The Elusive Gigantic Jets of Lightning
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 2, 2016
The most common kind of lightning observed from earth discharges from cloud to cloud or from clouds toward the ground. The more elusive form...
Taipei’s Typhoon-Bent Mailboxes
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 1, 2016
In August 2015, a powerful typhoon named Soudelor slammed into the east coast of Taiwan bringing torrential rain and fierce wind in excess o...
Stromatolites of Hamelin Pool
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 1, 2016
What appear to be rocks submerged in the hyper-saline water of Hamelin Pool at the base of Shark Bay in the Gascoyne region of Western Austr...
15,000-Year-Old Bison Sculptures at Tuc D'Audoubert Cave
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 1, 2016
“Oh my God”, I exclaimed. What a moment. What an impact. I could not believe my eyes. The Bison are incredibly beautiful, incredibly powerfu...
Mystery of The Lost Amber Room
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 31, 2016
In the grand palace of Catherine I, the second wife of Peter the Great and Empress of Russia, there once existed a magnificent golden room a...
Denki Buro: The Electric Baths of Japan
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 29, 2016
Many public bath houses in Japan have special pools lined with live metal electrodes for those peculiar bathers who would rather have actual...
Chaka Salt Lake: Mirror Of The Sky
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 29, 2016
Chaka Salt Lake near the town Chaka in Wulan county is one of the most beautiful lakes of the Qaidam Basin in Northwest China’s Qinghai prov...
A Blast From The Past: Episode 25
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 28, 2016
bFrom the archives of Amusing Planet. Island Of The Dolls: Mexico’s Creepiest Place The Island Of The Dolls (Isla de las Muñecas), located...
Boiling Lake of Dominica
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 27, 2016
The Morne Trois Pitons National Park in the island country of Dominica, in the Caribbean, is an area of significant volcanic activity. Locat...
‘Fallen Star’, University of California, San Diego
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 27, 2016
Teetering on the corner and edge of Jacobs School of Engineering at the University of California, San Diego, is a small cottage that appears...
NASA’s Mars Explorers Recruitment Posters
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 26, 2016
Continuing with the theme of imaginary space-based scenarios, NASA has released a new set of posters calling for explorers to join them on t...
Polar Stratospheric Clouds And Their Dark Secret
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 26, 2016
Sometimes deep into the winter, after sunset or before dawn, sheets of unbelievably bright and vividly colored clouds can be seen forming ag...
Casa di Giulietta: Juliet’s House in Verona
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 26, 2016
Shakespeare’s famous play “Romeo and Juliet” maybe a work of fiction, but that hasn’t stopped hundreds of thousands of romantics from making...
Subway Pushers of Japan
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 24, 2016
The Japanese rail network is known throughout the world for its superiority and punctuality. In the capital city Tokyo, nearly 40 million pa...
Campo Del Cielo Meteorite Field
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 23, 2016
About 4,000 to 5,000 years ago, a huge chunk of space rock fell in Argentina, but it didn’t fell in one piece. It broke up as it entered the...
Monument to The Conquerors of Space
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 23, 2016
In the early 1960s, the Soviet Union was way ahead of the United States in the space race. They launched the first artificial satellite of e...
The Dead Cities of Syria
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 19, 2016
Scattered across the vast Limestone Massif, in the northwest of Syria, between the Orontes and Afrin Rivers to the west and the Aleppo/Hama ...
Sperrgebiet: The National Park You Can’t Visit
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 19, 2016
In southwestern Namibia lies a vast area that’s been off-limits to visitors for more than a century. It stretches along the Namibian coast f...
Artist Creates Record-Breaking Mural For Rio Olympics
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 17, 2016
While athletes compete for various titles at Rio’s ongoing Olympic Games, one Brazilian graffiti artist Eduardo Kobra is attempting to enter...
Faro a Colon: The Columbus Lighthouse
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 17, 2016
In Santo Domingo Este of Dominican Republic, is a towering monument dedicated to Christopher Columbus. It’s called “Faro a Colon”, which is ...
