ALWAYS ON
Summer Sabbatica
Even rest has its measure. While topic presentation will continue according to our CALENDAR our daily colloquia will not resume until August 20.
Iced Coffee: Summer Only or Year Round?
“Without my morning coffee, I’m just like a dried-up piece of roast goat.” -- Johann Sebastian Bach (Coffee Cantata, BWV 211)
Dawn Chorus: Bird Song
"Dedicated to advancing the understanding and protection of the natural world, the Cornell Lab joins with people from all walks of life to make new scientific discoveries, share insights, and galvanize conservation action."
Quadrivium: Summer
Educational settlements should be magical places. The stack informing the beauty of these "cities-within-cities" changes 100 to 1000 times per day globally. 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.
S. 542: English Language Unity Act of 2025
Should Large Language Models Speak Standard English? Who is writing the English that AI will learn?
The Goose that Laid the Golden Egg
Deny homophily at your peril About how the United States education industry cooks its own goose. With link to a Cornell University Cooperative Extension roast goose recipe.
Grounding, Bonding, Earthing and all that
In other words, without grounding, electric energy does no useful work. Today we review the grounding principles for exterior lightning protection and building interior telecommunication and audio-visual systems. Use the login credentials at the upper right our home page.
The $7 Billion Stargate “Barn”
Michigan’s largest one-time private investment $7 Billion. By comparison, the Mackinac Bridge built in 1957 cost about $1 billion in 2026 dollars.
“Whatever It Is, I’m Against It”
Every new infrastructure project begins as someone else's problem. We collect our work in standards, codes and regulations informing the artificial intelligence zietgeist generally and the data center build out specifically. With link to orbital data center frontier.