When Nouns Verb Oddly
Verb meanings are slipperier than noun meanings
By Jessica Love Thursday, May 22, 2014
How Many Words Does a Wordsmith Make?
On Aesop Rock, DMX, and the importance of a large vocabulary
By Jessica Love Thursday, May 8, 2014
Leave Your Laptop Home
Taking notes? There’s a memory advantage to using pen and paper
By Jessica Love Thursday, May 1, 2014
Don’t Mock the Monocle (A Webcomic)
On our unspoken preferences for ordering adjectives
By Jessica Love Thursday, April 24, 2014
Wave Your Hands and Say It Right
On the surprising relationship between gestures and memory
By Jessica Love Thursday, April 17, 2014
A Reader’s Guide to Ha Ha (A Webcomic)
On the many strange spellings of a very strange word
By Jessica Love Thursday, April 10, 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
