Archive: 2011 - Through the sandglass

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A selection, a reflection, and a wish for 2012

It’s that time of the year when I, for one, am grateful that the endless reflections in the media on the previous twelve months must come to an end – the events...

December 1, 2011 5 min read

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Playing in the sand box – continuing connections

What do all these images have in common? Well, immediately, it’s quite obvious: they are all 3D models of landscapes. But the thinking, the execution, and the t...

December 1, 2011 4 min read

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Playing with sand - and fire - and tsunamis - and who knows what else?

Sand boxes are for kids (of any age), and, if they are specifically for adults, particularly military ones, they are referred to officially as sand tables (but...

December 1, 2011 7 min read

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December 2011

Musings and news on the extraordinary stories sand has to tell of our planet and daily lives

December 1, 2011 4 min read

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Extraordinary women–and a Gobi sand question

For one reason or another, I have been reading The Gobi Desert by Mildred Cable and Francesca French. In the history of exploration and enquiry into far-flung p...

November 1, 2011 6 min read

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Helpful arenaceous Thanksgiving tips

The following are entirely reputable and independent pieces of advice for managing a safe and environmentally benign holiday culinary process: Partially frozen...

November 1, 2011 1 min read

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Nikon’s Small World – and other images

Each year, Nikon holds its Small World microphotography competition and the results can always only be described as stunning. This year is no different – but wi...

November 1, 2011 3 min read

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Sand continuum - a modelling breakthrough

It’s happened again – a topic that I touched on in my Milan talk shows up in a New Scientist report from earlier this year (I only just caught up with it). In t...

November 1, 2011 4 min read

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Sunday sand: Komodo pink

No, these photos are not photoshopped – these are the real colours of this beach on Komodo Island: Simply spectacular, macroscopically and microscopically, and...

November 1, 2011 3 min read

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November 2011

Musings and news on the extraordinary stories sand has to tell of our planet and daily lives

November 1, 2011 2 min read

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A flavour of things to come (but probably later rather than sooner)

I am now returned from what can only be described as an utterly memorable and spectacular trip. Although it began with some uncertainty when we found that our o...

October 1, 2011 3 min read

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Suna

The calligraphy above translates from the Japanese as “sand sand sand sand.” Why my sudden interest in suna, as the Japanese word is transcribed? Simply because...

October 1, 2011 3 min read