{"id":4136,"date":"2009-11-15T03:00:06","date_gmt":"2009-11-15T08:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=4136"},"modified":"2009-11-15T03:00:06","modified_gmt":"2009-11-15T08:00:06","slug":"no-i-called-you-a-skink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/4136","title":{"rendered":"No, I Called You a Skink!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/blog\/arxiv\/24378\/\">How To Swim Through Sand<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The sand skink, Plestiodon reynoldsi, is famous for its ability to swim through sand at depths of up to 10 centimetres. That&#8217;s strange because although sand sometimes act like a fluid, it also acts as a solid supporting large loads such as human footfall. So how do sand skinks do it?<\/p>\n<p>Today, Takashi Shimada at the University of Tokyo in Japan and a few buddies reveal the secret. They say that the sand skinks&#8217; swimming action exploits sand&#8217;s fluid-like nature AND its ability to act like a solid. And they&#8217;ve built a computer model to simulate how this works.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Why doesn&#8217;t the sand skink sink?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How To Swim Through Sand The sand skink, Plestiodon reynoldsi, is famous for its ability to swim through sand at depths of up to 10 centimetres. That&#8217;s strange because although sand sometimes act like a fluid, it also acts as &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/4136\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-science","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}