Linkage Sunday

• Phone cancer: The International Agency for Research on Cancer finds brain tumour link to mobile phone use - I think we all knew this one was coming
• Safe surfing?: Google is introducing encryption for all web searches - freedom of information takes another step forward
• I Spy: Computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh develop a computer program that matches photographs to real world locations
• Eureka!: German scientists find the 'eureka' moment is a documentable physiological phenomenon
• Alternate Aid: Could the growing volume of non-Western aid donations spur an expansion of Western aid programs?
• I'll Compromise When You Compromise: For those of you who read my May 3 post - Thailand's difficulties continue.

Finally, some interesting health and employment statistics courtesy of the University of Edinburgh Faculty of Medicine

• The proportion of families with single mothers has increased from 1% (1971) to 9% (2001)
• Lone parents in the UK have a participation rate of just 40% - compared to 75% in France and Denmark
• Once on UK incapacity benefits only 20% of individuals return to work within 5 years
• After two years of UK incapacity benefits an individual is more likely to die or retire than return to work
• Working class children are four and a half times more likely to suffer a serious accident than middle class children
• Child poverty is still higher in the UK than in 21 out of 24 European countries
• Two-thirds of those in poverty at any one time will have been in poverty for at least three of the past four years

Prevalence of mental disorders among children aged 5-16 in private households, 2004, GB (%).
Gross weekly household income. Social Trends 37: 2007 edition