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Honeycomb shelters

What, you might reasonably ask, is this image? This is, after all, a blog about topics arenaceous, and folded paper ornaments would, while somewhat seasonal, ha...

January 1, 2015 4 min read

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Hypnopompic dunes

Between sleeping and awakening. We tend to think of the world’s dune fields as fearsomely awake, threatening and encroaching, creating vast sand and dust storms...

November 1, 2014 8 min read

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November 2014

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

November 1, 2014 8 min read

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Earth Science Week 2014

Earth Science Week 2014 “Since October 1998, the American Geosciences Institute has organized this national and international event to help the public gain a be...

October 1, 2014 3 min read

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August 2014

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

August 1, 2014 6 min read

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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 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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