Posts by Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn

Move. That’s right, the simple act of getting up off your bum and moving around the office, house, or neighborhood is scientifically proven to improve your mood. Dr. Peter J. Rentfrow, the author of a paper that came out of a study that gathered data from over 10,000 people, explains: “Our data shows that happy people...

There are a few things that we know people surfing the internet really love – pretty women, funny memes, Tumblr, and cats are all good bets. When creative designer Rachael Aslett combined all of those on her blog Cats That Look Like Pinup Girls, well…she won. Honestly, I think some of these cats pull the...

This unsolved mystery is one of the oddest I’ve ever come across – not because of the missing people, but because of the string of bizarre details that seem to cloud the truth of what happened. On a remote island off the coast of Scotland, 3 lighthouse keepers lived and worked together. Then, on December 26, 1900, a supply...

An amazing show (that’s sadly no longer on the air) called Dark Matters: Twisted But True featured a story on this incident several years ago, and since then it’s never been far from my mind when talking about strange, unsolved incidents. On February 2, 1959, a group of 9 college-aged hikers camped for the night...

That’s right – the next time one of your friends gives you a hard time for loving everything magical and Hogwarts (or for legitimately needing to believe that your letter got lost in the mail), you’ve got science on your side when you hit back. According to a recent paper published in the Journal of...

In this day and age, it’s crazy to think that people are actually living off the grid. I mean totally off, where they subsist on their own crops, have zero contact with the outside world, and do not live as part of any particular community. Well, when you take into consideration that Siberia consists of...

It’s called “champing” (because everything needs a cutesy hook to earn people’s interest these days), but the chance to spend a few days in one of several rural, medieval churches in the English countryside is a pretty charming proposal, adorable name or not. The Churches Conservation Trust came up with the idea back in 2014...

Combining stoners and video games seems like a no-brainer – the only thing better would be somehow incorporating junk food into the mix, too – and yet (as ever), the @midnight players and viewers manage to take things to a whole new level. #15. Effortless. #14. Solid. @midnight #StonerVideoGames Assassin’s Weed — MaliceNile (@malicenile) March...

This Tumblr account collects final text messages – both from people who have passed on or gone away, and from the people they left behind, who, perhaps to find some closure, tell their stories online. The messages are oddly touching, occasionally spooky, but always a brief, poignant glimpse into humanity just before some of our most trying...

 In 2000, what was once a thriving colony of Little Penguins – the (aptly named) smallest species of penguin – had been reduced to just four pairs. The colony on Middle Island, which sits off the southern coast of Australia, had a problem: the red fox, a species that was introduced from the mainland by colonists. They...

I think that, many times, the Hashtag Wars on @Midnight gather funnier responses than any other hashtag game on the Internet. It’s the topics, maybe, or the fact that Comedy Central allows for a wider breadth of responses. Whatever it is, I love when Chris Hardwick has people come up with clever twists on existing...

I can’t say that I’ve ever been fired – though, with some of the crap I pulled at work in my younger days, I probably should have been at one point or another. And when Jimmy Fallon threw out his latest hashtag challenge in the form of #HowIGotFired, there were plenty of people willing to...

Who doesn’t love pictures and videos of unlikely animal friendships? The answer, really, is no one – there’s even a television show highlighting the best of these adorable duos! Lots of times, they fall in friend-love when they’re babies, but are they as adorable when they grow up? Well…check out the pics below, and decide for...

It turns out there were all sorts of ways to join the resistance against the Nazis during WWII. Even before Freddie Oversteegen and her sister Truus joined up at the request of the Dutch military, she and her family were hiding people – Jewish and Lithuanian – in their home. Her mother had divorced their...

Lisa M. Ca always loved feeding and watching birds. When she moved from Germany to Michigan to be with her husband, she noticed that while her feeders were still full, the birds looked different. So she did what any self-respecting woman would in 2016 – she bought herself a nice camera, taught herself to take...