Posts by Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn

I know that many of us grow up hating history, or thinking it’s boring – a fact that I blame on a complete dearth of decent history teachers in high schools everywhere. Cause here’s the thing: when you know where to look, history is full of totally fascinating, totally true tales. Here are 15 stories...

It’s unsurprising, really, that people used to think the earth was flat. To the untrained (regular) eye, it feels like we live on a flat, motionless surface that stays safe and stationary underneath a spinning sun and stars. If someone came along and told you (the hypothetically scientifically illiterate) that you lived on a giant...

You might have heard over the past several years that there’s a sad lack of knowledge and attention to the fact that women’s heart attacks begin and progress differently from men’s. We’re all shown the “typical” shortness of breath, pain the left arm, and finally in the chest…but if you’re a woman who thinks that’s...

It’s important to keep up with what’s going on in the world, no matter how much it might hurt your soul. That said, some days you’ve just had enough. Everything is so overwhelming and crazy that you just want to hear the good stories, see the helpers doing their thing, or be endowed with some...

Cheating is a problem that teachers have to deal with – no matter how hard teachers try, kids are gonna find a way around the rules. And I imagine that the advent of the internet has only made students more creative and harder to catch. But don’t worry, because cheaters aren’t going to get away...

Art takes so many forms and plays so many roles. It can make us think, push us out of our comfort zone, challenge us, please us, and connect us. In some cases, like Yee Chong’s adorable illustrations of fantastical animals living as pets, it can utterly delight us. Below are 12 of my favorite images...

Giving birth is no joke. There’s pain, a lot of bodily fluids, usually some colorful language, awe, shock, and yeah, plenty of things you can never unsee. At the end of it, if you’re lucky, you’ve brought a healthy baby into the world, so most people forget the rest of it (in time). This dad...

There’s not much sweeter than dads and their daughters who have excellent, close relationships. So when this young lady shared a text conversation in which her father was asking for advice on his first date wardrobe, well, the internet just collectively swooned. Life with a single dad, asking for advice on date outfits 😂😂 my...

If you’re thinking that we’re getting close to men and women being treated equally on the job, in theory and in practice, well, science says you’re putting the cart ahead of the horse. At the rate we’re going, we’re still a good two centuries from equality being an actual reality. Basically, if the pace doesn’t...

The world is changing, and fast. There are countless jobs out there that weren’t even on people’s radars 20 years ago, but what jobs today might be obsolete themselves 20 years in the future? These 15 Redditors have some ideas! 15. What’s that job called again? Hopefully, that job where that dude stands in the...

There are cat people and dog people, rodent people and snake people and, for some reason, bird people. And then there are people who claim to be human but still say they definitely don’t want a pet. Okay, fine. I know there are responsible reasons to not want a pet, like not being financially able...

I can actually remember the dumbest thing someone ever said out loud to me, and how it kind of stunned me into silence for a good thirty seconds. There’s no way to respond to some comments, truly, that isn’t incredulous or flat-out rude. Me? I just nodded and smiled. Please give me an example of...

You might remember a few years ago, when pulling down statues erected to Confederate war heroes was all the rage. Sadly, people have moved onto other ventures, leaving many monuments to the Confederacy still standing like they contributed positively to history and deserve to be remembered. One Tennessee lawmaker, though, hasn’t forgotten – and he...

We might joke from time to time about robot uprisings, the day when technology becomes too much for humanity to handle, or how we might be able to use it to be able to “live” forever. There have been countless television and movies that have explored those ideas (and associated fears) over the years –...

Sometimes riddles that claim to be tough just aren’t, and that winds up being very disappointing. Don’t worry! We think these 6 are hard enough to challenge you, but not too impossible to solve. Give them a shot and tell us if we’re right! 6. Someone’s crashing… But who’s staying over? 5. What’s with today,...