Is the Datum/Data Distinction Dead?

Also, Professor McWhorter on his favorite dinosaur.

Side profile of Therizinosaurus cheloniformis, a carnivorous dinosaur that lived in the Cretaceous Period of Mongolia.

This week David Straayer ventures: “I assert that in the modern, computer age, data is a non-count noun, and its historical past as a Latin plural is gone forever, except to stubborn grammar mavens who can’t count in binary.”