Why So Few English Words for Odors?
Another language shows it doesn’t have to be so
By Jessica Love Thursday, January 16, 2014
Zugzwang in the New Year
You can’t win—should you even try?
By Jessica Love Thursday, January 9, 2014
Spanish in the City
What’s behind an ongoing change to the Spanish spoken by New Yorkers?
By Jessica Love Thursday, January 2, 2014
The Search for Meaning in Sound
On kerfuffles and hullabaloos and rethinking iconicity
By Jessica Love Thursday, December 12, 2013
The Disappearing Accent
For a while, youngsters stop noticing differences between dialects
By Jessica Love Thursday, December 5, 2013
Much Reading. Wow.
On the delicate dance between humor and inscrutability
By Jessica Love Thursday, November 21, 2013
Compendiums of Everything
A brief history of the modern encyclopedia
By Jessica Love Thursday, November 14, 2013
Headless Bear Walks Up to Woman; Awesomeness Ensues
The search for the perfect title
By Jessica Love Thursday, November 7, 2013
Quick: What’s the Past Tense of “Pet”?
On regular and irregular verbs
By Jessica Love Thursday, October 31, 2013
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
