50 Years of NASA’s Space Food
Kaushik Patowary
May 8, 2013
NASA’s Advanced Food Technology Project is responsible for providing space flight crews with a food system that is safe, nutritious, and ac...
The Majestic Tufa Towers of Mono Lake, California
Kaushik Patowary
May 7, 2013
Mono Lake is a shallow salt water lake located in the high desert on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, in California in the ...
The Katskhi Pillar, Georgia
Kaushik Patowary
May 7, 2013
The Katskhi pillar is an imposing limestone monolith, 40 meters tall, located in the village of Katskhi in western Georgian region of Imeret...
The Green Belt Along The World’s Longest Desert Highway
Kaushik Patowary
May 5, 2013
The Tarim Desert Highway across the Taklamakan desert, in China, links the cities of Luntai and Minfeng on the northern and southern edges o...
Larung Gar Buddhist Academy in Serthar, Tibet
Kaushik Patowary
May 5, 2013
Larung Gar Buddhist Academy, also known as Serthar Buddhist Institute, sits in the Larung Valley at an elevation of 4,000 meters, about 15 k...
Crude Oil Spas of Naftalan, Azerbaijan
Kaushik Patowary
May 5, 2013
In the Azerbaijan city of Naftalan, 320 kilometers north-west of the capital Baku, crude oil is found in such abundance that people literall...
Dark Surreal Paintings by Lisa Adams
Kaushik Patowary
May 2, 2013
Queensland based Lisa Adams is a self-taught, realist artist who lives remotely on a bush property in the hinterland of Queensland’s Sunshi...
The Living Residents of Manila’s North Cemetery
Kaushik Patowary
May 2, 2013
Housing is such scarce in the Filipino capital of Manila, that thousands of residents have found an alternative to their housing woes by mak...
Street Art by Julien Malland a.k.a Seth Globepainter
Kaushik Patowary
May 1, 2013
French street artist Julien Malland, better known as Seth Globepainter , travels around the world, creating large scale murals using the wal...
Fujian Tulou: Ancient Earthen Castles of China
Kaushik Patowary
May 1, 2013
Fujian Tulou is a collection of earthen houses, impenetrable by outsiders, built between the 12th and the 20th centuries, located in the mou...
