Jess Love

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

English vs. English

On the concrete and the abstract, the Germanic and the Latinate

By Jess Love | Thursday September 4, 2014

Reading Humans

One way dogs really are better than cats

By Jess Love | Thursday August 28, 2014

Perfect Memory (Webcomic #9)

On remembering and misremembering

By Jess Love | Thursday August 21, 2014

All Eyes on the Eyes

On the many powers of visual contact

By Jess Love | Thursday August 14, 2014

Depends on How You Tell It

On the psychology of narrative style

By Jess Love | Thursday August 7, 2014

For to Sound Folksy

What do we know about this odd, antiquated construction?

By Jess Love | Thursday July 31, 2014

As an Aside (Webcomic #8)

On processing parentheticals

By Jess Love | Thursday July 24, 2014

Nap Your Way to a Bigger Vocabulary?

On word learning and sleep

By Jess Love | Thursday July 17, 2014

Describing a Visual World Without Vision

On blindness and language

By Jess Love | Thursday July 10, 2014

Ethics Across Borders

On shifting values and Facebook’s big misstep

By Jess Love | Thursday July 3, 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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