Scarecrow Festivals in the UK
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 31, 2015
Scarecrow festivals are held all over the world, but they are especially popular in the United Kingdom, where the use of scarecrows as a pro...
Auckland’s Utility Boxes Get Graffiti Makeover
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 31, 2015
Auckland-born artist Paul Walsh has been painting telephone utility boxes around his home city since 2013 with animal characters inspired b...
Singapore’s Playgrounds From Above
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 30, 2015
Malaysia-born and Singapore-raised renowned photographer Stefen Chow, in collaboration with a local company called Avetics, flew drones all ...
Half Animal, Half Plant: The Solar-Powered Sea Slugs
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 30, 2015
Can eating lots of vegetables turn you into a vegetable? Not really, unless you are a sea slug. There are several species of sea slugs that...
Pencil Tip Sculptures by Salavat Fidai
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 30, 2015
Russian artist Salavat Fidai carves miniature sculptures on the lead tip of pencils, an art form he was inspired by another well-known mini...
RATAN-600, The World’s Largest Radio Telescope
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 29, 2015
RATAN-600 (short for Radio Astronomical Telescope of the Academy of Sciences) is a radio telescope located near the village of Zelenchukskay...
The Leper Tree of Malawi
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 29, 2015
Leprosy is a curable disease, but less than seventy years ago, people were dying from it. After the end of the 17th century, leprosy became ...
The Train to Heaven in Wroclaw
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 28, 2015
The Train to Heaven is a monument depicting an old, real steam locomotive standing upright and pointing towards the sky, located at Strzegom...
Sea Walls: Murals for Oceans 2015
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 28, 2015
Sea Walls: Murals for Oceans is an ongoing street art festival taking place in the island of Cozumel, in the Caribbean Sea off the eastern c...
The Narrowest Streets in the World
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 27, 2015
At what point does a street cease to be a street? According to the Guinness Book of Records, the narrowest street in the world is located in...
The Surreal World of Neutrino Detectors
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 27, 2015
Neutrinos are one of the fundamental particles which make up the universe, but not in the way electrons, protons and neutrons are. These par...
Exploding Anatomy Street Art of Nychos
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 25, 2015
Nychos is a street artist from Austria who creates highly imaginative “exploded-view” murals showing animals, humans and other characters i...
The Fairy Stones of Harricana River
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 25, 2015
We have seen in the past that concretions — the precipitation of minerals around particles — usually take spherical or oval shapes, as in th...
The Fortified Towns of M'Zab Valley
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 24, 2015
MʾZab is a deep, narrow oasis valley located within the Sahara, consisting of five walled towns, about 600 km south of Algiers, the capital ...
James Turrell’s Roden Crater
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 24, 2015
If you thought building a house on top of an extinct volcano was cool, how about building one on the inside? That’s what artist James Turre...
Michigan Builds Fake Town to Test Driverless Cars
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 23, 2015
Early this week, the University of Michigan together with Michigan Department of Transportation opened a new test environment that would ena...
Wycliffe Well: The UFO Capital of Australia
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 23, 2015
The self proclaimed “UFO capital of Australia” lies on Stuart Highway in Northern Territory, between the towns of Tennant Creek and Alice Sp...
The Salt Lake Tuz of Turkey
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 22, 2015
Lake Tuz, or Tuz Golu in Turkish, is a saline lake located in a huge area in the arid central plateau of Turkey, about 105 km northeast of K...
Yoo Hyun’s Photorealistic Paper Cut Portraits
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 22, 2015
Armed with only an X-acto knife and tweezers, Korean artist Yoo Hyun carves intricate portraits of famous personalities like Marilyn Monroe...
Fulgurite: What Happens When Lightning Strikes Sand
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 21, 2015
A single bolt of lightning can deliver 5 gigajoule of energy enough to power an average U.S. household for more than a month. When such a ...
