Pavlov’s House in Volgograd
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 17, 2015
On the banks of river Volga in the heart of modern-day Volgograd, formerly Stalingrad, stands a four-story apartment building with a brick m...
Dig Your Own Fossils at These Quarries
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 16, 2015
People knew about fossils since the time of Herodotus, but it was only in the late 18th and early 19th century, when the importance of fossi...
Musical Roads That Play Melodies When Cars Drive Over
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 16, 2015
A Japanese engineer by the name of Shizuo Shinoda was digging with a bulldozer when he accidentally scraped some markings into a road with i...
Crooked, Drunken And Dancing Forests
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 14, 2015
A tree, when left to its own device, will normally grow straight. But when the tree is young and its trunk is tender, it can be forced to gr...
A Tsunami of Shelf Cloud Over Sydney
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 14, 2015
For the last few days, social media is awash with photographs of an extraordinary roll of cloud that has acquired the moniker of “cloud tsun...
The EVE Online Monument in Reykjavik
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 12, 2015
In the world of massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), the science fiction game EVE Online developed and published by CCP ...
The Monster Waves at Nazare, Portugal
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 11, 2015
The pretty seaside town and resort of Nazaré on the west coast of Portugal remains crowded throughout the summer with tourists who flock to ...
The Geographic Center of Asia
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 11, 2015
If you were to take the entire continent of Asia and balance it on a pinhead, you would have to put the pin at a place called Kyzyl in Russi...
The Mei-ling Palace of Nanjing Looks Like a Giant Necklace
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 10, 2015
The Mei-ling Palace, located on the top of Xiaohong Hill in eastern Nanjing city, was once the home of China’s former president Chiang Kai-s...
Woodhenge: Stonehenge’s Sister Circle Made of Wood
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 10, 2015
Less than 2 miles north-east of the famous Stonehenge stood another Neolithic-age monument but made of timber. Although the wood is long gon...
