Archive: 2014 - Through the sandglass

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Mars comes to Stevenage

Stevenage: for readers outside of the UK it may not ring much of a bell, and indeed, with no disrespect to Stevenagians, for most UK readers it is not one of ou...

July 1, 2014 4 min read

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July 2014

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

July 1, 2014 6 min read

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Fact-checking – and a new xerocole

Being still in the throes of editing and correcting the proofs for the new book (with the exception of compiling the index, the least enjoyable part of the whol...

June 1, 2014 5 min read

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The 6th June

It just seems appropriate to provide a link to my post of last year on the stunning and moving memorial at Arromanches by artists Andy Moss and Jamie Wardley. A...

June 1, 2014 1 min read

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The United Nations watches ‘Sand Wars’

Serendipity is a wonderful thing, and I was surprised and delighted to find, completely by accident while looking for something else, this document, published b...

June 1, 2014 2 min read

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June 2014

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

June 1, 2014 5 min read

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The explosive unpredictability of travel

Three years ago we embarked in Bali and headed eastward, across the Wallace Line, and island-hopped for a while around the archipelago of Nusa Tenggara. We sail...

May 1, 2014 3 min read

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May 2014

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

May 1, 2014 2 min read

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Water on the desert sands

We all know that walking along the beach on wet sand is easier than dragging our feet through the dry stuff. We all know that wet sand is a very different mater...

May 1, 2014 6 min read

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April 2014

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

April 1, 2014 6 min read

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"Sand Wars" at the Washington DC Environmental Film Festival

The US Premiere of the documentary Sand Wars, to which your humble correspondent contributed, will be shown as part of the Environmental Film Festival in Washin...

March 1, 2014 1 min read

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The sands of Mars (again)

Periodically, I become absorbed in the wonders of the images on the Mars High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment site. I recently became exhausted by the pro...

March 1, 2014 1 min read