Hungary’s Hyperinflation: The Worst Case of Inflation in History
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 29, 2018
The amount of Bolivars needed to buy 2.4 kg of chicken in Venezuela today. Photo credit: Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters The economic situa...
Alberta’s War on Rats
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 28, 2018
The brown rat is an extremely invasive species—a pest, that survive on human-produced garbage, usually, but often times this nasty rodent ...
The Hunger Stones of The Elbe River
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 27, 2018
A record drought in Europe this year has exposed over a dozen boulders along the Elbe River, that usually stays below the water line, in an...
The Gigantic Wine Barrel of Heidelberg
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 27, 2018
In a cellar under the Heidelberg Castle, in the German town of Heidelberg, sits a gigantic wooden keg. It’s the world’s largest wine barrel ...
The Island Named After A Satellite
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 25, 2018
Satellite imagery, made available to the public through applications such as Google Earth and Google Maps, have allowed anybody with a compu...
The Clifftop Folly of Frederick Hervey
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 24, 2018
Perched dramatically on the edge of a 120 feet tall cliff, overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, the Mussenden Temple near Castlerock, in the nort...
The Skeleton of Jeremy Bentham
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 24, 2018
Pictured above is the council meeting of the University College London. The council meets every year, but this particular picture was taken...
The British Quarry That Hid Van Gogh, da Vinci and Rembrandt
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 22, 2018
For four years, a disused slate quarry in a remote mountain in North Wales became home to some of the world’s greatest artistic masterpieces...
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...
The 17th Century Bond That’s Still Paying Interest
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 18, 2018
Sometimes a company or a government issues bonds that never mature. They are called perpetual bond, and as the name suggests, they remain in...
