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Ralph Bagnold's wartime posting to map the dunes of North Africa was like a desert epic — and it inspired his classic text on how wind-blown grains self-organize into regular patterns,
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Contact customer support AUTHOR INFORMATION AUTHORS AND AFFILIATIONS * Philip Ball is a consultant editor for Nature. His forthcoming book series is Nature's Patterns: A Tapestry in
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