Interesting Links for 30-1-2011

• Hormones, contraception, menstruation and cancer. Absolutely fascinating article tying them all together.
  (tags: health science religion contraception sex menstruation women)
• A Student Loan Payment Calculator for the UK - allowing you to compare the different types of loans.
  (tags: student academia loans money uk)

So sad

BE AWARE!

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A sense of scale

Scale from Brad Goodspeed on Vimeo.

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The only constant is change

(Shanghai in 1990 and 2010)

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Unexpected sources of hits

Five years after I reposted three jokes from Slashdot in my journal it turns out that it's _still_ getting hits (about 200 per month) because it got tagged on StumbleUpon.

In fact, looking at my Google Analytics, it seems that it's been known to get up to 45 hits _per day_. For three jokes that I stole from an article that I don't even seem to have linked to.

Sometimes the internet baffles me. I'm tempted to put a "hello!" on that page, but I'm not convinced I should tamper with greatness...