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“Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people.
Let your memory be your travel bag.”
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (From “The Gulag Archipelago”)
Today we explain our collaboration with other education settlements in the US and other nations. We conform to participation requirements set by ANSI US Technical Advisory Groups to the International Organization for Standardization but we also have liaison with other universities in the European Union who conform to the participation requirements of their own national standards bodies.
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Around the world – André Henri Dargelas, 1860 pic.twitter.com/u9SgXbEHsU
— Muse (@xmuse_) March 7, 2026
Don’t say ‘right-wing’, say ‘pattern recognizer’ https://t.co/0s5FNnlCOB pic.twitter.com/s0YuVy4jw6
— 𝒩𝒶𝓉𝒶𝓁𝒾𝒶 (@classicspilled) November 3, 2025
Happy #WorldStandardsDay! 🎉
Standards connect people, systems and nations — building trust through quality.
This year we focus on SDG 17: Partnerships for the Goals 🤝🌎
Together, we raise standards for a better world.#BSJ #WorldStandardsDay2025 #StandardsInAction #SDG17 pic.twitter.com/vWKHGW75p4
— Bureau of Standards (@StandardsJa) October 14, 2025
New Modern Methods of Construction Toolkit from the NSAI!
For helpful guides, practical resources and free tools, access NSAI’s #MMC toolkit for the Irish construction industry at https://t.co/X8zPrOoSaw
In support of the government’s Housing for All strategy, the goal of… pic.twitter.com/Oyyt3LOq6z
— NSAI (@NSAI_Standards) June 26, 2025
17 equations that changed the world pic.twitter.com/69jV97p8mM
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) December 21, 2024
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On Bastille Day, I have to say I really think that the French Revolution unleashed far more evil and horror on the world than it purported to solve due to class inequalities. pic.twitter.com/QVm3g0lICT
— Don Shift (buy my books) (@DonShift3) July 14, 2025
✨ Révision de la norme ISO 9001 : Saint-Denis, centre des échanges internationaux !
Nous avons eu le privilège d’accueillir dans les locaux d’AFNOR 45 experts venus des cinq continents pour coécrire la future version de la norme ISO 9001. pic.twitter.com/vyMBoMFHBX
— AFNOR (@AFNOR) April 8, 2025
“If you steal from one person that is plagiarism.
If you steal from many people, that is research”
Missed it live? We planned for that!
At a recent USPTO Hour, America’ Branding Agency dives into how name, image, likeness (NIL) connects with branding and trademarks – on the field, off the field, and everywhere between.
Catch the recording here: https://t.co/b3fh7aVOy7 pic.twitter.com/gvgn5HCJmH
— USPTO (@uspto) February 25, 2026
Chronicle of Higher Education: The Campus Cold War — Faculty vs. Administrators
Innovation – Standardization – Commoditization run along a continuum. Today we unpack some of the ideas that hasten (and prohibit) leading practice discovery; how quickly goods and services become a “human right”; why all of this is relevant to education communities and why some believe that commoditization is a myth.
From the Wikipedia
In business literature, commoditization is defined as the process by which goods that have economic value and are distinguishable in terms of attributes (uniqueness or brand) end up becoming simple commodities in the eyes of the market or consumers. It is the movement of a market from differentiated to undifferentiated price competition and from monopolistic competition to perfect competition. Hence, the key effect of commoditization is that the pricing power of the manufacturer or brand owner is weakened: when products become more similar from a buyer’s point of view, they will tend to buy the cheapest.
Related:
Why High-Tech Commoditization Is Accelerating
After months of hard work, the top five teams met at USPTO headquarters today for the final round of the 2025 National Patent Application Drafting Competition. 🏆 And the winners are … ⬇️
🥇 First place — @UofMNLawSchool pic.twitter.com/uwNSJR0oBy
— USPTO (@uspto) April 4, 2025
From creating a race car safety device that protects drivers from injury to revolutionizing chemotherapy, Spartans have contributed to more than 3,300 inventions. #SpartansWill pic.twitter.com/dchCs0BFBx
— MSU (@michiganstateu) February 21, 2025
For 58 years, 7-Eleven has been protecting its iconic semi-frozen soft drink, the Slurpee. But it doesn’t stop there. The store has more than 200 registered trademarks to protect its goods and services, including “Oh thank Heaven for 7-Eleven” in 1978 and “Brainfreeze” in 1993. pic.twitter.com/b9bkkcijGg
— USPTO (@uspto) July 11, 2025
Morgensang (morning song) is a longstanding custom in Danish folk high schools (højskoler). Students and staff gather early to sing folk songs, hymns, and traditional tunes together before breakfast. This builds community and reflects the educational philosophy of N.F.S. Grundtvig, emphasizing song as part of “life awakening.” It has influenced similar practices elsewhere in the United States; in rural North Carolina, for example.
The annual sports moratorium week, often called Dead Week or the Summer Dead Period, is a longstanding tradition observed by many American high schools during late June or early July. Established by state athletic associations, it temporarily suspends organized practices, workouts, camps, and coach-directed activities.
The tradition reflects the belief that interscholastic athletics should complement, rather than dominate, family and community life. During the moratorium, student-athletes are encouraged to rest, recover from the demands of summer conditioning, spend time with family, take vacations, or simply enjoy an unstructured week before preseason preparations begin. Coaches likewise receive a welcome pause before the demanding fall season.
Coming just before football, soccer, volleyball, cross-country, and marching band practices begin in late July or early August, the moratorium serves as a symbolic transition from summer recreation to the disciplined routines of a new academic and athletic year.
A Sunday kind of love with Virginia Belles 🧡 pic.twitter.com/c85UgJVjRN
— UVA (@UVA) April 5, 2026
New update alert! The 2022 update to the Trademark Assignment Dataset is now available online. Find 1.29 million trademark assignments, involving 2.28 million unique trademark properties issued by the USPTO between March 1952 and January 2023: https://t.co/njrDAbSpwB pic.twitter.com/GkAXrHoQ9T
— USPTO (@uspto) July 13, 2023
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