There are two sides of this news. Of course one side is corruption and fraud - not that interesting, the usual story. The other side is more interesting. The news doesn't say "detectors were fake and didn't work", it says "they work nevertheless". This may not be a scientific fact as many would like to hear but nevertheless many people believe in it. So the question is why they work? Something is not proven scientifically means it's not possible? How about sixth sense?

Very similar article was published half a year ago. Is there something new now?

The majority of voters under 45 voted for Obama. The populous has spoken. Younger workers want to be fired and replaced with more efficient and cheaper workers.

Yes, you will. And you'll be telling everyone, once you get used to it, it's a lot better than the previous version. This is what you always do, first complain and then accept. Like all other windows users, you'll never be able to deny it anyways.

If I put this thing in my living room, my wife would go crazy!

First thing is, do not believe anyone who's telling you that you can understand general relativity or quantum mechanics without understanding the math behind. If you have basic calculus knowledge I can recommend either looking at this book by Penrose which covers all the math and physics topics briefly or watch some of the physics courses online from Stanford. These courses are really enjoyable. They're not regular undergrad courses, but specially for people who have interest in the physics but doesn't have too much time to invest (for general relativity you'll need around 5-6 years of study in university.

• Classical Mechanics: http://www.youtube.com/user/StanfordUniversity#grid/user/189C0DCE90CB6D81
• Quantum Entanglements: http://www.youtube.com/user/StanfordUniversity#grid/user/A27CEA1B8B27EB67
• Special Relativity: http://www.youtube.com/user/StanfordUniversity#grid/user/CCD6C043FEC59772
• General Relativity: http://www.youtube.com/user/StanfordUniversity#grid/user/6C8BDEEBA6BDC78D

I would start with classical mechanics or quantum entanglements. If you start with general relativity, most probably you wouldn't understand what he's talking about.
There are more courses, just check Standford Uni playlists.

Programming languages (C#, Java, tsql, javascript, etc.) doesn't have good concepts for handling timezones and timezones are usually ignored during design and implementation. And then developers doesn't like timezones, and their software cannot support people to manage time easily. I don't think people have any problems with timezones. Better timezone support in languages, frameworks and applications are needed, not removal of timezones.

Don't be funny, we're living in the era of global warming. It'll be even warmer because nights are shorter. More global warming!

So what if something big happened somewhere in universe 50005 years ago? Things happen, move on!