Miscellaneous 2024, May

Earlier we talked about Ambulocetus - an ancient ancestor of cetaceans with a very specific appearance. Well, you see, one of his descendants decided to follow in his footsteps. Meet the Ganges Dolphin, or Susuk, a living river dweller who evolved into a crocodile

After Japan, the strangest and most mysterious country is probably India.In every Indian state, the Marathi New Year is celebrated in its own way. However, as a rule, such celebrations are not complete without a battle with cow dung. The festival is held on the first day of the month of Chaitra according to the Hindu lunar calendar

During the three-month isolation regime in the West, significant changes have taken place in the Middle East. Yemen is divided in two, Israel is paralyzed by two prime ministers who do not get along with each other, Iran openly supports NATO in Iraq and Libya, Turkey has occupied northern Syria, and Saudi Arabia is close to bankruptcy

Politicians and the media are increasingly authoritarian devalues the entire population. With the help of harsh statements, negative sentiments are generated against their own fellow citizens.Commentary by Christian Borovi.- Salik.bizWhat a week: Police in Stuttgart are gearing up for major clashes this weekend and are stepping up their presence in downtown Stuttgart after the perpetrators of the so-called “entertainment venue” raped and injured police officers last Sunday

American scientists at the nanoscale have found out how silver ions act on bacteria, including those resistant to antibiotics. The research results are published in the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology.The antimicrobial properties of silver have been known for centuries, although how exactly silver kills bacteria remains largely a mystery

The world seemed full of problems today, from a new virus and the threat of a big war in the Middle East, to a big famine in Africa with a corresponding flow of refugees, but the West would not be the West, even if it stopped promoting sexual perversion even during the new plague

European solidarity turned into farce at the time of testing“The coronavirus has exposed hypocrisy. This is the true face of Europe”- under this heading the Italian newspaper“Giornale”published on the front page on March 14 an article accusing the European Union of betrayal for the fact that the EU did not provide assistance to Italy, which became a victim of the epidemic.- Salik

Continuing the American-English theme, let us turn to extremely interesting documents published recently on the site "Voice of Sevastopol"

And until now, the Internet is still in a fever from all sorts of apocalyptic scenarios about the consequences of universal vaccination and, at the same time, chipping of the world's population. They boil down to the fact that in the process of vaccination from 20% to 7 billion of the population will be destroyed, and in the process of chipping, the entire population, except for the notorious "golden billion" will be turned into at least slaves, and at most into zombies

On the afternoon of September 15, 1989, in the clear sky of the city of Salsk, Rostov region, a heavenly code appeared - five huge white squares painted with a white "steam". The squares were placed horizontally. Then the mathematical signs "more" appeared in them

What versions of the origin of the coronavirus quarantine have not been voiced on the vastness of the Internet: from the conspiracy of the unknown world government, ending, however, with the conspiracy of the real governments of the whole world

In the mid-1980s, doctors selected a homogeneous group of single people who had suffered a heart attack and offered them to take a puppy to their home. Half of the patients gladly took their new four-legged friend; the other half refused.Long-term medical observations revealed an interesting fact: people (who took puppies for themselves) had several times fewer repeated heart attacks than those who refused it

The walking dead who crawled out of the graves (or never got there) inexplicably became an integral part of mass culture.Objectively, if we compare different types of walking dead, then vampires, of course, are much more pleasant, if only because they exist as a whole and do not decompose right on the go

In Soviet times, it was argued that there was no sex in the USSR. But since I belong to the post-war generation of "Baby-Boomers" and have lived in the USSR for more than 40 years, then as a "witness" of that time, I say the opposite. It was very even …Another thing is that no one in the country spoke sanctimoniously about this. A

Almost all people in the developed countries of the world have a harmful addiction - overeating. On average (according to G.S. Shatalova), we consume four times more kilocalories than is required to maintain life.Galina Shatalova (physician, scientist, specialist in human health improvement) [3] specially conducted a detective investigation, from where the figure of 1200 large calories per day for a non-working (lying) person appeared in medical reference books

A corporate event (celebration of the New Year, March 8, the end of the academic year at the institute, etc.) is a very important event, during which the labor collective is consolidated. In no case should you miss it.At the same time, this event has its own characteristics

It was for me an ordinary working day of an ordinary university teacher. Classes, students, registration of current papers. And suddenly, closer to lunch, one of the respected leaders of our institute came up to me, took me aside and said:“I know that you are interested in bioenergy and qigong, and have learned a lot in this area. A

Throughout the entire period of human development, powerful cataclysms took place on Earth (Fig. 2), leading every 100 thousand years to volcanic eruptions, floods, prolonged droughts and fires.Figure: 2. Dynamics of temperature (0С) on the Earth, the content of carbon dioxide (CO2) and dust (Dust) over the past 400 thousand years

Hello dear readers!The revival of the legendary ether occurs in the manifestation of psychophysical forms of mental existence of collective consciousness and structural links of energy relationships in the universe and collective consciousness

Although the official science categorically rejects contacting, calling it hallucinations and false memory. And the Commission for the Fight against Pseudoscience under the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences described contacting as a "pseudoscience" [3], my life experience shows that this phenomenon exists and requires attention

