Posts by Kim Wong-Shing

Young students in Medford, Massachusetts, have come up with a brand new innovation for the area: 3D crosswalks. Not only do they look way cooler than regular ol’ 2D crosswalks, but they also make the intersection safer. The 3D crosswalk is at the intersection of a parking lot and Allston Street at Brooks Elementary School, and...

Language never stops evolving, and nobody knows that better than the editors of the dictionary. The Merriam-Webster editors added over 640 words to the dictionary in April 2019 alone!!! Some of the words are brand new (like “buzzy”) and others have simply taken on new meanings (like “snowflake”). When dictionaries add new words, they’re always...

There’s a brand new entry on the World’s Weirdest Airbnbs, and it’s a potato. A POTATO. In Idaho, of course. From the outside, it looks like the potato couldn’t possibly be habitable — again, it is A POTATO — but in fact, it features a queen-sized bed and a fireplace. It’s called the Big Idaho...

You can now dine at a fully underwater restaurant in Norway — provided you have around $430 and are willing to wait several months. The underwater restaurant, appropriately named Under, is the first of its kind in Europe. It launched in March off the coast of Norway. The menu features fresh seafood, and the intimate...

Have you ever sat around and thought about how wild it is that our ancestors figured out how to build massive stone structures and nobody actually knows how they did it?! Yeah. Pretty wild. So wild that some people think that aliens must have built the pyramids (AHEM, looking at you, guy from Ancient Aliens). But researchers recently...

There’s no easy way to say this, so I’ll just spit it out: Moms are selling their extra breast milk to bodybuilders, who swear it helps their performance. The idea is that breast milk is all-natural, unlike many powdered supplements and vitamins. It’s designed to help babies grow, so it’s packed full of calories and...

You probably think you know what an extremely loud noise sounds like. If you’ve ever walked by a jackhammer, for example, or stood a little too close to the speakers at a loud concert. But those sounds pale in comparison to what is officially known as the loudest sound ever heard. It happened on August 27, 1883....

THE END IS HERE. It’s all there, right in the title: scientists have managed to partially revive the brains of dead pigs, hours after they were killed. Oh god. While your brain swims with images of pig zombies coming to seek revenge on us all, let me try to explain the science. A research team...

There’s now a map that shows how much you need to earn to survive in every U.S. state, and it’s quite enlightening! The map was designed by CNBC Make It, and it uses data from MIT’s living wage calculator. For each state, they calculated how much (gross) income a single person needs to meet “basic...

Until mankind figures out how to STOP promoting crappy people to positions of power, it’s important to be able to spot a Bad Boss when you see one. Bad bosses often use many of the same manipulative messages to get employees to neglect themselves in favor of the company. Here are a few of the...

Here’s some information that will either motivate you OR make you want to take a nap forever. In order to be among the top 5% of earners in New York state, aka one of the most expensive states in the country, you have to earn… $480,780, on average, per year. The minimum threshold to make the cut...

Anxiety gang, are you here with me?! One question that people with anxiety get a lot is, “Well, what are you so nervous about?” It’s a question that doesn’t have a logical answer, and if there’s any proof of that, it’s the fact that you often get MORE anxious after something good happens, not less....

Scientists are figuring out how to harness electricity from your skin’s melanin, and, as a melanated person, IDK if this is good news or bad news. A group of Italian scientists recently made a breakthrough that allows them to conduct electricity from eumelanin, the pigment that colors human skin, hair, and eyes. In its natural...

Those of us in the Netflix Nature Documentaries Fan Club (that I just made up) were very excited about the release of Our Planet, a docuseries from the same team behind Planet Earth. There are a lot of breathtakingly gorgeous scenes in the series, but one particular scene is seriously heartbreaking. The scene shows a group...

If you’re attempting to be healthy AND lazy at the same time, smoothies are absolutely key. They take five minutes to make, and you can easily pack them full of all the produce that you need for the day. Fruits, veggies, you name it. But! Not all smoothies are created equal. Smoothies shouldn’t consist only of fruit...