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Depending on where you are in the world, the sand beneath your feet can be anything from a fragment of a seashell to brine shrimp excrement to a piece of coral – the classification ‘sand’ only means a particle that is smaller than gravel and larger than silt. The Amazing Life of Sand explores the diverse nature of the substance, and the incredible journeys sand particles frequently travel.
Producers: Josh Cassidy, Liz Roth-Johnson
Website: Deep Look
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Human rights and justice
Surreal, dazzling visuals form an Iranian expat’s tribute to defiance back home
10 minutes
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Language and linguistics
Do button-pushing dogs have something new to say about language?
9 minutes
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Art
When East met West in the images of an overlooked, original photographer
9 minutes
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History of science
Ideas ‘of pure genius’ – how astronomers have measured the Universe across history
29 minutes
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Values and beliefs
Why a single tree, uprooted in a typhoon, means so much to one man in Hanoi
7 minutes
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Meaning and the good life
Why Orwell urged his readers to celebrate the spring, cynics be damned
11 minutes
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Making
On the Norwegian coast, a tree is transformed into a boat the old-fashioned way
6 minutes
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Animals and humans
One man’s quest to save an orphaned squirrel, as narrated by David Attenborough
14 minutes
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Computing and artificial intelligence
A future in which ‘artificial scientists’ make discoveries may not be far away
9 minutes