The Flat Streets of San Francisco
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 17, 2009
The city of San Francisco is famous for it's hills and impossibly inclined streets. But what would San Francisco be without its steep hi...
Stunning pictures of volcanic eruptions seen from space
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 11, 2009
Last month NASA released a set of pictures of the eruptions of the Sarychev Volcano in Kuril Islands of Japan, captured by the crew of the I...
Vintage Tattoos
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 17, 2009
The practice of tattooing is older than you thought. According to Wikipedia: Tattooing has been a Eurasian practice at least since arou...
Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling Competition
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 7, 2009
Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling is a crazy game. In this annual event a round of Double Gloucester cheese is rolled down the Cooper’s Hill,...
Game Consoles under X-Ray
Kaushik Patowary
May 26, 2009
Somebody ran these game consoles under an X-ray machine. Look what they discovered.
Amy Casey’s paintings of “falling cities”
Kaushik Patowary
May 2, 2009
For about the last eight years, Amy Casey has been experiencing a sporadically recurring dream about the end of the world. Animals stampedin...
Cosmic Muffin, a boat that was once an airplane
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 30, 2009
As strange as it may sound, the ‘Cosmic Muffin’ is a boat made out of a rare and historic aircraft - the Boeing 307 Stratoliner dating back ...
The Guoliang Tunnel of China
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 26, 2009
The Guoliang Tunnel is located in the Taihang Mountains, in the Hunan Province of China. The story that led to it’s development is an inspir...
