The Gender-Bending Mouse

Once in a while, I will check on the number of hits that my videos are generating on YouTube. As of lately, I've been noticing that the hits for Minority Women In Science have increased exponentially which aroused my curiosity and prompted me to investigate a bit further. I soon found out that a number of blogs, one of which is the Wired Blog Network together with a bunch of Japanese web sites, were linking up to my video. Oddly enough, though, I couldn't find any specific reference to my video in the text of any of these blogs, but they all seemed to have one thing in common: They're linking to a YouTube video about a gender-bending mouse. In order to enhance your viewing experience, YouTube will give you, after you have finished viewing the infamous mouse video, the option to watch related videos, one of which happens to be Minority Women In Science, hence the increased number of hits. Go figure...

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Minority Women In Science was mentioned in the local Spanish press: laverdad.es and diarioinformacion.com