#Video by Artem Kositsyn extracting enough energy from a pyroelectric ceramic disc capacitor to light an LED visibly in the dark when the capacitor is heated with a cigarette lighter. #electronics
#Canada #law permits the use of “reasonable force” for a #citizens-arrest. #policing
in the #history of #law, villages in #England had to build single-cell jails called “lock-ups”: “a place of temporary confinement for the reception of vagrants, paupers, felons and the like.” #policing
#history: “Watchmen have existed since earliest recorded times in various guises throughout the world and were generally succeeded by the emergence of formally organised professional #policing.”
Boardreader is a #search-engine for forum threads, but it doesn’t seem to have very much information.
"Offshore Leaks" is a #search-engine for the Panama Papers, etc.
“The Lumen database collects and analyzes legal complaints and requests for removal of online materials, helping Internet users to know their rights and understand the law. These data enable us to study the prevalence of legal threats and let Internet users see the source of content removals.” #censorship #search-engine
animal #humor #video including an alligator chasing a laser pointer in a swamp
#video on #manufacturing smoky quartz or amethyst #materials from quartz using an electron beam
#news #video from four years ago about former prime minister Shinzo Abe’s assassination in #Japan
#humor #video about how #Spanish is hard, similar to the ten stone lions
Evildea #video evaluating LanguageSimp (Stephen Coughman). Conclusion is that he is in no way whatsoever a fraudulent hyperpolyglot, but rather highly trustworthy and down-to-earth.
#video review of capsule train overnight sleeping berth from Osaka to Tokyo; it’s US$56 (¥79000), the cheapest one. #dwelling
#video short (6') of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" in which a fan from today’s Earth wearing a Rick & Morty shirt is teleported onto the Enterprise, telling Picard and Riker about the 178 episodes. Made with #AI — in some sense obviously, since it’s far too funny and self-aware to be approved by the originals, and it shows the characters as they were in the 80s. It seems to have some concessions in the plotline to limitations of the AI video generator they’re using: “An unofficial fan-made Star Trek: The Next Generation story from The Machine-Made Muse.”