Mimizuka: The Burial Site of Thousands of Noses
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 28, 2019
In the middle of a quiet residential neighborhood in the suburb of Kyoto, Japan, is a 30-foot-high, grass-covered hillock within which are b...
WLW: The 500 Kilowatt Super Station
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 27, 2019
On most nights, during the 1930s, the airwaves over North America were dominated by a single radio station called WLW. Transmitting at a pow...
Quaker Guns of The American Civil War
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 25, 2019
“All warfare is based on deception,” Sun Tzu wrote in The Art of War , an ancient Chinese military treatise, often regarded as one of the m...
The World’s First Cyber Attack Happened Nearly Two Hundred Years Ago
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 25, 2019
Many say that the world’s first cyber attack happened in 1988, when Robert Morris, a 20-something graduate student at Cornell, inadvertentl...
The Red Taj Mahal: John Hessing’s Tomb
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 22, 2019
The Roman Catholic Cemetery in Nehru Nagar, Agra, harks back to a time when the many princely states that eventually united to become India ...
Syndrome K: The Fake Disease That Saved Lives
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 20, 2019
In the fall of 1943, as German soldiers began rounding up Jews in Italy and deporting them by the thousands to concentration camps, a myster...
Why Did Ancient People Bury Butter in Bogs?
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 19, 2019
Peat bogs are favorite hunting grounds of archeologists because of the many odd surprises these marshy wetlands have revealed from time to t...
The Stockholm Lights That Can Be Controlled By Anyone With A Phone
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 18, 2019
The 72-meter tall Phone Tower at the former headquarter of Ericsson at Telefonplan, in southern Stockholm, is a known landmark. It is the t...
Alai Minar: Alauddin Khilji’s Unfinished Minaret
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 18, 2019
The Qutub Minar in New Delhi is a well known landmark. The sandstone-colored minaret with intricately carved inscription and reliefs on its ...
The Wheel of Urine
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 16, 2019
A pot of urine can tell a lot about your diet and health. It can tell whether you are adequately hydrated, or how well your kidneys are func...
