Archive: 2012 - Through the sandglass

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Granular flow: the icon continues to surprise

Anyone who reads this blog (and/or the book) will know that I have developed a deep fascination with the bizarre behaviours of granular materials: sand, a seemi...

April 1, 2012 7 min read

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Guest post: a gallery of sand photographers' styles

Kurt Meyer writes: SHOOTING SAND For the last 15 years, on and off, I have been collecting sand. The “off” times resulted from not having an answer to the quest...

April 1, 2012 7 min read

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April 2012

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

April 1, 2012 8 min read

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A personal bloggy milestone

I realise that, in the grand panoply of the global blogosphere, this is but a mote of dust, on a scale more diminutive than a grain of fine sand tossed into the...

March 1, 2012 4 min read

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March 2012

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

March 1, 2012 5 min read

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February 2012

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

February 1, 2012 2 min read

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Caption competition?

Well, sorry, no, this is just too easy: guess “World’s biggest bunker!” or “World’s biggest sand trap!” (depending on which side of the Atlantic your golfing pe...

January 1, 2012 4 min read

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Lying vehicles

It has become a sarcastic proverb that a thing must be true if you saw it in a newspaper. That is the opinion intelligent people have of that lying vehicle in a...

January 1, 2012 9 min read

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Sand critter guest post: the South Texas sand crab

By Zen Faulkes South Padre Island in Texas has a world-class beach, with lovely fine-grained sand that is wonderful to walk on. The sand grains close up seem to...

January 1, 2012 6 min read

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Sunday Sand Scene

OK, the Paris-Dakar rally is controversial, but this is simply such a spectacular image. [Peru, photo Reuters/Philippe Desmazes]

January 1, 2012 1 min read

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January 2012

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

January 1, 2012 3 min read

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Tom, Dick, Harry, and George - sand and The Great Escape

The plan to dig down to the workshop at the starting point of the tunnel known as Harry, where the wartime fliers began their effort to tunnel beneath the barbe...

January 1, 2012 9 min read