Tidbits on May 11, 2016 on the 10th Anniversary of My Retirement
Bob Jensen
at Trinity University
Set
1 of Photographs of My Texas Memories
www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/TexasMemories\Set01\Set01.htm
These photographs are more
personal than usual to celebrate the 527th edition of Tidbits
Tidbits on May 11, 2016
Bob Jensen
Bob Jensen's Tidbits ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm
For
earlier editions of Fraud Updates go to
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm
For earlier editions of New Bookmarks go to
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookurl.htm
Bookmarks for the World's Library ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Bob Jensen's past presentations and lectures
---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/resume.htm#Presentations
Bob Jensen's Threads ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/threads.htm
Bob Jensen's Home Page is at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/
More of Bob Jensen's Pictures and
Stories
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Pictures.htm
Updates from WebMD --- Click Here
Online Video, Slide Shows, and Audio
Antarctica: Love of a Cold Climate --- http://daily.jstor.org/antarctica-cold-love/
Mesmerizing Animation, Made of Photos from Early-1900s America, Lets You
Travel in a Steampunk Time Machine ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/04/the-old-new-world.html
How Ink is Made --- http://www.openculture.com/2016/04/how-ink-is-made-a-voluptuous-process-revealed-in-a-mouth-watering-video.html
In Search of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Secluded Hut in Norway: A Short Travel
Film ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/04/in-search-of-ludwig-wittgensteins-secluded-hut-in-norway-a-short-travel-film.html
Watch Animated Introductions to 25 Philosophers by The School of Life: From
Plato to Kant and Foucault ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/04/animated-introductions-to-25-philosophers-by-the-school-of-life.html
Free music downloads ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/music.htm
In the past I've provided links to various types of music and video available
free on the Web.
I created a page that summarizes those various links ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/music.htm
Hear Prince and Miles Davis’ Rarely-Heard Musical Collaborations
---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/04/hear-prince-and-miles-davis-rarely-heard-musical-collaborations.html
What Makes the Stradivarius Special? It Was Designed to Sound
Like a Female Soprano Voice, With Notes Sounding Like Vowels, Says Researcher
---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/04/what-makes-the-stradivarius-special-it-was-designed-to-sound-like-a-female-soprano-voice.html
The Nostalgia Machine --- http://thenostalgiamachine.com/years/1960.html
Web outfits like
Pandora, Foneshow, Stitcher, and Slacker broadcast portable and mobile content
that makes Sirius look overpriced and stodgy ---
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/mar2009/tc20090327_877363.htm?link_position=link2
Pandora (my favorite online music station) ---
www.pandora.com
TheRadio (online music site) ---
http://www.theradio.com/
Slacker (my second-favorite commercial-free online music site) ---
http://www.slacker.com/
Gerald Trites likes this
international radio site ---
http://www.e-radio.gr/
Songza:
Search for a song or band and play the selection ---
http://songza.com/
Also try Jango ---
http://www.jango.com/?r=342376581
Sometimes this old guy prefers the jukebox era (just let it play through) ---
http://www.tropicalglen.com/
And I listen quite often to Soldiers Radio Live ---
http://www.army.mil/fieldband/pages/listening/bandstand.html
Also note U.S. Army Band recordings
---
http://bands.army.mil/music/default.asp
Bob Jensen's threads on nearly all types of free
music selections online ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Music.htm
Photographs and Art
Discover Harvard’s Collection of 2,500 Pigments: Preserving the
World’s Rare, Wonderful Colors ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/04/harvards-collection-of-2500-pigments.html
Leonardo Da Vinci, Artist/Scientist ---
http://daily.jstor.org/leonardo-da-vinci-artist-scientist/
National Portrait Gallery: First Ladies --- http://npg.si.edu/portraits/collection-highlights/first-ladies
Who Doesn't Like National Parks? (probably people who can't
stand crowds) ---
http://daily.jstor.org/who-doesnt-like-national-parks/
We need more national parks!
These are all the planes in the US Air Force ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/all-the-planes-in-us-air-force-2016-5
What Happens When a Japanese Woodblock Artist Depicts Life in
London in 1866, Despite Never Having Set Foot There ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/05/japanese-woodblock-artist-depicts-life-in-london-in-1866.html
NYPL Digital Collections: Birds of America ---
http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/birds-of-america-from-drawings-made-in-the-united-states-and-their-territories
The 597-mile train ride from Shanghai to Tianjin ---
http://daily.jstor.org/why-do-we-travel/
Awesome Photo Link Forwarded by Paula Ward ---
https://docs.google.com/
26 architectural masterpieces everyone should see in their
lifetime ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/26-architectural-masterpieces-everyone-should-see-2016-4
LEARN NC: World War I Propaganda Posters --- http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/ww1posters
Duke University Libraries: Alex Harris Photographs --- https://repository.lib.duke.edu/dc/alexharris
The Duke Chronicle --- http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/dukechronicle/
Bob Jensen's threads on art history ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm#ArtHistory
Bob Jensen's threads on history, literature and art ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#History
Online Books, Poems, References, and Other Literature
In the past I've provided links to various
types electronic literature available free on the Web.
