Posts by Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn

If you’ve attended a children’s science fair, there’s a good chance you’ve seen some version of a Rube Goldberg contraption in action – they’re gizmos that perform a simple task in a ridiculously complicated manner. Remember the game Mouse Trap? Like that. There’s actually an entire contest for kids that still happens – the Rube...

After being on the air for 32 seasons, there’s a good chance that The Simpsons would predict a thing or two about the future, just by sheer luck or coincidence. The thing is, they haven’t predicted a thing or two, but a whole hatful of events and bits that have come to pass in the real world...

The Simpsons is currently enjoying it’s 32nd season on the air, which means it’s nearly the age of a middle-aged person – and it has seen just as much happen in the world since it aired. Which is weird, because it seems to have predicted as much about our world as it has witnessed, and...

The film and television buffs among us have trained ourselves long ago to look for hidden “Easter eggs” in the movies and shows we love – inside jokes, like little winks and nudges for the biggest of fans. They bring us together, they delight us, and they make us feel like we’re part of a...

People love looking for Easter eggs in movies and television, and even in the books we read – little nods to a world outside of the world we’re immersed in, things that make us feel special, or closer to the creator, or maybe both. Did you know they exist in real life too, though –...

I feel like it’s hard to have a long attention span these days. The advent of social media and the internet and the constant barrage of information 24/7 has made even the most focused of people feel scattered now and again, right? That said, some of us have always had a harder time than others,...

More and more people are coming to terms with the fact that on average, the attention span of the human race is just getting shorter and shorter. Whether you’re diagnosed with something like ADHD or not, the truth is that the world is coming at us so fast that it can be hard to know...

In this on-the-go, fifteen-things-at-once, social media driven, lightning-fast world we live in, people have definitely decided they prefer their humor like everything else – in bite-sized, easily-digested chunks. Twitter is perfect for the brief and poignant zinger, because it already has a character limit – but these 14 people are so succinct, most of them...

You should never judge a book by it’s cover. Most of us hear this adage more than once while we’re growing up, and yet, as adults, we’re caught off guard all the time when people act differently than we expect them to, even though we know we shouldn’t. One of my favorite types of characters...

When it comes to bit, life-altering inventions throughout history, there’s a good chance the names of the people who came up with the ideas and the patents are lodged in your brain – Henry Ford, Eli Whitney, Ben Franklin, Thomas Edison, et al. Maybe you’ve never spent much time thinking about what they did with...

Teachers only have so much time to cover so much material, and so it’s understandable that when it comes to history, science, and inventions, they can only really hit the highlights. It stands to reason, though, that a person who had a very famous invention probably had other inventions of varying success and usefulness, right?...

I’m a mom. When I’m in charge of my kids, I am doing at least half a dozen things at once – opening snacks, finding a video on YouTube, fixing a broken racetrack, changing a diaper, trying to clean up a mess, let the dog out, or start whatever meal comes next. I am almost...

I love when people share their hilarious text conversations. Some people are more confidence and comfortable with back-and-forth banter when they’re talking to someone they know, and so the humor and the burns are usually fantastic. But how would we know, how would we get to laugh, too, if screenshots weren’t a thing? As long...

The great thing about humor is that there’s something for everyone. Silly jokes, puns, dark humor, and sure, the really weird stuff that only a handful of people really seem to get. Finding other people who share your sense of humor is like finding your tribe, and it’s a sweet day. Twitter and other social...

Personally, I think weird senses of humor are the best senses of humor. You get to shake your head, laugh, and look at the world in just a bit of a different way all at the same time, and what could be better than that? If those types of jokes are your vibe, well, we...