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Extraordinary women–and a Gobi sand question

For one reason or another, I have been reading The Gobi Desert by Mildred Cable and Francesca French. In the history of exploration and enquiry into far-flung p...

November 1, 2011 6 min read

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Nikon’s Small World – and other images

Each year, Nikon holds its Small World microphotography competition and the results can always only be described as stunning. This year is no different – but wi...

November 1, 2011 3 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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November 2011

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

November 1, 2011 2 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

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Another margarita!

You live and learn – well, at least I try. And often I don’t even have to try – something I didn’t know (a category that knows no limits) just ups and surprises...

August 1, 2011 4 min read