April 17, 2014
By The Morning News
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- Ukrainian citizens on the ground, as of last month, found to be divided, cynical, and angry.
- Primer on what's happening where in Ukraine.
- Thousands of zoo animals starving in Ukraine, though it's barely a worsening of their situation, long affected by corruption.
- Pakistan Taliban ends its ceasefire with President Nawaz Sharif’s government.
- Heartbleed's first hacker, a 19-year-old Canadian, arrested for breaching the Canadian Revenue Agency.
- In case you missed it: Donald Rumsfeld tells the IRS, as he's told them for many years, that he has no idea if his taxes are accurate.
- Statistical analysis of Bob Ross's paintings finds a 93% chance that he'll paint a second tree if he's painted a first one.
- Ruin porn began long ago, when aristocrats built fresh ruins on their estates to exhibit wealth.
- "Terminal sumps" are flooded tunnels found in the sport of caving—"both the oldest of pastimes and the most uncertain."
- Little boy feared missing by his mother found safe inside an arcade claw machine in Nebraska.
- California's unregulated marijuana crop is drying out its salmon tributaries.
- Countries where marijuana customers are most likely to be attacked while shopping: Germany and France.
- Tennis player Donald Young penalized for shouting “Son of a biscuit!”
- Fascinating history (and good recipe) for pad thai, "the most misunderstood noodle."
- Many claims against today's emerging adults—selfish, lazy, narcissistic—are based on outdated yardsticks of progress.
- Biologist E.O. Wilson on getting his education in the Boy Scouts, choosing ants as his subject, and relying on his secretary of 47 years.
- World's largest "rat king"—pack of rodents whose tails have become entwined—is mummified and displayed in a German museum, 32 rats thick.
- Patricia Lockwood, somewhat ludicrously, on poetry as work, and why Robert Frost kissed a builder.
