The Leper Tree of Malawi
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 29, 2015
Leprosy is a curable disease, but less than seventy years ago, people were dying from it. After the end of the 17th century, leprosy became ...
The Train to Heaven in Wroclaw
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 28, 2015
The Train to Heaven is a monument depicting an old, real steam locomotive standing upright and pointing towards the sky, located at Strzegom...
Sea Walls: Murals for Oceans 2015
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 28, 2015
Sea Walls: Murals for Oceans is an ongoing street art festival taking place in the island of Cozumel, in the Caribbean Sea off the eastern c...
The Narrowest Streets in the World
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 27, 2015
At what point does a street cease to be a street? According to the Guinness Book of Records, the narrowest street in the world is located in...
The Surreal World of Neutrino Detectors
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 27, 2015
Neutrinos are one of the fundamental particles which make up the universe, but not in the way electrons, protons and neutrons are. These par...
Exploding Anatomy Street Art of Nychos
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 25, 2015
Nychos is a street artist from Austria who creates highly imaginative “exploded-view” murals showing animals, humans and other characters i...
The Fairy Stones of Harricana River
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 25, 2015
We have seen in the past that concretions — the precipitation of minerals around particles — usually take spherical or oval shapes, as in th...
The Fortified Towns of M'Zab Valley
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 24, 2015
MʾZab is a deep, narrow oasis valley located within the Sahara, consisting of five walled towns, about 600 km south of Algiers, the capital ...
James Turrell’s Roden Crater
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 24, 2015
If you thought building a house on top of an extinct volcano was cool, how about building one on the inside? That’s what artist James Turre...
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...
