Posts by Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn

Summer is a great time to be outside with your family, and especially if you have young kids, you probably find yourself spending tons of time in the great outdoors. Love it or hate it, if it burns off dog or human energy, it’s the place to be! Most of us enjoy the bugs that...

Love them or hate them, fireworks are here to stay. Too many people fall into the “love” camp on this one – anyone without dogs or little kids, or who can wear earplugs if they need to, basically – and they really are a dazzling, fun way to celebrate any ol’ thing. You might be...

Geographers define the Arctic Circle as everything at or above 66 degrees and 34 minutes north latitude -more simply, anything between the 66th and 67th parallels in the Northern Hemisphere. The Arctic Circle keeps strange hours, with the entire winter being more or less dark and other times of the year being sunny all the...

Obviously, barring any significant scientific advancements, none of us alive today are going to be around in 500 years. That doesn’t mean we can’t harbor some curiosity about whether or not our planet will look the same for our descendents, or different? If it’s going to look different, how will it look different? It can...

There’s nothing quite as fascinating as the deepest, darkest parts of the ocean. We have no idea what’s down there, for one, and the mythology and lore surrounding spots like the “ring of fire” in the Pacific are enough to pique anyone’s curiosity. The “ring of fire” is a vast loop of volcanoes, trenches, and...

There are few things that attracts human beings the way the ocean does. We’re not natural water-going beings, and yet, the lure of the sea’s vastness, the calming sound of its waves, has drawn us in since the beginning of time. If you’re someone who has gone out of their way to visit the ocean...

You might have seen the movie Green Book a few years ago – with an amazing cast and more than a couple of Oscar nominations (including a win for Best Picture), there’s a good chance you know at least something about this topic by now. Like with everything that comes out of Hollywood, though, the facts...

Even the smartest people have to admit that, at one time or another, they’ve bought into a lie. Whether it was told to them on purpose, as a joke, or they went hook, line, and sinker for something more sinister, it honestly happens to all of us. If you don’t believe me, just check out...

People assume that being ugly is a tough row to hoe, but listen – things are what they are, and there are many, many things in life that are more useful and that serve us better than being physically attractive. Hopefully, you’ve learned this for yourself, but if you’ve been blessed with a young and...

It’s no secret that the internet, and specifically WebMD, is the scourge of healthcare professionals everywhere. People go to the doctor armed with their own diagnoses and freaking out, because the internet delights in delivering worst-case scenarios. Sometimes, though, those self-diagnoses turn out to be accurate – even when, as in these 18 scenarios, they’re...

Human beings have been fascinated with space literally forever. There’s something about the vastness, the twinkling stars, the moving planets, that really kicks our curiosity into overdrive. Space is also scary, so these facts are kind of as frightening as they are interesting. Please, enjoy. 15. The last blissful 8 minutes of our lives. If...

Everyone loves space, and most people enjoy facts, so when you put the two together, there’s almost no way to go wrong! If you agree with me (and how could you not?), you’re going to love these people’s 18 favorite facts about space. 18. We are the Whos in Whoville. That there are 100 billion galaxies in...

I’m not sure there’s a better feeling in the world that getting or finding something amazing when you were expecting something just okay (or even worse). It’s like mining for copper and digging up gold, and these 20 people have some pretty great stories. 20. This is a great story. When I was younger I...

There are things we think of as “guy things” or “girl things” even though we recognize that there are people in both groups who don’t identify strongly with the stereotypes. One of those “things girls do” is go to the bathroom together – and I would submit to you that it has more to do...

Some people can recall their dreams in vivid detail on a regular basis, while others hardly remember anything that happens when they’re asleep – if they dream at all, nothing follows them into the daylight. If you’re someone who dreams, there’s nothing quite so unsettling as fighting your way out of a web created by...