Posts by Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn

As a reader, I can confirm that letting life and work duties steal all of the time I’d like to use to sit down with a book can start to eat away at my happiness. Reading is important to me, and according to multiple sources, it’s good for pretty much everyone else, too; it broadens...

After a friendly squatting competition spiraled out of control (there’s a sentence I never expected to type), two girls found themselves in intensive care due to pretty severe kidney damage. How? Trust me, I wanted to know, too. It began when Xiao Tang, a 19-year-old college sophomore and a friend challenged each other to a...

Cats. Love them, hate them…they honestly don’t really give a crap. But if you choose to co-habitate with one (not own one; that’s not a thing), or one chooses to co-habitate with you, then you have to know that these 15 situations are very likely in your future. Take it or leave it. Once again,...

Whales are one of those animals that seem to be universally loved and respected (if you leave out whalers, I guess), and images of the giant creatures washing up on beaches full of plastic, disoriented and dying, can shake people to their core. So when a group of beachgoers in Georgia spotted a pod of...

Group chat, man. A few years ago a meme was going around that said “I’ve never been held hostage, but I have been in a group chat,” and that pretty much sums up how most people feel about getting stuck in a never ending loop of competing conversation. You know how it is. Two people...

A massive west coast earthquake may have been the subject of more than one Hollywood disaster movie, but that doesn’t mean that it’s not really going to happen. And, according to scientists who are monitoring the San Andreas fault, the big one could be opening up any time. Recently Thomas Jordan, the director of the...

There are all kinds of monsters lurking beneath the surface of the ocean, but only people brave enough to spend time without immediate access to unlimited oxygen get to see them with their own two eyes. Luckily for the rest of us, some of those people go into the deep armed with cameras – which...

My sister has lived with her epilepsy diagnosis since elementary school. She’s tried every drug available in various combinations and doses, she’s consulted with surgeons, she has a nerve stimulation implant. She’s gained weight. She’s lost weight. She’s learned how to live with her disorder, and how to cope with the costs of medication. Nothing,...

There are endless memes around the internet about hapless dads doing their best on the days their uber-organized, always-on-top-of-it wives leave them in charge of the house and the kids and probably a dog or two, as well. It never goes well in the stories – and in this case, the memes are on the...

By now you’ve probably heard that there’s a Facebook event called “Storm Area 51, They Can’t Stop All of Us,” and that around 2 million people have signed up to be there on September 20th. Set aside the fact that, as with any Facebook event, you can expect about 1% of people who say they’re...

If you’ve ever wanted to say you spent the night in a giant wiener (and I mean, who hasn’t), well…here’s your chance. In honor of National Hot Dog Day, Oscar Mayer listed its legendary Wienermobile as available for overnight stays on Airbnb; for the negligible price of just $136 a night, all of your hot...

“Manspreading,” in case you’re unfamiliar with the term, is what happens when men in the cramped quarters of public transit choose to take up more than their quota of space by spreading out their legs. Seen by feminists as an unwanted exhibition of male social dominance and by sensible, polite people as just plain rude,...

One of the best things about getting older is just deciding one day that there are three people whose opinions matter to you, and everyone else can go p*ss up a rope if they don’t like how you do what you do. Yes, that’s a thing, and I’m absolutely here for it. Because when you’re...

In a move that seems as if it belongs in a dystopian novel about persecuted teenagers, the city of Philadelphia has started using sonic noise devices as part of an anti-vandalism strategy to keep would-be destructive young people away from their parks and other public places after dark. https://www.instagram.com/p/ByGJVL5nN0M/ The noisemakers emit a constant, high-pitched...

IQ tests are everywhere – there are all kinds, all lengths, and they measure all different sorts of intelligence. This one, called a Cognitive Reflection Test, is only 3 (tough) questions long. It was developed in 2005 by psychologist Shane Frederick and is designed to test your ability to ignore your gut response and think...