Horizontal Collaboration: Sleeping With The Enemy
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 7, 2024
The historic D-Day landing by Allied forces on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944, marked the beginning of a crucial phase in World War...
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A Cannulated Cow Lives With a Hole in Its Stomach
Anonymous
Apr 19, 2022
Imagine being able to look inside a cow. Call it curiosity, or the craving to reveal all of the world’s truths, but the cannulated cow is ma...
The Spectacle of Death at The Paris Morgue
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 8, 2020
Throughout the 19th century, the Paris morgue attracted thousand of visitors every day. Eager tourists consumed by a morbid fascination with...
Anthropology Days: The Racist Olympic Event of 1904
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 8, 2020
Starting from the late 19th century through the early 20th, human exhibitions were a routine part of circuses, traveling shows, and major ex...
The Ruins of Gleno Dam
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 27, 2020
In a small valley, among the mountains of Lombardy, in northern Italy, stands a dam, or rather, half a dam. Built on the Gleno Creek, the Gl...
The Vajont Dam Disaster
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 7, 2020
In the valley of the Vajont River, about a hundred kilometers north of Venice, stands an old, disused dam. The vast wall of white, wedged hi...
Vladimir Petrovich Demikhov’s Two-Headed Dog
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 5, 2020
In 1955, at a meeting of the Moscow Surgical Society, a sensational exhibit was presented to the assembled guests. On the platform close t...
Remembering Epidemics With Plague Columns
Kaushik Patowary
May 15, 2020
Military victories are much celebrated, but a victory against a common enemy, such as a disease, is as important, especially in older times ...
Black Weddings: Marrying in The Time of Cholera
Kaushik Patowary
May 5, 2020
Last month, a peculiar wedding ceremony took place at a cemetery in Bnei Brak, a city in Israel, just east of Tel Aviv. With government re...
Cosmos 954: The Nuke That Fell From Space
Kaushik Patowary
May 1, 2020
What goes up must eventually come down, including satellites that are currently orbiting the earth. After their work is done, they will be...
Fatal Familial Insomnia: The Disease That Kills by Sleep Deprivation
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 25, 2020
Everybody suffers from a little insomnia once in a while, but what if you were unable to sleep for months? Early studies conducted on do...
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...
Sweating Sickness: The Forgotten Epidemic
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 10, 2020
The Sleeping Beauty, by John Collier During medieval times, diseases were a constant threat to people’s health, brought about by lack of...
Scalae Gemoniae: The Stairs of Death
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 5, 2020
Not too far from Tarpeian Rock , a cliff on Capitoline Hill in the center of Rome, where convicted criminals were once flung to their deaths...
Anatoli Bugorski: The Man Who Stuck His Head Inside a Particle Accelerator
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 14, 2020
Out of all places to stick your head into, a particle accelerator would rank among the worst. Yet, on that fateful day of 13 July 1978, thir...
The Cottbus MiG-21 Crash of 1975
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 18, 2020
On Schmellwitzer Street in Cottbus, in northeast Germany, stands an old five-story apartment building. High up on the face of the building...
The Sad Tale of The Dionne Quintuplets
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 16, 2020
Nobody could have known, not even Elzire Dionne, that she was going to give birth to quintuplets. Already a mother of five, the shock of giv...
The Radiological Incident in Lia, Georgia
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 10, 2020
On a cold December day in 2001, three men took their truck and drove 50 kilometers east from their village Lia in order to collect firewood....
Döllersheim: The Village That Hitler Destroyed to Crush a Rumor
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 18, 2019
About one hundred km northwest of Vienna, in northern Austria, lies a small village called Döllersheim. Eighty years ago, this tiny Austrian...
The Last Victim of Smallpox
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 12, 2019
In the summer of 1978, the World Health Organization stood on the brink of a remarkable achievement—smallpox, the disease that terrorized pe...
