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Pierre Huyghebaert"We now leave <a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/navigation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#navigation</a> to our <a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/phones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#phones</a>. The result: more of us are getting hopelessly lost." <a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/JohnHarris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JohnHarris</a> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/27/smartphone-apps-gps-mountain-rescues-rise" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/27/smartphone-apps-gps-mountain-rescues-rise</a> "<a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/GPS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GPS</a> has cut us off from a basic human skill. It’s no wonder <a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/mountain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mountain</a> <a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/rescuers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#rescuers</a> are being called out so often. [...] Between 2019 and 2024, the total number of <a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/rescues" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#rescues</a> had increased by 24%, and there was a marked jump among the 18 to 24 age group, among whom callouts almost doubled. [...] across <a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/Britain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Britain</a>, there is evidently a mounting problem about the gap between people’s urge to experience wild and open spaces, and their ability to cope when they actually get there. [...] research suggesting that “people with greater lifetime GPS experience have worse <a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/spatialmemory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#spatialmemory</a> during self-guided navigation”. [...] retested 3 years after the initial research, when they found that “greater GPS use since initial testing was associated with a steeper decline in hippocampal-dependent spatial memory”. The <a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/hippocampus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#hippocampus</a> is the part of the brain that deals with navigation: among London taxi drivers, the need to memorise so many geographical details was found to cause it to increase in size. But here were findings that suggested the opposite: reliance on automated <a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/directions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#directions</a> reducing people’s capacity to navigate for themselves." <a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/cartography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cartography</a> Thx <a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/SophieBerrebi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SophieBerrebi</a>

Norobiik @Norobiik@noc.social<a href="https://noc.social/tags/Rescuers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Rescuers</a> in <a href="https://noc.social/tags/Taiwan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Taiwan</a> planned to bring in heavy equipment on Saturday to try to recover two bodies buried on a hiking trail, while more than 600 people remained stranded in various locations, three days after the island’s strongest <a href="https://noc.social/tags/earthquake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#earthquake</a> in 25 years. <a href="https://noc.social/tags/TaiwanQuake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TaiwanQuake</a>Taiwan earthquake: over 600 people remain stranded days after disaster <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/06/taiwan-earthquake-over-600-people-remain-stranded-days-after-disaster" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/06/taiwan-earthquake-over-600-people-remain-stranded-days-after-disaster</a>

Eugene McParland 🇺🇦"Great gratitude is due to everyone who works to save people, to help after the blows. Who devotes his life day and night to everyone being saved. All our regions, all our communities that need protection receive it from <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/rescuers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#rescuers</a> of the State Emergency Service of <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ukraine</a>. Thank you for your dedication, professionalism and humanity!"-Volodymyr <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Zelenskyy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Zelenskyy</a>

Al Jazeera (unofficial)Trapped under the rubble of a 5-storey building in Gaza, a 13-year-old called Alma pleaded for rescuers to help free her relatives first. What happened to h...<a href="https://squeet.me/search?tag=13-year-old" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#13-year-old</a> <a href="https://squeet.me/search?tag=5-storey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#5-storey</a> <a href="https://squeet.me/search?tag=AlJazeera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AlJazeera</a> <a href="https://squeet.me/search?tag=AlJazeeraEnglish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AlJazeeraEnglish</a> <a href="https://squeet.me/search?tag=Alma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Alma</a> <a href="https://squeet.me/search?tag=Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Gaza</a> <a href="https://squeet.me/search?tag=Trapped" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trapped</a> <a href="https://squeet.me/search?tag=alJazeera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#alJazeera</a> <a href="https://squeet.me/search?tag=aljazeeraEnglish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#aljazeeraEnglish</a> <a href="https://squeet.me/search?tag=aljazeeralive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#aljazeeralive</a> <a href="https://squeet.me/search?tag=aljazeeravideo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#aljazeeravideo</a> <a href="https://squeet.me/search?tag=aljazeeraEnglish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#aljazeeraEnglish</a> <a href="https://squeet.me/search?tag=aljazeeralatest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#aljazeeralatest</a> <a href="https://squeet.me/search?tag=aljazeeralive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#aljazeeralive</a> <a href="https://squeet.me/search?tag=aljazeeralivenews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#aljazeeralivenews</a> <a href="https://squeet.me/search?tag=building" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#building</a> <a href="https://squeet.me/search?tag=family" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#family</a> <a href="https://squeet.me/search?tag=girl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#girl</a> <a href="https://squeet.me/search?tag=help" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#help</a> <a href="https://squeet.me/search?tag=latestnews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#latestnews</a> <a href="https://squeet.me/search?tag=newsheadlines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#newsheadlines</a> <a href="https://squeet.me/search?tag=pleaded" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#pleaded</a> <a href="https://squeet.me/search?tag=relatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#relatives</a> <a href="https://squeet.me/search?tag=rescuers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#rescuers</a> <a href="https://squeet.me/search?tag=rubble" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#rubble</a> <a href="https://squeet.me/search?tag=under" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#under</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hG1faUxlpo" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Girl under Gaza rubble asks rescuers to help relatives first | Al Jazeera Newsfeed</a>

Al Jazeera (unofficial)A tiny underground camera has provided the first video of dozens of Indian tunnel workers who've been trapped for the past 10 days in Uttarakhand. Rescuers a...<a href="https://squeet.me/search?tag=AlJazeera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AlJazeera</a> <a href="https://squeet.me/search?tag=AlJazeeraEnglish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AlJazeeraEnglish</a> <a href="https://squeet.me/search?tag=Indian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Indian</a> <a href="https://squeet.me/search?tag=Rescuers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Rescuers</a> <a href="https://squeet.me/search?tag=Uttarakhand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Uttarakhand</a> <a href="https://squeet.me/search?tag=alJazeera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#alJazeera</a> <a href="https://squeet.me/search?tag=aljazeeraEnglish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#aljazeeraEnglish</a> <a href="https://squeet.me/search?tag=aljazeeralive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#aljazeeralive</a> <a href="https://squeet.me/search?tag=aljazeeravideo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#aljazeeravideo</a> <a href="https://squeet.me/search?tag=aljazeeraEnglish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#aljazeeraEnglish</a> <a href="https://squeet.me/search?tag=aljazeeralatest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#aljazeeralatest</a> <a href="https://squeet.me/search?tag=aljazeeralive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#aljazeeralive</a> <a href="https://squeet.me/search?tag=aljazeeralivenews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#aljazeeralivenews</a> <a href="https://squeet.me/search?tag=camera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#camera</a> <a href="https://squeet.me/search?tag=dig" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dig</a> <a href="https://squeet.me/search?tag=dozens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dozens</a> <a href="https://squeet.me/search?tag=latestnews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#latestnews</a> <a href="https://squeet.me/search?tag=newsheadlines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#newsheadlines</a> <a href="https://squeet.me/search?tag=tiny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tiny</a> <a href="https://squeet.me/search?tag=trapped" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#trapped</a> <a href="https://squeet.me/search?tag=tunnel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tunnel</a> <a href="https://squeet.me/search?tag=underground" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#underground</a> <a href="https://squeet.me/search?tag=workers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#workers</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDZSvY9eOjM" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">First pictures of India’s trapped tunnel workers | AJ #shorts</a>

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