I created a page that summarizes those various links ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm
Bob Jensen's threads on libraries --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm#---Libraries
Franz Kafka: An Animated Introduction to His Literary Genius ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/04/franz-kafka-an-animated-introduction-to-his-literary-genius.html
David Foster Wallace Reads Franz Kafka’s Short Story “A
Little Fable” (and Explains Why Comedy Is Key to Kafka) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/02/david-foster-wallace-reads-franz-kafkas-short-story-a-little-fable.html
From the Fishouse (poetry) --- http://www.fishousepoems.org/
Poem in Your Pocket Day ---
https://www.poets.org/national-poetry-month/poem-your-pocket-day
Seven Favorite Flower Poems ---
http://daily.jstor.org/seven-favorite-flower-poems/
Peter Balakian: Winner 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry ---
http://daily.jstor.org/peter-balakian-pulizter-prize-poetry/
Thousands of Links to Shakespeare --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm#---Shakespeare
Othello: A Teachers Guide --- http://www.penguin.com/static/pdf/teachersguides/othello.pdf
Shakespeare Documented --- http://www.shakespearedocumented.org
Sir Ian McKellen Releases New Apps to Make Shakespeare’s Plays More Enjoyable
& Accessible ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/05/sir-ian-mckellen-releases-new-apps-to-make-shakespeares-plays-more-enjoyable-accessible.html
T.S. Eliot Reads From “The Waste Land,” “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
& “The Hollow Men”: His Apocalyptic Post WWI Poems ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/05/t-s-eliot-reads-from-the-waste-land-the-love-song-of-j-alfred-prufrock-the-hollow-men.html
T.S. Eliot Reads Old Possum’s Book
of Practical Cats & Other Classic Poems (75 Minutes, 1955)
---
http://www.openculture.com/2014/07/t-s-eliot-reads-old-possums-book-of-practical-cats-other-classic-poems.html
Free Shakespeare Tutorials --- https://www.playshakespeare.com/
Read All of Shakespeare’s Plays Free Online,
Courtesy of the Folger Shakespeare Library ---
http://www.openculture.com/2014/03/read-all-of-shakespeares-plays-free-online-courtesy-of-the-folger-shakespeare-library.html
Listen to Orson Welles’ Classic Radio
Performance of 10 Shakespeare Plays ---
http://www.openculture.com/2014/03/listen-to-orson-welles-classic-radio-performance-of-10-shakespeare-plays.html
Download Great Works by Sigmund Freud as Free eBooks & Free Audio
Books: A Digital Celebration on His 160th Birthday ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/05/download-great-works-by-sigmund-freud-as-free-ebooks-free-audio-books.html
Little Fiction --- http://www.littlefiction.com/
Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America --- http://www.sfwa.org/
Free Electronic Literature ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm
Free Online Textbooks, Videos, and Tutorials ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm#Textbooks
Free Tutorials in Various Disciplines ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#Tutorials
Edutainment and Learning Games ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm#Edutainment
Open Sharing Courses ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
Now in
Another Tidbits Document
Political Quotations on May 11, 2016
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/2016/TidbitsQuotations051116.htm
U.S. National Debt Clock ---
http://www.usdebtclock.org/
Also see
http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/
National debt
just reached a record $19 trillion (plus over #100 trillion in unbooked
entitlements burdening future generations in the USA)
Martin Matishak and Eric
Pianin, The Fiscal Times
http://www.businessinsider.com/national-debt-reaches-record-19-trillion-2016-2
Bob Jensen's threads on entitlements
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Entitlements.htm
Entitlements are two-thirds of the federal budget.
Entitlement spending has grown 100-fold over the past 50 years. Half of all
American households now rely on government handouts. When we hear statistics
like that, most of us shake our heads and mutter some sort of expletive. That’s
because nobody thinks they’re the problem. Nobody ever wants to think they’re
the problem. But that’s not the truth. The truth is, as long as we continue to
think of the rising entitlement culture in America as someone else’s problem,
someone else’s fault, we’ll never truly understand it and we’ll have absolutely
zero chance...
Steve Tobak ---
http://www.foxbusiness.com/business-leaders/2013/02/07/truth-behind-our-entitlement-culture/?intcmp=sem_outloud
Peter G. Peterson Website on Deficit/Debt Solutions ---
http://www.pgpf.org/
Bob Jensen's threads on entitlements --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Entitlements.htm
Bob Jensen's health care messaging updates --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Health.htm
2016 Best Credit Cards --- Click Here
"Coalition Application Releases First Essay Prompts," Inside Higher
Ed, April 25, 2016 ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2016/04/25/coalition-application-releases-first-essay-prompts?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=8d172ea7e0-DNU20160425&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-8d172ea7e0-197565045
Jensen Comment
These essay prompts are aimed at teenage writers. However, it struck me how some
of the prompts are interesting challenges for writers at any age.
Some of the prompts could also be aimed at specific challenges in a schlar's academic specialty such as:
Has there been a time when you’ve had a long-cherished or accepted belief challenged?
How did you respond?
How did the challenge affect your beliefs?
To this we might add:
When and how did some events change your long-held beliefs?
Was there a key difference between long-held personal beliefs versus long-held professional beliefs?
My experience with blogging and listserv activism is that professors in our Academy rarely change long-held beliefs except when there are new and compelling discoveries. It would be interesting to catalog some of the new and compelling discoveries that changed beliefs of those of us who are stubborn about doing so.
Sometimes we can be proud of our stubbornness.
For example, since I graduated from college decades ago I've been critical of
accountics science and now find pride that current professionals are at last
changing their beliefs. I like to think I played a small role in this change
taking place at last, albeit ever so slowly, in accountics science. ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm#WhatWentWrong
Sometimes we can be proud of our willingness to change.
For example, in spite of my closeness to
Bob Sterling since we were in college students together I've tended to be
against exit or entry value measurements of values in a going concern as
substitutes for the non-measurable value in use. I've also been opposed to
mixed-model valuations that combine traditional accrual historical cost
measurements with exit-entry valuations. However, the monumental rise of
derivative financial instruments and hedging activities in the 1980s that
triggered FAS 133 totally changed my long-held stubborn resistance to
introducing more mixed value measurements into traditional financial reporting.
I might even say that derivative financial instruments
changed my professional life profoundly as I increasingly specialized in
accounting for derivative financial instruments at hedging activities ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/caseans/000index.htm
On a personal level, my beliefs changed when I met two males who underwent
transgender realignment surgery. I only met one of these persons (Dierdre
McCluskey) face-to-face one time when I was a discussant of her plenary
session presentation, but her writings before and after that encounter changed
my beliefs about the ultimate transgendering surgery. What I learned to respect
is the profound courage it takes to undergo such surgery in the face of all the
obstacles that follow such as the great loneliness and isolation that often
accompanies such surgery. I learned more about this lineliness and isolation
from a friend in our church ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Arwen.htm
The Future Is ‘Bleak’ For Law Students And Law School Graduates ---
http://abovethelaw.com/2016/05/the-future-is-bleak-for-law-students-and-law-school-graduates/?rf=1
Legal education has been getting bad press since the start of the Great Recession, and perhaps for good reason. While tuition skyrocketed, often leaving graduates with six-figure debt loads, quality job prospects seemingly disappeared. The jobs that were left had salaries that were too low to service those graduates’ tremendous debt loads. Prospective law students began to hear about new lawyers’ joblessness and indebtedness, and stopped applying. This prompted many law schools to lower their admissions standards in the hope of filling their seats. This, in turn, brought about wave after wave of record-setting failure rates on bar exams nationwide.
