Jess Love

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

The Last Good Thing

DVDs, streaming, and the price
of nostalgia

By Jess Love | Thursday December 11, 2025

Anatomy of a Collision

The sudden intersection of one’s professional and parental identities can lead to a strange kind of work-life imbalance

By Jess Love | Thursday December 22, 2022

We Need to Chat

How technology has changed the way we relate to one another

By Jess Love | Monday September 7, 2015

Magic Fingers

Do baby sign language courses really work?

By Jess Love | Thursday January 22, 2015

What Makes Hemingway Hemingway?

On the psychology of artistic style

By Jess Love | Thursday January 15, 2015

On Expecting Things to Fall Apart

We understand entropy surprisingly early in life

By Jess Love | Thursday January 8, 2015

Limericks That Leave You Hanging

When we expect to hear a rhyme and don’t

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

Headless Bear Walks Up to Woman; Awesomeness Ensues

The search for the perfect title

By Jess Love | Thursday November 20, 2014

English vs. English

By Jess Love | Thursday September 4, 2014

Reading Humans

By Jess Love | Thursday August 28, 2014

Perfect Memory (Webcomic #9)

By Jess Love | Thursday August 21, 2014

All Eyes on the Eyes

By Jess Love | Thursday August 14, 2014

Depends on How You Tell It

By Jess Love | Thursday August 7, 2014

For to Sound Folksy

By Jess Love | Thursday July 31, 2014

As an Aside (Webcomic #8)

By Jess Love | Thursday July 24, 2014

Nap Your Way to a Bigger Vocabulary?

By Jess Love | Thursday July 17, 2014

Ethics Across Borders

By Jess Love | Thursday July 3, 2014

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