Blog - Through the sandglass

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November 2009

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

November 1, 2009 6 min read

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Too much, too little, and often in the wrong place

It rose out of the omnipresent sand of a natural island, and there remains a thin layer of the ocher substance almost everywhere: on the canopied grandstands, o...

November 1, 2009 8 min read

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Reports from the Solway Firth (2): Guest Writer and a Submerged Forest

My kind hosts for the Café Scientifique event were Ann Lackie and her husband, John. They had set up the group originally and are to be commended for their devo...

December 1, 2009 15 min read

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December 2009

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

December 1, 2009 1 min read

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January 2010

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

January 1, 2010 5 min read

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February 2010

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

February 1, 2010 3 min read

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Two museums and the Fontainebleau glass sand

A few weeks ago, the art museum in Montpellier provided a welcome refuge from torrential rain (of course, I was planning on visiting anyway, but the weather dro...

February 1, 2010 5 min read

Roman construction standards: sandstone, cross-bedding, concrete - and tafoni again--and-tafoni-again

As our group stood in the rain in the great arena of the stunning Roman amphitheatre at El Jem in Tunisia, guess who volunteered the fact that “arena” is the La...

November 24, 2025 7 min read

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Thoughts on writing a popular science book (3): the tedious but important stuff

Let’s face it, the research and writing are the fun parts of producing a book, and then there’s the other stuff that is much less enjoyable but vital. Here are...

March 1, 2010 9 min read

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March 2010

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

March 1, 2010 10 min read

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An alarming announcement at Barnes and Noble

I have a habit, more often than not masochistic, of dropping into book stores to see whether my efforts are on the shelves. Wandering around the upper Westside...

April 1, 2010 3 min read

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Larry's beach - and a scale quiz

Just about exactly a year ago, I had the pleasure of posting some of Larry Deemer’s spectacular photographs from his local beach at Breezy Point, Queens, New Yo...

April 1, 2010 3 min read