The 100 Stepped Garden of Awaji Yumebutai
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 12, 2015
Awaji Yumebutai is a complex of buildings consisting of a conference center, a hotel and a memorial in the city of Awaji located in an islan...
Los Angeles Reservoir Covered with 96 Million Plastic Balls to Fight Evaporation
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 11, 2015
Over the last few days, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power released 96 million black, plastic shade balls into a reservoir at the...
The Opulent Offices of Harbin Pharmaceuticals
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 11, 2015
Why are prescription drugs so expensive? Here is the answer. A few years ago, Harbin Pharmaceutical Group Co., Ltd., a Chinese state-owned ...
Eartha: World's Largest Rotating Globe
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 11, 2015
The world's largest rotating globe, nicknamed "Eartha", is located at the headquarters of DeLorme, a business that provides ma...
Cleft Island, Wilsons Promontory, Australia
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 10, 2015
Cleft Island, also known as Skull Rock, is a granite island located off the coast of Wilsons Promontory in the state of Victoria, in Austral...
‘Hope for Peace’ Monument in Yarze, Lebanon
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 10, 2015
The Lebanese Military Museum, dedicated for the preservation of old Lebanese military antiques, is located at the Ministry of National Defen...
Luzon Bleeding-Heart: A Dove That Looks Shot Through the Heart
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 10, 2015
The Luzon bleeding-heart ( Gallicolumba luzonica ) is a very shy and secretive species of dove endemic to the island of Luzon in Philippines...
Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 8, 2015
For more than two hundred years the small English village of Brockworth in Gloucestershire has played host to the Cooper's Hill Cheese R...
Body Farms: Outdoor Research Facilities for Studying Decomposing Bodies
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 7, 2015
Less than forty years ago, our understanding of how the human body decomposes was limited. Much of what was known came from ancient studies ...
The Shiprock of New Mexico
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 7, 2015
Shiprock or "the winged rock" in Navajo, is a monolith composed of resistant volcanic rock that rises nearly 500 meters above the ...
