The World’s Oldest Bird is 64, And She Just Laid an Egg
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 7, 2015
Meet Wisdom, the world’s oldest known banded bird in the wild. She is 64 years old. Wisdom is a Laysan albatross, a large seabird that range...
East Meets West in China’s New Hybrid Building
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 5, 2015
In the past few years, China’s replica business has gone beyond fake Puma shoes and mobile phones. The country is now making headlines with ...
The Floating Forest of Homebush Bay, Sydney
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 5, 2015
The affluent suburb of Homebush Bay on the south bank of the Parramatta River, in the inner west of Sydney, was once the dumping ground for ...
The Sculpted Hedges of Schönbrunn Palace
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 5, 2015
The Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, Austria, is one of Europe’s most impressive Baroque palaces and an important architectural, cultural and hi...
The Marina Towers Observatory in Swansea is Shaped Like a Spaceship
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 4, 2015
This peculiar shaped building resembling a spaceship on its launch pad is located at the end of the promenade in the Maritime Quarter of Swa...
The Ginkgo Avenue in Tokyo
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 4, 2015
Ginkgo biloba, also known as the maidenhair tree, is widely cultivated in many urban areas around the world as an ornamental and shade tree....
The Amphitheatre of El Jem
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 3, 2015
The Amphitheatre of El Jem is located in the town of El Jem or Thysdrus, as it was known in Roman time, in central Tunisia. Modeled after th...
The Neskowin Ghost Forest
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 3, 2015
In the small coastal town of Neskowin in Tillamook County, Oregon, United States, somewhere between Lincoln City and Pacific City, are the r...
The Book Mountain in Spijkenisse, The Netherlands
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 2, 2015
Close to the Port of Rotterdam, in Spijkenisse, is a public library that manifests itself as a mountain of books on the town’s market square...
Nature’s Sand Artist: Sand Bubbler Crab
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 2, 2015
In sandy beaches of certain tropical regions in the Indo-Pacific live a tiny crab, about a centimeter across, called the “sand bubbler crab”...