Now that class sizes are smaller, employment statistics seem to look “better,” and law school administrators across the country have started spreading the word that law school is once more a good investment. But is it really?
Law students and graduates have started using Whisper, an anonymous messaging service, to tell the world about legal education and what it has done to them. These messages are representative of the general tone of posts having to do with law school.
Continued in article
Whisper --- https://whisper.sh/
Also see ---
Jensen Comment
This is bad news for humanities graduates because so many majors in the
humanities are planning to go to law schools.
Bob Jensen's threads on the decline of law schools and decline of
opportunity for law school graduates ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/higHerEdControversies.htm#OverstuffedLawSchools
May 8, 2016 from Shari Albright
Although law as a profession is in a downturn right now, we are standing on the brink of a significant national teacher shortage, and Trinity just launched a new, highly selective urban teacher residency program that makes the Master of Arts in Teaching degree very attractive and affordable. It offers a paid internship, a generous fellowship toward tuition, a guaranteed teaching position upon completion and a starting salary of $53,000+. Teaching and helping to shape the next generation of students is a perfect way to build upon a Humanities degree from Trinity (or elsewhere). Please share the news of the teacher residency program with students or alums that you think might be great teachers.
MIT: Seven Must-Read Stories (Week Ending April 30, 2016) ---
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601357/seven-must-read-stories-week-ending-april-30-2016/
Women ranked a favorable
social status for their partner more highly in 2008 than in 1939. Interestingly,
men rated a woman’s desire for home and children and good cooking and
housekeeping more highly over time — perhaps because these qualities were no
longer taken for granted in a wife.
"What men and women wanted in a spouse in 1939 —
and how different it is today," by Ana Swanson,
The Washington Post, April 19, 2016 ---
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/04/19/what-men-and-women-wanted-in-a-spouse-in-1939-and-how-different-it-is-today/
Jensen Comment
This falls into my "How to Mislead With Statistics" Department. The reason is
that marriage in 1939 is not the same as marriage in 2008 --- largely due to the
important impact birth control had upon living relationships between males and
females. For example, it's now common for "significant other relationships" to
lead to marriage relationships only when the couple elects to start having
children. Thus, it's really not surprising that a woman's "desire for home and
children" increased in importance as a marriage condition in 2008 relative to
1939. In other words a couple in a long-term unmarried relationship has less
incentive for marriage in 2008 until they plan to have children.
My point is that comparing a "marriage" in 2008 with a "marriage" in 1939 is a lot like comparing apples and lemons. They are not the same
Another Hate Crime
Hoax
on Campus (five black students admit to hoax) ---
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/christinerousselle/2016/04/28/another-hate-crime-hoax-on-campus-n2155049?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=
Still Another Hate Crime
Hoax
SUNY Albany Expels 2, Suspends
1 Over False Report ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2016/05/06/suny-albany-expels-2-suspends-1-over-false-report?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=c27b501700-DNU20160506&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-c27b501700-197565045
Dissecting One (Extremely Boring) College Lecture ---
http://chronicle.com/article/Dissecting-One-Extremely/236271?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=7f3caf3cbc764848b8238a506ac349b3&elq=22a5e6fe2232405db9f332992f0a5a77&elqaid=8861&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=3014
New Words in the 2016 Merriam-Webster Dictionary ---
http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/new-words-in-the-2016-merriam-webster-update?utm_source=GG20160503&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=grammargirl
Definitions are elaborated upon in Wikipedia ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
The 50 Most Influential Gadgets of Our Time ---
http://time.com/4309573/most-influential-gadgets/?xid=newsletter-brief
Bob Jensen's threads on gadgets ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob4.htm#Technology
Michael Lewis ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Lewis
Especially note his impressive list of books exposing frauds and deceptions
"The Book That Will Save Banking From Itself,"
by Michael Lewis, Bloomberg, May 5, 2016 ---
http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-05-05/the-book-that-will-save-banking-from-itself?cmpid=BBD050516_BIZ&utm_campaign=&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter
Learning From My Teaching Mistakes ---
https://chroniclevitae.com/news/1371-learning-from-my-teaching-mistakes?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=9e28f94fbd6f4f798e293113ac83d388&elq=fd8123ae34d94b8bbd438b0f3acf15e4&elqaid=8833&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=2992
How Harvard Became Harvard ---
http://daily.jstor.org/how-harvard-became-harvard/
The best free online business courses from prestigious starting online in
May 2016 ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-best-free-online-business-courses-starting-in-may-2016-5
Bob Jensen's threads on free MOOCs for non-credit and fee-based credits for
taking MOOCs ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
Those Cities Now Offering "Free Community College" Place Cost-Saving and
Capacity-Saving Restrictions on the Plans
The most common condition is that students getting free tuition must be
graduates of local high schools
Boston Starts Free Community College Program ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2016/05/02/boston-starts-free-community-college-program?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=19ef10994c-DNU20160502&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-19ef10994c-197565045
"Should Everyone Go to College?," by Scott Carlson, Chronicle of
Higher Education, May 1, 2016 ---
http://chronicle.com/article/Should-Everyone-Go-to-College-/236316?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=22a9e559c87d48378974547afb427a62&elq=0ce71537bc894cb8a3f7ee33b218ead9&elqaid=8888&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=3032
Jensen Comment
The USA already ranks high in terms of college graduates.
