Posts by Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn

There is a lot of philosophical debate on the Bible, and whether or not the stories in it are really real, or just meant to illustrate lessons meant to guide a religion and the people who follow it. When talking about the Old Testament, and the fantastical plagues, specifically, scientists and historians have always theorized...

Tesla has been promising to be the ones to fulfill the dream of a car that drives itself for a few years now, but they keep finding that accomplishing that goal is not as easy as it might have seemed. They’ve encountered issues from the steering wheel falling off to the cars failing to brake...

If there’s an upside to the sad fact that animals have been kept in captivity for generations, it’s all of the interesting ways they’ve evolved in order to thrive inside our human world. Gorillas, of course, seem a bit human to start with, so maybe it’s not such a surprise that they’ve figured out a...

It seems weird to me that, even though we’ve been able to buy reading glasses at the drug store for years, people have never been able to do the same for hearing aids. Some form of hearing loss comes part and parcel with getting older, just like not being able to see up close, so...

I don’t know about you, but I really don’t like to hear that scientists are “baffled” by anything – and that definitely applies to any relatively big changes with this planet we call home. Like, say, the fact that the days are getting longer and everyone has basically admitted they’re not totally sure why. There...

I always have this moment of indecision when buying a new cell phone, computer, or tablet, and it comes when they ask me whether or not I want to buy the insurance. On the one hand, we all know there’s a decent chance the phone will be dropped, get wet, get lost, or otherwise ruined...

Those of us who can remember the mid-90s might feel as if it wasn’t all that long ago, but considering how much technology has changed, we’re basically living in an entirely different universe from the one we populated before cell phones were really a thing. Carl Sagan, who has authored hundreds of scientific papers as...

We all want to be as healthy as we can be, but most of us aren’t totally up for high-impact exercise that’s really going to get us there. The good news is that scientists say walking can be just as good for you as more intense workouts, and then there’s Nordic walking – which takes...

There are things you never really think about, but once the question enters your mind, you can’t stop until you have an answer. We see animals every day. A majority of them have some kind of tail, and that’s just the way it is. Why, though? Once you start to wonder, you’ve got to go...

No matter how long we study the planet we live on and the universe around us, we seem to uncover new things all the time – and with those discoveries come even more questions to explore going forward. On Earth, ice shelves sometimes contain a phenomenon known as underwater snow – and they could be...

People are waiting longer to start families these days – if they decide to start them at all – and a number of factors are at play. Some people struggle to find the perfect person to have kids with, others marry early but want to be financially set before taking the plunge, and others still...

I have to believe that every single sane person in the world would prefer a hot shower to a cold one. Now, I know that there are times when a cooler shower is necessary – after a workout, if you’re trying to wake up or sober up – but mostly, it’s not very pleasant. Are...

There are some bad associations with the word ‘drugs,’ but the fact is, some of them have changed the course of history for the better. Imagine, for instance, still living without penicillin! These drugs were all absolute game changers, but that said, not all of them worked out the way we had hoped.   Nitroglycerin...

No one wants to think about getting a diagnosis for a life-changing illness at a younger age. It’s unfathomable all of the ways it will change both you and your family, yet everyday, people are forced to face it head on. Actress Christina Applegate took on a diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) a few months...

At this point, I think we have to expect that most of the nursery rhymes we enjoyed as children have some kind of dark or disturbing origin. I’m not sure how or why people decided they were geared toward children, honestly, and almost without exception. Now, we’re going to have to put Humpty Dumpty –...