Disposable Ships
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 12, 2019
Before the Industrial Revolution, the British shipbuilding industry was completely dependent on the countries around the Baltic Sea for timb...
The Spiral Hives of Sugarbag Bees
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 10, 2019
Not all bees sting. There are about five hundred bee species out of twenty thousand that have lost that ability, but they do exhibit other d...
Chinese Medicine Dolls
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 10, 2019
For hundreds of years until the early 20th century, getting medical help for a Chinese woman was tricky. In those times the Chinese placed e...
Bouvet Island: The Uninhabited Island With Its Own Top-Level Internet Domain
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 8, 2019
As far as islands go, Bouvet is pretty insignificant—a speck of rock located in the South Atlantic Ocean over 1,600 kilometers off the coast...
An Incredible Move: The Indiana Bell Telephone Building
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 7, 2019
The relocation of the headquarters building of Indiana Bell Telephone Company in Indianapolis remains one of the most fascinating moves in t...
Shadwell Forgeries: How Two Illiterates Fooled Victorian Archeologists
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 5, 2019
During the middle of the 19th century, London’s antiquarian market was flooded by the sudden arrival of a large number of supposedly mediaev...
Megapode Egg Fields
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 2, 2019
Most birds incubate their eggs with body heat, but not megapodes, a chicken-sized bird with heavy body, short rounded wings and large, stron...
Fist Fights on Venetian Bridges
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 1, 2019
Throughout the Middle Ages and the early Modern Period, Venice was divided into many administrative districts and rival factions, who disp...
Fatberg: The Fatty Monster of The Sewer
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 30, 2019
Blockages in sewers are pretty common in cities across the globe. But how large a congealed mass of filth has to be before it gets its own n...
Russia’s Circular Warships
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 28, 2019
In the latter half of the 19th century, ships began to transition from wood to iron and many engineers thought the time was ripe to experime...
