According to a story in CNN, you may soon be able to slip into a set of artificial gills , and take to the water without having to haul along a pressurized tank of the atmosphere.
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This past Sunday NPR’s Weekend Edition interviewed Vince Beiser about his new book The World in a Grain . During the interview , Beiser made a mind-boggling claim. If you take all the sand used commercially every year, all 50 billion tons of it, you would have enough sand to cover the state of California. To which Californians might ask: “Well, how deep are we talking?”