Poo Machine by Wim Delvoye
Kaushik Patowary
May 14, 2012
Wim Delvoye is a Belgian artist known for his inventive and often shocking and repulsive projects. Cloaca, also known as the "poo-ma...
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The Remarkable Story of St Kilda’s Residents
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 6, 2016
The remote archipelago of St Kilda, off the west coast of the Scottish mainland, is truly an isolated place. Located some 64 km west of the ...
World’s First McDonald Restaurant
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 6, 2012
The world's largest chain of fast food restaurants that serve around 68 million customers each day in 119 countries began operation in 1...
Yom Kippur, The Day When Israel Goes Car Free
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 7, 2014
For twenty-four hours each year, all cars goes off the road all over Israel in celebration of Yom Kippur, also known as Day of Atonement - t...
Can Tapeworms Make You Beautiful?
Anonymous
Apr 23, 2022
“The loveliness of a rival eats into a girl’s heart like corrosion;” says The Ugly-girl Papers: Or, Hints for the Toilet . The Victorian era...
Why Did Ancient People Bury Butter in Bogs?
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 19, 2019
Peat bogs are favorite hunting grounds of archeologists because of the many odd surprises these marshy wetlands have revealed from time to t...
Project Isabela: How Goats Helped Eliminate Goats From The Galapagos
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 15, 2019
The Galapagos Islands, off the west coast of Ecuador, are a treasure trove of unique ecological specimens. The islands’ extreme isolation an...
A Blast From The Past: Episode 24
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 14, 2016
From the archives of Amusing Planet. What’s Cooking? - Cutaway Food Photography by Ryan Matthew Smith Ryan Matthew Smith’s photo series “M...
The Swimming Pigs of Big Major Cay, Bahamas
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 21, 2012
Big Major Cay in the Bahamas is a small, uninhabited island and very popular anchorage. The Exuma Banks side of the island has two beautiful...
Food Landscapes by Barbara Ciurej and Lindsay Lochman
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 22, 2015
“ Processed Views ” is a thought provoking photo series by Barbara Ciurej and Lindsay Lochman who used familiar American junk food to create...
Markthal: Rotterdam’s Beautiful Food Market
Kaushik Patowary
May 3, 2016
At Rotterdam’s historic Binnenrotte Square, next to Blaak Station, is an eleven-stories-tall arched building that huddles over an immense fo...
A Barrel Post Office, Mysterious Disappearances and Moby Dick: The Strange History of Floreana Island
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 21, 2018
The Galapagos islands in the Pacific Ocean were once natural stopovers for 18-century whalers, who were drawn to the remote islands by fresh...
Tarrare: The Man Who Ate Too Much
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 1, 2022
If gluttony is a sin, then perhaps the worst offender was a man named Tarrare who lived in 18th century France. He had such an insatiable ap...
The Hayirsizada Dog Massacre
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 24, 2021
Istanbul has many fascinating sights, from grand mosques to bustling bazaars, but one thing that has most consistently captured the imaginat...
US Election Illustrated Using Fast Food
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 14, 2012
Soon after the US election was over, Berlin-based artists Lisa Rienermann and Anna Lena Schiller decided to create an infographic illustrati...
The Abandoned Refrigerators of Katrina
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 16, 2015
Hurricane Katrina, that ravaged the Gulf Coast and the entire city of New Orleans in the summer of 2005, ruined a lot of household appliance...
Nara, The City Taken Over by Deer
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 4, 2014
Anybody who has travelled to India must have invariably encountered cows on the streets; animals that disrupt traffic and refuse to move. No...
The Wild Burros of Oatman, Arizona
Anonymous
Mar 23, 2017
Positioned in the ancient part of old Route 66, in the US state of Arizona, Oatman is full of wild burros —an old Spanish term which means d...
Marshalsea Debtors' Prison
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 21, 2018
Back in Victorian times, being in debt and unable to pay was a serious crime, so much that there were special debtors’ prisons all around th...
Flags from Food
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 28, 2009
Flags of different countries created using food items at the Sydney International Food Festival 2009.
