How Coronavirus Emptied The World’s Streets
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 22, 2020
As millions of people around the world lock themselves indoors in order to prevent transmission of the dreaded coronavirus, the world outsid...
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The Newspaper That is Published Only on 29th February
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 2, 2020
The French newspaper, La Bougie du Sapeur, has been publishing for the last 40 years. Yet, there has been only eleven issues so far. Why? ...
Londoners ‘Celebrate’ Great Fire By Setting Wooden Model on Fire
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 5, 2016
A massive wooden replica model of 17th century London was set ablaze on the River Thames on Sunday night to mark the 350th anniversary of th...
Beehive Fences: Using Bees To Keep Elephants Away From Crops
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 13, 2016
Protecting crops from raiding elephants is not an easy task for Africans farmers where wild elephants often roam free, until a group of Brit...
US Wildlife Service Finds Similarities Between PokemonGo Characters And Actual Wildlife
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 5, 2016
Although I couldn’t care less about the recent PokemonGo foolery that’s appeared to have seized the world over, I find it highly amusing how...
UNESCO Inscribes 9 New Heritage Sites
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 16, 2016
The World Heritage Committee, the cultural arm of the United Nations is currently meeting in Istanbul, Turkey, for its 40th session. The com...
Artist Installs Floating Piers on Italian Lake
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 14, 2016
A three-kilometer-long floating walkway made up of 220,000 high-density polyethylene cubes connect two small islands to the shore on Lake Is...
Robot Monk in China’s Buddhist Temple
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 25, 2016
A new monk has joined services at a Buddhist temple on the outskirts of Beijing. He moves around the temple, chanting Buddhist mantras, and ...
Undressed: An Exhibition of Underwear
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 19, 2016
Underwear worn by British supermodel Kate Moss, corset worn by American burlesque dancer Dita Von Teese, boxers worn by star footballer Davi...
Want to Spend a Night in Van Gogh's Bedroom?
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 11, 2016
The Art Institute of Chicago has created a life-size replica of Van Gogh’s famous bedroom at his home in Arles, France, which he had immorta...
Australian Farmer Fights Soil Erosion With Land Art
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 29, 2016
After a recent bushfire consumed all vegetation on his land, a South Australian farmer Brian Fischer decided to etch a gigantic geometric pa...
Whitesboro, The Village With The Most Racist Seal
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 11, 2016
Update: Residents have voted to keep the current seal rather than replace it. A few hours from now, residents of Whitesboro, in Oneida Coun...
The Abandoned Refrigerators of Katrina
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 16, 2015
Hurricane Katrina, that ravaged the Gulf Coast and the entire city of New Orleans in the summer of 2005, ruined a lot of household appliance...
Pop-up Sandcastle Hotels Open in the Netherlands
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 15, 2015
You may have heard about those temporary ice hotels that Sweden, Norway and some of those near-Arctic-circle countries put up during the win...
One Square Mile of Hope: The Largest Raft of Canoes and Kayaks
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 19, 2015
On September 13, 2014, a total of exactly 3,150 canoes and kayaks converged on Fourth Lake in the town of Inlet, in New York to set a new Gu...
SAIL Amsterdam
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 17, 2015
SAIL Amsterdam is one of the biggest attractions in Amsterdam and the greatest nautical spectacle in the world where scores of tall ships an...
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...
Michigan Builds Fake Town to Test Driverless Cars
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 23, 2015
Early this week, the University of Michigan together with Michigan Department of Transportation opened a new test environment that would ena...
China’s Air Pollution And Scrapped Vehicles
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 15, 2015
China has been cracking down on high-emission vehicles in an effort to reduce pollution, leading to an increase in the number of recycling c...
Spiders Rain Down on Australian Town
Kaushik Patowary
May 20, 2015
While raining cats and dogs is only a metaphor, raining spiders is a reality in Australia. The latest arachnid shower took place last week i...
