Posts by Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn

If, like me, you’re an older sibling, then maybe you sometimes wonder why your parents even bothered to have other children. I kid, I kid. I love my sister, and actually both she and I always begged for more siblings (to no avail). Younger siblings sometimes get a bad rap as attention-seeking, trouble-causing rebels, but...

A 13-year-old middle school student in Kansas was arrested and charged with a felony after pointing her fingers, in the shape of a gun, at five classmates before turning her finger gun on herself. A felony. The incident happened at Westridge Middle School in Overland Park, a suburb of Kansas City. The student reportedly mimed the...

You know what I’m talking about – the phenomenon of young children suddenly going limp as a (quite effective) form of protest. It makes it nearly impossible to pick them up off the floor (how did they double in weight?), buckle them into their carseat or stroller, or make an escape from wherever they’re embarrassing...

If you’re lucky enough to have never been homeless, then you probably won’t ever know what it feels like to not have anywhere to go at the end of the day. Nowhere to sleep, nowhere to eat, and no real way to protect yourself from the elements – or anything else that might come past...

There are cat people, dog people, and people who like and own both (and also bird people, but let’s not get into them here). For anyone who co-exists with a cat, you know there’s a certain unwritten agreement between species. Namely, they do what they want, and we feed them and clean up after them...

Maybe 90% of the time, I have no trouble clearing the fog from my windshield. But the other 10% of the time drives me crazy – not to mention, it’s pretty unsafe trying to drive while not really being able to see and also twirling knobs in an attempt to fix it. https://www.instagram.com/p/WgAoujDfu9/ It turns...

Chlamydia is the most common sexually transmitted infection – there are around 131 million new cases every year – and, like all STI’s, it is transmitted through unprotected sexual activity. It gives doctors and patients trouble because of its “silent” nature; there often aren’t many (or any) symptoms to help prompt a diagnosis. But if...

If there’s one thing people everywhere can agree on, it’s that animals are pretty awesome. Whether they’re wild animals shrouded in mystery or the pets we snuggle every day and night, they deserve to be celebrated. And that’s what these 5 international festivals set out to do. It’s also a good excuse to travel more,...

Hard or soft shell? It’s a question that comes your way at pretty much ever Tex-Mex restaurant out there, including “fast food” joints like Chipotle, and sometimes it can freeze you in your tracks! Honestly, they’re both delicious. I mean, if you prefer hard shells on your tacos, you might not be eating the most...

Since 2016, Vantablack, the world’s “blackest black” pigment, has been controlled by artist Anish Kapoor. (Somebody needs to alert the Spinal Tap fans out there!) But as of now, he no longer owns the blackest black out there because engineers at MIT have developed a new material that is 10 times blacker than Vantablack. The...

Jane Fonda has a long history of social activism (with various levels of results), and her latest cause is climate change. A video posted to Twitter shows her being handcuffed and taken away by authorities while protesting for climate action at the U.S. Capitol building. A spokesperson for the Capitol police confirmed that 16 people...

If you live in the United States, there’s a good chance you’ve encountered a brown marmorated stink bug – though the species is native to Asia, it has now been spotted in 43 states since its arrival around 1998. Though they typically remain outdoors (unless they find themselves carried inside on clothing or other material),...

When 24-year-old Emily Clow ran across a potential marketing job at Kickass Masterminds, she thought it sounded right up her alley. The company, which worked with “rebellious business owners who yearn for freedom and are ballsy enough to chase after it,” was looking for someone to help those entrepreneurs grow their businesses through marketing and...

Personally, I hate to read this news about those adorable, floppy-eared rabbits. I had one as a kid, and it was one of my favorite pets ever – he was funny and sweet and loved to snuggle as much as he enjoyed a well-timed nip. The sad truth, though, is that lop-eared rabbits aren’t natural...

Mental agility is necessary to think logically about any problem, so honing it on a regular basis is never a bad thing – and we think these 6 riddles will do the trick. Can you solve them all without cheating? I’ll be impressed if so! 6. A riddle of cats. 5. A ship to New...