Edwin Smith Papyrus: The 3,600-Year-Old Textbook of Surgery
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 11, 2019
In 1862, an American Egyptologist named Edwin Smith bought an ancient scroll of papyrus from an Egyptian dealer. Smith didn’t know how to re...
Historic Watercolors Document How The World Was Before Photography
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 11, 2019
Before there were cameras, people documented how the world and its inhabitants looked like through paintings. Oil on canvas was the medium o...
How Australia Remembers The World’s Biggest Gold Nugget
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 8, 2019
On February 1869, two British prospectors, John Deason and Richard Oates, were digging for gold in central Victoria, Australia, when their p...
The Statue of Liberty of Lake Mendota
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 8, 2019
This is what will happen when the polar ice melts and sea level rises. Well, not really. It’s just a continuation of a prank that started f...
Music in The Clouds
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 7, 2019
In June 1867, James Glaisher, an English astronomer and meteorologists, and an avid balloonist, was floating over Paris in a balloon when h...
Globsters: When Sea Monsters Wash Ashore
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 7, 2019
On November 30, 1896, two young boys, Herbert Coles and Dunham Coretter, were bicycling along Anastasia Island, near St. Augustine on the At...
James Hiram Bedford: The First Person To Be Cryogenically Preserved
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 5, 2019
Will humans ever posses the technology to revive a dead person back to life? Dr. James Hiram Bedford certainly hopes so. He has been waitin...
Gyrobus: The Flywheel-Powered Public Transportation
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 5, 2019
Back in the 1940s, Swiss engineers developed a new kind of zero-emission electric bus that used a large spinning flywheel to store energy ra...
Hagfish: The Slimy Creature of The Deep
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 4, 2019
Hollywood horror movie monsters and aliens aren’t complete without loads of repulsive slime, mucous and saliva dripping from their mouths. ...
Halton Arp’s Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 2, 2019
Less than one hundred years ago, astronomers were not even sure whether our galaxy made up the entire universe or there were more Milky Wa...
The Tomb That Inspired Britain's Iconic Telephone Box
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 1, 2019
The United Kingdom Post Office introduced the first public telephone kiosk, designated K1, in 1921. These were constructed out of pre-cast c...
Juhyo, The Snow Monsters of Mount Zao
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 1, 2019
High against the slopes of Mount Zaō, in central Japan, the cold, moisture-laden winds from Siberia slams into creating a natural wonder tha...
RMS Tayleur: The Other Titanic
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 31, 2019
The sinking of the Titanic is one of the best remembered maritime disasters in history. A grand luxury ship touted as the safest vessel aflo...
Bookwheel, The 16th Century Forerunner to The eBook Reader
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 30, 2019
For many of us, the ebook reader was the next best thing to happen since Gutenberg’s printing press. The printing press made books widely av...
Henry Cotton: The Psychiatrist Who Tried to ‘Cure’ His Patients by Removing Their Teeth
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 29, 2019
This illustration of a mutilated mouth is not the result of a road accident, but that of a doctor’s obsession with an utterly bizarre theor...
The Filipino Hero Who Killed Ferdinand Magellan
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 26, 2019
Ferdinand Magellan is remembered in the west as the intrepid Portuguese explorer who led the first voyage to circumnavigate the globe, but f...
The Caves of Maresha And Bet-Guvrin
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 25, 2019
The Shfela lowlands in south-central Israel, at the foot of the Judaean Mountains, is characterized by a thick layer of soft chalk that was ...
The Ancient Portraits of Fayuum Mummies
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 22, 2019
These haunting portraits of long-dead men, women and children come from a vast region known as the Fayuum Basin, located immediately to the ...
Moqui Marbles And Martian Blueberries
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 19, 2019
Across many places in southern Utah, in the western United States, where the orange-colored sandstone gives way to the spectacular white- an...
Charvolant: The Kite-Drawn Carriages
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 18, 2019
On 8 January 1822, an extraordinary journey was made from Bristol to Marlborough. An English schoolteacher named George Pocock took his wif...
