Posts by Kim Wong-Shing

Nowadays, most Americans fill our wardrobes with fast fashion from major retailers. Sewing our own clothes has been downgraded from a necessary survival skill to an artsy niche hobby. And that is why nobody has any idea what this thing is anymore. Is this a weird old type of currency? A very tiny weapon? A...

Can you even imagine a world without the magic of Costco? The bulk retailer has been around for almost 40 years, and in that time it has won many devoted shoppers. Surprisingly, though, the store hasn’t changed all that much since its early beginnings. Before Costco, there was Price Club, a big box store that...

Plastic is basically the bane of the planet’s existence. Single-use plastics, like grocery bags and straws, are definitely the least redeemable of them all, but really, even recyclable plastics aren’t the best for the environment. Instead, the best solution is to reduce our plastic consumption altogether. “We cannot recycle our way out of the plastic...

Fire departments in California are hard at work on preventing as many wildfires possible, and they’ve turned to an unlikely source for help: goats. Firefighters at the Ventura County Fire Department released hundreds of goats north of Los Angeles this month. Famously, goats will eat just about anything, which, while it can sometimes be troublesome,...

According to one management expert at CNBC, there’s one extremely revealing question that can seal the deal in a job interview. It’s simple: “What did you do to prepare for this interview?” Suzy Welch, bestselling management author and CNBC contributor, says this question can become the deciding factor for employers. She loves it because it reveals a...

There are a LOT of reasons why mothers deserve all the things, but this dilation chart that shows exactly how intense childbirth is? Yeah, this reason is definitely top five. The SCV Birth Center shared a photo of a dilation chart, which has various holes in it to show the stages of cervical dilation. The...

What would you do if $30,000 came rolling down the street? Grab as much as you can and go? Yeah, exactly. A man accidentally left a box with $30,000 in cash on the bumper of his truck in Grand Haven, Michigan. He drove off, and the money went flying across the road. Other drivers promptly...

Here’s something that has no business being as hilarious as it is: babies getting X-rays. If you’ve never had a child that needed to get an X-ray before, it may never have occurred to you to wonder how that works. Turns out, babies have to go into this squeezy plastic tube that basically compresses their...

Video games aren’t just for fun anymore. In fact, they can be deadly serious. A new video game was designed to detect Alzheimer’s disease, and it actually seems to work. Alzheimer’s disease is well-known for causing severe memory issues, but those symptoms don’t show up until the later stages of the disease. At the moment,...

Today, William Kamkwamba is a 22-year-old in Malawi. Back seven years ago, when he was just 14, the country went through one of its worst-ever droughts. Thousands of people died, and his farming family had to survive on one meal a day without any income to speak of. The situation prompted him to get creative....

Dogs are one of the most diverse species on the planet, so much so that sometimes it’s hard to believe that different types actually are the same species. Thanks to centuries of breeding, the differences between dog breeds have gotten more and more extreme, as you can see in these photos of what popular dog breeds...

Runners at the 2019 London Marathon had an eco-friendly alternative to disposable water bottles: seaweed pods full of water. We’re officially in the future, ya’ll! Each year, tens of thousands of athletes run the London Marathon. All of those runners need to hydrate, and they can’t exactly carry disposable water bottles with them. The streets...

Some scientists in Brazil have figured out to treat burns with fish skin, and it looks really freakin’ creepy. But it’s actually a cool, useful innovation! Researchers at the Federal University of Cearà in Brazil came up with this innovation. They use tilapia skin, which is high in collagen (a healing protein) and moisture. It...

Anyone else constantly distracted from work by daydreams about fleeing the country?! … Wait, what was I saying? Right, okay, so it turns out that it is very possible to move to another country and live more cheaply, while probably also experiencing less stress and boredom. Thrillist listed 10 countries where you can live for...

Not too long ago, the Wall Street Journal published an article about the idea that Netflix may be to blame for the falling fertility rate in the US. Ummm…. Well, apparently, we as a people are less interested in sex because there’s so much Schitt’s Creek to watch??? WSJ conducted a survey for the story, which...