The Goliath Transmitter
Kaushik Patowary
May 14, 2019
Communication with submarines is difficult because radio waves do not easily travel through salt water. The obvious solution is to surface ...
The Ice Block Expedition of 1959
Kaushik Patowary
May 13, 2019
In the autumn of 1959, a 3-ton block of ice made an 8,500 kilometer journey on the back of a pickup truck from the edge of the Arctic Circl...
Gustave Doré’s Victorian London
Kaushik Patowary
May 10, 2019
Our visual image of Victorian London is largely fixated on its sordidness—cramped streets, dark alleys, desolate slums, overcrowding, and i...
The Cranes of River Clyde
Kaushik Patowary
May 10, 2019
A giant cantilever crane looms over a car park adjacent to the Hilton Garden Inn at Glasgow City. During its heydays, this crane used to lo...
Operation Sailor Hat
Kaushik Patowary
May 9, 2019
On the coast of Kahoʻolawe, the smallest of the eight main volcanic islands of Hawaiian, is a large crater left behind by a violent test con...
Cycling Through Water
Kaushik Patowary
May 8, 2019
Through a large pond in the De Wijers nature reserve in Limburg, Belgium, runs a cycling lane that goes right through the waters instead of ...
The Lost Tomb of Genghis Khan
Kaushik Patowary
May 7, 2019
The death of Genghis Khan is shrouded in secrecy. The Great Khan died in the summer of 1227, during a campaign against the Tanguts, along t...
Trümmerfrauen: The Women Who Helped Rebuild Germany After World War 2
Kaushik Patowary
May 6, 2019
After the end of World War 2, one of the main tasks was to clear the urban areas of ruin and start rebuilding Europe—Germany in particular, ...
The Hand of Glory
Kaushik Patowary
May 4, 2019
At the Whitby Museum in North Yorkshire is a strange artifact—a dismembered hand, dried and shriveled. It once belonged to a man who was han...
Berezniki: The Russian City Swallowed By Sinkholes
Kaushik Patowary
May 3, 2019
The city of Berezniki, in Russia’s Ural mountains, is slowly sinking into the earth. The city of more than 150,000 individuals was built dir...
