April 10, 2014
By The Morning News
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- Pro-Russia citizens of Eastern Ukraine take over buildings and wait for Russia, feeling exposed.
- Helpful, relatively brief primer on the recent saga of Ukraine, Putin, and the West's culpability.
- American history told through first pitches thrown by Presidents, from Taft to FDR.
- Alabama’s athletic revenues last year—$143 million—exceeded those of all 30 NHL teams and 25 of the 30 NBA teams.
- Government to release data to help patients select doctors—but without accounting for intangibles like bedside manner.
- In France, sending or reading work-related emails after 6 p.m. is now illegal.
- Today's English may lack the "butter-toned" exchanges of Downton Abbey, but it's in many ways more civilized.
- Mickey Rooney's lawyer fights attempt to bury his body next to a stepson that Rooney had accused of elder abuse.
- Hack-job survivor James Fallows explains what internet users should do about the Heartbleed bug.
- Study of a million eHarmony matches finds that people probably just want to date themselves.
- Neuroscientists worry that online skimming may interfere with a person's capacity for deeper reading.
- Related: Tweaking in-car typography for safer driving.
- Gushy inside story of America's top typographers' $20 million divorce—the "Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt" of design.
- Watch designed for blind people is very popular with sighted people.
- Photographer Vivian Maier, now famous to the world, was simply a bag-lady to one Chicago neighborhood.
- The case for reruns.
- MIT Technology Review names DNA analysis company Illumina the World's Smartest Company.
- Denmark is latest nation to prescribe a "stun first" rule for food-animal slaughter, forcing Jewish and Muslim citizens to import most of their meat.
