(I post a lot of their content, as you know, and this really left a bad taste in my mouth.)
Here is the HN post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2906538 I believe that the author Bob Yirka is a paid blogger: http://www.suite101.com/writer_articles.cfm/789376 However, I did not see that article in his Bio yet. I don't know who owns phys.org, but it might be among the ranks of Intel's Inside Scoop (http://scoop.intel.com/) or AOL's autoblog (http://www.autoblog.com/), wherein professional bloggers are paid to provide content. If this is the same Bob Yirka, he writes for Suite101, which pays for articles, then sells them to blogs like scoop and autoblog. But it looks like he is a staff writer for physorg. The best of the best :/ http://www.sitepoint.com/15-companies-that-really-get-corpor...