Mocha Dick: The Whale That Inspired Moby Dick
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 15, 2019
About thirty kilometers off the coast of Chile is a small teardrop-shaped island called Mocha, inhabited by the indigenous Mapuche people. ...
Taiwan’s Giant Wall of Propaganda Spewing Speakers
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 13, 2019
Just off the southeastern coast of mainland China, lies a group of two islands collectively called Kinmen. For over seventy years, these is...
The Avian Honeyguides of Africa
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 12, 2019
South of the great Sahara Desert in North Africa, there lives a bird called the greater honeyguide ( Indicator indicator ) that has develop...
The Great Aurora of 1859
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 11, 2019
On the evening of September 2, 1859, after the sun went down on the western hemisphere, a spectacular show of light began on the skies abov...
Churches of Peace: The Churches That Defied The Holy Roman Emperor
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 7, 2019
In the towns of Jawor and Świdnica, in the Silesia neighborhood of Wroclaw, Poland, stand two magnificent timber-framed churches. The Holy ...
Pretty in Pink: The Muralla Roja
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 7, 2019
This innovative pastel-colored postmodern apartment complex is a popular landmark in the coastal town of Calpe, Spain. It is called Muralla...
Telefon Hírmondó, The Telephone Newspaper
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 6, 2019
When cell phones were first introduced, they were unattractive, brick-like devices that could do nothing more than make voice calls and sen...
Vellir: This Icelandic Geyser is in The Middle of a River
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 6, 2019
Iceland has many geysers but none is stranger than Vellir, also known as Árhver, because it is located smack in the middle of a flowing riv...
Porto Flavia
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 4, 2019
On the west coast of Sardinia, the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, there was once an unusual port. It’s a small opening on t...
Kyshtym: The Nuclear Disaster That Was Kept Secret For 30 Years
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 4, 2019
Thirty years before the nuclear reactor at Chernobyl exploded, in what became one of the most devastating nuclear accidents in history, ther...
