Exploding Anatomy Street Art of Nychos
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 25, 2015
Nychos is a street artist from Austria who creates highly imaginative “exploded-view” murals showing animals, humans and other characters i...
The Fairy Stones of Harricana River
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 25, 2015
We have seen in the past that concretions — the precipitation of minerals around particles — usually take spherical or oval shapes, as in th...
The Fortified Towns of M'Zab Valley
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 24, 2015
MʾZab is a deep, narrow oasis valley located within the Sahara, consisting of five walled towns, about 600 km south of Algiers, the capital ...
James Turrell’s Roden Crater
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 24, 2015
If you thought building a house on top of an extinct volcano was cool, how about building one on the inside? That’s what artist James Turre...
Michigan Builds Fake Town to Test Driverless Cars
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 23, 2015
Early this week, the University of Michigan together with Michigan Department of Transportation opened a new test environment that would ena...
Wycliffe Well: The UFO Capital of Australia
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 23, 2015
The self proclaimed “UFO capital of Australia” lies on Stuart Highway in Northern Territory, between the towns of Tennant Creek and Alice Sp...
The Salt Lake Tuz of Turkey
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 22, 2015
Lake Tuz, or Tuz Golu in Turkish, is a saline lake located in a huge area in the arid central plateau of Turkey, about 105 km northeast of K...
Yoo Hyun’s Photorealistic Paper Cut Portraits
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 22, 2015
Armed with only an X-acto knife and tweezers, Korean artist Yoo Hyun carves intricate portraits of famous personalities like Marilyn Monroe...
Fulgurite: What Happens When Lightning Strikes Sand
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 21, 2015
A single bolt of lightning can deliver 5 gigajoule of energy enough to power an average U.S. household for more than a month. When such a ...
The Story of Hachiko, The Loyal Dog
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 20, 2015
Just outside one of the five exits of Tokyo's Shibuya Station is a bronze statue of a dog named Hachiko. It is one of the most popular m...
