May 7, 2015

• Cameron's Conservatives likely to win the most seats in today's UK election, but may not form the next government.
• Senate Republicans expect to best more conservative Republicans in passing Iran bill without controversial amendment.
• Tornadoes in Oklahoma City wreak havoc, cause severe flooding, release bears.
• Carroll Spinney on his life as Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch.
• Alexander Rich, who confirmed DNA's double-helix structure, dies at 90.
• Ten-year-old issue of Scientific American shows how terrible we are at predicting "the long arc of scientific discovery."
• The "Hollywood model," where talented people briefly gather for a project, predicts sunny days for tomorrow's economy.
• In the heart of Harper's conservative Canada, Alberta just elected a government that could leave Keystone's tar sands in the ground.
• What think-piece writers get wrong about lobotomies.
• TMN's Sarah Hepola: Getting sober doesn't mean sex is gone forever, but it can seem like that at first.
• Amazon removes the gender taxonomy of toys and games; if only they could turn "Amazon Mom" into "Amazon Family."
• Tokyo hotel offers rooms designed to allow female guests to “cry heartily,” complete with sad movies and tissues to “gently wipe away tears.”
• When it's "more probable than not" that Tom Brady wanted his footballs deflated, he probably wants a mulligan even more.
• Just how long has Brady been cheating? That is the legitimate question that must now be asked.
• See also: A selection of miniature and concealed photographic devices.
• Microbiologist confirms that beards have poop in them, but points out that everything else does, too.
• Douthat: The modern welfare state has successfully cut our poverty rate, but it hasn't delivered on the Great Society’s social promises.
• Woman uses Pizza Hut's food-delivery app to escape a hostage crisis.