Countries with the highest proportions of college graduates ---
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/22/countries-with-the-most-c_n_655393.html#s117378&title=Russian_Federation_54
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- Russian Federation 54.0% (quality varies due to rampant cheating and corruption where students can buy course grades and admission)
- Canada 48.3% (shares grade inflation problems with the USA)
- Israel 43.6%
- Japan 41.0%
- New Zealand 41.0%
- United States 40.3% (colleges vary greatly in terms of admissions standards and rigor for graduation)
- Finland 36.4%
- South Korea 34.3%
- Norway 34.2%
- Australia 33.7%
South Korea purportedly has raised the level considerably since the above data was collected. But the quality is questionable and a report suggests that average college graduates earn less than those who get college degrees ---
http://chronicle.com/article/When-Everyone-Goes-to-College-/236313?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=45f48280adb4433a86597f3919a5bb4d&elq=0ce71537bc894cb8a3f7ee33b218ead9&elqaid=8888&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=3032
Germany is still under the OECD average in terms of proportions of college graduates at 23.9% ---
http://andrewhammel.typepad.com/german_joys/2010/09/education-governments-should-expand-tertiary-studies-to-boost-jobs-and-tax-revenues.html .
One of the major reasons admission to German schools is elitist is that free education is expensive to taxpayers. In 2009 the Berlin Senate decided that Berlin's universities should no longer be allowed to pick all of their students. It was ruled that while they would be able to pick approximately 70% of their students with the remaining 30% allocated by lottery. Every child is able to enter the lottery, no matter how he or she performed in primary school. It is hoped that this policy will increase the number of working class students attending a university.
A common myth is that nations that tightly restrict free college to the intellectual elite provide other forms (learning vocational trades) of free tertiary education.
OECD Study Published in 2014: List of countries by 25- to 34-year-olds having a tertiary education degree ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_25-_to_34-year-olds_having_a_tertiary_education_degree
No nation provides more than Israel's 49% of free tertiary (trade training or college education) to more than Israel's 49% funded by taxpayers.
Higher levels of learning in the trades is provided by apprenticeships where employers foot all or most of the charges rather than taxpayers.
"What Can the U.S. Learn From Switzerland, a World Leader in
Apprenticeships? by Kelly Field, Chronicle of Higher Education, May
02, 2016 ---
http://chronicle.com/article/What-Can-the-US-Learn-From/236323?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=ed4c1ab9aec74f92be12624885801484&elq=0ce71537bc894cb8a3f7ee33b218ead9&elqaid=8888&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=3032
"Should Everyone Go to College?," by Scott Carlson, Chronicle of
Higher Education, May 1, 2016 ---
“Stop
Students Who Cheat Before They Become Cheating Professors,” by Brigitte
Vittrup, Chronicle of Higher Education, Chronicle of Higher Education,
April 27, 2016 ---
http://chronicle.com/article/Stop-Students-Who-Cheat-Before/236269?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=9d6f70becfb5425095564a6ba21c48fa&elq=22a5e6fe2232405db9f332992f0a5a77&elqaid=8861&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=3014
It happened again. At the end of last semester, I was faced with not one but three incidents of cheating in my doctoral-level courses.
Since becoming a college professor nine years ago, I unfortunately have not had many semesters without any incidents of academic dishonesty. To this day, I still dread having those uncomfortable meetings with the students as much as I did in the beginning. However, it is my ethical responsibility to deal with it rather than ignore it.
Colleges across the nation are facing a rise in academic dishonesty among students, and research shows that close to half of all college students — both undergraduate and graduate — admit to cheating on exams or papers. Thus, higher education is a prime training ground for faculty and administrators who want experience dealing with academic dishonesty.
College students cheat because they experience competitive pressures, perceive unfair grading, see others do it, and don’t think they will get caught. In fact, there is evidence that many of those who cheat do so because they have done it before and gotten away with it. Research shows that students who get away with cheating in high school are more likely to continue the practice in college and in the workplace.
As college professors, we have an opportunity — and an obligation — to interrupt this trajectory of cheating before it moves from the classroom to the professional world. Because so many doctoral students stay in higher education, going to the professional world often means becoming a researcher or professor at a college or university. And as we have all seen, incidents of cheating by professors really hurt the reputation of science and academe.
Recently, Matthew Whitaker, a history professor at Arizona State University, agreed to resign his tenured faculty position amid accusations of plagiarism for a second time. Other examples include Marc Hauser, who altered data in his research on language and cognition in monkeys, Anil Potti, who altered experimental data in his cancer research, and Mustapha Marrouchi, who included plagiarized material in the majority of his publications.
Research on why professors cheat tells us that most often it is the competition in the field and the pressure to publish. I also believe that a driving force behind the dishonest behavior among professors and scientists is that they have cheated before and gotten away with it.
Thus, college professors and administrators have an important obligation to interfere with the potential trajectory of cheating from undergraduate education to graduate education and into the professional world, which includes the world of academe. Unfortunately, when it comes to academic dishonesty, many professors choose to deny the incidents or look the other way.
When I was in graduate school, I worked as a teaching assistant, and one semester while proctoring an exam, I caught a student cheating. She had brought detailed notes into a closed-book exam and was hiding them under her exam sheet. I dismissed her from the exam and went to discuss it with the professor in charge of the class, a respected senior professor in the department. He told me to let it go. He said if we reported it, we would have to go to a university hearing, and it would be a big mess that neither of us would want to deal with.
I struggled with the moral dilemma of that incident for a long time. I started to wonder if that was how most professors handled these unethical transgressions. Anecdotal evidence has since then shown me that unfortunately, such a reaction — or rather, lack of action — is not uncommon.
Research confirms this. In a study by Arthur Coren, 40 percent of faculty members admitted that they had ignored student cheating at least once. The most common reasons were lack of proof, lack of time or energy to deal with the incident, and not wanting to confront the student, fearing an emotionally charged meeting.
