Posts by Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn

Cars are a big investment for many of us, especially considering we’ll never get that money back after we drive it off the lot. If you’re like me, you buy a car figuring to drive it until you can’t anymore, which means that you want to take good care of it. For some people, that...

Apple users are no strangers to techie types on YouTube and other internet portals trying to prank them with “secret” upgrades to their devices. These malicious fake improvements began with this ad that claimed the iOS7 update somehow magically waterproofed your iPhone: It didn’t. Then there was this hoax ad, which attempted to convince people to...

If you’ve got an iPhone and have upgraded to iOS10, Apple has a lot of surprises in store for your texting. You can create and send GIFs, send texts from the lock screen, place stickers over your messages, and, yes, correct your friends’ grammar with amazingly obnoxious red-pen stickers. Guys. I am so excited. Grammar...

The photo below was a finalist in the 2016 Royal Society Publishing photo contest, and let’s be real – it’s pretty damned magical even before you know the truth about what’s going on. The animal in this picture is a caiman, a relative of the alligator not typically known for its softer side. And yet, here...

Do you know how I know that? Because of science, for one, but also because someone out there is good enough with dogs to convince a bunch of them to lay perfectly still in an MRI machine without the promise of treats. Yeah. I mean, if that’s not a real life superpower then I don’t...

There are two types of people in this world – people who panic and fill up their cars with gas when the needle hits 25% or so, and people like me who wait until the gas light comes on, then check the odometer so you can drive the entire 30 miles to absolute empty before coasting into...

I’m not much of a Halloween person, myself, though perhaps my peanut allergy plays a role in my distaste. Living in Missouri, the end-of-October holiday is almost always rainy, cold, or rainy and cold, and when the candy in my bag turned out to be at least 50% inedible (for me), well…you can see how...

I don’t know one single person whose soul didn’t break at the sight of 5-year-old Omran Daqneesh alone in the back of an ambulance in Aleppo, Syria. He was still and silent, but somehow didn’t seem surprised to find his house destroyed by a bomb and his family missing. I think his lack of tears...

We all love our dogs – some of us (like me, I admit it), a little too much – and we go out of our way to make them feel happy, loved, and secure. Of course, we would never do anything to intentionally upset them or make them spend their days feeling sad, but what...

It takes a ton of work to open a business, even more to keep it going, and all of that – plus some luck from the universe – to run a successful store for a long time. We’ve all seen those storefronts in our towns and neighborhoods that seem to change owners and businesses in...

We’ve all used the 5 second rule – when food (or maybe silverware) falls on the floor, but you declare that if it’s retrieved within 5 seconds, it’s safe to eat (with). I have, sadly, worked in restaurants where this rule also applied. On commercial kitchen floors. Yeah. There was a comedian who did a bit...

Did you ever wonder why (standard) pencils are yellow, or why carpets leading into important events are red? I admit, I never have…BUT, that doesn’t mean I didn’t find the explanations interesting. I bet you will, too! #15. Why are fire hydrants ALL different colors? Fire hydrants were originally red (actual plugs made of redwood)...

It’s hard to know what day-to-day life is really like in North Korea, for obvious reasons. One of the most fascinating parts of World War Z (the book, not the terrible movie adaptation) was the author’s imagining of how North Korea would fare during a world war against zombies. Hint: We’ll probably never know. Now,...

Who doesn’t love to dig into a long-unsolved mystery here and there – the creepier the better? I think it’s because we’ve all got a little Nancy Drew or Hardy Boys stuck inside us from childhood, or maybe we’re all just a little bit morbid. Either way, here are 6 of the creepiest unsolved mysteries of...

When researchers visited the highlands of Papua New Guinea in the 1950s, they were confronted by a unfamiliar tribal society full of unknown practices – and one strange illness that was killing up to 200 members of the Fore tribe every year. The locals called the disease kuru, meaning “shivering” or “trembling,” and the scientists had never seen...