Headlines from May 16, 2014

The BJP, India’s Hindu-nationalist party, looks to sweep the elections, making Narendra Modi the likely Prime Minister.
GOP gubernatorial primary debate in Idaho hijacked by unlikely candidates, including a biker with “a direct line to God.” #video
After weeks of solitary confinement and police interrogations in the ‘70s, six Icelandic citizens confessed to murders they couldn’t remember.
Fire season begins in Southern California, “the beginning of what could become a very dangerous fire season.”
See also: California’s big water tap is running dry. #tmn
The “waistline” of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is getting smaller by just under 1,000 kilometers per year.
In Minnesota, America’s first “Main Street” continues to struggle with the Nobel Prize winner who built the “road” in the first place. #longreads
King County, Wash., pays the Seattle Times over $40,000 for misplacing information.
Woman’s blood cancer killed by an injection of 100 billion units of the measles virus—enough to inoculate 10 million people.
Europe is ill—economically, politically, culturally—but one country is both the worst off and also the continent’s concentrate: Italy. #longreads
Researchers find the estimated age of “peak embarassment” is 17.2 years.
Nearly 50% of all TV viewing comes from the heaviest 20% of TV viewers, who watch 705 minutes a day.
There’s also a strong tendency for graphics to include icons of satellites and jet fighters. TMN’s Paul Ford praises military infographics.
See also: Paul Ford on his “five favorite metaphoric harbingers of depression.” #tmn
Cartoonist lavishly praises his Tesla Model S, a “magical space car.”
The 2,500-year-old Chinese board game Go is the only game where humans dominate over computers.
When in drought, ranchers turn to “Pasture Scout”—a cross between eBay and Airbnb—for cattle.
Even if you’re a dog, online dating is terrible. Man plays dog on Tinder dating service.