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Dining options available for Passover https://t.co/U2l5xxJwSv

— Standards Michigan (@StandardsMich) April 2, 2026

Practical Jokes 2026

Matthew Weathers Happy Easter@biolau https://t.co/ewgpOJHO8n pic.twitter.com/ogfnMSO2tb

— Standards Michigan (@StandardsMich) March 30, 2024

Math Professor Fixes Projector Screen

Binary Test Result

Quick Adjustment

"King Lear and the Fool in the Storm" 1850 | William Dyce@NatGalleriesSco
"Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise." | (Act 1, Scene 5, King Lear)https://t.co/OKq2OaqDVV https://t.co/oME0YrsVjy pic.twitter.com/o7YEu5MefW

— Standards Michigan (@StandardsMich) April 4, 2024

Keeping MIT Weird

Fake Professor

“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.”@Quora https://t.co/I6ofX6a28k
"Stańczyk" 1862 Jan Matejkohttps://t.co/kYi25DHgzw pic.twitter.com/kQHXzVIh0T

— Standards Michigan (@StandardsMich) March 31, 2021

Gallery: Doctoral Dissertations, et al

Chapel Prank

Practical Jokes 2026

Blanchard Hall 1858

Edman Memorial Chapel

Capital Improvement Plan | 2022-2026

Illinois

Gallery: Doctoral Dissertations, et al

Sketchy:

Dr. Jill Jacobs-Biden: Student Retention at the Community College: Meeting Student’s Needs

Michelle Obama: Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community

Dr. Claudine Gay: Taking charge: Black electoral success and the redefinition of American politics

Ibram X. Kendi (Henry Rogers): The Black Campus Movement: An Afrocentric Narrative History of the Struggle to Diversify Higher Education, 1965-1972

Hilary Clinton: There is Only the Fight…

Not Sketchy:

Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Comparison of the Conceptions of God in the Thinking of Paul Tillich and Henry Nelson Wieman

John Kennedy: Appeasement at Munich

Janet Yellen: Employment, Output and Capital Accumulation in an Open Economy: A Disequilibrium Approach.

John Nash: Non-Cooperative Games

Reflections / John Nash

Alma Adams (D-NC, US House)

Multicultural attitudes and teacher performance in art classrooms in the southwestern city schools of Franklin County /

Jamaal Bowman (D-NY, US House, until 2024)

“Community Schools: The Perceptions and Practices that Foster Broad-Based Collaboration among Leaders within the Community School.”

Raphael Warnock (D-GA, US Senate)

“Churchmen, Church Martyrs: The Activist Ecclesiologies of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Martin Luther King, Jr.”

John Walsh (former Democratic US Senator, Montana)

How Senator John Walsh Plagiarized a Final Paper

“The Crisis in Higher Ed & Why Universities Still Matter”

Knighted by His Royal Highness Prince Charles in 2019 for his contributions in the field of supercritical fluids, the the International Year of the Periodic Table — Professor Sir Martyn Poliakoff – explains how to pair frozen carbon dioxide with hot green tea.

Castle Meadow Campus History

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The University of Nottingham recorded an adjusted deficit of £85.3 million in 2024/25, largely due to falling international student numbers and major asset impairments. To survive financially without relying on imported international students, the university must focus on domestic growth, cost control, and revenue diversification.

Key measures include expanding home student recruitment through more accessible programmes, online and distance learning, and partnerships with colleges — all within current tuition fee caps. It should grow research income via grants, industry collaborations, and commercial spin-offs. Its international campuses in China and Malaysia can continue generating transnational education revenue without bringing students to the UK.

Significant cost savings are essential through staff restructuring, course rationalisation, estate consolidation (including potential campus sales), and administrative efficiencies. These steps form part of the university’s “Future Nottingham” programme. Longer-term strategies involve increasing philanthropy, alumni donations, and executive education offerings.

While government reforms to domestic fees would help, true self-reliance demands leaner operations and stronger non-tuition income streams.

