If you like handling tiny glass shards, sure, go ahead and touch the lunar surface. But avoid the rocks.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/12/science/randall-munroe-moon.html

“Data” is the Latin plural of “datum,” so why does it sometimes sound weird when people say “the data are” instead of “the data is”?

https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/data-is-data-are

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/10/17/facts-about-crime-in-the-u-s/

Here are five facts about crime in the United States.

Did Linux Kill Unix?
Yes, Linux did kill Unix. Or, more accurately, Linux stopped Unix in its tracks, and then jumped in its shoes.

https://www.howtogeek.com/440147/did-linux-kill-commercial-unix/

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/11/why-dont-i-see-you-anymore/598336/

Good article (including the Stalin Russian history part).

Framing affects how listeners view reality. It can persuade us one way or another by using certain rhetorical or linguistic means. What’s more, a particular framing doesn’t just arise spontaneously to the top of the public consciousness from its own legitimate merits, because it happens to be the neutral truth. We would be naive to think so, yet many people do.

https://daily.jstor.org/are-we-being-framed/

Seventh Edition Style for Journal Articles

Following the new guidance in the seventh edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, authors should always include issue numbers in APA Style references for journal articles.

https://apastyle.apa.org/Blog/issue-numbers

The first modern electronic digital computer was called the
Atanasoff–Berry computer, or ABC.

It was built by physics Professor John Vincent Atanasoff and his graduate student, Clifford Berry, in 1942 at Iowa State College, now known as Iowa State University.

https://theconversation.com/curious-kids-what-was-the-first-computer-122164

There are various aesthetic and technical arguments for why serial commas should or should not be used. Although they aren’t required in journalistic writing, a distinct advantage of using serial commas is clear, unambiguous language, which is a necessity in scientific writing.

https://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2011/04/using-serial-commas.html

Whatever the fate of Sci-Hub, it seems that frustration with the current system is growing. But history shows that betting against science publishers is a risky move. After all, back in 1988, Maxwell predicted that in the future there would only be a handful of immensely powerful publishing companies left, and that they would ply their trade in an electronic age with no printing costs, leading to almost “pure profit”. That sounds a lot like the world we live in now.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jun/27/profitable-business-scientific-publishing-bad-for-science