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I want one of these!

Via Geoff Manaugh at BLDBLOG and the US Military, a spectacular digital/analog sandbox! Yes, it’s developed for war games and military planning and operations,...

October 1, 2014 2 min read

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October 2014

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

October 1, 2014 1 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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Season's Greetings to all!

Season’s Greetings to all! SIGNATURE Originally published at: https://throughthesandglass.typepad.com/through_the_sandglass/2014/12/seasons-greetings-to-all.htm...

December 1, 2014 1 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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December 2014

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

December 1, 2014 1 min read

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From India to France

Indian artist Sudarsan Pattnaik and his tribute to those killed in the attack on Charlie Hebdo, courtesy of Agence France-Presse and Asit Kumar.

January 1, 2015 1 min read

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Guest post: Baltic gold: the amber rush

Danuta Ziętala writes: When you visit the Polish coast you have to take a souvenir: a necklace made of amber, a bracelet made of amber, or other jewellery. Pric...

January 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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