The Bloodwood Tree
Kaushik Patowary
May 4, 2014
Pterocarpus angolensis is a kind of teak native to southern Africa, known by various names such as Kiaat, Mukwa, and Muninga. It is also ca...
Mangalitsa, The Pig That Resembles a Sheep
Kaushik Patowary
May 4, 2014
Mangalitsa or Mangalica is a rare breed of pig of Hungarian origin that has an unusual growth of curly hair over its body, akin to that of a...
Towing Icebergs Away From Oil Platforms
Kaushik Patowary
May 2, 2014
Every year 20,000 to 40,000 icebergs are born out of glaciers in Greenland and carried away by the currents and into the North Atlantic wher...
Myanmar’s Manual Oil Drills
Kaushik Patowary
May 1, 2014
Myanmar is rich in natural resources, but much of this remains untapped. Political sanctions imposed by the military regime that ruled the c...
The Deer Stones of Mongolia
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 30, 2014
Throughout the grasslands of northern Mongolia and southern Siberia lay scattered hundreds of megaliths bearing mysterious carvings that see...
Spruce Creek: Where Everybody Owns an Airplane
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 30, 2014
Spruce Creek, in Northeast Florida, a few miles south of Daytona Beach, is one of the most unique residential communities in the world. Know...
Cedar Avenue of Nikko, The World’s Longest Tree-Lined Avenue
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 29, 2014
The Cedar Avenue of Nikko, in the city of Nikko in Japan, stretches for 37 km and lined on either side by some 13,000 cedar trees, known as ...
City Crows Build Nests Out of Coat Hangers
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 28, 2014
When Aesop wrote the famous fable “The Crow and the Pitcher”, he wasn’t making up a story. The fable was based on actual observation that wa...
Meskel Square, A Chaotic Intersection With No Traffic Lights
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 27, 2014
Chaotic doesn’t even begin to describe how crazy the Meskel Square intersection is, in the city of Addis Ababa in Ethiopia. Without a single...
Wadi Al-Hitan, the Valley of Whales in Egypt
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 25, 2014
The deserts of Egypt contains some of the best preserved paleontological sites in the world one of which is Wadi al-Hitan or the Valley of W...
