Sumo Wrestlers Scare Babies at Nakizumo Festival
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 1, 2015
Every spring, a fierce competition takes place between enormous sumo wrestlers, but they aren’t wrestling each other to the ground. They...
Scaly-foot Gastropod: The Snail With an Armor of Iron
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 1, 2015
Deep in the Indian Ocean, near extremely hot hydrothermal vents, where scalding hot water erupts in tall, blacky columns, lives an extraordi...
Zaatari Refugee Camp: A City of its Own
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 1, 2015
When civil war erupted in Syria in 2011, more than three and a half million Syrians fled the country to the neighboring countries of Turkey,...
A-maze-ing Laughter in Vancouver
Kaushik Patowary
May 30, 2015
A-maze-ing Laughter is a collection of 14 enormous bronze statues depicting a shirtless guy laughing hysterically. It was installed in 2009 ...
Dampfmaschinenhaus: A Mosque Shaped Pump House in Potsdam
Kaushik Patowary
May 30, 2015
The Dampfmaschinenhaus at the Neustädter Havelbucht in Potsdam, Germany, looks like a Turkish mosque but is actually a pumping station in di...
Trees That Grow Into Furniture
Kaushik Patowary
May 29, 2015
A UK-based furniture company called Full Grown , started by furniture designer Gavin Munro, doesn’t take wood and make them into furniture. ...
The Hand of Punta del Este
Kaushik Patowary
May 28, 2015
The Hand of Punta del Este, or Mano de Punta del Este , is a sculpture of a hand partially emerging from sand and located at Brava Beach in ...
Catching Salmons With Fish Wheels
Kaushik Patowary
May 28, 2015
A fish wheel is a water-powered device used for catching fish, particularly adult salmon, and consist of a revolving wheel with baskets and ...
Potash Evaporation Ponds in Utah
Kaushik Patowary
May 27, 2015
These electric blue shapes in the brown desert are potash evaporation ponds managed by Intrepid Potash, Inc., the United States’ largest pro...
Nilometer: Ancient Structures Used to Measure the Level of River Nile
Kaushik Patowary
May 26, 2015
Every year the river Nile begins to rise in the summer, the water overflows its banks and deposits slit on the surrounding floodplain. It is...
