ALWAYS ON
Red, White and Blue Smoothie
“Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.” — Sam Keen
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.
Water and Fire
Standards covering the two primal elements bookending our daily rebirth.
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.
Morrill Land-Grant Act
Partisans of Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan" have metastasized in education settlements; many in land-grant universities established by Abraham Lincoln in 1862. Today at 15:00 UTC we reflect upon the original inspiration for public higher education in the United States--to "settle" the American West and to groom succeeding generations of farmers and engineers often harassed by battalions of meeting-goers, administrative busybodies and muckety-mucks afflicted with climate psychosis.
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.
S. 542: English Language Unity Act of 2025
Should Large Language Models Speak Standard English? Who is writing the English that AI will learn?