Posts by Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn

If you live in the U.S., there’s a good chance you don’t think much about having a private healthcare system. You might complain about how much your premiums are every month, or moan about having to visit the E.R. because of the bill you know is coming later, or even realize that there are people...

There’s a lot of bad and ugly in the world today, and it’s not often that the internet is someplace we can go to take a break from all of that – but today, it is! Because Tom Hanks (in the spirit of Mr. Rogers, whom he recently played on the big screen) is reading...

We belt out all kinds of traditional songs without understanding exactly what we’re singing, and I’m guessing that if you live in modern America, there’s a good chance you have no idea why the people in We Wish You A Merry Christmas are so demanding about figgy pudding. First off, non-Brits, let me introduce you...

Twitter is a great place to go for a well-crafted joke, but the platform moves so fast that it’s easy to chuckle, forget, and move onto the next. We think these 17 tweets will keep being funny no matter how time we revisit them, though, and so we figured we’d share them with you so...

File Under: Things that might discourage you from eating for some time (yay, diet?). And yes, there are pictures, so please be prepared, brace yourself, and know that you’ve been warned. Okay? Here we go. The day began as normal for 44-year-old Kritsada Ratprachoom: he dropped his kid off at school, then headed home to...

“We all know how snow works. It’s white, powdery, and the best snow comes straight from South America. That’s bad news for jolly old St. Nick, who lives far away in the North Pole.” That’s part of  the description of an “ugly” Christmas sweater (made by FUN Wear) that was for sale on Walmart’s Canadian...

Yes, parents – even when it’s super hot, even when it’s raining a bit, and even when you’re freezing your baguettes off, your kids deserve some play time in the great outdoors. Experts have found that it helps improve eyesight, reduces stress, supports creativity, boosts problem-solving skills, and provides more benefits we’ll probably never really...

Some tweets are funny for a few minutes, but others can get shared over and over and you’ll still laugh at them every single time they pop up in your feed. The latter are harder to find, and if you haven’t run across these 15, we think you’re missing out. If you have, you’ll probably...

There’s an episode of Seinfeld where Kramer is convinced that he’s seen a “pig man” at the hospital – a result of a genetic experiment gone horribly wrong…or right, I suppose. And while there’s no pig man in the episode, if scientists have their way, the show is probably going to be seen as prophetic...

Cilantro is such a controversial herb that I often leave it out of recipes unless I know the specific preferences of the people who will be eating the final dish. It’s one of those foods that people love or hate; there’s really no in between. It turns out there could be a scientific reason why...

Ed Schoenfeld, the owner-operator of RedFarm, an Asian-fusion dim sum restaurant with two NYC locations, and Decoy, a West Village shrine to traditional Peking duck, compares his Christmas Day-business to a holiday miracle: “I think on that day we do more business than many restaurants do in three months. We serve all day long, we...

You’d have to be living off the grid or under a rock to have missed the resurgence of alternative medicines and essential oils. People everywhere are touting the ability to cure everything from nausea and headaches to the common cold (and, in some cases, more extreme illnesses) using nothing but plant, root, and herb extracts....

I don’t know about you, but my Boomer parents are far more concerned about the sort of language we use around our children than we (GenX shoutout) ever thought about being – but who’s right? Well, according to science, parents who curse around their kids should cut themselves a bit of slack. Research has linked...

The world has changed in unimaginable ways since Little Women was first published in 1868 – which is why it’s all the more interesting that people are still intrigued by and enamored with the story a hundred and fifty years later. We know that it is, because in less than a year’s time, the BBC...

Bad news for all of those vegans and vegetarians out there who choose the lifestyle out of kindness – it turns out that plants get majorly stressed when their well-being is threatened, too. In fact, a new study has found that some plants emit “ultrasonic clicks” outside the normal range of human hearing when they’re...