Posts by Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn

Did you know that service dogs go through official good citizen training – the and training that allows them to best assist specific disabilities – but that they also typically spend time with foster families so they can learn how to behave in everyday social situations? It’s true. One of those everyday situations might be...

There are many, many things one can overhear through walls that are a bit too thin: funny things, inappropriate things, embarrassing things, perhaps even illegal things. And let me tell you, these 15 Redditors have pretty much heard it all. 15. I’m grateful I forgot that book. In college, I lived in a crappy apartment...

The National Aquarium of New Zealand has taken drastic measures in an attempt to get their penguin population to shape up – they’ve started a running list of the naughtiest penguins of the bunch and post them on Facebook. No public shaming would be complete without a list of crimes, but let’s face it –...

Let’s just start with this – most of us don’t have the time or interest to go checking (or caring) who might have decided they no longer want to see what we have to say on Facebook. https://www.instagram.com/p/B1W1A35CNwt/ That said, most of us also have moments of morbid curiosity that we’ll occasionally give into. And...

Fair warning, people – you absolutely will never be able to unsee this video, no matter how badly you wish you might be able to do just that. Parasites who take over their hosts’ brains and/or motor function while the creature is still alive are some of the most horrifying villains of the biological world,...

You’ve seen kid shaming, dog shaming, cat shaming, and even bird shaming – but did you ever think the day would come when people’s pet fish would be exposed as naughty? Well, get ready, because even though they probably don’t understand the internet, these 17 fish definitely deserve all the shame in the world. 17....

It takes a lot for a meme to rise out of the pool of just okay, you’ll forget about them tomorrow, masses, but this drunk Taylor Swift meme absolutely deserves to be in the spotlight. And not just, you know, because everything Taylor Swift is awesome without trying. The meme was born after Taylor hosted...

The majority of Australia is a desert or has a semi-arid climate, though some areas falling under the category of “tropical.” That said, there are spots where snowfall is normal and expected during the winter months – in the higher elevations, for instance, and even in spots along the Southern coast. But for most of...

If you’ve got the time, make sure to give these 6 riddles plenty of thought! 6. Night and day. 5. Honed. 4. Totally broken. 3. Headless. 2. Three girls, one umbrella. 1. New York and Chicago. Continue reading for the answers!

I’m not someone who’s afraid of bugs, in general. Spiders? Meh. Ants? Annoying, but meh. Beetles, roaches…okay, they’re a little worse. But centipedes? Forget about it – I want them gone. So, you can understand why I’d be a bit disappointed to read that I shouldn’t be killing them, even when they’re on my turf....

The ocean (and most of the rest of the planet) is slowly being poisoned by discarded plastics, and people all over the world are looking for ways to try to mitigate, ease, or even reverse the devastating effects that humans are wreaking on the marine environment. The latest effort comes from the southern Indian state...

Deepfake is an AI technology that people on the web are using to produce new, or alter existing, video content in order to make it look as if something that didn’t occur actually did (kind of scary, if you ask me). The videos are created using two competing AI systems that learn from each other,...

Every profession has its pet peeves, and when it comes to jobs where serving the public is at the heart of your duties, that can go double (or triple). Nurses are the unsung heroes of the medical world, and they take more than their fair share of crap – which is why, for the love...

If you have a dog or cat that’s attached to you, then you know their anxiety can begin the moment they see you drag out your suitcase. They might even try to sit in your suitcase, thinking that you’ll be forced to stay home, or maybe you won’t notice and you’ll just pack around them....

Kids love jokes. Also…kids are really bad at telling jokes. Or, maybe they just love bad jokes. Either way, there’s no way your little one is going to be able to stop a smile when you come home with these 15 (non) gems. 15. How do you catch a whole school of fish? https://www.instagram.com/p/B03YDdylBgY/ With...