Kyshtym: The Nuclear Disaster That Was Kept Secret For 30 Years
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 4, 2019
Thirty years before the nuclear reactor at Chernobyl exploded, in what became one of the most devastating nuclear accidents in history, ther...
How Kazakhstan Became The Entire Soviet Union For 4 Days
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 1, 2019
1991 was a notable year in the geopolitical history of the world. It was the year the Gulf War started marking the beginning of America’s c...
The Hanging Coffins of China And Philippines
Kaushik Patowary
May 30, 2019
The ancient Bo and Guyue people of southern China did not bury their dead. Instead, they hung their coffins from tall cliffs. This peculiar ...
The Warship That Couldn’t Stay Afloat
Kaushik Patowary
May 30, 2019
During the American Civil War, the Union Navy designed a class of warships called “Casco” that could submerge its hull at will to make the b...
Gilbert Hill: Mumbai’s Forgotten 66 Million Years Old Heritage
Kaushik Patowary
May 28, 2019
Concrete buildings aren’t the only thing that rises vertically in the metropolis of Mumbai, India’s most populous city. In a suburb, north ...
Martha Gellhorn, The Only Woman Who Landed in Normandy on D-Day
Kaushik Patowary
May 27, 2019
On the eve of the Normandy landings in June 1944, there were over a thousand war correspondents all over Europe reporting back to the mill...
Trevor, The Loneliest Duck
Kaushik Patowary
May 24, 2019
On an island far far away, there once lived a duck named Trevor. Nobody knew where he came from, because until his arrival there was no duck...
The Shoe Fitting Machines That Blasted You With Radiation
Kaushik Patowary
May 24, 2019
Finding the right fit for your shoes is not that difficult. All you need to do is take a short walk through the store in the new pair. Squee...
Ethiopia’s Church Forests
Kaushik Patowary
May 22, 2019
Ethiopia is almost completely depleted of its forest cover. In the early 1900s, nearly forty-five percent of the country was covered by fore...
Train Through a Football Stadium
Kaushik Patowary
May 21, 2019
Going to any sporting event to watch your favorite teams play, as opposed to staying at home and watching the live broadcast, has its perks....
Soviet Televisions
Kaushik Patowary
May 20, 2019
This is the KVN-49, a black-and-white television set produced in the Soviet Union in the 1950s, and the first set to be mass-produced in th...
How Japanese Bamboo Helped Edison Make The Light Bulb
Kaushik Patowary
May 17, 2019
Thomas Alva Edison's invention, or shall we say “perfection”, of the light bulb helped brighten up homes of people all across the world,...
The World’s Oldest Printed Book
Kaushik Patowary
May 17, 2019
The Diamond Sutra is an ancient Buddhist sermon that generation of Buddhists have memorized and chanted since at least the fifth century. T...
The Talking Statues of Rome
Kaushik Patowary
May 15, 2019
For the past five hundred years, the people of Rome have voiced their resentment against the authorities through a unique medium—short compo...
The Goliath Transmitter
Kaushik Patowary
May 14, 2019
Communication with submarines is difficult because radio waves do not easily travel through salt water. The obvious solution is to surface ...
The Ice Block Expedition of 1959
Kaushik Patowary
May 13, 2019
In the autumn of 1959, a 3-ton block of ice made an 8,500 kilometer journey on the back of a pickup truck from the edge of the Arctic Circl...
Gustave Doré’s Victorian London
Kaushik Patowary
May 10, 2019
Our visual image of Victorian London is largely fixated on its sordidness—cramped streets, dark alleys, desolate slums, overcrowding, and i...
The Cranes of River Clyde
Kaushik Patowary
May 10, 2019
A giant cantilever crane looms over a car park adjacent to the Hilton Garden Inn at Glasgow City. During its heydays, this crane used to lo...
Operation Sailor Hat
Kaushik Patowary
May 9, 2019
On the coast of Kahoʻolawe, the smallest of the eight main volcanic islands of Hawaiian, is a large crater left behind by a violent test con...
Cycling Through Water
Kaushik Patowary
May 8, 2019
Through a large pond in the De Wijers nature reserve in Limburg, Belgium, runs a cycling lane that goes right through the waters instead of ...
