Cross Sea: When Two Waves Meet
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 13, 2015
This strange pattern at sea is what happens when two wave systems cross each other at nearly perpendicular angles. This can occur when waves...
The "Big Oil Bubble", a Chinese Knockoff of Chicago’s Famous “Bean”
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 13, 2015
China’s latest knockoff of a widely recognizable landmark is taking shape in the city of Karmay. It’s a huge shiny, bean-shaped sculpture th...
Scars of World War I: The Battlefield of Verdun
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 12, 2015
One of the longest and deadliest battle of the First World War was fought over a small parcel of land in north-eastern France, near the comm...
The 100 Stepped Garden of Awaji Yumebutai
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 12, 2015
Awaji Yumebutai is a complex of buildings consisting of a conference center, a hotel and a memorial in the city of Awaji located in an islan...
Los Angeles Reservoir Covered with 96 Million Plastic Balls to Fight Evaporation
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 11, 2015
Over the last few days, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power released 96 million black, plastic shade balls into a reservoir at the...
The Opulent Offices of Harbin Pharmaceuticals
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 11, 2015
Why are prescription drugs so expensive? Here is the answer. A few years ago, Harbin Pharmaceutical Group Co., Ltd., a Chinese state-owned ...
Eartha: World's Largest Rotating Globe
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 11, 2015
The world's largest rotating globe, nicknamed "Eartha", is located at the headquarters of DeLorme, a business that provides ma...
Cleft Island, Wilsons Promontory, Australia
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 10, 2015
Cleft Island, also known as Skull Rock, is a granite island located off the coast of Wilsons Promontory in the state of Victoria, in Austral...
‘Hope for Peace’ Monument in Yarze, Lebanon
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 10, 2015
The Lebanese Military Museum, dedicated for the preservation of old Lebanese military antiques, is located at the Ministry of National Defen...
Luzon Bleeding-Heart: A Dove That Looks Shot Through the Heart
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 10, 2015
The Luzon bleeding-heart ( Gallicolumba luzonica ) is a very shy and secretive species of dove endemic to the island of Luzon in Philippines...
Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 8, 2015
For more than two hundred years the small English village of Brockworth in Gloucestershire has played host to the Cooper's Hill Cheese R...
Body Farms: Outdoor Research Facilities for Studying Decomposing Bodies
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 7, 2015
Less than forty years ago, our understanding of how the human body decomposes was limited. Much of what was known came from ancient studies ...
The Shiprock of New Mexico
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 7, 2015
Shiprock or "the winged rock" in Navajo, is a monolith composed of resistant volcanic rock that rises nearly 500 meters above the ...
The Mysterious Patomskiy Crater
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 6, 2015
In 1949 a geologist named Vadim Kolpakov discovered a large mound of limestone in the north of the Irkutsk region in southeastern Siberia, a...
The Circus of Bath
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 6, 2015
The Circus, Latin for “circular”, is an iconic building in the city of Bath, in Somerset, in England, consisting of three curved segments of...
China is Building The World's Largest Telescope
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 5, 2015
The Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico will soon lose its title of the largest single aperture radio telescope ever constructed. The Chines...
The Slag Heaps of Loos-en-Gohelle
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 5, 2015
In the commune of Loos-en-Gohelle, a former mining town in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France, are a series of five conical hills, of w...
Tanaka Tatsuya’s Miniature Calendar
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 5, 2015
Japanese artist Tanaka Tatsuya has been photographing his collection of diorama dolls interacting with everyday objects he finds around his ...
The Log House of Nikolay Sutyagin
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 4, 2015
Not many years ago, in northern Russia, on the outskirts of the city of Archangel, by the Dvina River, stood a tall wooden house — a whimsic...
Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater Restaurant
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 4, 2015
The Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater Restaurant is located at Disney's Hollywood Studios, one of the four main theme parks at Walt Disney World, i...
