Jess Love

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

Wave Your Hands and Say It Right

On the surprising relationship between gestures and memory

By Jess Love | Thursday April 17, 2014

A Reader’s Guide to Ha Ha (A Webcomic)

On the many strange spellings of a very strange word

By Jess Love | Thursday April 10, 2014

Sneak Attacks (A Webcomic)

What’s that word again?

By Jess Love | Thursday April 3, 2014

How to Talk Shakespeare

A primer

By Jess Love | Thursday March 27, 2014

Here, There Be Ambiguity (a Webcomic)

On contrastive reduplication

By Jess Love | Thursday March 20, 2014

Think Like a Bilingual

Is it ever too late to benefit from a second language?

By Jess Love | Thursday March 13, 2014

What Jorge Luis Borges Knew About Knowing

Of Memory and Forgetting

By Jess Love | Thursday March 6, 2014

Labels for People

Language encourages children to categorize by gender and race

By Jess Love | Thursday February 27, 2014

Emergencies in Spanish

When emergency calls and miscommunications collide

By Jess Love | Thursday February 20, 2014

Are Our Screams, Sighs, and Giggles Universal?

Two studies suggest yes and no

By Jess Love | Thursday February 13, 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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