Posts by Kim Wong-Shing

For city dwellers in the US, squirrels are mostly just “those furry animals that try to intimidate you into giving them your pizza.” They’re a short step up from mice and rats. But when you think about it, squirrels are actually pretty dang adorable, and perhaps none are cuter than these rare tiny squirrels that live...

An average of 20 people experience intimate partner violence every single minute in the United States. That’s over 10 million victims of abuse every year. Abuse is an epidemic, and unfortunately, it’s often hidden behind closed doors. Abusive relationships are notoriously difficult (and dangerous) to escape, so naturally, the best solution would be to never enter one...

Traveling alone is a great experience. It can change your life, even! But it’s really scary too, especially if you’re a woman. Simply walking down the street in a city in your home country is a challenging experience (hello, street harassers!), let alone in a foreign country where you don’t speak the language or have cell phone...

With the state of the planet in 2019, many people have just run all out of f**ks to give. That might be why Dutch historian Rutger Bregman decided to call out a room full of rich people at the 2019 World Economic Forum. The World Economic Forum is a yearly event in which the world’s...

As a responsible adult, you keep an organized box of receipts from every purchase you make. Right? Yeah, probably not. In a desperate-to-be-paperless world that’s still be bombarded with unnecessary papers, most people don’t even ask for receipts anymore. But you should maybe reconsider that habit, according to a wise Redditor. User Ryan_77 recommends always...

It is a scary world out there. The seas are rising. Polar bears are dying. The fish are disappearing, and the bees, and the… I need to lie down. But here is some good news: benevolent robots might just help us save the coral reefs. The world’s coral reefs are among the world’s most vulnerable habitats...

Somewhere out there in the universe, a human is on their fifth cup of coffee because they didn’t get any sleep due to their partner’s inability to stay on their own side of the bed. It’s hard to sleep with one leg hanging in the air. Wouldn’t it be so much easier if there were, say, a...

Anyone else at a complete loss for what to do with their life? Well, one option is to move to this small Italian town, start a family, and become $10,000 richer. So the next time someone asks you,”What have you been up to?” you can throw these amazing photos in their faces instead of mumbling...

At first glance, this tech-savvy bed looks absolutely terrifying. It allows the sleeping person to fall inside, and then seals them up tight in a steel box – in other words, it’s basically a coffin. However, when you consider that this invention can apparently save you from an earthquake without you having to leave your...

Remember the Olympics?! They’re coming back in 2020, and they’ll take place in Tokyo, Japan. And thanks to a new sustainability initiative, every single medal at the Tokyo Olympics will be made from recycled metal. The plan has been in place since 2017, when organizers in Japan began collecting electronic waste for the project. People...

A couple in Japan made a heartbreaking plea to the anonymous thieves who took their centuries-old bonsai trees. Seiji and Fuyumi Iimura have an impressive collection of about 3000 bonsai trees in Saitama, Japan. Recently, thieves stole several of their most valuable specimens right out of their nursery. One such bonsai included a 400-year-old Shimpaku juniper...

Winter. Sucks. And if you’re unlucky enough to have brown eyes, you might be especially likely to get the blues in the winter, according to a new study. Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) affects approximately 10 million Americans. To some folks, SAD only seems natural – who wouldn’t be depressed when they never see the sun and can’t...

The Office is a gift to humanity in many ways, but for one woman in Arizona, the show is literally a lifesaver. A man named Cross Scott was out walking in Tuscon when he spotted the woman slumped over her steering wheel while parked in her car. Scott (no relation to Michael Scott) recognized that this...

Raise your hand if napping is your all-time favorite pastime. (*eight billion hands go up*) Great, let’s all move to Japan! Apparently, public napping is actually a respectable practice in Japan, where it’s known as “inemuri.” There, it’s socially acceptable to nap on the train, in the park, or even at work during meetings.  Amazing. Here in the...

There is a fish on this planet that looks like an elderly woman in a lipstick aisle, and it’s about 50% horrifying and 50% adorable. The red-lipped batfish lives around the Galapagos Islands and off the coast of Peru. The fish are famous for their bright red, pouty lips. They’re a favorite among divers who...