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."
Methods of Building Measurement
To paraphrase Lord Kelvin: "If you can measure it you can improve it". From this inspiration BOMA initiated the process of revising its square-footage measurement standard for retail spaces; fairly common now within publicly owned education facilities such as student unions, hospitals and athletic venues. Getting square-footage right is essential for securing an organization's sustainability and "green" claims for example.
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?
ARCHIVE: UM Welcomes ANSI 2015
As the voice of the U.S. standards and conformity assessment system the American National Standards Institute empowers its members and constituents to strengthen the U.S. marketplace position in the global economy while helping to assure the safety and health of consumers and the protection of the environment. Standards such as those developed by ANSI accredited developers affect 80 percent of global trade. Mr. Bhatia explains academia’s role in global value chains.
Current Issues & Recent Research
We are tooling up for the NFPA 2029 National Electrical Code Technical Committee Meetings in September and the IEEE Industrial Applications Society Meetings in October.
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.