Hail Cannon: A Gun That Allegedly Controls Weather
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 12, 2015
Ever since men abandoned their nomadic life and started growing their own food, they have been trying to influence the weather. That simply ...
‘Trans Am Totem’ And ‘Spindle’: The Art of Stacking Cars
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 10, 2015
At a traffic median in the busy urban intersection of Quebec Street and Milross Avenue, near False Creek, in Vancouver, stands a 10-meters h...
The Tree That Owns Itself
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 10, 2015
At the intersection of Dearing Street and Finley Street, in a quiet residential neighborhood near downtown Athens, in the state of Georgia, ...
The Ninety Mile Beach, Australia
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 8, 2015
There are a lot of long and straight things in Australia: a 145-km stretch of road without a turning, a 478-km stretch of dead-straight rai...
Timgad: An Ancient Roman City With a Very Modern Grid Design
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 8, 2015
The ruins of Timgad lies on the slopes of the Aures Massif, about 35 km east of the town of Batna, in modern-day Algeria. Built nearly 2,000...
Bacterial Art on Petri Dishes
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 8, 2015
The American Society for Microbiology launched its first ever Agar Art contest, inviting microbiologists to unleash their hidden creative ge...
Rollstone Boulder: The Rock That Was Exploded in Order to Preserve
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 7, 2015
On a traffic island in downtown Fitchburg, Massachusetts, stands a 110-ton granite boulder, known to locals as “the Rollstone Boulder”. The ...
Bodegas Irache’s Wine Fountain
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 7, 2015
Bodegas Irache is a winery located in the small Spanish town of Ayegui, at the foot of the Mount Montejurra, only two kilometers from the me...
The Bulford Kiwi
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 6, 2015
On the gentle slope of Beacon Hill above the military town of Bulford, close to Salisbury Plain in the English county of Wiltshire, there is...
Progreso Pier, The World’s Longest
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 6, 2015
The port city of Progreso, in the Mexican state of Yucatán, boasts of the longest pier in the world. Built with reinforced concrete, the pie...
