Posts by Kim Wong-Shing

Did you know that you’re not allowed to take rocks — or any other specimens —out of a U.S. National Park? It’s against the rules, but unsurprisingly, a lot of people sneakily do it anyway. It’s hard to resist carrying home a memento, which is how one young girl ended up taking a rock home...

Popeyes added a chicken sandwich to its menu in August, and the world hasn’t been the same since. The sandwich became a viral sensation, people swarmed Popeyes locations across the country, and the unprecedented flood of customers overwhelmed the fast food chain. After two weeks, the sandwiches were completely sold out, and they’re still not...

What do you get when you combine flavored seltzer and alcohol into one canned beverage (aside from gross)? You get White Claw hard seltzer, a drink that’s so popular that there’s now a shortage across the country. Business Insider reports that beer and liquor stores are running out of White Claw. The company, which was...

It’s easy to feel a bit hopeless about the climate change situation. The planet has never faced an environmental emergency on this scale before, but it is possible for countries to rally to overcome climate crises. For proof, just look at history. In the 1930s, the United States was stricken by an environmental disaster called...

Sometimes, the internet is a truly magical place. Thanks to a new interactive map, you can now look up where your house would have been 750 million years ago. Ancient Earth is a 3D map that contains geographic information for the past 750 million years. You can type in a certain location and see how...

When yelling “Jesus Christ” just isn’t enough, you might add an extra letter in there: Jesus H. Christ. It’s like Jesus’s full name that you break out when you’re really serious. But what does the “H” even stand for? Well, first of all, the “H” is not a middle initial, because Jesus Christ is not...

In case you needed an extra thing to stress about, some scientists believe that time is gradually slowing down and may eventually stop altogether. NBD! The majority of physicists believe that the universe is expanding at an ever-accelerating rate. This theory explains a lot, but it doesn’t explain everything, and a team of physicists at...

The idea that plants are somehow less alive than people is a common one, but it’s also outdated, according to many scientists. Plants have much more in common with animals than people might realize. They may even have a “heartbeat.” Of course, trees don’t have hearts, so they don’t have a heartbeat in exactly the...

Ladiesss, if your man won’t go buy you a box of tampons when you run out, he is not The One. But you might want to send him with very specific instructions because a lot of men apparently have no idea what the labels on tampon boxes mean. And to be fair, all the different brands...

If you’ve stepped foot into a fast food restaurant lately, you may have noticed that plant-based meat alternatives are taking over right now. There’s the Impossible Burger at Burger King, the Beyond Meatball Marinara sub at Subway, Beyond Chicken at KFC and the Impossible Slider at White Castle. One might assume that a plant-based product...

There’s no easy way to say this, so let’s just dive right in: a large underwater observatory has mysteriously gone missing. It was on the seafloor, and now it’s not. Nobody knows why. The Boknis Eck Observatory has been on the seafloor off the northern coast of Germany since December 2016. It’s managed by GEOMAR...

I love the dollar store as much as the next person, but there are some things that you should simply never buy there — like batteries. Batteries from the dollar store are much lower-quality, according to experts. Walk into any dollar store, and you’ll likely find a rack of batteries sold in bulk packages for just $1...

The rule about not wearing white after Labor Day is so common that many people don’t even think twice about it. But where, exactly, did this rule even come from? From rich people, apparently. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, more and more people became millionaires. High-society wives felt the need to come up...

Today in Florida Man news, a man in Florida parked his car in his kitchen to protect it from Hurricane Dorian. And also just because, well, he can. Patrick Eldridge lives in Jacksonville, a city that just narrowly escaped the path of Hurricane Dorian this week. While preparing for the storm, Patrick and his wife...

Hurricane season can be a scary time, and it’s vital to be as prepared as possible before an emergency happens. One helpful trick to keep in mind: the “one cup tip.” The one cup tip tends to go viral on social media every time a major hurricane pops up, since first appearing on Facebook in 2016...