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Professors and Teachers Who Let Students Cheat ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Plagiarism.htm#RebeccaHoward
Professors and Teachers Who Plagiarize and/or Otherwise Cheat ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Plagiarism.htm#ProfessorsWhoPlagiarize
Professors Who Fabricate Research Outcomes and Research Reviews ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Plagiarism.htm#ProfessorsWhoFabricate
Colleges That Cheat ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Plagiarism.htm#CollegesThatCheat
Only in the USA (a nation that houses 80% of the world's lawyers, or so I
once read somewhere that I cannot recall)
"The (Many) Reasons People Have Sued Starbucks,"
by Ryan Bort, Newsweek, May 6, 2016 ---
http://www.newsweek.com/starbucks-lawsuits-list-456294
You may have heard by now that last week someone filed a lawsuit against Starbucks for, essentially, putting ice in their iced drinks. Yes, Stacy Pincus of Chicago is suing the coffee chain for $5 million, claiming that it is not delivering the advertised number of fluid ounces of beverage to their paying customers. Starbucks lists a Venti iced drink as containing 24 fluid ounces. When ice is taken into account, however, thirsty customer like Pincus are only able to down around 14 fluid ounces of 'Bucks, while the rest of the cup is occupied by worthless frozen water.
"Starbucks' advertising practices are clearly meant to mislead consumers when combined with the standard practice of filling a cold drink cup with far less liquid than the cup can hold," says the lawsuit. "If Starbucks truly intended to provide the amount of fluid ounces in its Cold Drinks that it advertises, there would be simple ways to do so."
Starbucks responded by calling the lawsuit frivolous. "Our customers understand and expect that ice is an essential component of any 'iced' beverage," said a company spokesperson. "If a customer is not satisfied with their beverage preparation, we will gladly remake it."
This is of course only one of many, many lawsuits that have been filed against Starbucks since the coffee giant rose to prominence in the '90s. Some, like this one, are ridiculous, filed by consumers looking for a handout from a too-big-to-fail corporation that dispenses million-dollar settlements around like grande drips. But upon looking into the full list of suits brought against the company, it's clear that most are indicative of the pitfalls inherent in operating a corporation so large, with so many employees, not all of whom are model citizens. There are discrimination suits, sexual harassment suits and suits that result from freak accidents that enterprising lawyers are able to attribute to company negligence.
Taken together, the cases paint an interesting picture of the kinds of issues, ranging from the mundane to the exotic, that corporations face in an imperfect (and often quite litigious) country. Let's take a look:
Discrimination
Discrimination is the bread and butter of litigation against a corporate entity, and you bet there have been plenty of charges levied against Starbucks. In 2013, a group of 12 deaf people sued the company after a Manhattan location not only refused them service, but mocked them and called the police in an effort to get them kicked out of the store…which isn't even the only example of the chain discriminating against the hearing impaired. In 2015, a former barista sued Starbucks after saying she wasn't provided with sign language interpreters and other "reasonable accommodations" while she was employed.
Starbucks has also been sued for ageism, dwarf discrimination, tip discrimination, discrimination against a guy with half an arm, dyslexia discrimination, refusing to let someone with a prosthetic leg use the bathroom and telling a gay Brazilian porn star to "become a man."
Hidden Camera in the Bathroom
While taking his daughter to the bathroom in a Starbucks in a Norfolk, Virginia, mall, William Yockey discovered an activated camera hidden under the sink and pointed at the toilet. "I turned and looked, a little out of disbelief, and sure enough there was a small digital camcorder underneath the sink pointed directly at the toilet," said Yockey, who sued the chain for invasion of privacy, negligence and intentional infliction of emotional distress, among other charges. He was offered a free beverage when he mentioned the camera to the store's manager, though.
Crushed Penis
Back in 1999, a Toronto man crushed his penis in a Starbucks bathroom, and deemed the accident the result of an improperly installed toilet seat. While turning to reach the toilet paper on the back of the toilet, Edward Skwarek pinched…himself…between the porcelain and the seat, which was loosely affixed. It's hard to imagine exactly what this would have looked like, but the damage that resulted is so severe it's hard to believe. From Norwalk, Connecticut newspaper The Hour:
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Jensen Comment
The least Starbucks should have done is offer Mr Yockey a free donut with his
beverage.
Scholars doing research on lawsuits should always use care in following through to final settlements since the final settlements almost always fall short of the amount initially sought in the lawsuit, as was the case in the infamous hot coffee spill lawsuit against McDonald's.
I recall that McDonald's was sued because it did not make it clear that a hamburger weighing 0.25 lbs going into a cooker is likely to weigh less when it is hot and ready to eat. Alas, students should also take this into account when comparing the amount to be learned with the amount that was learned after the course ended.
If the Toronto man was pinched in Maine he's advised to phone:
1-800-CallJoe or so it's repeated aud museum in television advertisements in New
England. The Law Offices of Joe Bornstein in Portland, Maine claims that it's
able to set everything straight.
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Japanese engineers have built a super-efficient floating
solar plant: It turns out that water helps harness solar energy ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/giant-floating-solar-power-plant-japan-2016-4
"The Five Dumbest Things in the
U.S. Energy Bill," MIT's Technology Review,
April 22, 2016 ---
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601323/the-5-dumbest-things-in-the-us-energy-bill/#/set/id/601321/
Jensen Comment
The only "dumb thing" I disagree with is the argument that there is
no need for more funded research on net metering. Yes I understand
that most existing research is positive and that consumers love the combination
of government subsidies to invest in solar panels and the personal benefits of
net metering using such subsidies. But there are still many unanswered
questions, including the tradeoffs of net metering pricing on top of elimination
of taxpayer subsidies. There are also unanswered questions regarding impacts of
net metering on grid capacity needs from alternative sources ---
http://policyintegrity.org/files/publications/ManagingFutureElectricityGrid.pdf
As distributed energy generation is becoming increasingly common, the debate on how a utility’s customers should be compensated for the excess energy they sell back to the grid is intensifying. And net metering, the practice of compensating for such energy at the retail rate for electricity, is becoming the subject of intense political disagreement. Utilities argue that net metering fails to compensate them for grid construction and distribution costs and that it gives rise to regressive cost shifting among its customers. Conversely, solar energy proponents argue that the compensation should be higher than the retail rate to account for other benefits that distributed generation systems provide, such as the resulting climate change and other environmental benefits, as well as the savings resulting from not needing to build new installations to provide additional capacity. This ongoing debate is leading to significant changes to net metering policies in many states.
