Jess Love

Jess Love is the senior director for the Ryan Institute on Complexity at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.

When Nouns Verb Oddly

Verb meanings are slipperier than noun meanings

By Jess Love | Thursday November 13, 2014

Are Our Screams, Sighs, and Giggles Universal?

Two studies suggest yes and no

By Jess Love | Thursday November 6, 2014

Don’t Mock the Monocle (A Webcomic)

On our unspoken preferences for ordering adjectives

By Jess Love | Thursday October 30, 2014

Zugzwang in the New Year

You can’t win—should you even try?

By Jess Love | Thursday October 23, 2014

Are You Smarter Than My Cat?

By Jess Love | Thursday October 16, 2014

The Disappearing Accent

For a while, youngsters stop noticing differences between dialects

By Jess Love | Thursday October 9, 2014

A Modest Proposal and a Goodbye

On improving science coverage, and finding the good stuff already out there

By Jess Love | Thursday October 2, 2014

Baby Got Rhythm?

Keep the beat and improve your language skills

By Jess Love | Thursday September 25, 2014

Solidarity in Confusion

What we convey when we converse

By Jess Love | Thursday September 18, 2014

Wounded By Books

Brits of an earlier age read at their own risk

By Jess Love | Thursday September 11, 2014

The Last Good Thing

By Jess Love | Thursday December 11, 2025

Anatomy of a Collision

By Jess Love | Thursday December 22, 2022

We Need to Chat

By Jess Love | Monday September 7, 2015

Magic Fingers

By Jess Love | Thursday January 22, 2015

What Makes Hemingway Hemingway?

By Jess Love | Thursday January 15, 2015

On Expecting Things to Fall Apart

By Jess Love | Thursday January 8, 2015

Limericks That Leave You Hanging

By Jess Love | Thursday December 18, 2014

Tuesdays with Siri

By Jess Love | Thursday December 11, 2014

How to Talk Shakespeare

By Jess Love | Wednesday December 3, 2014

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