Posts by Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn

It’s one of the more ironic things about our society, I think, that now that we all have phones in our hands pretty much 24/7, we’ve developed an intense dislike of actually speaking on them. We’d rather text or DM or PM or Snapchat or heck, even email before actually picking it up and talking to...

The Reddit forum r/NoStupidQuestions is the place to go when you have a query you’re too ashamed to ask your friends…or because you’ve already exhausted your friends asking this particular questions. This one should really get those brain-wheels greased – if humans are mammals just like all the rest (or close enough), why isn’t there...

If you grew up in the West, and your family was Christian (or just not NOT Christian), then there’s a good chance you woke up Christmas morning to find that Santa Claus had visited your home. Then, at some point in your young life you learned that everyone had been lying to you. Santa wasn’t...

There are plenty of people who are more concerned with privacy than ever, and for some good reasons, too. If 2020 has taught us anything it’s that we need to be prepared for anything, and honestly, I don’t know anyone who wants “the man” to be any more involved in our lives than they have...

In today’s edition of More Scientists Need To Watch Movies, some people have thought it’s a good idea to try to increase the size of a monkey’s brain. Now, I have a problem with this for a couple of reasons, but the main one is that monkeys are gross, disgusting little disease vectors, and the...

The majority of people willing to give advice to friends, family, and strangers do have their fellow human’s best interests at heart. That said, sometimes we don’t know as much as we think we do. Other times, we’re just repeating something we heard that maybe made us feel better once upon a time. Neither of...

Everyone likes to think they give the best advice. Or, maybe they just think their wise old granny or gramps gave really great advice that needs to be passed on, or perhaps a historical figure or two may have gotten more credit than they deserve for their shady life hacks. Whatever the reason, there’s a lot...

Homelessness is a real problem in our society. It’s tough on anyone who has to experience it, at any time of the year, but for people with nowhere to go when the weather turns cold, it can be deadly. There are programs, but we all know that times are tough and resources are stretched thin....

In 2018, employees at Sydney’s Sea Life Aquarium noticed something fairly rare among their Gentoo penguin population – a mating ritual between two male penguins. Sphen made the first move, presenting Magic with a pebble, and the rest is history. The pair even created a stone nest during their first mating season together, and have...

If you were the “smart” kid growing up, there’s a good chance you heard your parents say “I don’t know how someone as smart as you could do something like that” at least once in your life. Aside from making you feel badly for upsetting your parents, the statement also makes you feel something new...

If you don’t live in a small town, where people have to invent ways to amuse themselves, and too many of those things include destroying other people’s property, then perhaps you’ve never had to worry about the sturdiness of your mailbox. For the rest of us, we’ve come outside at least once in our life...

Not many of us take the time to read the fine print on the contracts we sign, though I’d wager most of us know that we really should. It could come in handy if people try to pull one over on you – something history proves will happen at least a few times in all...

I would venture to say that for the disabled people of the world, most spaces could do more as far as accessibility. Abled people don’t spend enough time considering the needs of those who grow up with different experiences, and the result is spaces that don’t work as well as they should for every single...

I think most people in the world want to believe that we’re not alone in the universe. Sure, aliens could be the scary, smart kind who come down to Earth ready to kill us all and inhabit our planet, but it would still be pretty cool to see them, right? Maybe not. So far, there...

When we think of bullies and how to survive them, our minds typically go to childhood (especially middle school). I think that’s because we’re – rightfully – extra concerned about the mental health of kiddos whose minds are still developing, and who typically don’t have the experience and life skills to cope. Even if we do...