This Article provides a thorough analysis of the benefits and the costs of distributed generation and highlights the analytical flaws and missing elements in the competing positions and in all the existing policies. We propose an alternative approach that properly recognizes the respective contributions to the electric grid of utilities on the one hand and of distributed generators on the other. We show, however, that this policy is second-best as a result of certain constraints on how electricity can currently be priced. For the longer run, when these constraints might no longer be present, we discuss the need to consider net metering as part of a more comprehensive energy reform that would ensure the efficient integration of all distributed energy resources into the electricity grid. These reforms are needed to secure our Nation’s clean energy future.
Also see QA: Bill Gates ---
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601242/qa-bill-gates/#/set/id/601321/
Ransomware attacks on businesses and individuals have risen dramatically
in recent years ---
http://time.com/4303129/hackers-computer-ransom-ransomware/?xid=newsletter-brief
About the best protection money can buy is better backup and greater awareness
of risky ways of computing.
Chronicle of Higher Education Special Report
Find out how student debt is affecting higher ed ---
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From the Scout Report on April 29, 2016
UberConference --- https://www.uberconference.com/
When UberConference came out in 2012, PC World called it the "best conference-call manager yet." The service has only improved since then, making ease of use its calling card and adding significantly more services for the same low price (free). UberConference can be accessed from a personal computer or by using its Android and Apple compatible apps. Readers may sign up using Google, LinkedIn, or email accounts. From there, the one minute tutorial tells users everything they need to know about, inviting conference call participants, scheduling calls, and how to use the service during a call.
PicMonkey --- http://www.picmonkey.com/
Things have come a long way since the days of endlessly fiddling with PhotoShop, never quite getting the effects one wanted. In addition to improvements from Apple and Adobe, a host of free photo-doctoring websites have emerged. PicMonkey is one of the best. Put simply, PicMonkey does three things. It lets you Edit/Touch Up, Design, and Collage. Edit and Touch Up allow users to crop, resize, and add text to photos. The functions also allow users to change colors, whiten teeth, remove blemishes, and basically beautify any image of person, place, or thing. Design, meanwhile, allows readers to use all the above functions on a blank slate rather than a photograph. Collage, meanwhile, gives readers the option to mash pictures together, using dozens of malleable templates. In all, PicMonkey represents the future of image editing: free, easy, and accessible from anywhere.
.30 Years Later, Ukraine Still Feels the Effects of Chernobyl
Return To Chernobyl
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/return-to- chernobyl/
Chernobyl at 30: How Attempts to Contain the Radiation Failed
http://time.com/4305507/chernobyl-30-agriculture- disaster/
Chernobyl's milk is still radioactive 30 years later, investigation reveals
http://www.sciencealert.com/chernobyl-s-milk-is-still- radioactive-30-years-later- investigation-reveals
The amazing true story behind the Chernobyl 'suicide squad' that saved
Europe
http://www.techinsider.io/chernobyl-volunteers-divers- nuclear-mission-2016-4
Chernobyl's Literary Legacy, 30 Years Later
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/04/ chernobyls-literary-legacy/ 479769/
From the Archives: What it was like to live in Chernobyl's shadow in 1992
http://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-ukraine- chernobyl-archive-20160426- story.html
From the Scout Report on May 6, 2016
Minimalist for Everything --- https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/minimalist-for-everything/bmihblnpomgpjkfddepdpdafhhepdbek?hl=en-US
For readers looking for a more visually streamlined internet experience, Minimalist for Everything may pay dividends. The Chrome add-on uses user-side JavaScript and CSS to customize websites with the click of a button. This may sound complex but, at least from this user's perspective, it's as simple as can be. For example, imagine that you would like to get rid of the search bar in your gmail account. Just go to the page, find the correct checkbox within Minimalist for Everything, and click it. The search box will disappear. Luckily, it is also easy to bring functions back once you've streamlined. In all, Minimalist for Everything allows readers to simplify the websites they use most.
Tor Project --- https://www.torproject.org/
Internet privacy has become an increasingly important issue over the past decade, and most people now understand that websites, businesses, and other entities can easily track and aggregate your personal information while you're online. Some people don't seem to mind this. But a growing number of businesses, activists, journalists, educators, and others are turning to Tor and tools like it to keep their locations, browsing habits, and IP addresses secret. Users may like to start by reading the section on the Tor website entitled, "Want Tor to really work?" This explains how to get the most out of the Tor browsing experience, which can be used with both Mac or Windows devices. Readers looking for more online privacy will find much to appreciate in this easily downloadable anonymity network.
