photography - Through the sandglass

George Steinmetz

This is a glorious, spectacular book. Steinmetz’s images from a paraglider provide a unique view of some of our planet’s most beautiful landscapes, somehow a li...

March 1, 2013 2 min read

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March 2013

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

March 1, 2013 1 min read

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February 2013

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

February 1, 2013 5 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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Sunday sand food

Living in sand is not easy, and life – animal and vegetable - comes up with all kinds of wonderful solutions for doing so. Perhaps qualifying for one of the mor...

November 1, 2012 2 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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Earth Science Week: the Big Ideas videos

Earth Science Week: the Big Ideas videos Today marks the end of this year’s Earth Science Week . In the past, I have [summarised and discussed]( https://through...

October 1, 2012 5 min read