Relata: Is Europe Committing Suicide? Douglas Murray on the Great Derangement of the West

Tea Water & Scones

Malzkaffee

Chicory, surrogate and roasted coffee provide new insights into mechanisms of taste perception

Dr. Gisela Olias, Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit, TUM

In some Christian traditions, especially among Catholics who observe dietary restrictions during Lent, chicory root has been used as a caffeine-free substitute for coffee. It’s commonly consumed in Louisiana and parts of Europe.

The term “Muckefuck” (pronounced “Mook-eh-fook”) is a traditional German word for coffee substitutes, particularly those made from roasted chicory root, barley, or other grains. No joke! “Muckefuck” is a real historical term in Germany, and while it may sound funny to English speakers, it has nothing to do with profanity.

The word likely comes from a mix of French and German dialects. One theory is that it originates from the French phrase “mocca faux”, meaning “fake coffee” (literally, “false mocha”).
Over time, German pronunciation altered it into “Muckefuck”, referring to coffee substitutes made from chicory, barley, or other roasted grains.
It was commonly used in Prussia, Bavaria, and other German-speaking areas, especially during times of war or economic hardship when real coffee was unavailable.

While the word may raise eyebrows for English speakers, it’s completely innocent in German! If you prefer, you can simply ask for “Chicorée Kaffee” or “Malzkaffee” in Munich to avoid any awkward moments.

Coffee

Was it Normung?

New Faculty Aptitude Test

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Date & Time: Representations For Information Interchange

“A Philosopher Lecturing on the Orrery” | Joseph Wright (1766)

Most nations follow the day/month/year format (07/01/19 for January 7, 2019, for example), but the United States adheres to its own format of month/day/year (1/7/19 or 1/7/2019). The potential for misinterpreting dates across national boundaries is the logic for ISO 8601:2019 – Data Elements And Interchange Formats – Information Interchange – Representation Of Dates And Times, the ISO format for dates represents year, month, and day from the largest unit to the smallest, most specific unit of time. The ISO date format is the date format used in SQL and is the default date setting on many computers.

ISO 8601-1:2019 Date And Time – Representations For Information Interchange – Part 1: Basic Rules

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Time and Date

How the ISO Date Format Tells Today

ISO Date Format

Date and time formats used in HTML

Making Greenwich the centre of the world

Time & Frequency Services

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is responsible for maintaining and disseminating official time in the United States. While NIST does not have a direct role in implementing clock changes for daylight saving time, it does play an important role in ensuring that timekeeping systems across the country are accurate and consistent.

Prior to the implementation of daylight saving time, NIST issues public announcements reminding individuals and organizations to adjust their clocks accordingly. NIST also provides resources to help people synchronize their clocks, such as the time.gov website and the NIST radio station WWV.

In addition, NIST is responsible for developing and maintaining the atomic clocks that are used to define Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the international standard for timekeeping. UTC is used as the basis for all civil time in the United States, and it is the reference time used by many systems, including the Global Positioning System (GPS) and the internet.

Overall, while NIST does not have a direct role in implementing clock changes for daylight saving time, it plays an important role in ensuring that timekeeping systems across the country are accurate and consistent, which is essential for the smooth implementation of any changes to the system.

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Time Realization and Distribution

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“Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May” John Herrick | John William Waterhouse

“The Sound of Noon” on the Charlottesville Campus

University of New Hampshire

Good luck to all those helping to move their student in to UoB accommodation this weekend! It will be a busy time with lots of students moving in, but there will be lots of support on the day, so just ask!
There’s also lots to do on campus too so come along & have a wander around pic.twitter.com/xZHG3RA2z4

— Uni of Birmingham (@unibirmingham) September 21, 2024

Westminster Chimes at Rockefeller Memorial Chapel

University of Michigan

'Twas the night before the start of the fall semester. ⏰ pic.twitter.com/JZkLHr8xxQ

— Alumni Association of the University of Michigan (@michiganalumni) August 28, 2023