Cracking Down on Tobacco: The EU's New Regulations & a Brief History on Smoking
EU upholds tough rules on tobacco packaging
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-36200778
New EU tobacco rules will increase warnings and prohibit popular cigarette
types
http://cphpost.dk/news/new-eu-tobacco-rules-will-increase- warnings-and-prohibit-popular- cigarette-types.html
Smoking in US Declines to All-Time Low
http://www.livescience.com/48923-usa-smoking-declines-to- lowest.html
Visual Culture and Public Health Posters: The Cigarette
https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/visualculture/ cigarette.html
A brief history of tobacco
http://edition.cnn.com/US/9705/tobacco/history/
Contesting the Science of Smoking
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/05/low- tar-cigarettes/481116
Free Online Tutorials, Videos, Course Materials, and Learning Centers
Education Tutorials
Top Curriculum & Instruction Teacher Resources
http://mastersed.uc.edu/masters-degree-in-education-online-programs/curriculum-and-instruction/curriculum-instruction-resources/curriculum-and-instruction-resources/
MIT BLOSSOMS: Physics Resources --- https://blossoms.mit.edu/resources/physics_resources
ReadWriteThink: Beyond the Story: A Dickens of a Party (language lesson
plans) ---
http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/beyond-story-dickens-party-238.html
Smithsonian: Encyclopedia: History and Culture: Activities & Games --- http://www.si.edu/Encyclopedia/Search/History and Culture
Virtual Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (Eastern Hemisphere History) --- http://www.vhmml.org/
EconEdLink --- http://www.econedlink.org/
The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics ---
http://www.econlib.org/library/CEE.html
Don't forget that most of the terminology can befound in greater detail in
Wikipedia
Marin County Free Library: Research and Learning Blog ---
http://www.marinlibrary.org/research-and-learning/research-and-learning
Healthy Kids: Keeping Safe (PDF) http://www.ode.state.or.us/opportunities/grants/hklb/hiv-aids/healthykids.pdf
Library and Archives Canada: Podcasts ---
http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/news/podcasts/Pages/podcasts.aspx
Bob Jensen's threads on general education tutorials are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#EducationResearch
Bob Jensen's bookmarks for multiple disciplines --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm
Bob Jensen's links to free courses and tutorials --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
Engineering, Science, and Medicine Tutorials
NOVA: Interactives Archive --- http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/hotscience/
NOVA: Dawn of Humanity --- http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/evolution/dawn-of-humanity.html
Nova Next --- http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/
NOVA: scienceNOW: Explore Teacher's Guides ---
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/educators/subject-anth.html
Happy Birthday to the Hubble Telescope --- http://daily.jstor.org/happy-birthday-hubble-telescope/
Planet or Not, Pluto is Amazing --- http://daily.jstor.org/planet-or-not-pluto-is-amazing/
BioDigital Human --- https://www.biodigital.com/education
MIT BLOSSOMS: Physics Resources --- https://blossoms.mit.edu/resources/physics_resources
Talk Nerdy --- http://carasantamaria.com/podcast/
NYPL Digital Collections: Birds of America ---
http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/birds-of-america-from-drawings-made-in-the-united-states-and-their-territories
Annals of Botany Blog --- http://aobblog.com
Antarctica: Love of a Cold Climate --- http://daily.jstor.org/antarctica-cold-love/
PLOS: Pathogens (free and open access) --- http://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/
Healthy Kids: Keeping Safe (PDF) http://www.ode.state.or.us/opportunities/grants/hklb/hiv-aids/healthykids.pdf
26 architectural masterpieces everyone should see in their lifetime ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/26-architectural-masterpieces-everyone-should-see-2016-4
Japanese engineers have built a super-efficient floating solar plant: It
turns out that water helps harness solar energy ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/giant-floating-solar-power-plant-japan-2016-4
Bob Jensen's threads on free online science, engineering, and medicine tutorials are at --http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Bob Jensen's links to free courses and tutorials --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
Social Science and Economics Tutorials
The Incredible Range of Chimpanzee Behavior --- http://daily.jstor.org/incredible-range-chimpanzee-behavior/
Download Great Works by Sigmund Freud as Free eBooks & Free Audio Books: A
Digital Celebration on His 160th Birthday ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/05/download-great-works-by-sigmund-freud-as-free-ebooks-free-audio-books.html
EconEdLink ---
http://www.econedlink.org/ Download Great Works by Sigmund Freud as Free
eBooks & Free Audio Books: A Digital Celebration on His 160th Birthday ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/05/download-great-works-by-sigmund-freud-as-free-ebooks-free-audio-books.html
The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics ---
http://www.econlib.org/library/CEE.html
Don't forget that most of the terminology can befound in greater detail in
Wikipedia
National Archives: Teaching with Documents: Japanese Relocation During World
War II ---
http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/japanese-relocation/
Bob Jensen's threads on Economics, Anthropology, Social Sciences, and
Philosophy tutorials are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Bob Jensen's links to free courses and tutorials --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
Law and Legal Studies
Foundation Press Publishes Election Law Stories (36th Book in the Law Stories
Series) ---
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1634604334/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1634604334&linkCode=as2&tag=lawproblo-20&linkId=BXFVHQ2FY7Z47EBR
C-SPAN Landmark Cases --- http://landmarkcases.c-span.org/
Bob Jensen's threads on law and legal studies are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Math Tutorials
The Advanced Mathematics of the Babylonians --- http://daily.jstor.org/advanced-mathematics-of-ancient-babylon/
The Accidental Mathematician --- https://ilaba.wordpress.com/
Bob Jensen's threads on free online mathematics tutorials are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Bob Jensen's links to free courses and tutorials --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
History Tutorials
Watch Animated Introductions to 25 Philosophers by The School of Life: From
Plato to Kant and Foucault ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/04/animated-introductions-to-25-philosophers-by-the-school-of-life.html
Smithsonian: Encyclopedia: History and Culture: Activities & Games --- http://www.si.edu/Encyclopedia/Search/History and Culture
Smithsonian Education: Women's History Teaching Resources
http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/educators/resource_library/women_resources.html
History by Era: The Americas to 1620 --- http://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/americas-1620
National Portrait Gallery: First Ladies --- http://npg.si.edu/portraits/collection-highlights/first-ladies
LEARN NC: World War I Propaganda Posters --- http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/ww1posters
Who Was Daniel Boone ---
http://daily.jstor.org/who-was-daniel-boone/
Leonardo Da Vinci, Artist/Scientist ---
http://daily.jstor.org/leonardo-da-vinci-artist-scientist/
How Harvard Became Harvard ---
http://daily.jstor.org/how-harvard-became-harvard/
State Historical Society of North Dakota: History of North Dakota http://www.history.nd.gov/ndhistory/index.html
National Archives: Teaching with Documents: Japanese Relocation During World
War II ---
http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/japanese-relocation/
