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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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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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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...

December 1, 2011 4 min read

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Sand continuum - a modelling breakthrough

It’s happened again – a topic that I touched on in my Milan talk shows up in a New Scientist report from earlier this year (I only just caught up with it). In t...

November 1, 2011 4 min read

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Sunday sand: Komodo pink

No, these photos are not photoshopped – these are the real colours of this beach on Komodo Island: Simply spectacular, macroscopically and microscopically, and...

November 1, 2011 3 min read

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A flavour of things to come (but probably later rather than sooner)

I am now returned from what can only be described as an utterly memorable and spectacular trip. Although it began with some uncertainty when we found that our o...

October 1, 2011 3 min read

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Suna

The calligraphy above translates from the Japanese as “sand sand sand sand.” Why my sudden interest in suna, as the Japanese word is transcribed? Simply because...

October 1, 2011 3 min read

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October 2011

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

October 1, 2011 3 min read

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September 2011

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

September 1, 2011 2 min read

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A book I look forward to reading

I have referred several times in the past to Orrin H. Pilkey, James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of Geology at Duke University. Now, together with colleagues from...

August 1, 2011 2 min read