In a post title "Modern Myths and Legends", I'm surprised not to see The Sandman over at the DC sub-hub. However, we have Neil Gaiman over at the Harper-Collins sub-hub....

The article image is the stuff of librarians' nightmares.

From the CERN press release authored by the PI, Dr. Kirby:

The brightness of the sun, though, ceteris paribus, should not significantly affect the degree of refraction. All I can imagine is that the atmosphere is hot enough to radiate in the visible spectrum... but that would be ridiculous.

if our albedo was 0%, then our planet would essentially be invisible

Obviously people don't want it shut down.

Without is semantically different from cut. I did not say anything to imply that the US government should completely stop funding the military-industrial complex.

If Congress isn't going to fund NASA, may we let the people?

Off the top of my head:

I'm somewhat surprised I went to a high school where Dresden and Tokyo were mentioned, and where we discussed the morality of the nuclear bomb. The surprise is because I went to a school in the suburban Chicago region (rather conservative). I don't think the amorality (if not immorality) of war really sunk in until…

This was surprisingly difficult. I tried to select works that I both enjoyed and, as far as I can tell, changed my perception of the world.

I seem to be an annoying stickler for SR details, you are mostly correct, but there are some important incorrect details:

It's OK. I spent 30 minutes composing an explanation of time dilation based upon the universality of observation of the speed of light for the OP only to realize it was wrong. I couldn't do it without using a spacetime diagram or lots of algebra, so I don't really "understand" it. I just gave up and deleted the…

One small but critical correction: Clocks on GPS satellites run slower relative to a clock stationary on the surface of the Earth.

We found, however, that the Laetoli prints represented a type of bipedal walking that was fully upright and driven by the front of the foot, particularly the big toe, much like humans today, and quite different to bipedal walking of chimpanzees and other apes.

When I did my final year undergraduate studies mapping genomic developmental pathways during embryonic development in mammals

So called "junk DNA" actually does something: it helps determine which genes are expressed (even though that DNA itself does not encode proteins). This is why a researcher (Damian Labuda) who does research in cancer also does research in genetics.

Oh. I "missed" 2012. I should have googled "neutrino mutation".

But it would not be a big percentage change (short of a phase transition in the weather system).

Do you mean flavor oscillation...?