Posts by Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn

At the National Bonsai & Penjing Museum in Washington, D.C., is a piece of Japan’s history that dates back to the 17th century. It’s a bonsai tree, gifted by master Masaru Yamaki to America on its bicentennial. The 392-year-old white pine is the oldest tree in the collection – it was planted in 1625, cultivated...

That’s not how you expected that headline to end, is it? Me, either, but this is where we are in America today – college kids eating so much of the cheapest food they can find that they’re winding up needing medical intervention they can’t afford. Tuna, in case you fall into this category of unaware,...

You’ve probably heard by now that using cotton swabs like Q-tips to clean your ears can cause infection or injury to your ear can*l or eardrum, but this latest case out of Australia might be the thing that actually gets you to stop. https://www.instagram.com/p/B1WWFU3BCKi/ A 37-year-old woman who claimed that she cleaned her ears using...

You have to appreciate a person who really puts themself out there on karaoke night. I mean, what’s the point of grabbing the mic and getting up there if you’re not going to give it your all, right? Right. Buuuttttt, that said, you probably want to avoid collapsing your lung in the process, eh? Apparently,...

You’ve probably heard by now that a financial rift between Disney and Sony has caused Tom Holland’s Spiderman to exit the MCU – and as most people agree that this iteration of Spiderman is the best one, the internet is understandably upset. How DARE Sony do this to Tom Holland?! TO HUMANITY?! #SpiderMan pic.twitter.com/78rCEJDoRO —...

Who reads all those terms and conditions before clicking ‘okay’ or ‘proceed’ or whatever? It turns out that some people are just that bored (and/or anal), and they’re here to tell you what you’re missing – and what you need to know. 15. The Canadian math requirement. I had a Victoria’s Secret coupon that said...

Filed under: Yes, The World Is Getting Dumber By The Minute Autism is a disorder that affects up to 1 in 100 children, and there currently is no cure. A fact that is not, sadly, stopping U.K. parents from forcing their autistic children to drink (or take an enema of) a dangerous chemical cocktail that...

If you’re a fan of Spiderman, the Spiderverse, or the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), then you were probably as shell-shocked as the rest of us were to learn that Disney’s rift with Sony meant that Tom Holland’s Spiderman (arguably the best iteration) would be getting the boot. In order to make everyone laugh (to keep...

Microplastics are defined as any plastic fragment less than 5 millimeters in length, and at this point they have been found in every corner of the globe. They come from any number of sources – from rubber tires to paint and cosmetics to toothpaste tubes and synthetic clothing – and the ubiquitous nature of them...

Greta Thunberg is 16 years old and has made it her life’s work (so far) to raise awareness for, and to do her best to combat, climate change around the world. Apparently, this makes grown ass people with keyboards think it’s okay to joke about a teenaged girl drowning in a boating accident, because that’s...

It’s one of those regular occurrences – the kind that are annoying as sh*t, but also not big enough to get your dander really up. But when people cut in line, it always seems as if there should be something pithy to say that would put them in their place. If you’ve always come up...

Velcro was invented in 1941, but after losing its patent in the 1970s, the market was flooded with other “hook and loop” fasteners that, while not Velcro brand, were quickly labeled as such by the public. https://www.instagram.com/p/BzlTFP1h04e/ Basically, anything that sticks together without adhesive is Velcro, right? Maybe, but once a term becomes “genericized” in...

Did you know that service dogs go through official good citizen training – the and training that allows them to best assist specific disabilities – but that they also typically spend time with foster families so they can learn how to behave in everyday social situations? It’s true. One of those everyday situations might be...

There are many, many things one can overhear through walls that are a bit too thin: funny things, inappropriate things, embarrassing things, perhaps even illegal things. And let me tell you, these 15 Redditors have pretty much heard it all. 15. I’m grateful I forgot that book. In college, I lived in a crappy apartment...

The National Aquarium of New Zealand has taken drastic measures in an attempt to get their penguin population to shape up – they’ve started a running list of the naughtiest penguins of the bunch and post them on Facebook. No public shaming would be complete without a list of crimes, but let’s face it –...