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June 2013

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

June 1, 2013 7 min read

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Guest post: One Grain of Sand, by Susanne Rieth

“One grain of sand, it is all that remains of my vast empire." This line is from the classic film The Never Ending Story. When the mythical land of Fantasi...

May 1, 2013 4 min read

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The waves roll on - and Breezy Point tries to rebuild

Back in the very early days of this blog, one of the great and rewarding pieces of serendipity was getting to know Larry Deemer, sand aficionado and photographe...

May 1, 2013 3 min read

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April 2013

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

April 1, 2013 9 min read

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January 2013

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

January 1, 2013 3 min read

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Vandalism is an inadequate word

There is something of a mystery, an historical debate, about who exactly caused the burning of the great Library at Alexandria. There is, however, no mystery ab...

January 1, 2013 3 min read

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December 2012

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

December 1, 2012 3 min read

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The muddied waters of Sandy

In the aftermath of the real super-storm (or hurricane) Sandy, there has been, not surprisingly, a super-storm of reporting, opinionating, blogging, and twitter...

November 1, 2012 7 min read

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The ongoing theme, ongoing

“We cannot sustain the shoreline in the future as we have in the past” Oblique aerial photographs of Mantoloking, NJ. View looking west along the New Jersey sho...

November 1, 2012 4 min read

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November 2012

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

November 1, 2012 7 min read

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A mystery resolved

So what is this? Land-art on the moon? An alien landing pad in the Utah desert? The work of nocturnal new-agers at the beach? The answer of course, is none of t...

October 1, 2012 1 min read

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What is happening to British dunes? The testimony of Eryngium maritimum

It was tempting to make the subject of this entire post the egregious activities of the outstanding American buffoon, Donald Trump (plea to trans-Atlantic reade...

September 1, 2012 11 min read