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
Depends on How You Tell It
On the psychology of narrative style
By Jessica Love Thursday, August 7, 2014
For to Sound Folksy
What do we know about this odd, antiquated construction?
By Jessica Love Thursday, July 31, 2014
Nap Your Way to a Bigger Vocabulary?
On word learning and sleep
By Jessica Love Thursday, July 17, 2014
Describing a Visual World Without Vision
On blindness and language
By Jessica Love Thursday, July 10, 2014
Ethics Across Borders
On shifting values and Facebook’s big misstep
By Jessica Love Thursday, July 3, 2014
Anthropomorphic Trees (Webcomic #7)
What’s that book teaching your child?
By Jessica Love Thursday, June 19, 2014
I Say Shutout, You Say Clean Sheet
What happens to our speech when we watch international soccer