Posts by Kim Wong-Shing

Nora Keegan just published her very first scientific study in a professional journal. At 13 years old. Nora started on her research when she was only 9. The young Calgary, Canada, student noticed that hand dryers often made her ears ring, and that led her to hypothesize that these products are actually harmful to children’s...

The housing crisis in San Francisco is so bad that, according to an annual report, the fair market rent for a 2-bedroom apartment is now at $3,170 per month. But for under half of that price, you could also just accept that you live in a dystopia and rent a bunk bed in a communal...

Bob Ross’s painting show is popular because it’s wholesome, deeply soothing, and ironically funny. But let’s not forget that Bob was also a skilled artist who painted 1000+ landscapes over the course of his TV show. In one interview, he claimed to have completed over 30,000 paintings total. That’s a LOT of paintings. But until...

In the age of social media, one of the best ways to get a company’s customer service department to actually listen to your concerns is to blast them on Twitter. Some companies are more responsive than others — and apparently, Delta Airlines is really on the ball. The airline company replied to a user’s joke tweet...

Parking in New York is a nightmare, so one billionaire took desperate measures to get his very own ‘permanent’ spot. Noah Gottesman, a very wealthy hedge fund honcho, created the illusion of a driveway on his property where none exists. He now hands out parking violations to anyone who tries to park in front of...

An ancient tree in Scotland is under attack — by the tourists who can’t keep their damn hands off of it. The Fortingall Yew may be the oldest living organism in Britain. Some say it is as many as 5000 years old, though other experts say the tree may be as young as 2000. Either...

Pet goldfish are a staple of childhood, but many of these poor fishies don’t last long in their little fishy bowls, and the next stop always seems to be the toilet. It may seem like the best option — the toilet leads back to the open water, where fish belong, right? Just like in Finding...

Five lionesses in Botswana started behaving like male lions — long manes and all. Male and female lions look and behave quite differently from each other. Male lions have big manes and they roar a lot. Female lions don’t have a mane and they’re not as vocal. The ladies also do the majority of the...

Being a teacher is tough. But there are a few definite perks of dedicating your life to the classroom, and one of them is the stories. As a teacher, you literally never run out of hilarious and surreal stories to tell your friends. One teacher, Erica Buddington, shared a series of particularly hilarious stories about a...

It takes a special sort of dog to be a working TSA or service dog. Those dogs have to be loyal, sharp, and able to resist oodles of humans dying to pet them. Dogs being dogs, there are a lot of dogs who just can’t quite meet that last qualification. They’re too nice! Or they...

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...

The first Harry Potter book came out over 20 years ago, which means that for over 20 years, fans have been fantasizing about owning their own invisibility cloak. In the era of social anxiety, the ability to disappear at will sounds very enticing. Invisibility cloaks have been a mere fantasy for so long, but soon, Harry Potter...

Are you a Bigfoot believer? Do you live on the east coast of the US? Great news! Pennsylvania now ranks as the third best place to see Bigfoot, according to the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization, which exists. The BRFO reports that they have 23,000 Bigfoot sightings on file, and 1340 of them came from Pennsylvania....

A Reddit user posted a photo of an interesting flower in the subreddit NatureIsFuckingLit. This flower species has people looking twice, because at first glance, it looks like a group of hummingbirds. It’s called Crotalaria cunninghamii, and it…well. It’s nothing short of stunning. The plant is native to Australia, where the user snapped this photo....

When a turtle cracked its shell, veterinarians improvised a solution with the help of some good old-fashioned Legos. The scene is thus: A wild eastern box turtle in Maryland cracked the underside of its shell. How? Who knows. Turtle shells can heal with time, but it’s a very slow process, and the turtles are especially...