Posts by Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn

We all want to be liked, at least by the people we care about. We also all need to be able to make good first impressions when we’re meeting potential employers, potential love interests, or potential new friends when we’re looking to start or expand an existing circle. Like everything in life, making friends is...

One of the things that’s true across human beings is that we want people to like us. We can’t help it; even when we know it shouldn’t matter, we crave approval. That said, sometimes it is important for people to like us – there are job interviews, and meeting a significant other’s parents, moving to a...

When we watch spy movies, it’s the technology that’s super fun to witness – and although usually it ends up being the spy himself, his skills and his brains, that really get the job done. And once you read about these ridiculous spy plans of days gone by that actually worked, you might wonder why...

It can be easy to tune out what scientists call “huge” discoveries or inventions in this day and age, because it can seem like they are happening on a fairly regular basis. That said, when something comes along that could significantly impact the way we all use energy in the future ,we should try to...

I know the year-that-shall-not-be-named seemed as if it went on and on, and that we limped into the new year hoping things would be different. While that hasn’t necessarily seemed true (at all), scientists say there is at least one big thing about 2021 that’s bound to set it apart from other years – it’s...

You know how some things are so bizarre and just hard to explain that they fall right out of our collective memory as soon as they’re gone? That’s what happened with Rax Roast Beef, I think, and even if their short-lived spokesperson Mr. Delicious didn’t cause their demise directly, there’s no way to argue that...

If you’ve attended a children’s science fair, there’s a good chance you’ve seen some version of a Rube Goldberg contraption in action – they’re gizmos that perform a simple task in a ridiculously complicated manner. Remember the game Mouse Trap? Like that. There’s actually an entire contest for kids that still happens – the Rube...

After being on the air for 32 seasons, there’s a good chance that The Simpsons would predict a thing or two about the future, just by sheer luck or coincidence. The thing is, they haven’t predicted a thing or two, but a whole hatful of events and bits that have come to pass in the real world...

The Simpsons is currently enjoying it’s 32nd season on the air, which means it’s nearly the age of a middle-aged person – and it has seen just as much happen in the world since it aired. Which is weird, because it seems to have predicted as much about our world as it has witnessed, and...

The film and television buffs among us have trained ourselves long ago to look for hidden “Easter eggs” in the movies and shows we love – inside jokes, like little winks and nudges for the biggest of fans. They bring us together, they delight us, and they make us feel like we’re part of a...

People love looking for Easter eggs in movies and television, and even in the books we read – little nods to a world outside of the world we’re immersed in, things that make us feel special, or closer to the creator, or maybe both. Did you know they exist in real life too, though –...

I feel like it’s hard to have a long attention span these days. The advent of social media and the internet and the constant barrage of information 24/7 has made even the most focused of people feel scattered now and again, right? That said, some of us have always had a harder time than others,...

More and more people are coming to terms with the fact that on average, the attention span of the human race is just getting shorter and shorter. Whether you’re diagnosed with something like ADHD or not, the truth is that the world is coming at us so fast that it can be hard to know...

In this on-the-go, fifteen-things-at-once, social media driven, lightning-fast world we live in, people have definitely decided they prefer their humor like everything else – in bite-sized, easily-digested chunks. Twitter is perfect for the brief and poignant zinger, because it already has a character limit – but these 14 people are so succinct, most of them...

You should never judge a book by it’s cover. Most of us hear this adage more than once while we’re growing up, and yet, as adults, we’re caught off guard all the time when people act differently than we expect them to, even though we know we shouldn’t. One of my favorite types of characters...