Posts by Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn

If there’s one thing people love, it’s to put a riddle out into the universe and sit there with a smug smile while people throw out wrong answer after wrong answer. Shut up, you know I’m right. Why else would people come up with riddles? It’s always about somebody thinking they’re smarter than you. And...

It’s pretty common knowledge that dogs have a better sense of smell than humans – by a lot – but we mostly think of them being able to sniff out things like missing people, dead bodies, hunted animals, and whatever food we’re trying to keep out of their reach on the counter, but what if...

I don’t know about you, but this seems like common sense to me – if you buy into the idea of evolution and selecting offspring based on what traits best help them survive to procreate themselves, then of course the eggs of biological females have the ability to choose “better” sperm, right? Well, now there’s...

It may sometimes seem like scientists and health officials can still be caught behind the 8-ball when it comes to new and emerging diseases, but let me tell you, that’s nothing compared to what doctors were dealing with before the invention of the microscope. There were people in the scientific community who believed that “bad...

One of the more mortifying moments of my life was being at a friend’s house, clogging the toilet, and not being able to find a plunger. Which meant I had to go and inform my friend (and her spouse) that I needed their plunger. And if I thought that couldn’t get any worse, well, then...

If you’re not old enough to remember the year The Shawshank Redemption hit theaters, then it will probably surprise you to learn that absolutely no one cared enough to go and see it. Strange, considering that the early buzz from critics was promising, and that test audiences had also rated it well – as well as...

Look, you either know about Trapper Keepers or you don’t. You’re one of us, and we can discuss all day about how they smelled and the sound the velcro made when you first pried it open, and how you agonized for weeks before picking your new one before a new school year, or you don’t...

As a Midwestern while girl born at the tail end of GenX, I can promise you that I was never raised to question the police. They were doing their jobs, putting their lives on the line, and while I never found out for sure, I am 100% positive my parents would have sh*t a brick...

We see a lot of talk about older people who grew up without the internet and have had trouble adjusting – or honestly, who just aren’t hardwired to keep up with the pace of how things constantly evolve – but we talk less about those things from the “good” old internet-free days that kids now...

It’s never a bad time to scroll through a list of posts that were designed to make the world a better place – and there’s no arguing that these pictures are just too adorable to keep a straight face. I’m serious. You can’t convince me that you didn’t break into a grin at more than...

You truly never know when something you do or say – without thinking about it or even by accident- is going to be the thing that completely turns around someone else’s day. That’s the beauty of life (and the tragedy, of course, since it also works in reverse), and the reason we say to remember...

Some people say that space, or maybe the planet’s vast oceans, are the last frontier, but I think they’re looking a bit too far afield – because the human brain sits right on top of our bodies, and we really have very little idea what makes it work. And also, we don’t know what like,...

Everyone was looking forward to the dawn of a new decade, but 2020 had plans that definitely didn’t include making people happy. Since January, half of Australia has burned down, koalas have died, Kobe Bryant’s helicopter crashed, the obvious devastation of the virus-that-shall-not-be-named, multiple natural disasters, plane crashes, murder hornets, rioting in the streets… You...

I know that the job of a writer it, to the best of their ability, accurately reflect the truth of the world around them. It’s also nice if they have something to say about it, but the reflecting is one of the more important aspects of putting words that might mean something on a page....

Sometimes there are great and intuitive reasons to put together a list of tweets, and sometimes we just like you probably need a laugh! These 14 tweets are all ready to deliver those in spades – so take a look and tell us how we did! 14. Except no one ever lets you off. And...