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Acknowledgements; Contents; 1 Guerrilla Science; 2 The Chinese Connection; 2.1 From Vortices to Grains; 2.2 Debugging Granular Piles; 2.3 Are Avalanches Predictable?; Bibliography; 3 Strange Phenomena in Cuban Sands; 3.1 Echoes of a Failed Class Demonstration: The Revolving Rivers; 3.2 An Open Problem in Three Steps; 3.3 Uphill Bumps: Moving Against the Flow; Bibliography; 4 Lab-in-a-Bucket: Low Budget Experiments in the Solar System; 4.1 Infinite Penetration into Granular Matter; 4.2 Going Wireless Finds Its Match; 4.2.1 Lab-in-a-Bucket, Reloaded; Bibliography; 5 Garbage Experiments.
5.1 A Transverse Point of View5.2 Sink Versus Tilt: The Role of Foundations; Bibliography; 6 A Reason to Drink Coca Cola; 6.1 The "Granular Vesicle Effect": A Frustrating Experiment; 6.2 While Biding My Time: The Birth of the Vibrot; 6.3 And Now What?; Bibliography; 7 Should We Be a Little Afraid to Urinate?; Bibliography; 8 Smarter Than Bibijaguas; 8.1 A Model for Ant Foraging; 8.2 Foragers Under Attack; 8.3 Symmetry Breaking in Escaping Ants; Bibliography; Annex A: How Grains Influence Weak Links in Ceramic Superconductors; Bibliography.
5.1 A Transverse Point of View5.2 Sink Versus Tilt: The Role of Foundations; Bibliography; 6 A Reason to Drink Coca Cola; 6.1 The "Granular Vesicle Effect": A Frustrating Experiment; 6.2 While Biding My Time: The Birth of the Vibrot; 6.3 And Now What?; Bibliography; 7 Should We Be a Little Afraid to Urinate?; Bibliography; 8 Smarter Than Bibijaguas; 8.1 A Model for Ant Foraging; 8.2 Foragers Under Attack; 8.3 Symmetry Breaking in Escaping Ants; Bibliography; Annex A: How Grains Influence Weak Links in Ceramic Superconductors; Bibliography.