Moldova’s Underground Wine City
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 6, 2018
The tiny landlocked country of Moldova in Eastern Europe is one of Europe’s poorest. “The roads are a bone-shaking ordeal. Horses haul carts...
The Miniature Coffins of Arthur’s Seat
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 5, 2018
At the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh are a set of eight miniature coffins carved in wood and decorated with tinned iron. Each cof...
Xiaohe: A 4000-Year-Old Desert Cemetery
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 5, 2018
In the far eastern edge of the desolate Taklamakan Desert, hundreds of kilometers from the nearest settlement, a clump of dense wooden stake...
The Most Kissed Girl in The World: The Mona Lisa of The Seine
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 1, 2018
Sometime in the late 19th century, the body of a young woman was fished out of the Seine River in Paris. Because there was no evidence of vi...
The Mail That Was Smuggled to The Moon
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 30, 2018
A lot of objects flew to the moon and back aboard NASA’s Saturn rocket. During the Apollo missions and those before that, astronauts were al...
Hungary’s Hyperinflation: The Worst Case of Inflation in History
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 29, 2018
The amount of Bolivars needed to buy 2.4 kg of chicken in Venezuela today. Photo credit: Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters The economic situa...
Alberta’s War on Rats
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 28, 2018
The brown rat is an extremely invasive species—a pest, that survive on human-produced garbage, usually, but often times this nasty rodent ...
The Hunger Stones of The Elbe River
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 27, 2018
A record drought in Europe this year has exposed over a dozen boulders along the Elbe River, that usually stays below the water line, in an...
The Gigantic Wine Barrel of Heidelberg
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 27, 2018
In a cellar under the Heidelberg Castle, in the German town of Heidelberg, sits a gigantic wooden keg. It’s the world’s largest wine barrel ...
The Island Named After A Satellite
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 25, 2018
Satellite imagery, made available to the public through applications such as Google Earth and Google Maps, have allowed anybody with a compu...
