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Ultrasonic cold brew
A new method to deliver a quality cold brew coffee in less than 3 minutes solidifies Australia’s position as the innovators of modern coffee, according to researchers from The University of Queensland. Engineers from University New South Wales developed an ultrasonic machine to speed up the cold brew of ground coffee beans – a process that normally takes 12 to 24 hours.
Zoning
Today we examine standards catalogs relevant to the planning, construction and management of the built environment of education communities nested within human settlements characterized by a high population density, extensive infrastructure, and various economic, social, and cultural activity. (With links to previous coverage of water, transportation, outdoor illumination and related town-gown agonistes)
Coterminus
Today we examine standards, codes and regulations that inform how educational settlement essential works interacts with host community infrastructure. Use the login credentials at the upper right of our home page.
Rules Can Outlive Their Wisdom
We pull forward yesterday’s discussion of policy accumulation, which occurs when institutions (read: governments) become better at making rules than retiring them. At some point in the innovation arc some inventors and industries turn to government to make the market. An old story for the User Interest in the global standards system. Relevant to the present hysteria over artificial-intelligence hegemony. With a link to Queen Victoria’s “Act for regulating the Gauge of Railways” (1846).
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.
Land Measurement
The Morrill Land-Grant Act of 1862 granted each state 30,000 acres of federal land for each member of Congress from that state to establish colleges that would teach agriculture, engineering, and military tactics. This legislation led to the establishment of many public universities, including the Texas A&M University, the University of Wisconsin and Michigan State University.
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.
Joint Use of Electric Power Transmission & Distribution Facilities and Equipment
We follow concepts tracking in this draft standard that may be incorporated by reference in the 2023 National Electrical Safety Code and the 2026 National Electrical Code; both of which inform decisions made by local and state energy regulators with oversight over the "cities-within-cities" which educational settlements in the United States often are.