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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...
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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...
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April 2012
Musings and news on the extraordinary stories sand has to tell of our planet and daily lives
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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January 2012
Musings and news on the extraordinary stories sand has to tell of our planet and daily lives
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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...
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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...
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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...
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