In the early 1990s, I developed serious health problems. Obviously, they were associated with the general nervousness of the inhabitants of the disintegrating Soviet state. Impending poverty, aggravation of the situation in the union republics, where the oppression of Russians began and the expansion of ultra-nationalist protests

In the mid-1950s, an Indian-born American nuclear physicist (who later took the name Maharishi Mahesh Yogi) became seriously interested in yoga and studied with an Indian Guru for thirteen years. He also spent two years of seclusion in the Uttarkashi cave to study the secret oriental technologies

We are all sore by the mention of the Ministry of Health - that smoking is harm. In stores, cigarettes are hidden from the eyes of customers with special curtains; scary pictures are drawn on the packages and categorical health warnings are placed in large print; increase the cost of cigarettes immensely

Soviet readers and healthy lifestyle enthusiasts first became acquainted with the health-improving properties of fasting after the publication of the book by Paul Bragg and Patricia Bragg - The Miracle of Fasting [1]. Many people remember the book by Yuri Sergeevich Nikolaev "Fasting for health" [2]

All my life, since childhood, I remember myself coughing and with a runny nose …It began before school, when my tonsils were cut out to me, a healthy child at the age of 7 (there was such a directive from medicine in those Soviet years - everyone without exception cut out tonsils). A

My friends consider me to be naturally distrustful. And this is really so, I even specially studied myself and confirmed this mistrust according to the methods of psychologists. My first education was polytechnic, which also does not contribute to lyricism and credulity

What will always bring big bucks? The health of citizens, who tend to get sick and sometimes even die from this, and the budget, of course, is the state budget, which many consider to be nobody's and dimensionless. But when these two concepts merge together, then not just big money appears, but gigantic money

If the film starts with a pop-up screen saver “Supported by the Ministry of Culture”, then this causes a certain level of confidence in the viewer. After the logo of the department, which is largely responsible for the spiritual sphere of society's life, you expect that the content will be at least tactful and instructive. Let

The “disappearance” of the Soviet regime and its characteristic system of ideological ideas, which in one way or another integrate Soviet society, led to a deep crisis in the social identification of the population. According to polls conducted by VTsIOM from 1993 to 2003, it was social values that suffered (during the collapse of Soviet society) the greatest damage. Until n

Literary dystopias are a very young genre. And he was born exactly a century ago, in 1920, when the novel "We" was written by the Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin. Later, other well-known dystopias appeared: "The Pit" (1930) by Andrei Platonov, "Brave New World" (1932) by Aldous Huxley, "The War with the Salamanders" (1936) by Karel Čapek, "Animal Farm" (1945) and "1984 "(1948) by George Orwell," 451 degrees Fahrenheit "(1953) by Ray Bradbury et al

Dystopian literature is becoming more and more popular. It is not surprising: there are serious signs that mankind is moving by leaps and bounds towards some new world order. And dystopias can contain clues as to what kind of order it is.I will name the most famous dystopias: "We" (1920) by Evgeny Zamyatin; The Foundation Pit (1930) by Andrey Platonov, Brave New World (1932) by Aldous Huxley, The War with the Salamanders (1936) by Karel Chapek, Animal Farm (1945) and 1984 (194

The American Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) suspected Pavel Durov's startup Telegram Open Network (TON) of illegally raising $ 1.7 billion when placing the Gram cryptocurrency. How and why an enterprising programmer who fled from Russia actually turned out to be a fraud in the eyes of the American financial authorities and why are yesterday's associates already denying him?

1. Compensate and correct those mistakes in the upbringing and education of each child, which were made by a particular family in which he grows up.2. By the end of the period of study, maintain and, if possible, improve the indicators of the physical and mental health of the student in relation to the indicators with which he entered the educational institution

In Germany, a project is under way (so to speak) that will last for the next 1000 years. We are talking about the construction of a unique archaeological structure "Pyramid of Time", the construction of which should take exactly one millennium

Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby stated that Jesus Christ was not white. He wrote about it on his Twitter page.- Salik.biz“Jesus was from the Middle East, he was not white. It is important that we remember this,”urged the spiritual leader of the Anglican Church. He

Odessa journalist Yuri Tkachev shared his opinion on the ritual of kneeling in front of representatives of the black minority, which has recently spread in the United States and Europe.“The phenomenon of voluntary-compulsory kneeling of the name BLM is, in essence, a very simple thing

How many more seemingly commonplace questions that are literally constantly before our eyes. However, we never tried to find answers to them because we did not notice this question - we got used to it

The most ancient and voluminous scriptures of the Earth are called Vedas. They contain information about everything, in particular about the structure of the Cosmos and about every area of human life. The most ancient, namely, Hyperborean and Aryan-Slavic scriptures in Russia were also called Vedas. The

Microsoft founder Bill Gates in recent years has been devoting a lot of time to his charitable foundation, which he founded with his wife Melinda. In March, he left the board of directors for this.The foundation funds various medical projects, including the development of a vaccine against COVID-19

Kinship of souls. Spiritual reminders. Spiritual connections. We all have heard and read about it. And some of us were lucky enough to experience it on ourselves. A person is always curious, but most people strive for only one thing.A soul mate is different from a life partner