Jordan Mang-osan Solar Pyrography Drawings
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 8, 2014
Magnifying glasses are fascinating, even more, if you are a kid. I remember holding them in the sun burning holes on newspapers or trying to...
Christopher McCandless' Abandoned "Magic Bus"
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 8, 2014
Those who have read Jon Krakauer's book Into the Wild or watched the 2007 Sean Penn’s movie by the same name, should be able to recolle...
Photographer Captures Sprite Lightning Over Italy
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 7, 2014
Up in the atmosphere, high above thunderstorm clouds or cumulonimbus, sometimes mysterious electrical discharges occur known as sprites. The...
Yom Kippur, The Day When Israel Goes Car Free
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 7, 2014
For twenty-four hours each year, all cars goes off the road all over Israel in celebration of Yom Kippur, also known as Day of Atonement - t...
The Chandelier at Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 7, 2014
A magnificent chandelier hangs under the dome of the main entrance of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the world's largest muse...
The Sand Covered Church of Skagen
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 6, 2014
About 2 km southwest of the town center of Skagen, in Denmark, is a brick church half buried in sand. Known as Old Skagen Church or The Buri...
The Crooked House of Windsor
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 3, 2014
While many crooked houses are deliberately built crooked for visitor attraction, the one that stands at market square in Windsor, in England...
Historian Discovers 800 Year Old Doodles in Old Books
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 3, 2014
Some human behavior never change, such as the urge to doodle in the margin of a book. Historian Erik Kwakkel discovered this simple truth wh...
The Surreal World of Google Earth by Clement Valla
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 2, 2014
Brooklyn-based artist Clement Valla scours Google Earth looking for anomalies. They aren’t visible right away, but when the viewpoint is in ...
Terrifying Glass-Bottomed Bridge Opens in China
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 2, 2014
China’s latest attraction is a glass-bottomed suspension bridge that straddles two rocky peaks, 300 meters apart, in Pingjiang county, in th...
35,000 Walruses Come Ashore in Alaska Due to Lack of Sea Ice
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 2, 2014
The brown patch, on the photo below, is a congregation of an estimated 35,000 walruses that came ashore on a beach near Point Lay, an Inupia...
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 30, 2014
Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library is the largest building in the world dedicated to the containment and preservati...
Plimoth Plantation: A Living Museum of a 17th Century English Colony in America
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 30, 2014
In the early 17th century a group of separatists, who came to be known as the Pilgrim Fathers, fled the volatile political environment in En...
The Pier of Old Orchard Beach, Maine
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 29, 2014
Old Orchard Beach is a seven-mile stretch of beach located on the inner side of Saco Bay on the Atlantic Ocean, in Maine, the US. It is a po...
Serbia’s Dry Bridge: A Bridge Without a River
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 27, 2014
The Bega River runs for about 250 km from the Poiana Rusca Mountains in Romania and into Serbia where it flows into the Tisa river near Tite...
Devil's Kettle: A Mysterious Waterfalls
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 26, 2014
The Devil's Kettle is a puzzling geological phenomenon located inside Judge C. R. Magney State Park in Minnesota, in USA, just off the N...
Miniature Dioramas by Satoshi Araki
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 26, 2014
Tokyo based artist Satoshi Araki creates miniature dioramas of chaotic cityscapes that are the result of urban decay or warfare, with amazi...
The Disappearing Glaciers of Africa
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 25, 2014
Africa is typically isn’t the place that inspires visions of ice and glaciers, yet surprisingly, there are a number of glaciers in Africa, a...
Darra Adam Khel: The Village of Illegal Gun Manufacturers
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 25, 2014
Darra Adam Khel is a small village in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, located between the city of Peshawar and Kohat. An unkemp...
The Old Man of The Lake
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 25, 2014
In 1886, when geologist Joseph S. Diller was making the first geological study of Oregon’s Crater Lake, in the US, he noticed a tree stump c...
