What Makes Hemingway Hemingway?
On the psychology of artistic style
By Jess Love Thursday, January 15, 2015
On Expecting Things to Fall Apart
We understand entropy surprisingly early in life
By Jess Love Thursday, January 8, 2015
Limericks That Leave You Hanging
When we expect to hear a rhyme and don’t
By Jess Love Thursday, December 18, 2014
When Nouns Verb Oddly
Verb meanings are slipperier than noun meanings
By Jess Love Thursday, November 13, 2014
Are Our Screams, Sighs, and Giggles Universal?
Two studies suggest yes and no
By Jess Love Thursday, November 6, 2014
Don’t Mock the Monocle (A Webcomic)
On our unspoken preferences for ordering adjectives
By Jess Love Thursday, October 30, 2014
The Disappearing Accent
For a while, youngsters stop noticing differences between dialects
By Jess Love Thursday, October 9, 2014
A Modest Proposal and a Goodbye
On improving science coverage, and finding the good stuff already out there
By Jess Love Thursday, October 2, 2014
Baby Got Rhythm?
Keep the beat and improve your language skills
By Jess Love Thursday, September 25, 2014
Wounded By Books
Brits of an earlier age read at their own risk
By Jess Love Thursday, September 11, 2014
English vs. English
On the concrete and the abstract, the Germanic and the Latinate
By Jess Love Thursday, September 4, 2014
Perfect Memory (Webcomic #9)
On remembering and misremembering
By Jess Love Thursday, August 21, 2014
