Magic Fingers

Do baby sign language courses really work?

What Makes Hemingway Hemingway?

On the psychology of artistic style

On Expecting Things to Fall Apart

We understand entropy surprisingly early in life

Limericks That Leave You Hanging

When we expect to hear a rhyme and don’t

Tuesdays with Siri

How to Talk Shakespeare

Headless Bear Walks Up to Woman; Awesomeness Ensues

The search for the perfect title

When Nouns Verb Oddly

Verb meanings are slipperier than noun meanings

Are Our Screams, Sighs, and Giggles Universal?

Two studies suggest yes and no

Don’t Mock the Monocle (A Webcomic)

On our unspoken preferences for ordering adjectives

How to Talk Shakespeare

A primer

Here, There Be Ambiguity (a Webcomic)

On contrastive reduplication

Think Like a Bilingual

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

What Jorge Luis Borges Knew About Knowing

Of Memory and Forgetting

Labels for People

Language encourages children to categorize by gender and race

Emergencies in Spanish

When emergency calls and miscommunications collide

Are Our Screams, Sighs, and Giggles Universal?

Two studies suggest yes and no

What We Don’t Read When We Read

On the words and letters we miss

“You’re Saying It Wrong”

Why the Pledge of Allegiance may have some soul-searching to do

What Does the Owlet Say?

On the competitive squabbles of barn owl siblings

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