Wrangel Island: The Island of Polar Bears And Wooly Mammoth
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 22, 2018
Wrangel Island, in the Arctic Ocean, is one of the most remote islands in Russia. Straddling the International Date Line—the boundary where ...
The 4,000-Year-Old Termite Mounds The Size of Britain
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 21, 2018
In the seasonally dry, deciduous forests of northeastern Brazil, obscured by walls of thorny-scrubs, is a vast landscape made up of tens of ...
A Barrel Post Office, Mysterious Disappearances and Moby Dick: The Strange History of Floreana Island
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 21, 2018
The Galapagos islands in the Pacific Ocean were once natural stopovers for 18-century whalers, who were drawn to the remote islands by fresh...
Schwerer Gustav: The World’s Biggest Gun Ever Built
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 19, 2018
Hitler sure had some grand ideas—from mass murdering Jews and conquering Europe, to rebuilding Berlin and draining the Mediterranean sea . ...
“The Miraculous Journey” By Damien Hirst
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 19, 2018
A series of fourteen monumental bronze sculptures chronicling the gestation of a fetus inside a womb, from conception to birth, is one of th...
Why Iceland Imports Ice From Other Countries
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 17, 2018
The name Iceland is a misnomer. In reality, the country is stunningly green, especially during summer, and only about ten percent of Iceland...
The Korean Exam That Brings The Nation to a Halt
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 17, 2018
Every year in November, more than half a million high school students across South Korea sit for the examination of their life—the infamous ...
A Modern Mosque That’s Angering Iranian Muslims
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 15, 2018
The fate of a beautiful, avant-garde mosque in the Iranian capital Tehran hangs in balance as the city decides what to do with the partially...
The Homeless Jesus Sculpture
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 15, 2018
Since 2013, Canadian sculptor Timothy Schmalz has been placing a particular sculpture depicting a homeless man sleeping on a bench in citie...
Tiny Fairy Houses of Isle of Man
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 15, 2018
Tiny adorable “fairy houses” are popping all over Isle of Man, a small island sandwiched between Great Britain and Ireland, in the past few ...
