Posts by Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn

As if The X-Files wasn’t awesome enough as a television show, now we’re learning that all of the little girls who looked up, wide-eyed, at the tough-as-nails, no-nonsense, science-loving Scully are flocking to careers in science, math, and engineering. Those fields have long been dominated by men, and though that tide has been shifting little-by-little,...

Unless you live under a rock, you’ve probably heard that Popeyes has debuted a chicken sandwich. There has been outrage at its limited availability – even assaults that ended with people dying (really) over the thing – but aside from the fact that you can get them on Sundays (and the company that makes them...

Smallpox is estimated to have killed around 300 million people throughout history, and it remains the only infectious (human-borne) disease to have been completely eradicated worldwide. Because it is easily modified, however, similar viruses can be found in laboratories and other testing facilities around the world. And that’s how one lab worker got into some...

Relationships are tricky, y’all, and that goes double for the moment you realize that your money is now our money. That means you need to discuss before you make decisions with it. A fact that Unsurebigbig3 found out the hard way after he shelled out $5k for his dog’s cancer treatment without discussing it with...

Fish are a lot of things – slimy, weird, googly-eyed, delicious – but until now, human-like is about the last thing I would use to describe them. If I had been the person to see this fish in the flesh – er, scales – I honestly am not sure that I would ever recover. The...

Too many people – women included – don’t understand the female body well enough (or at all). The recent revelation that rapper T.I. asks his daughter’s doctor to check her hymen to ensure her virginity on a yearly basis is the (extremely disgusting and invasive and inappropriate) proof. And the fact that so many people...

If you don’t challenge your brain enough, it will turn to mush – that’s not me talking, that’s science (probably). Just in case I’m telling the truth, you might as well give these 6 riddles a try. Even if they don’t keep you sane for longer, you’ll still feel pretty smart after you get them...

A generation war is brewing between the Baby Boomers (1946-1964) and the Millennials (1983-1995). You might have heard about it: the younger kids are tired of their older counterparts acting like the world is remotely the same as it was seventy years ago, and the older folks think they’re being disrespected. The truth is, the...

For over a month, the staff at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra noticed that poppies laid on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier were disappearing, one at a time. They were bothered at first because that is desecration, but after a while they spotted the culprit – a pigeon who was filching the flowers...

For much of modern history, the mystery of why things – ships, people, maybe even entire civilizations – seem to disappear over one particular barren section of ocean has captured the minds of the public and conspiracy theorists alike. We’re talking about the Bermuda Triangle, obviously. The truth is that while ships and planes go...

You’ve tried all of the tricks – a red ribbon, brightly colored luggage, your name and address – but have you considering just screen-printing your mug right on your bags so you can easily spot them at the airport? Probably not. But here’s the thing…absolutely no one will mistakenly pick up your bag if you...

Marriage is hard, and the truth is (at least in my experience) that not everyone gets it right on the first (or second) try. It stands to reason, then, that there’s a moment for many of us when we realized that staying married to the person sharing our lives and our beds just wasn’t going...

Halloween may be over, but listen: in the way way back, witches could be accused, arrested, and executed any ol’ time of year. So it wouldn’t have mattered when you were caught doing any of these 15 things – they could have gotten you killed, regardless. If you’re curious whether or not going about your...

There are a lot of myths out there about how to treat a snakebite in order to give yourself the best chance to survive. And if you grow up somewhere with dangerous snakes, you pay attention when you people talk about how to handle a bite. After being bit on the finger, an unfortunate Chinese...

No job is perfect. Every workplace has downsides and upsides – and we all just hope to get more of the latter than the former. Things become tricky when the downsides are your colleagues. We all like to think that we would be strong enough to speak up if we felt like there was abuse...