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Science for the People

Did you know that, even though sand the most used build­ing mate­ri­als in world, the sand in the desert is more or less use­less? Did you know there is a seri­ous black mar­ket trade in sand in cer­tain parts of the world, and that peo­ple are mur­dered to pro­tect that black mar­ket trade? This week we learn just how much of our mod­ern world is built with, on, and using sand. We spend the hour with award-win­ning jour­nal­ist and author Vince Beis­er, talk­ing about his new book The World in a Grain: The Sto­ry of Sand”.