Zugzwang in the New Year
You can’t win—should you even try?
By Jessica Love Thursday, October 23, 2014
The Disappearing Accent
For a while, youngsters stop noticing differences between dialects
By Jessica Love Thursday, October 9, 2014
A Modest Proposal and a Goodbye
On improving science coverage, and finding the good stuff already out there
By Jessica Love Thursday, October 2, 2014
Baby Got Rhythm?
Keep the beat and improve your language skills
By Jessica Love Thursday, September 25, 2014
Solidarity in Confusion
What we convey when we converse
By Jessica Love Thursday, September 18, 2014
Wounded By Books
Brits of an earlier age read at their own risk
By Jessica Love Thursday, September 11, 2014
English vs. English
On the concrete and the abstract, the Germanic and the Latinate
By Jessica Love Thursday, September 4, 2014
Perfect Memory (Webcomic #9)
On remembering and misremembering
By Jessica Love Thursday, August 21, 2014
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
