The Disease That Turns Muscles Into Bones
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 18, 2021
Behind a glass enclosure at the Mutter Museum of The College of Physicians in Philadelphia is a terrifying exhibit—two human skeletons. Thei...
Guarapari’s Radioactive Beaches
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 17, 2021
About 50 km south of Vitória, the state capital of EspÃrito Santo, in southeastern Brazil, lies the coastal town of Guarapari, a popular tou...
Heroic War Pigeons
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 16, 2021
World War One, and to some extent, the Second World War, was a strange blend of archaic and modern technology. The First World War, in parti...
When California Was Thought To Be An Island
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 15, 2021
If California were a country its economy would be the fifth largest in the world. Yet the tech boom is not the starkest way California has e...
How a Failed Dam Legalized Marrying The Dead
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 12, 2021
Sitting low among the hills, just north of the city of Frejus, in southern France, not far from the French Riviera coast, are the broken rem...
The Octagon Houses of Orson Fowler
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 10, 2021
Orson Fowler wanted to design the best house, but he detested the traditional boxy shapes. Too many right angles, he thought. In his mind, t...
Conrad Haas: The 16th Century Rocket Pioneer
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 9, 2021
In 1961, a professor at the University of Bucharest, made a surprising discovery in the archives of the city of Sibiu, in Romania. It was a ...
Dazzle Camouflage: Hiding in Plain Sight
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 5, 2021
Unlike a submarine that can lurk beneath the waves, or an artillery tank that can camouflage itself among trees and the surrounding terrain,...
Pisonia: The Tree That Kills Birds
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 4, 2021
An overwhelming majority of plants depend upon birds and insects for seed dispersal. Plants attract pollinators by releasing aromatic compou...
The Lakeview Gusher: The Mother of Oil Spills
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 3, 2021
In the early days of oil drilling, when tools were basic and technology was lacking, every new oil well sunk into the ground ran the risk of...
