The Power of Um
On putting speech disfluencies to work
Anthropomorphic Trees (Webcomic #7)
What’s that book teaching your child?
I Say Shutout, You Say Clean Sheet
What happens to our speech when we watch international soccer
Not Enough Brain (A Webcomic)
On the persistence of a myth
Who’s John Again?
On novels and names
When Nouns Verb Oddly
Verb meanings are slipperier than noun meanings
Out of Office (A Webcomic)
The vacation message reimagined
How Many Words Does a Wordsmith Make?
On Aesop Rock, DMX, and the importance of a large vocabulary
Leave Your Laptop Home
Taking notes? There’s a memory advantage to using pen and paper
Don’t Mock the Monocle (A Webcomic)
On our unspoken preferences for ordering adjectives
