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A woman's perspective on motherhood and entrepreneurship. (Submitter's conflict of interest declaration: This was written by my wife.)

According to Forbes' managing editor, their bloggers are paid a flat rate for a minimum number of posts and comments, but that yes, they are given incentives for monthly uniques an…

Some of it is: http://www.infochimps.com/datasets/uber-anonymized-gps-logs 25000 trips, anyway.

Oops, forgot to respond to this! You're welcome. Don't get me wrong, Cracked can be very good for spurring on interest as well, but sometimes it's good to have references. :)

It's exactly this discrepancy that I find so fascinating! It's what I spent my PhD on :) I believe that the two major players here are plasticity and connectivity. If you lose a cr…

Heh. Damn right it's linkbait. My entire scientific outreach efforts are linkbait. Dude, I talk about zombie brains to the public. Do you know how hard it is to get the most of the…

Man you folks are more harsh than peer-reviewers! :) And here I was thinking to myself when I wrote the post, "people don't want to be drowning in data; they want something interes…

Touché. I was definitely being technically unclear. My usage there was meant to indicate that the effect of the holidays on ridership was wildly higher than we had expected. Now th…