Patterned Grounds
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 19, 2015
The repeated annual freezing and thawing of permafrost soils can produce very interesting geometric features called patterned ground. These ...
Al Bahar Towers’ Responsive Sun Shades
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 19, 2015
Glass-façade towers are popping up every where with little thought and consideration for the local climate, even in the harsh desert environ...
The Chapel of The Holy Cross in Sedona
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 18, 2015
Jutting out of the red sandstone walls in the Arizona desert, the Chapel of the Holy Cross near the town of Sedona, is a marvel of modern ar...
A Used Car Vending Machine in Nashville
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 18, 2015
Online used car retailer Carvana , that has revolutionized how people buy cars, is back with another innovation — the world’s first coin ope...
Ships Made of Concrete
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 17, 2015
Perhaps the most bizarre choice of material humans ever made to make a vessel that floats was reinforced concrete. For centuries ships have ...
Pavlov’s House in Volgograd
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 17, 2015
On the banks of river Volga in the heart of modern-day Volgograd, formerly Stalingrad, stands a four-story apartment building with a brick m...
Dig Your Own Fossils at These Quarries
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 16, 2015
People knew about fossils since the time of Herodotus, but it was only in the late 18th and early 19th century, when the importance of fossi...
Musical Roads That Play Melodies When Cars Drive Over
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 16, 2015
A Japanese engineer by the name of Shizuo Shinoda was digging with a bulldozer when he accidentally scraped some markings into a road with i...
Crooked, Drunken And Dancing Forests
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 14, 2015
A tree, when left to its own device, will normally grow straight. But when the tree is young and its trunk is tender, it can be forced to gr...
A Tsunami of Shelf Cloud Over Sydney
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 14, 2015
For the last few days, social media is awash with photographs of an extraordinary roll of cloud that has acquired the moniker of “cloud tsun...
