garaje
awesome. Did you have any more questions or extra comment? Thank you so much.
I mean, it was fun. Yeah, it was good. Like a way I
like to like to like to reach out to you like right,
which is wi ll so my email is NA at UGA. In the world, so if you can't remember that you're not going to graduate.
