Blog - Through the sandglass

Fundraising and madness in the desert - the Marathon des Sables

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November 24, 2025 4 min read

Granular films - sand the movie star

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November 24, 2025 14 min read

Guest Photographer - nature

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November 24, 2025 3 min read

Kitchen physics - making cross-bedding

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November 24, 2025 7 min read

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Kitchen physics continued

Some further observations, and hints for readers who wish to try this at home (or in the classroom). I was, as you could probably tell, flushed with the success...

April 1, 2009 7 min read

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Sandstone-making microbes, tafoni - and an extraordinary design idea

I love connections. Those unexpected and wonderful threads of stories that link and flow from one subject to another, subjects that would have seemed to have ha...

April 1, 2009 9 min read

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April 2009

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

April 1, 2009 8 min read

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Beach Nourishment and Sediment Budgets

I’m in the US at the moment (outside Philadelphia to be more precise), visiting family and preparing to give a talk in a couple of weeks time at the aquarium in...

May 1, 2009 6 min read

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Dr Who and the Sands of Time

For those non-UK readers who are saying to themselves, “Dr Who?” and suspecting that this might be a version of the “who’s on first?” routine, I’m referring to...

May 1, 2009 4 min read

More adventures of bacillus pasteurii - mending concrete

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November 24, 2025 4 min read

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Philadelphia sandy news, and a couple of commercials

I’m reporting from the Philadelphia suburbs at the moment and therefore enjoying all the news that’s fit to print in the Philadelphia Inquirer each morning. On...

May 1, 2009 3 min read

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