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April 2015

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

April 1, 2015 3 min read

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Ecosystem engineers and keystone species

In large areas of Australia there are probably several hundred tons of termites in every square kilometre. From The Desert, Lands of Lost Borders, Chapter 6: Th...

March 1, 2015 5 min read

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Georgia Tech Crab Lab: guest post on the art of sidewinding

Over the life of this blog, I have written a number of times on the remarkable and innovative work carried out at Georgia Tech’s Crab Lab, investigations into h...

March 1, 2015 4 min read

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March 2015

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

March 1, 2015 4 min read

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The Desert: Lands of Lost Borders

The book is now available in the UK and the US! I have to say that the publishers, Reaktion Books (and the University of Chicago Press in the US), have done a b...

February 1, 2015 4 min read

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February 2015

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

February 1, 2015 3 min read

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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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Robot sand artist

I don’t think Jim Denevan need lose any sleep over possible competition, but this is fun! From New Scientist: No, it’s not alien art. A robotic beach artist has...

January 1, 2015 2 min read

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So shall you scale the stars!

“It would take more Planck lengths to span a grain of sand than it would take grains of sand to span the observable universe.” Geologists tend to pride themselv...

December 1, 2014 3 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