The Horseback Fishermen of Oostduinkerke
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 18, 2018
On the western end of Belgium’s short coastline, about 20 km east of Dunkirk, France, is a place called Oostduinkerke (meaning “East Dunkirk...
The Cave-Dwelling Crocodiles of Gabon
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 15, 2018
Ten years ago, a team of scientists went exploring into the rainforest of Gabon, and ventured into a cave. In the pitch-black, bat-infested...
Queen Elizabeth’s Childhood Playhouse
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 14, 2018
In the garden of Windsor’s Royal Lodge in Berkshire, England, tucked away from public view stands a miniature thatched cottage with white-wa...
How The Soviets Put Out Oil Well Fires by Using Nuclear Bombs
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 14, 2018
In the early 1960s, the two nuclear superpowers of the world—the United States of America and the Soviet Union—began looking for ways to uti...
Diolkos: An Ancient Trackway That Carried Ships Over Land
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 12, 2018
In ancient times, Greek merchants sailed all around the Mediterranean Sea carrying goods from Spain to Phoenicia and from Carthage to Egypt ...
The War of The Bucket
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 11, 2018
In a way, all wars are stupid—but none was stupider than the Battle of Zappolino that was waged over a silly wooden bucket. The War of the ...
The Glass Fishing Floats of Japan And Norway
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 10, 2018
Every year, Oregon’s Lincoln City, on the west coast of the United States, organizes a treasure hunt where more than 3,000 handcrafted glass...
Guillame Legros’s Ephemeral Landart
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 8, 2018
These gigantic graffiti artworks spray-painted over the fields and the hillside were made by Swiss artist Guillame Legros, who goes by the n...
Inemuri, The Japanese Art of Sleeping at Work
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 8, 2018
In most countries sleeping at work is not only embarrassing, it might even cost one’s job. But in Japan, sleeping in the office is common an...
Dr. Charles Campbell And His Malaria-Fighting Bat Towers
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 7, 2018
Sixty years ago the United States took upon itself a challenge—eradicate malaria from the entire country, all 3.8 million square miles of it...
