Posts by Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn

Most of us are probably aware that the irritating oils from poison ivy leaves can smear onto your dog or outdoor cat, then transfer onto your skin or clothes, causing that awful, telltale itching and rash. If you live pretty much anywhere in North America where there are woods and wooded areas, there’s a good...

Our society is one that always seems to be innovating, coming up with new, better, faster ideas without spending too much time thinking about whether or not those better faster innovations are really good for the majority of people who live in our society. We’re thinking about productivity, or a bottom line, or just whether or not it can...

Our world is home to many amazing and weird things, and oftentimes those two adjectives can be applied to the same spaces and places. Traveling in person isn’t a thing many of us are doing these days, but that doesn’t mean we can’t still look at pictures and dream, right? Not that many of us...

There are about a million reasons that an idea for a television show, or even one that has been made into a pilot, might never make it to air. Most of those reasons have to do with marketing and money concerns, but not all of them! Keep reading to learn about 15 television shows you...

If you think too hard about it, all reproduction seems a bit weird, I suppose. That’s why we don’t overthink it most of the time, I’d bet. That said, even on a scale full of weirdness, these 6 organisms manage to take it to another level. 6. Community Gendering Fully grown Japanese climbing ferns can...

We all have biases that we bring to the table, and to the relationships and interactions in our lives. That said, did you know that some of them are just due to the fact that we all have very human brains? The first step to realizing that your mind might be trying to make decisions for you...

Until recently, most of us found ourselves facing this dilemma on a fairly regular basis: you go to the salon to get your hair cut, you like your stylist and all, but what do you really have to talk about for 20 minutes? Or, for women, sometimes upwards of an hour, depending on what you’re...

I know kids today love going to McDonald’s and Chick Fil A and all the rest, but hear me out – those places are nowhere near as awesome as the iterations we visited as kids. The outdoor playground at McDonald’s, full of metal stairs that could cut open a skull and bars that effectively imprisoned...

It can be hard to keep up with all of the great – and terrible – things that happen on Twitter every single hour of every day. Sure, you can keep up with the big stuff, but what about the rest of them? Some of them are must-reads, after all, and these 13 posts are...

It can be hard to decide which tweets are worth your time when you’re absentmindedly scrolling your timeline, and listen – no matter how hard you work to curate the best possible folks, you’re definitely going to miss some brilliance here or there. That’s where we – and this list of 12 fun tweets –...

I was an avid reader for my entire life. From the moment my mother bought me my first chapter book (The Babysitter’s Club) in the 3rd grade, I was hooked. That said, even I hated the majority of the books that were assigned in high school English. It didn’t turn me off reading, but as this...

For years there has been this perception that unpaid internships are a way to “pay your dues” and “get a leg up,” or even just boost your resume before applying to college or looking for a job post-graduation. Lately, though, people have become more and more vocal about the privilege a person has to have...

For many people, Daylight Savings Time is just one of those things. It’s a minor inconvenience, but with everything else going on in our lives, we just deal with it twice a year and move on. We adapt, we adjust, because that’s what human beings are good at. That said, other people are flat-out fed...

There are two types of people in the world – those who aim to be early everywhere they go, and those who are chronically late. The latter almost always annoy the former, but as one of those people who is usually running late, I swear it’s not because I don’t respect the people I’m meeting…though...

I write a lot of articles, y’all, but that’s definitely one of the best headlines I’ve ever had the privilege of typing. This tale begins with astronaut John Young. The 9th person to walk on the moon, Young enjoyed the longest career of any astronaut before – or after – him at NASA, flying 6...