The Sand-Swimming Skink: Nature's Unique Adaptation

The common skink is a lizard with an extraordinary ability: it can swim through sand.

This remarkable feat is made possible by microscopic spikes on the tips of its scales. These spikes carry electrical charges, allowing the skink to glide more efficiently by pushing aside the sand particles.

Nature never ceases to amaze with its ingenious adaptations, and the skink's sand-swimming ability is a perfect example of evolutionary innovation.

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"So it was that the CIA and MI6 began supporting Sunni “nationalist jihadists” throughout West Asia. The next year, Bashar Assad rejected a Qatari proposal to route Doha’s vast gas reserves directly to Europe, via a $10 billion, 1,500 kilometre-long pipeline spanning Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria and Turkey. As extensively documented in WikiLeaks-released diplomatic cables, US, Israeli and Saudi intelligence immediately decided to overthrow Assad by fomenting a local Sunni rebellion, and started financing opposition groups for the purpose.

"This effort became turbocharged in October 2011, with MI6 redirecting weapons and extremist fighters from Libya to Syria, in the wake of Muammar Gaddafi’s televised murder."

https://www.kitklarenberg.com/p/how-cia-and-mi6-created-isis#:~:text=So%20it%20was,Gaddafi%E2%80%99s%20televised%20murder.

The Intellectual Father of Clown World

Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher and one of the central Enlightenment thinkers. Born in Königsberg, Kant’s comprehensive and systematic works in epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics have made him one of the most influential and controversial figures in modern Western philosophy, being called the “father of modern ethics”, the “father of modern aesthetics”, and […]

https://voxday.net/2024/05/28/the-intellectual-father-of-clown-world/

A sealed bottle of wine recovered from the Titanic has sold for a record-breaking $1.4 million at auction. 🍾

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🇭🇺⚡ Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said he has never seen greater irresponsibility than in Europe, which is getting involved in the conflict in Ukraine without calculating what it will cost.

- “ Europe is so drawn into the war that it does not even have an estimate of the amount of costs and means necessary to achieve the military goal it has set. I have never seen anything more irresponsible in my life,” Orbán said in an interview with the YouTube channel Patrióta.

According to him, NATO wants to become a participant in the conflict in Ukraine and “the chances that the alliance will be able to keep it from this are limited, because they do not want to be convinced.”

Meet the working principle of gas stations

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🚨#BREAKING: Chase Bank building explodes in downtown Youngstown, Ohio; People are missing under the rubble. https://x.com/21wfmj/status/1795551182804443518?s=46