Sarah Jacob: The Girl Who Starved to Death to Prove Herself
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 21, 2021
There have been quite a few cases where people claimed to have survived without food. These people call themselves “breatharians” for they p...
Russia’s Hand-Tossed Satellites
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 19, 2021
On November 3, 1997, cosmonaut Pavel Vinogradov and Anatoly Solovyov were spacewalking outside the Mir space station to remove an old solar ...
Anatomical Theaters
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 16, 2021
Since ancient times, the primary way to teach and learn anatomy have been to dissect human cadavers. Generations of surgeons have learned an...
Elephant of The Bastille
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 14, 2021
Between 1814 and 1846, there stood a colossal plaster elephant in the heart of Paris, at the site of the former Bastille prison. For much of...
Why The Soviet Union Lied About Yuri Gagarin's Historic Space Flight
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 12, 2021
Exactly sixty years ago, on April 12, 1961, Vostok 1 took off from Baikonur Cosmodrome taking along cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on the first ever...
The Chapati Movement of 1857
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 8, 2021
The year was 1857. A storm was brewing in British-occupied India. There was growing resentment among the Indians against the rule of the Eas...
King’s Holly: The 43,600 Year Old Plant
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 7, 2021
Lomatia tasmanica, commonly known as King's lomatia or King’s Holly, is an unusual plant. It bears flowers, yet produces neither fruit n...
Zwentendorf, The Nuclear Power Plant That Was Never Turned On
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 6, 2021
The Zwentendorf Nuclear Power Plant, located on the bank of the Danube River, about 20 miles northwest of Vienna, is Austria’s only nuclear ...
How Rubber Ducks Are Helping Scientists Chart The Oceans
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 2, 2021
In early January 1992, the container ship Evergreen Ever Laurel departed Hong Kong for Washington. Among the millions of things that Ever L...
The Remote Swedish Town That Drives The Automobile Industry
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 1, 2021
Every car goes through a battery of tests before they are rolled out into the market. Some of these tests include driving in extreme conditi...
