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
Here, There Be Ambiguity (a Webcomic)
On contrastive reduplication
By Jessica Love Thursday, March 20, 2014
Think Like a Bilingual
Is it ever too late to benefit from a second language?
By Jessica Love Thursday, March 13, 2014
What Jorge Luis Borges Knew About Knowing
Of Memory and Forgetting
By Jessica Love Thursday, March 6, 2014
Labels for People
Language encourages children to categorize by gender and race
By Jessica Love Thursday, February 27, 2014
Emergencies in Spanish
When emergency calls and miscommunications collide
By Jessica Love Thursday, February 20, 2014
Are Our Screams, Sighs, and Giggles Universal?
Two studies suggest yes and no
By Jessica Love Thursday, February 13, 2014
What We Don’t Read When We Read
On the words and letters we miss
By Jessica Love Thursday, February 6, 2014
“You’re Saying It Wrong”
Why the Pledge of Allegiance may have some soul-searching to do
By Jessica Love Thursday, January 30, 2014
What Does the Owlet Say?
On the competitive squabbles of barn owl siblings
By Jessica Love Thursday, January 23, 2014
