[dmoy]

There were some earlier news articles & spinoff discussions in the recent past (NYTimes, etc).

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/06/education/edlife/why-scien...

Wish I had the link to discussions about it, they were better than the actual article.

[duck]

Here you go:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3196377

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3239815