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The agent picks its own tools: marking new words, clearing the page, answering with your reading history in hand, and returning a word right before you forget it.

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WorldScienceCulture

Why city jackdaws are doing better than their country cousins

Science · 6 min read · by Elena Marsh

Urban jackdaws have begun to flourishthrive in ways that surprise even the researchers who trackfollow them, treating our leftovers as a reliable harvestcrop.

What began as an accident of geography now looks like a strategy — smaller ranges, later foraging hours, a bolder attitude to the people they live beside.

Ava · Emma · Sonia · Andrew … 8 voices

How it works

Five steps from a highlighted word to long-term memory

01Word highlighting

Any page, new words already marked

Nothing to click. Words you already know stay unmarked.

02Reading view

One click into the reading view

Ads and sidebars step aside; read aloud sentence by sentence.

03Tap to save

Tap a word, it lands in your list

Meaning, pronunciation, and how it works in this exact sentence.

04Agent Q&A

Answers that carry your history

It pulls up last week’s article: thrive is the word you saved there.

05Review when due

Back three days later, on its own

Returned inside the sentence where you first met it.

thedaily.example.com/science/city-jackdaws
WorldScienceCulture

Why city jackdaws are doing better than their country cousins

Science · 6 min read · by Elena Marsh

Urban jackdaws have begun to flourishthrive in ways that surprise even the researchers who trackfollow them. In cities from London to Berlin, they have learned to read our bin collections, to time their visits to the market squares, and to treat our leftovers as a reliable harvestcrop.

What began as an accident of geography now looks like a strategy. The animals are not merely surviving the city; they are being shaped by it — smaller ranges, later foraging hours, a boldermore daring attitude to the people they live beside.

Reading aloudEnglish side by sideAaAva · US · 1.0×

Why city jackdaws are doing better than their country cousins

Urban jackdaws have begun to flourish in ways that surprise even the researchers who track them.Jackdaws in the city have started to thrive, to the surprise of the very researchers tracking them.

In cities from London to Berlin, they have learned to read our bin collections, to time their visits to the market squares, and to treat our leftovers as a reliable harvest.

What began as an accident of geography now looks like a strategy. The animals are not merely surviving the city; they are being shaped by it.

flourish/ˈflʌrɪʃ/v. to grow vigorously, to thrive

Usually of a living thing or a venture growing strongly in the right conditions.

Urban jackdaws have begun to flourish in ways that surprise even the researchers.
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Loaded: you have been reading about urban ecology
What is the difference between flourish and thrive?
Both mean “doing well”. Flourish stresses visible, showy growth; thrive stresses surviving and holding up in a given environment.
You read last weekWhere did all the urban wildlife goMarch 18 · you saved thrive there
flourish saved to your word list
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Words
Due today · 1 wordSaved from this sentence three days ago

Urban jackdaws have begun to ? in ways that surprise even the researchers.

to grow vigorously, to thrive
to scatter and flee
to forage around
to migrate in flocks

Core features

Eight agent-centred capabilities, all inside the browser extension

get_learner_contextget_weak_areasrecommend_readingsave_vocab
AI AGENT HARNESS

Autonomous tool calls

The agent orchestrates 16 tools on its own: read your learner profile, search your words, recommend articles, save to your list.

Reading history Urban wildlifeWeak pattern Nested relative clausesCurrent level Proficient
AGENT MEMORY

Long-term memory

Reading history, weak sentence patterns, and the due date of every word persist across sessions.

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AI ASSESSMENT

The AI gauges your level

Your level is inferred from how you read. No test to sit.

flourish
Review scheduling

Spaced repetition, scheduled for you

Review times come from your forgetting curve, and each word returns in its original context.

Video as material

Bilingual YouTube subtitles

Subtitles highlight word by word; click any line to jump back.

Speech synthesis · Pro

39 lifelike voices

Sentence-by-sentence narration, highlighting in step with the audio.

treating our leftovers as a steady food supply
Translation

Sentence and full-text side by side

Select any sentence to see the translation in place — no new page.

Reading boost

New words marked on any page

Marked to match your current level; words you know stay clean.

Start with whatever you were going to read today

Works right after install. No account needed.

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