Posts by Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn

We depend on our bodies and our senses to give us accurate feedback about the world around us – how it looks, if it’s hot, what the food we’re about to eat smells like, and so on. But what if you had a condition or a disease that meant you couldn’t trust what your own...

I know this sounds like a special snowflake thing to say, but as someone born in 1979, the truth is I’ve never identified with either Gen X-ers or Millennials. I didn’t grow up with technology, but I’m comfortable with it. I ran loose as a child, without any real fear of predators, sex parties, prescription...

A red meat allergy probably sounds like a real life nightmare to most of you readers, but, for some people, finding out they’re allergic to meat comes as a huge relief. That’s because, until their diagnosis, all they’d known is that they kept getting an all-over rash so itchy that sufferers have been know to scratch it until they bleed. These people have an...

Science has the answer to basically everything, so why not to the elusive and complicated reasons behind the ending of marital relationships around the globe? Okay, okay, fine, so they’re not claiming to have all the answers on how to make it work, and you could totally have every one of these indicators and still stay...

People love to speculate about their favorite television shows, books, and movies. And, because I write books, I’m painfully aware that oftentimes people who read and love them are looking far more deeply than I did when creating them. Which is to say, people come up with theories and see foreshadowing where none was intended....

Okay, so first of all let me just admit that, because I’m old, I had to look up what exactly FaceApp is. So, if you’re like me, let me explain it for you: FaceApp is software that allows you to make yourself look younger, better, or generally happier than you currently are. Which – okay....

If you’re of a certain age, there’s a good chance that you grew up as part of Mr. Rogers‘s neighborhood. And guys, he was the best neighbor – not just on the show, but to every last one of us in real life, too. I didn’t realize just how good of a guy he was...

I’m a walking food allergy. I had more when I was small (horrifying things like eggs, wheat, and milk), but luckily I managed to outgrow some of the more ubiquitous allergens giving me trouble. I held on to more than my fair share, though – peanuts, celery, soy, and peas, to name a few. What I...

Hollywood takes some liberties, sure, but these real life horror stories gave screenwriters some chilling jumping off points. Some of these movies turned out more frightening than others, but there’s no doubt that the actual incidents at their center would be enough to send any of us running for the hills. As long as they don’t have...

In the days (centuries) before the pitfalls of genetics were common knowledge, royal and aristocratic families intermarried in order to keep their bloodlines “pure” – ie. they couldn’t trust “common” blood not to pollute whatever it was they believed gave them the right to rule. In ancient Rome, the same families ruled from the time of...

I can’t spoil this video for you, but if you’re an animal lover (especially kittens!), you’re not going to want to miss it. Not only that, but if you’ve never realized how smart crows are, this bird is about to blow your mind. I think this is pretty amazing. Strangely, I want a crow for a...

Okay, fine, it’s just secrets a few agents have let slip now that they’re retired but still – pretty cool, if you ask me. The Secret Service was formed, ironically as it would turn out, on the day President Lincoln was assassinated at the Ford Theatre. At the time they were charged with protecting the...

There’s no denying that the world of technology has changed everyone’s lives very quickly. Those of us who were on the cusp of the fourth industrial revolution (I was born in 1979, and from birth through college was never truly influenced by the internet) are the only generation of folks to experience both a life...

One of my favorite things to do is start typing a search into Google just to see how it completes the query for me. It’s my own little way of trying to get a glimpse behind the curtain, trying to see into the minds of the masses of people who Google right alongside me. Sometimes (often),...

Twitter is the place to be for many things: snark, live tweets, breaking news…and outing the strangers you come across in real life when they do something social media worthy. In that spirit, people took to Twitter to tell on the weirdest waiters they’d ever had the, er, pleasure of meeting. As a server (once...