Show Notes for May 8, 2013

• Motorcycle passenger age requirement
• none in California
• apparently only 2 states have such a requirement (Hawaii: 7 years old and Washington: 5 years old)
• Crickett Firearms makes real guns, for kids
• GFCI
• "GFCI devices approved for protection against electric shock trip at 5 mA within 25 ms"
• Disjoncteur: "Le principe d'un dispositif différentiel à courant résiduel (DDR) est de comparer les intensités sur les différents conducteurs qui le traversent."
• Q: How much electric current is needed to kill a human being?
  A: About 10 mA.
• GRID Alternatives "is a nonprofit organization that brings the benefits of solar technology to communities that would not otherwise have access, providing needed savings for families, preparing workers for jobs in the fast-growing solar industry, and helping clean our environment."
• Soap
• Potassium carbonate "is a white salt, soluble in water […] used in the production of soap and glass."
• Soapmaking Basics for Homemade Soap
• Rugby
• Sevens World Series "is an annual series of international rugby sevens tournaments run by the International Rugby Board featuring national sevens teams."
• Rugby sevens "also known as seven-a-side or VIIs, is a variant of rugby union in which teams are made up of seven players, instead of the usual 15, with shorter matches."
• The Merovingian's French: "Nom de dieu de putain de bordel de merde de saloperie de connard d'enculé de ta mère!"
• Modern churches
• Hérémence (pretty surprising!)
• Lourtier (Bagnes)
  • originally (see also here)
    
    
    
    
  • after it was "fixed"
    
• Mario Botta's church in Ticino (wikipedia)