trump trials Mike Pence hits Donald Trump under oath by zapping a comma from his book Carla Sinclair

Games Bracket City is an addictive new word puzzle game Ellsworth Toohey

Science "Demonic" 666 found in massive palindromic prime number Mark Frauenfelder

typography 8 weird punctuation marks that faded from the English language Sam Barton

language There is a Royal Order of Adjectives, and you follow it without knowing what it is Gail Sherman

mathematics Do you use a point or comma as decimal separator? Andrew Yi

guns Smith & Wesson sued the state of New Jersey for having an "anti-Second Amendment Agenda" Thom Dunn

language Codifying "Boomerspeak" and debating the ethics of poking fun at it Cory Doctorow

Science Cormac McCarthy on how to write a scientific (or any kind of) paper David Pescovitz

Journalism Reporters who quote ums and ahs only make themselves look bad Rob Beschizza

Copyfight Heiress "Instagram influencer" whose parents are accused of paying a $500K bribe to get her into USC has trademark application rejected for punctuation errors Cory Doctorow

politics Amy Klobuchar legendarily abusive to staff Rob Beschizza

typography Study: two spaces after a period makes reading easier Clive Thompson

newsroom rules A reporter's-eye view of editing Rob Beschizza

censorship I hate your censorship, but I'll defend to the death your right to censor Cory Doctorow