Theremin: The Musical Instrument That You Can Play Without Touching
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 6, 2020
The theremin is probably the world's strangest and spookiest musical instrument ever made. It has no keys, no strings, just two metal ro...
The Abandoned Cryolite Mining Town of Ivittuut
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 4, 2020
Near the southern tip of Greenland, lies the old mining town of Ivittuut, now a collection of ramshackle houses and sheds and scattered piec...
Tron: Scotland’s Public Weighing Scales
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 3, 2020
The tron at Stenton, East Lothian, Scotland. Image credit: Studio Karel/Shutterstock.com This is the village of Stenton, in East Lothian...
The Mathematical Bridge of Cambridge
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 3, 2020
The Mathematical Bridge is a wooden footbridge across the River Cam, connecting the old and new parts of Queens' College in Cambridge. T...
The Meteorite That Changed The Course of Christianity
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 2, 2020
For more than two centuries, Christianity suffered under the Roman Empire. Christians were arrested, tortured, mutilated, burned, and starve...
Why do People Spit on The Heart of Midlothian?
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 31, 2019
Spitting on the streets is not quite gentlemanly behavior, but on the Royal Mile in Edinburg, it is almost a ritual. The object of contemp...
The Christmas Lights Powered by an Electric Eel
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 31, 2019
Visitors to the Tennessee Aquarium in downtown Chattanooga, the United States, are treated to a shocking Christmas attraction this December....
The Ruins of Washburn A Mill, Minneapolis
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 30, 2019
The tasteful ruins on the banks of the Mississippi River from which rises the Minneapolis’ Mill City Museum serves as a reminder to the site...
Child Birth by Centrifugal Force
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 28, 2019
In 1965, George and Charlotte Blonsky, a childless New York couple were granted patent for a peculiarly weird invention—an ”Apparatus for F...
Corona Spy Satellite: The Humble Beginning of Satellite Espionage
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 27, 2019
There is not a square-inch of earth that has not been photographed and mapped by satellites today. These spying eyes, flying hundreds of mil...
