Kuthiny Baty: The Pumice Stone Valley
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 3, 2015
At the southern tip of Kamchatka Peninsula, within the Southern Kamchatka Wildlife Refuge in Russia, lies Kurile Lake in a large caldera tha...
The Great Polish Map of Scotland
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 3, 2015
The Great Polish Map of Scotland, also known as the Mapa Scotland, is a large three-dimensional, scale model of Scotland, with lakes, mounta...
The “Submarine Pits” on Boca Chica Key
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 1, 2015
Boca Chica Key is an island in the lower Florida Keys approximately 4.8 km east of the island of Key West, which itself is about 244 km sout...
Todra Gorge of Morocco
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 1, 2015
In the eastern part of the High Atlas Mountains in Morocco, near the town of Tinerhir, the Todra and the Dades Rivers have carved out a narr...
Scarecrow Festivals in the UK
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 31, 2015
Scarecrow festivals are held all over the world, but they are especially popular in the United Kingdom, where the use of scarecrows as a pro...
Auckland’s Utility Boxes Get Graffiti Makeover
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 31, 2015
Auckland-born artist Paul Walsh has been painting telephone utility boxes around his home city since 2013 with animal characters inspired b...
Singapore’s Playgrounds From Above
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 30, 2015
Malaysia-born and Singapore-raised renowned photographer Stefen Chow, in collaboration with a local company called Avetics, flew drones all ...
Half Animal, Half Plant: The Solar-Powered Sea Slugs
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 30, 2015
Can eating lots of vegetables turn you into a vegetable? Not really, unless you are a sea slug. There are several species of sea slugs that...
Pencil Tip Sculptures by Salavat Fidai
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 30, 2015
Russian artist Salavat Fidai carves miniature sculptures on the lead tip of pencils, an art form he was inspired by another well-known mini...
RATAN-600, The World’s Largest Radio Telescope
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 29, 2015
RATAN-600 (short for Radio Astronomical Telescope of the Academy of Sciences) is a radio telescope located near the village of Zelenchukskay...
