Posts by Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn

For many women, taking their new spouse’s name after marriage is understood, accepted, and even anticipated. More and more women are reconsidering what they see as an antiquated notion and deciding to keep their own names, even after marriage. Whichever way you go, there are complications and little annoyances to deal with, all of which...

I don’t care who you are, if you are a human being who does not live in a bubble, you have hurt yourself doing something stupid. You’ve grabbed something that was hot, you’ve dared use a mandolin, you’ve tripped, you’ve fallen, and on and on and on. Me? I ran straight into a centerfield fence...

It goes without saying that some humans are clumsier than others, whether it’s due to a natural lack of coordination or a tendency to not pay attention. That said, everyone hurts themselves in stupid ways from time to time, because we’re, well, human. What's the stupidest injury you've ever occurred? I'll go first: I popped...

A lot of the time it can seem like our favorite television actors, some or all of whom play iconic roles, are larger than life. The truth is, of course, that they’re human just like the rest of us – which means also that they’ve most likely aged since the last time your favorite character...

Some objects aren’t things that most of us see on a regular basis – or ever at all – and so it can be hard to imagine how large or small it is, even if we know intellectually that it’s an extreme size on one end of the scale or the other. One easy way...

When things are extremely big or extremely small, it can be hard to visualize just how big or small they are until you put something next to it that you can visualize without being there yourself. One thing we can all reasonably estimate is the size of a human being, since we’re all, you know, human beings....

One of the things that’s hardest for me to understand about human behavior is people throwing their trash onto the ground and leaving it there. Paper, glass, pieces of clothing – there are trash cans literally everywhere, and most of us have pockets or backpacks or our cars where we could store things until we...

Saving the environment is an issue that’s not new, but neither is the controversy surrounding the whole idea. People who are making good money the way things are don’t really want to change the status quo, and those people who would like to fight for the trees and against climate change and for animal rights...

Sesame Street is one of those children’s programs that almost everyone watched, or still watches with their own littles, and it’s honestly heartwarming and wholesome to know that those same characters are sharing lessons and ups and downs and relationships with kids all over the world. It’s a little more along the lines of unsettling...

An awareness has been building in recent years, one that highlights how the experiences of most, if not all, women intersect when it comes to not feeling safe in public at some point in their lives. If you speak to any woman on the street, she could likely tell you about a time she pretended...

I know that it makes me old and not at all with it, but social media influencers are one of those jobs that I still find it hard to believe actually pays. That said, even I know there are some legitimate folks, who actually do influence large numbers of people to try the products they...

Ok, ok, fine – he never said it was easy, just that it was easier, but I mean…are we buying that? I’m not someone who thinks any sort of math(s) are easy, not even the kind that sixth graders are assigned for homework, so I remain skeptical. Still, let’s give Dr. Po-Shen Loh of Carnegie Mellon University a...

It’s not news that people love Disney. The love the characters, they adore the movies, but perhaps more than anything else, they can’t get enough of visiting the “happiest places on earth” – their worldwide theme parks. Because these parks are so popular, guests also know to expect things like crowds, reservations, and lines, but...

It can be hard in this day and age of constant, usually horrible, news to remember that human beings are not constantly being terrible and awful to each other, don’t you think? We have to seek out the people and the news stories that remind us that isn’t true (at least not all of the...

Before the movie Twister, I don’t think a ton of people realized that chasing storms was like, a job people did for a living. It seems counterintuitive, doesn’t it? The racing toward violent, deadly storms instead of going the other direction? We know now that there are always people willing to do crazy sh%t for science, though,...