Jakarta’s Rooftop Villages
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 8, 2019
Rooftops make great gardens, especially in dense urban environments where every available space has been utilized for living and for commerc...
The Vitrified Forts of Scotland
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 6, 2019
Throughout the Bronze and the Iron Ages, Europeans have constructed hilltop forts and enclosures made of stone. About two hundred examples o...
The 40-Foot Studebaker President
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 5, 2019
Few companies escaped the Stock Market Crash of 1929 that plunged the United States and much of the western world into an abyss of economic...
The Bridge of Breasts
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 5, 2019
At one point in the distant past, Venice had a busy red light district in the very commercial heart of the city—the Rialto area. Prostitutio...
Prague’s Streets Paved With Jewish Gravestones
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 5, 2019
Millions of people walking through the beautiful cobbled streets in the Czech capital Prague are unaware that they are treading upon old gra...
Project A119: The Secret Plan to Nuke The Moon
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 2, 2019
Long before the United States President John F. Kennedy delivered the inspiring "We choose to go to the Moon" speech in front of a...
Barge Haulers on The Volga
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 1, 2019
Before the era of steam engines, the process of moving a boat or a barge up a river was extremely difficult. The usual method was to tow the...
The Egg War of Farallon Islands
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 31, 2019
The California Gold Rush of the 1850s induced another rush for a commodity, which, although not precious, became such rare and expensive tha...
Memorial to The First Icelandic Glacier Lost to Climate Change
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 30, 2019
Next month, August 2019, a team of researchers and geologists from Rice University in Houston, along with members of the Icelandic Hiking So...
Tempest Prognosticator: Predicting Storms With Leeches
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 30, 2019
Some animals have the instinctive ability to predict changes in the weather. Frogs croak when a storm is approaching, birds return to their ...
Australia’s Mouse Plagues
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 29, 2019
Rats and mice are big problems in Australia, especially around the grain-growing regions in the south and in the east. Every few years, mous...
The British Cemetery on American Land
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 29, 2019
For its size, the island of Ocracoke on the Outer Banks, off the coast of North Carolina, has a surprising number of cemeteries—more than ei...
Ffordd Pen Llech: The World’s New Steepest Street
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 27, 2019
A sleepy little seaside community in northwest Wales will soon find itself swamped by tourists. Just a few days ago, the Guinness World Reco...
Helepolis: The Failed War Machine From Which Rose a Wonder of The Ancient World
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 26, 2019
At the entrance to the harbor of the city of Rhodes, on the Greek island of the same name, there once stood a colossal statue made of iron, ...
Jap Herron: A Novel Mark Twain Wrote After His Death
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 25, 2019
Mark twain died in 1910. Seven years later he wrote his last novel, Jap Herron —so claims St. Louis journalist and author Emily Grant Hutch...
The Relief Map of Guatemala
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 25, 2019
Sandwiched between Mexico on the northwest and El Salvador and Honduras on the east, the country of Guatemala may be small but it has a dive...
The Japanese Fishing Boat Whose Lethal Encounter With An Atomic Bomb Inspired Godzilla
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 24, 2019
Tucked away in a corner of Yumenoshima Park in Tokyo, a ten-minute-walk away from Shin Kiba Station, is a tall A-frame building. Sitting in...
Crannogs: Neolithic-Era Artificial Islands
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 23, 2019
The Neolithic people of Great Britain were prolific builders. Just look at the British Isles—they are studded with countless ancient megalit...
The Rotating Solariums of Jean Saidman
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 22, 2019
The importance of sunlight to human health is well understood, and that understanding developed in the late 19th century when it was discov...
The Islands of Loosdrecht Lakes
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 22, 2019
Narrow elongated islands seen in an area called Scheendijk in the Loosdrecht Lakes, The Netherlands. Photo credit: George Steinmetz The L...
