#sand

You know what sucks? Getting sand on everything you own. That sand might be tracked home from the beach but this starts long before your arrival on the white sand beaches. It starts when you pack up towels and mats that aren’t sand-free because you’re all but guaranteeing you get destroyed by sand

From now on you’ll be able to announce that the sands of time are running out without sounding too dramatic. And that is thanks to Mexican architecture company Álvaro Ramírez + Arquitectos. The people behind the idea of this creation might be fans of board games, Alias, in particular, since the

Author: Maria Popova / Source: Brain Pickings “There is nothing quite so tragic as a young cynic, because it means the person has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing,” Maya Angelou wrote in contemplating courage in the face of evil. Sometimes, evil comes in one of its deceptively

Source: Atlas Obscura The nomadic Tuareg people of Northern Africa have perfected the art of bread-making in the Sahara desert with taguella, a handy sand-baked bread and staple of their diet. The process of making taguella begins like most breads, by mixing grains (usually semolina or millet)

Author: Cara Giaimo / Source: Atlas Obscura It’s not a great idea to sunbathe on Mars. But if you really wanted to, and you lived a few billion years ago, we now know where you might have gone. In a recent study in the Journal of Geophysical Research, planetary geomorphologist Mackenzie Day and