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“The gentle spring rain fell, washing away the last traces of winter and promising new growth.” -- (George Eliot, 'Middlemarch' 1872)
University of Washington | King County -
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“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn” — Hal Borland ('Sundial of the Seasons' 1964)
University of Kansas | Douglas County -
"It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade." — Charles Dickens (1860 'Great Expectations')
King's College Cambridge -
ALWAYS ON
Fish and Chips and the British Working Class
“They serve fish here with a side of potatoes so greasy you could lubricate a steamboat with them. I asked for a fork, and they laughed me out of the pub.”-- Mark Twain ('A Tramp Abroad' 1880)
Spring Break
About how one Michigan Agricultural College Professor singlehandedly started spring break.
Six Week Priority
For the entirety of March, and until April 9th, we focus on preparing response to proposed changes to the IEEE 2028 National Electrical Safety Code, and to prepare fresh new ideas for the 2028 NFPA National Electrical Code. Topics coverage normally scheduled for this time of year will be accessible but our daily online meetings will start with work on those two standards. To join the "code-writing and vote-getting" use the login credentials at the upper right of our home page.
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 16:00 UTC. Recommend refresh of this web page once or twice to see timeliest information.
Bucolia 400
(OED adj. pl.) "pastoral, relating to country life or the affairs and occupations of a shepherd," 1610s, earlier bucolical (1520s), from Latin bucolicus, from Greek boukolikos "pastoral, rustic," from boukolos "cowherd, herdsman," from bous "cow" (from PIE root *gwou- "ox, bull, cow") + -kolos "tending," related to Latin colere "to till (the ground), cultivate, dwell, inhabit" (from PIE root *kwel- (1) "revolve, move round; sojourn, dwell").
Current Issues & Recent Research
We examine the proposals for the 2028 National Electrical Safety Code; including our own. Public comment on proposed changes will be received until March 24th. The 2026 National Electrical Code which has recently been released for public use (public input on the 2029 revision will be received until April 9, 2026).
Communication in the Presence of Noise
A method is developed for representing any communication system geometrically. Messages and the corresponding signals are points in two "function spaces," and the modulation process is a mapping of one space into the other. Using this representation, a number of results in communication theory are deduced concerning expansion and compression of bandwidth and the threshold effect. (Claude Shannon, University of Michigan, "Father of the Information Age")
2028 National Electrical Safety Code
Today we review the 15 comments on proposed revisions we submitted to the IEEE Standards Association yesterday.