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."
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• TMN's Paul Ford praises military infographics.
• See also: Paul Ford on his "five favorite metaphoric harbingers of depression."
• 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.
• Man plays dog on Tinder dating service.