Chindōgu: The Japanese Art of Unuseless Inventions
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 18, 2018
You have definitely seen a chindōgu. They are those ridiculous Japanese inventions designed to solve a particular problem but are, in fact, ...
The Lighthouse That Wrecked More Ships Than it Saved
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 17, 2018
For more than forty years a lighthouse stood on a large anvil-shaped peninsula jutting into the Tasman Sea near Jervis Bay, in southern Aust...
Michael Pederson’s Fake Street Signs
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 17, 2018
Sydney-based artist Michael Pederson creates small signs with humorous messages and tucks them all around his home city at places where you ...
The Churches of Chiloé Island
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 17, 2018
Off the coast of Chile, a group of about thirty islands belonging to the Chiloé Archipelago make up a fiercely independent community with it...
When ‘Blowing Smoke Up Your Ass’ Was a Real Thing
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 15, 2018
This neat little box containing a pair of bellows and an assortment of pipes and other fixtures is a Tobacco Resuscitator Kit from the 18th...
Britain's Giant Hillside Chalk Figures
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 13, 2018
The Westbury White Horse carved on the hillside near Westbury in Wiltshire, England. Photo credit: tipwarm/Shutterstock.com A large portio...
How The London Bridge Was Sold to America
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 11, 2018
For centuries, children and kindergarteners have sung and danced to the tune of London Bridge is falling down , but when engineers discovere...
Galgano Guidotti And The Sword in Stone
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 10, 2018
The story of King Arthur and his legendary sword Excalibur which he pulled out of a rock to prove his divine right to the throne is well kno...
The World’s Longest Portico
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 9, 2018
Portico di San Luca : Photo credit: Stefano Carnevali/Shutterstock.com Atop a forested hill, some 300 meters above the city of Bologna, st...
New Zealand’s Castaway Depots For Shipwrecked Sailors
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 9, 2018
An old castaway hut in the North of Antipodes Islands, New Zealand. Photo credit: LawrieM/Wikimedia Before the Suez and Panama Canals open...
