Posts by Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn

There are some big, important questions out there that people are always clamoring for answers to, and while wondering how radio stations are named and why they always start with one of two letters might not be all that important, it is one of those things you ponder at some point. We’re here to give...

You might think there are plenty of reasons to sue the biggest fast food chain in the world – after all, they’ve got the bucks, right? – but you might not realize how far some people have reached (or not) when taking the corporation to court. Below are 5 lawsuits that are all pretty bizarre...

The most simple definition of a paradox is this: a statement that contradicts itself or a situation which seems to defy logic. These are all around us every day, and range from something mundane like saying “I always lie” and the complexities surrounding the idea of time travel. If you’re into reading things that really...

Plenty of plant and animal species have disappeared from existence since we began recording history – some more famously than others (looking at you, dinosaurs). We’re now in the middle of a mass extinction event, which means more and more species are going to fade into the ether for good. It seems like a good...

In world that’s increasingly terrible, people are falling more in love with the persona and legacy of Mr. Rogers every single day. This is evidenced by searchers for information about him and the fact that not one, but two films chronicling his life have come to life in recent months. And since he’s a wonderful...

You’re probably hearing plenty of talk about minimum wage, wage gaps, and the like as political campaigns ramp up for the next presidential election cycle, but if you’ve been tuning out the noise, you probably aren’t aware how bad things really are for the lowest earners among us. When one Twitter user posted about the...

Twister is a longtime favorite game for a reason – it gets you up and moving, it makes people laugh, and you can drink and/or flirt really well while playing it. That’s pretty much all you need to nail it, future game-makers out there. https://www.instagram.com/p/k2R3-uRDie/ Now, the makers are upping their game with a giant...

School is tough, and maybe one of the best and worst things about it is that there are so many days of it during your life – so if you decided to muff it once in a while, well, you’ll have plenty of chances to make up for it later. If you’re a good student,...

Reviews online can be helpful, of course. They can steer us away from products that aren’t worth the money, that will break easily, or might not be exactly what we’re looking for, saving us time and money. They can also help us choose between restaurants, letting us know whether the food and service are up...

Harry Potter is one of the biggest worldwide phenomenons to happen in the past several decades – like it or hate it, there’s almost no way you haven’t been exposed to the books, movies, or just general cultural use of the property. If you’re a fan, or even just a casual reader/watcher (if those exist), you’re...

Chernobyl has gotten plenty of attention since the radiation explosion that happened in April of 1986 – people are fascinated with disasters, of course, but also with the ideas of apocalypse and what humanity and the world around it might look like if something similar happened on a wider scale. In much smaller, but still...

We live in a day and age when technology is everything. We depend on it for shopping, cooking, research, news, networking, social interaction, and pretty much most of the things we do from sun up to sundown. But, here’s the thing… Even though you can order detergent on the internet, it cannot do your laundry....

Even if you sometimes long for the “good ol’ days” or get a pang of nostalgia when you see a rotary dial phone hanging on the wall (in a museum, I guess), I’m not sure there is really anyone who thinks rotary dial was like, more efficient or the way to go. That said, if...

People love to lose their minds about infectious diseases, though it seems as if we tend to freak out more about the ones that are less likely to kill us (like Ebola), while refusing to get the flu shot for a disease that actually kills tens of thousands of people every year. The coronavirus currently...

If you’re someone who grew up in the migration path of monarch butterflies, then the pretty, fluttering insects probably have a special place in your heart (I know they do mine!). My mother is a teacher and at the end of every summer we would stop on the way home from the lake to traipse...