h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Looking good

I'd be willing to look at the first towel day entry 400 times every month, to keep the numbers up.

Or would that be cheating?

'The Legend of Lost Wolverton' is an odd choice to gain in popularity - a long abandoned village next to marshland.
The area's been in the news twice lately, so that might explain why. In early May a rare male bittern was heard at RSPB's Brading Marshes (there were only 11 male bitterns in Britain in 1997). To celebrate in late May the Isle of Wight Council gave permission for an area nearby to become a building site so 60 lodges can be built on reclaimed marshland (although some more land has been donated to the RSPB and they get a free visitor centre).

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Male bitterns probably get reduced rates on meeting space when they have conventions.

Sounds like the Bitterns are booming again

Could we get them interested in becoming H2G2 researchers?

Greetings Stats Fans! Here's the Mid-June Report

Stats are down again - there were 70,000 unique users compared to 75,000 in the previous period, and 306,000 page views compared to 329,000 in the previous period but people are still viewing 3.5 pages per session on average.

More fascinatingly unusual Entries trended this time, in addition to the usual suspects. Isaac Newton was particularly popular on 5 June, and The Comic Operas of Gilbert and Sullivan trended on 10 June. Theories of Human Motivation and the theme tune to the Big Bang Theory also saw impressively increased numbers of views this time! These theories may or may not be connected by another theory...

I'll give it a try

Gilbert and Sullivan's Major general's song" mention binomial theorem, which Isaac Newton was the first to outline.

When the apple fell on Newton's head, was he motivated to devise a theory of gravity?

In 1916, Einstein's theory of relativity generalized Newton's theory of gravity.

As for May statistics, Newton's "Principia" was p[ublished in May, 1687, 341 years ago.

Newton was first with calculus, but it seems the binomial theory was known to the Indians a thousand years earlier.

Newton, the story goes, was inspired by the fall of an apple (not on his head) to consider why the moon doesn't fall to earth. He calculated the speed of the moon's orbit (its distance had already been found) and concluded that its gravitational pull was finely matched to its velocity so that it neither fell nor escaped into space.

Don't post it here..it's just for visitor stats.

Greetings Stats Fans - here's the report for the whole of June.

Stats are down again. 66,700 unique users compared to 73,500 in the previous period. 301,000 page views compared to 323,000 in the previous period. People still viewing 3.5 pages on average.

Isaac Newton is the top Entry this month, following the surge on 5 June. The Comic Operas of Gilbert and Sullivan and Category c1234 (the UnderGuide) were also popular alongside the usual suspect Entries.

Gilbert and Sullivan?

Here's a howdy do.
Visitors are few.
When they're here, see Isaac Newton,
Donald Trump and Vladi Putin.
Have they lost a screw?
Have they gone cuckoo?

here's a howdy do! <

Greetings stats fans! Here's the July Report

There were 63,500 unique users compared to 69,400 in the previous period, and 308,000 page views compared to 311,000 in the previous period. so people are viewing more pages per session on average than last time.

We got traffic from a site called kickassfacts - The Night Witches were linked to, as was Drinking in Australia! The Stephens Island Wren was linked to on http://amentian.com/post/RXMj

Apart from the usual suspect Entries, How to Cross One Eye was extra popular this month, as was How to Understand Statistics. European Cities in Ohio, USA saw a surge in interest, as did the Askh2g2 conversation about the best songs to sing after breathing helium! The topical Entry Casualties in the two World Wars for Combatant Nations was viewed more than 300 times this month. Lobster Pots - the Mathematical Game also trended, as did the Roman Mystery - the Lost 9th Legion and the Silchester Eagle.

Certainly one song to sing after breathing helium should be:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5akEgsZSfhg

Those stats really invite me to come back and write for the Guide.

But I said I wouldn't until someone spends 5 minutes applying the fixes I identified to three bugs in the system.

I hope they will do that, Gnomon.

I've been waiting since March 2017 for them to do so.