Headlines from April 17, 2014

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. #art #tmn
“Terminal sumps” are flooded tunnels found in the sport of caving—“both the oldest of pastimes and the most uncertain.” #longreads
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.” #tmn
Many claims against today’s emerging adults—selfish, lazy, narcissistic—are based on outdated yardsticks of progress.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.