Author: Ilana Ross

Stigler’s Law, for you non-math types, states that no theorem is named for the actual person who dreamed it up and proved it in

The other night when I was hard at work—on my thesis, duh—I paused to consider the serious state of the world, or at least

When I was a young girl—15, maybe 16—my mother and I would have the occasional disagreement. I wasn’t allowed to have sugary cereal, but

Considering that I’m a humanities major, I actually know very little about what makes me a human. I have no idea how anything inside

Maybe I’m just more in tune with the natural world than you are, but lately, I’ve noticed that squirrels have been acting a little

When my cousin had minor surgery last year, he decided he wasn’t going to take it lying down. That is, he didn’t want to

The night Barack Obama found out he was to receive the Nobel Prize, I was having a humbling experience of my own. Though I’m

From my window, I can casually overhear (eavesdrop on) a lot of interesting and pertinent conversations and see a lot of friends (spy on