The Ripple Rock Explosion
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 13, 2022
Between Vancouver Island and the Discovery Islands in British Columbia, lies a narrow body of water called Seymour Narrows, which is part of...
The Oldest Name in The World
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 12, 2022
Humans have been calling each other by names probably for hundreds of thousands of years ever since the first human beings evolved from Homo...
Antarctic Oases
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 11, 2022
Antarctica is one of the most inhospitable places in this earth, with all-year-round freezing temperatures, violent katabatic winds and ice ...
The Abandoned Village of Kuldhara
Anonymous
Apr 11, 2022
Some 30 kilometres from Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, a dusty track meanders towards the abandoned town of Kuldhara. Deserted land of scanty vegetat...
How The Soviet Union Tried to Abolish Weekends
Anonymous
Apr 8, 2022
About a hundred years ago in August 1929, the Soviet Union moved to alter the most fundamental tool of daily functioning: the calendar. An i...
The Mysterious Phaistos Disc
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 7, 2022
The Phaistos Disc is an enigmatic disk of fired clay discovered in the Minoan palace of Phaistos on the Greek island of Crete, possibly dati...
Razia Sultan: Delhi’s First And Only Female Emperor
Anonymous
Apr 7, 2022
Tales of female courage and prudence, power and fortitude run long in the pages of Mughal history. Women who were daughters, who were begums...
The Corpse of Elmer McCurdy
Anonymous
Apr 6, 2022
What happens to our bodies when we die? Some are buried with grandeur in oakwood caskets, some cremated on holy pyres of amber flames. But t...
The Bat Libraries of Portugal
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 6, 2022
Bibliophiles aren’t the only ones that love hanging out in the library. Given the chance bats too would love to roost there and eat the bugs...
The 1866 Transatlantic Communications Cable
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 5, 2022
Much of today’s lightning speed communication that happens between computer terminals or between mobile phones located in different continen...
