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Physics of Coffee
Assistant Professor of Physics Vivek Prakash explores how Newtonian Mechanics play a role in coffee production, brewing, and latte art.
Illumination 400
Today we pull together all codes and standards that make pathway and outdoor event lighting systems safe and sustainable. Best practice discovery is tracking in the NFPA National Electrical Code and the IEEE National Electrical Safety Code -- both titles receiving public input within the next 45 days.
Swimming, Water Polo and Diving Lighting
Athletic programs form a large part of the brand identity and community spirit for most educational institutions. Our focus has been on technology standards that govern the safety, performance and sustainability of these enterprises; electro-technology in particular.
Quadrivium: Spring
Educational settlements should be magical places. The stack informing the beauty of these "cities-within-cities" changes 100 to 1000 times per day globally. Titles are time-sensitive, copyright protected and land in public law. We monitor the action continuously to formulate response to public consultations. Topics appear on our CALENDAR and explored every day at 15:00 UTC. Recommend refresh of this web page once or twice to see timeliest information.
Nighttime Walk
21 January 2026: The 16th annual Campus Safety Lighting Walk has UC Davis Police, staff members from utilities/facilities management, the custodial and grounds teams, and students fanning out across campus — looking for lighting issues that could compromise safety. With links to other State of California student night time safety escort services.
Sport Lighting
Sport enterprises in education communities support health, organizational brand identity and cohort creation. Facilities that support these enterprises are significant cost and profit centers. Keeping them safe, sustainable and effective to the task in a period of step-function change in illumination technology reliance upon several interdependent standards. Public consultation on proposed changes to IES RP-43-2x Recommended Practice: Lighting Exterior Applications is open until June 30th.
Current Issues & Recent Research
Today at the usual hour we summarize the highlights of events and decisions made at the I&CPS Conference in Lexington, Kentucky last week. We always schedule it the week ahead of Mother's Day; our 62nd year.
Hegemon Cuyahoga & County Dublin
We shift our perspective 120 degrees to the point of view of one of several Producer interests in the American national standards system with a fortress balance sheet. The title of this post draws from the location of US and European headquarters. We list proposals by an electrical manufacturer claiming a part of the AI zeitgeist. The May 13 closing stock price of ETN was $419.00. Today we will examine its Cooper Lighting Solutions Division.