Qian van Binsbergen won met haar eerste documentairereeks in 2023 al de Nipkowprijs. Het Verhaal van Nederland (NTR) krijgt een speciale vermelding van de jury.

• Some riders hospitalised after Famenne Ardenne Classic

• Dung may have sprayed on to riders in wet conditions

Several cyclists, including riders due to start the Giro d’Italia on Friday, fell ill after a Belgian one-day race, with cow manure on the roads suspected to be the cause.

Three Lotto-Intermarché riders suffered from abdominal pain, diarrhoea, fever and vomiting, and were briefly hospitalised, the team said from Bulgaria, where the Giro begins on Friday.

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It cannot always be a laugh a minute. Paris Saint-Germain will play Arsenal in the Champions League final and they made sure of that by getting serious, nullifying an off-key Bayern Munich and rarely wobbling after adding to their first-leg lead. Luis Enrique’s team should have won by more in a match that did not, and probably never could, hit the previous week’s heights but their triumph was underpinned by an aptitude for the dirtier work that would serve them well in Budapest.

Ousmane Dembélé’s emphatic third-minute finish seemed to have ended this semi-final’s goalfest and the regret for Vincent Kompany will be that Bayern were a yard short of their sharpest all night. It could have been different if one of their openings before the break, Jamal Musiala spurning the best, had gone in but Harry Kane’s added-time goal came far too late.

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on the water photography has added a photo to the pool:

Located at the mouth of the Nakashima River, this illuminated white bridge connects the city center to areas near the Dejima Wharf and Nagasaki Port. It is characterized by its modern white arch and vertical supports, which are strikingly lit up at night, often reflecting colorful glows from nearby traffic lights and harbor activities.

DÜSSELDORF (ANP) - De toestand van de opvarende van de MV Hondius die wordt opgevangen door het academische ziekenhuis UKD in Düsseldorf is "stabiel". Dat meldt de brandweer van de Duitse stad, die betrokken is bij het vervoer van de cruiseschippassagier van Schiphol naar Düsseldorf. Er zijn "geen symptomen van een infectie", aldus de brandweer in een verklaring.

De vlucht met de opvarende kwam woensdag iets voor 20.00 uur aan op Schiphol. Vermoedelijk gaat het om een 65-jarige Duitse die nauw verwant is aan een Hondius-passagier die begin deze maand op het cruiseschip overleed. De brandweer zegt in de verklaring niets over de identiteit van de persoon die in Düsseldorf wordt behandeld.

Een andere passagier van de evacuatievlucht uit Kaapverdië werd naar het Leids Universitair Medisch Centrum (LUMC) gebracht. Naast deze twee evacués is er nog een derde opvarende van het cruiseschip geëvacueerd met een tweede medische vlucht. Dat toestel is vooralsnog gestrand op Gran Canaria.

A supercut of context-free intertitles from Adam Curtis documentaries. Even if you don’t know who Adam Curtis is, this is entertaining.

Who needs power outlets when you can charge off of animal labor? The next time someone asks you if a hamster running on a wheel can produce a measurable amount of energy, you can point them to one inventive young YouTuber who has proven that the answer isn’t just yes - it’s also enough energy to harvest. Flamethrower, a Spanish YouTuber whose channel is full of experiments and DIY projects, most recently took to the video platform to post about his experiment in turning his brother’s hamster’s wheel into a machine he could use to charge his smartphone. “After my parents prohibited me from genetically or cybernetically modifying it,” Flamethrower explained in the video, “I deemed its existence … unacceptably useless. So what did I do? Exploit it for energy production, of course.” As anyone who’s owned a hamster knows, midnight runs on a squeaky wheel can be obnoxious to say the least. Sleepless nights, combined with memories of cartoons where hamster wheels powered the contraptions of evil geniuses, gave the young maker an idea: Strap a turbine to the wheel and make that hamster earn its keep. Of course, it’s not as simple as just attaching a 5V electric motor to use as a turbine and wiring it up to a USB-C plug. Hamsters can’t exactly be cajoled onto a wheel for regular charging shifts, and even if they could be, keeping them running at a charging pace would be pretty much impossible. “Say you have one of those common 5V DC motors,” Flamethrower explained. “Unless you spin that at over 10,000 RPM you wouldn't even reach the standard 15-watt charging speed” of most modern smartphones. “Forget about quick charging,” he added. “The motor would probably melt before that.” To get around those limitations, Flamethrower turned to the CJMCU-2557 low-power energy-harvesting chip. Energy harvesters like the 2557 (albeit larger ones) are designed to boost and regulate tiny amounts of input power, from sources such as solar cells or generators, into a usable voltage suitable for charging components like a capacitor or, in this case, a single lithium-ion battery cell. After doing some wiring work and putting the contraption together, Flamethrower left it to run overnight, and woke to a battery with enough charge in it to provide juice to his phone, though the amount wasn’t substantial. “I haven't measured exactly how much battery it can charge,” Flamethrower told us in an email. “It's not a lot, so it certainly won't fill the entirety of a phone's battery in a single night, although of course the energy generated each day can vary a lot based on the hamster's mood.” “I did a very rough calculation and the current generated might be like around an amp when the fella is running,” Flamethrower added. In other words, as frenetic as a hamster can get, it’s still not producing that much energy. Regardless, the young inventor told us that he is still using the device, and that it’s proved to be fantastic for providing energy to charge the family's smartwatches. As for whether he might consider attaching a bigger battery, that might be a bit overkill, he told us. “In any case, the CJMCU-2557 is only meant to charge 1 cell,” Flamethrower said. “There are, admittedly, slightly higher capacity cells, but I use it frequently enough to not have to care about reaching their limit.” A useful invention, then, if not a bit of an on-the-nose realization of a science-fiction dystopia trope. Hey, at least the hamster is happy and putting all that necessary calorie burning to work for a good cause - if we all used our pets' episodes of the zoomies to charge our devices, think of the load on the grid we could save. ®