Your Brain On Risk
The neuroscience of world domination; or, what happens when bad science meets bad writing
By Jessica Love Thursday, October 18, 2012
Big Toddler, Teeny Slide
Playtime gets curiouser and curiouser …
By Jessica Love Thursday, October 11, 2012
When Foreign Words and Native Accents Meet
The politics of saying it right
By Jessica Love Thursday, October 4, 2012
What Little Girls Are Made Of
Sugar and spice and linguistic precocity
By Jessica Love Thursday, September 27, 2012
A Language Without Exact Numbers
The curious case of Pirahã
By Jessica Love Thursday, September 20, 2012
Babies Bamboozled by Numbers
What’s so hard about four?
By Jessica Love Thursday, September 13, 2012
On the Psychology of Swearing
Could cursing be good for us?
By Jessica Love Thursday, September 6, 2012
Changing the World, If Only in Our Minds
How we describe what isn’t around us
By Jessica Love Thursday, August 30, 2012
When the Mind Wanders, the Eyes Stay the Course
Try not to zone out while you read this post
By Jessica Love Thursday, August 23, 2012
What Makes Hemingway Hemingway?
On the psychology of artistic style
By Jessica Love Thursday, January 15, 2015
On Expecting Things to Fall Apart
We understand entropy surprisingly early in life
By Jessica Love Thursday, January 8, 2015
Limericks That Leave You Hanging
When we expect to hear a rhyme and don’t
By Jessica Love Thursday, December 18, 2014
When Nouns Verb Oddly
Verb meanings are slipperier than noun meanings
By Jessica Love Thursday, November 13, 2014
Are Our Screams, Sighs, and Giggles Universal?
Two studies suggest yes and no
By Jessica Love Thursday, November 6, 2014
Don’t Mock the Monocle (A Webcomic)
On our unspoken preferences for ordering adjectives
By Jessica Love Thursday, October 30, 2014
