Posts by Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn

We all dream about going into space at some point in our lives. Or, if we don’t dream about it, we at least think about it in one capacity or another. Hollywood has ruminated on the subject in any number of ways – some scary, some curious, and they get some things right and a...

Art at its best does a lot of things, but making us see things a different way should always be one of them. These 15 sculptures do exactly that, with impressive, gravity-defying tricks that will have you doing your best imitation of a dog trying to understand what its owner is saying about that bacon...

In 1649, 59 British judges sentenced King Charles I to death, dissolving the monarchy and placing Oliver Cromwell in power. When King Charles II was restored to the throne, he was determined to exact revenge on the men who, in essence, murdered his father. Each of the 59 judges was to be captured, hanged, drawn,...

Ah, the timeless question of what might have been… These 8 movie stars surely sit and think once in a while where their careers would be or how life would be different if they hadn’t been passed over for these 8 big-time roles. #8. Angelina Jolie as Velma Kelly The actress was close to getting...

The small town of Casey, IL, is home to the world’s largest collection of the world’s largest objects. Say that three times fast! In their downtown you can scope out the odd collection, which includes a giant golf tee, wind chime, knitting needles, a crochet hook, a mailbox, a birdcage, and a rocking chair. The...

If you’ve got a special someone in your life, chances are they love Harry Potter. Because, I mean, if they don’t, what are you even doing with them? I kid, I kid. (Sort of). If you do, though, and they’re adult enough for some suggestive Valentine fun, these 14 Harry Potter Valentines are going to...

In 1978, former advertising executive Harvey Rosenberg created a doll  with the goal of liberating men from traditional sexual roles. He called it “Gay Bob”. When asked why he would invest $10k of his own money in the doll’s production, Rosenberg replied that “we had something to learn from the gay movement, just like we did...

There are a lot of different opinions out there, and a lot of different parenting styles….and a lot of different opinions on different parenting styles, which can lead to some confusion for educators. Some parents are for something, others are against it, but everybody’s just trying to do the right thing for the kids. That...

Okay, so the image below is of the same road – the images look similar, except the righthand one appears to be taken from an angle that makes it look like it’s pointing a little more to the right. Except it’s not. The images are identical. As in, it’s “the same photo, side by side....

In a year that has seen, in many instances, the rights of the LGBTQ community take giant steps backward (after so many forward), it’s nice to read that former Tremper High School student Ash Whitaker got his win. The trans student sued the school district for 1) not allowing him to use the boy’s bathroom...

Kids who enter and compete in math tournaments are way smarter than I ever even thought about being in high school. I can’t solve regular math problems when I substitute-teach 6th grade, so this exceptionally tricky problem given to math olympiads in Singapore is just way, way above my pay grade. But if you’re into...

In the olden days of the late 1980s and early 1990s, children loved and played with toys that were not tied in with a movie, television, YouTube, or other media franchise. We were watching movies like Star Wars, Ghostbusters, and Gremlins and realizing that we loved to be scared, and laugh, and laugh while we...

If you take a short drive north out of Fairbanks, Alaska, you might happen to see an unremarkable red shed set on the side of a hill. The door is thick, like one on the front of a freezer. Behind it is a walk through some Arctic permafrost – and, scientists believe, a ticking time-bomb....

Jane Austen remains one of the most widely-known (and read) authors in the English language, and we know from her novels that she had a great love for her language, a love that took many playful forms. She wrote letters to family and relatives regularly, but the one in question was sent to her 8-year-old...

Ah, Valentine’s Day. That precious holiday where lovers judge each other’s ability to be romantic, while simultaneously believing it’s all hogwash and also wishing they could just stay in and watch tv like every other night, at the same time as single people lament all of the judgmental “are you still single” looks they get...