Posts by Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn

If there’s one thing I suspect is true about scientists who work in the field, it’s that there is probably always something unexpected that crops up. Okay, there’s another thing: they probably step in a lot more sh*t than they figured they would when they went t school. And y’all – these scientists, studying penguins...

As a kid, I loved to read. I devoured The Babysitters’ Club, Nancy Drew, A Wrinkle in Time, Judy Blume – anything I could get my hands on, really. The first time I ended up with a Choose Your Own Adventure book, my mind was blown. I can’t say for sure if or how much those books informed my...

When you think about snakes, you probably don’t get any warm and fuzzy feelings. Even if you’re someone who likes the slithery critters, they just don’t bring to mind the same snuggly warmth that say, dogs and cats and bunnies and other furry mammals inspire. It turns out, that basing feelings on appearances – even...

Everyone is looking for new and fun ways to entertain themselves these days, and bonus points if it’s something you can do with no one else around. Well, this guy found something fun, different, cool, and easy to do while social distancing…unfortunately, his choice to break into the Australian Museum was also illegal. But let’s...

For some of us, it doesn’t seem like that long ago that we saw The Goonies for the first time. Us 80s kids related – no one watched us after school (or before school), we went on adventures with our friends, we almost died on the regular and our parents really didn’t notice unless we didn’t show...

If you’re not someone who has tons of money, it’s easy to judge how people that do have money choose to spend it. Like, who needs a million dollar engagement ring when there are kids starving all over the world, right? But even though it can be tempting to entertain the idea that good rich people should...

Working in any department where you deal with people is a harrowing experience. When it comes to technology and technology repair, you also have to add in the fact that people’s experience and expertise levels are all over the board. That strange mix of humanity that you find in pretty much any industry can keep...

Jobs are funny things, mostly because in order to do them, most of us have to deal with other people. And other people? They’re messy and strange, and honestly, don’t really care about how their behavior might really throw someone else’s day off track. These 16 people work in human resources, which means their jobs...

Being a good coworker can mean different things to different people, but being a bad coworker? Thats somehow seems to be easier to pinpoint and explain. We all know the worst people we’ve worked with over the years, and for me, some of them seemed pretty awful at the time. But now, reading about the...

If you’ve worked at all during your life, there’s a good chance you’ve had a not-so-great coworker in there a time or two. I’ve worked since I was 16 years old, and a couple definitely stand out (not in a good way). That said, there’s bad and then there’s these 17 people, who just take...

You may have heard that we’re in the middle of a mass extinction event that’s going to see the forever demise of thousands of species all over the world. It’s depressing, when you think about it, but between pesticides, deforestation, pollution, and climate change, it can seem inevitable that more and more animals are not...

Tumblr is a great place for totally random, but totally amazing takes that you never knew you wanted or needed in your life…but you definitely did. There are threads on literally everything under the sun, and I promise you will feel like such a deep thinker when you’re done. It all began when someone mused...

Everyone is going to have to adjust going forward from this nightmare of a spring – restaurants, patrons, gyms, and every other kind of business under the sun. We’re going to have to figure out a way of doing the things we love while also keeping the people we love safe. No one knows what...

Everything is not awesome right now (turn that into a song, LEGO people), but lately, it has seemed like perhaps there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Leadership and governments are loosening stay-at-home orders and allowing people to share public spaces again (with restrictions, of course), and folks are venturing out into the now-warm...

You might have heard about a certain virus making the rounds here in the United States and around the world, one that’s upsetting life as we know it for many people. You might also have heard that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended that Americans wear a cloth mask while in...