Headlines from April 10, 2014

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. via
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. #tmn
Television didn’t become good when Tony Soprano went to therapy. 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.