The Goiânia Radiological Accident
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 24, 2019
A radiation therapy unit in a hospital. Photo credit: Thomas Hecker/Shutterstock.com Radioactive isotopes have a very niche use in medicin...
Rotary Jails
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 23, 2019
Some problems require ingenious solutions. The rotary jail was not one of them. Designed by two American engineers, William H. Brown and Be...
Carl Wilhelm Scheele: The Unlucky Chemist
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 22, 2019
You know Bad Luck Brian. Now let me tell you about Hard-Luck Scheele. Carl Wilhelm Scheele was born in 1742 in Stralsund, in present day Ge...
The Cavern of Lost Souls
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 22, 2019
Just how difficult can it be to tow an old car to the junkyard to be dismantled, crushed and recycled? Too much, if you ask the council of C...
Bayan Obo: The Chinese Mine That Makes All Gadgets Possible
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 19, 2019
In the image above , captured by NASA’s Terra satellite in June 2006, we see some deep scars in the desert—the result of nearly sixty years...
A Natural Land Bridge on The Moon
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 17, 2019
On the morning of July 29, 1953, John J. O'Neill, science editor of the New York Herald Tribune turned his telescope, a 4-inch refracto...
The World’s First Skyscraper
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 15, 2019
The word “skyscraper” was used to describe a tall building for the first time during the construction boom that rippled across many America ...
Port Arthur And The Convict Tramway
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 15, 2019
In the middle of the 19th century, Tasman Peninsula, on the southeast coast of Tasmania, became home to one of Australia's most dreaded ...
Disposable Ships
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 12, 2019
Before the Industrial Revolution, the British shipbuilding industry was completely dependent on the countries around the Baltic Sea for timb...
The Spiral Hives of Sugarbag Bees
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 10, 2019
Not all bees sting. There are about five hundred bee species out of twenty thousand that have lost that ability, but they do exhibit other d...
