Your Brain On Risk

The neuroscience of world domination; or, what happens when bad science meets bad writing

Big Toddler, Teeny Slide

Playtime gets curiouser and curiouser …

When Foreign Words and Native Accents Meet

The politics of saying it right

What Little Girls Are Made Of

Sugar and spice and linguistic precocity

A Language Without Exact Numbers

The curious case of Pirahã

Babies Bamboozled by Numbers

What’s so hard about four?

On the Psychology of Swearing

Could cursing be good for us?

Changing the World, If Only in Our Minds

How we describe what isn’t around us

When the Mind Wanders, the Eyes Stay the Course

Try not to zone out while you read this post

Pilloried Prepositions

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

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