Duke University Libraries: Alex Harris Photographs --- https://repository.lib.duke.edu/dc/alexharris
The Duke Chronicle --- http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/dukechronicle/
26 architectural masterpieces everyone should see in their lifetime ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/26-architectural-masterpieces-everyone-should-see-2016-4
U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing: U.S. Currency http://www.moneyfactory.gov/uscurrency.htmlBob Jensen's threads on history tutorials are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Also see
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm
Little Fiction --- http://www.littlefiction.com/
From the Fishouse (poetry) --- http://www.fishousepoems.org/
Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America --- http://www.sfwa.org/
Bob Jensen's links to free courses and tutorials --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
Language Tutorials
ReadWriteThink: Beyond the Story: A Dickens of a Party (language lesson
plans) ---
http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/beyond-story-dickens-party-238.html
Learn 46 Languages for Free Online: A Big Update to Our Master List ---
http://www.openculture.com/2013/07/learn_46_languages_for_free_online_a_big_update.html
Piktochart: 5 Language Infographics (story telling in pictures) --- http://piktochart.com/5-top-language-infographics/
Back to School: Free Resources for Lifelong Learners Everywhere ---
Click Here
http://www.openculture.com/2011/09/back_to_school_free_resources_for_lifelong_learners_everywhere.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Bob Jensen's links to language tutorials are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2-Part2.htm#Languages
Music Tutorials
What Makes the Stradivarius Special? It Was Designed to Sound Like a Female
Soprano Voice, With Notes Sounding Like Vowels, Says Researcher ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/04/what-makes-the-stradivarius-special-it-was-designed-to-sound-like-a-female-soprano-voice.html
How Music Helps Us Grieve ---
https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/04/14/wendy-lesser-room-for-doubt-music-grief/?mc_cid=9b04fc8c3f&mc_eid=4d2bd13843
Bob Jensen's threads on free music tutorials are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Bob Jensen's threads on music performances ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/music.htm
Writing Tutorials
Bob Jensen's helpers for writers are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob3.htm#Dictionaries
Bob Jensen's threads on medicine ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2-Part2.htm#Medicine
CDC Blogs --- http://blogs.cdc.gov/
Updates from WebMD --- http://www.webmd.com/
April 25, 2016
April 26, 2016
April 28, 2016
April 29, 2016
April 30, 2016
May 3, 2016
May 4, 2016
May 5, 2016
May 7, 2016
May 9, 2016
May 10, 2016
Healthy Kids: Keeping Safe (PDF) --- http://www.ode.state.or.us/opportunities/grants/hklb/hiv-aids/healthykids.pdf
UNAIDS (AIDS) --- http://www.unaids.org/en
"Nimble-Fingered Robot Outperforms the Best Human Surgeons," by Maria
Shirts, MIT's Technology Review, May 4, 2016 ---
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601393/brazilians-will-always-remember-the-great-whatsapp-blackout-of-2016/#/set/id/601399/
Walt Whitman’s Unearthed Health Manual, “Manly Health & Training,” Urges
Readers to Stand (Don’t Sit!) and Eat Plenty of Meat (1858) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/05/walt-whitmans-unearthed-health-manual-manly-health-training.html
One of the principal investigators told a science journalist that he sat on the results for 16 years and didn't publish because "we were just so disappointed in the way they turned out.
"Butter and eEggs Have Not Always Been Bad, But Scientists Did Not Want Us to
Know That," Editorial Board of the Chicago Tribune, April 29, 2016 ---
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/ct-science-diet-fats-minnesota-edit-0430-jm-20160428-story.html
One of the principal investigators told a science journalist that he sat on the results for 16 years and didn't publish because "we were just so disappointed in the way they turned out."
"The heretical Minnesota heart study: When science stops asking questions," Editorial Board of the Chicago Tribune, April 29, 2016 ---
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/ct-science-diet-fats-minnesota-edit-0430-jm-20160428-story.html
In the second half of the 20th century, conventional wisdom in the medical community held that overconsumption of saturated fats — the kind found in milk, cheese, meats and butter — was dangerous. And so, between 1968 and 1973, a well-planned, well-executed study involving more than 9,000 patients was performed to test this widely accepted relationship between diet and heart disease.
The results of the Minnesota Coronary Experiment were notable for two reasons. First, the findings contradicted much of what was believed at the time: The study demonstrated that people who ate a diet rich in saturated fats did not go on to have more heart disease than those who ate a diet rich in polyunsaturated fat from vegetable oil.
Second, and perhaps more important, these iconoclastic findings went unpublished until 1989 and then saw the light of day only in an obscure medical journal with few readers. One of the principal investigators told a science journalist that he sat on the results for 16 years and didn't publish because "we were just so disappointed in the way they turned out."
The long-forgotten study was revisited with a recent analysis of the original data and published this month by the National Institutes of Health in the prestigious, and well-read, British Medical Journal
. . .
All of this poses the danger that there may not be enough skeptical science in the medical and scientific literature. Groupthink may be as dangerous to the public as the ever-expanding legion of scientific frauds, quacks and celebrities eager for publicity or a quick buck.
Studies that challenge scientific consensus are not necessarily right — more often than not they are wrong — but they're essential to good scientific method and occasionally result in a remarkable surprise. For decades the cause of stomach ulcers was believed to be excess stomach acid. Countless surgeries were performed to treat ulcers based on that theory. In the 1980s, two scientists challenged that conventional wisdom and published research that said most stomach ulcers were due to a bacterium. The two researchers met resistance from the medical community for years, but their theory was borne out and they won the 2005 Nobel Prize in Medicine. Surgeons today no longer make their living solely by operating on stomach ulcers.
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Sugar Has Always Been Bad ---
http://daily.jstor.org/sugar-has-always-been-bad/
Gene Therapy’s First Out-and-Out Cure Is Here ---
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601390/gene-therapys-first-out-and-out-cure-is-here/#/set/id/601407/
Humor for April 2016
Zoological Jokes and Hoaxes --- http://daily.jstor.org/april-fools-zoological-jokes-hoaxes/
Obama didn’t hold back at the White House Correspondents Dinner. Here were
some of his best jokes.---
http://www.vox.com/2016/4/30/11547858/barack-obama-dinner-speech-jokes
14 Funny Reactions to "Will You Marry Me?" ---
https://whisper.sh/stories/f758341b-b1cd-4959-932a-e9c4b42e9652/The-14-Funniest-Reactions-To-Will-You-Marry-Me
Forwarded by Scott Bonacker
What's the Moral of This Story ---
http://www.news-leader.com/story/opinion/columnists/2016/05/01/moral-story/83802516/
Jensen Comment
Over the years on several occasions I've had requests from students to give the
snap quiz at the start of class because they had to leave early. I've also had
students arrive late for class that requested more time on quizzes that started
before they arrived.
Forwarded by Paula
Mensa Test:
Here's a puzzle that has confounded even the brightest among us.
You are on a Horse, galloping at a constant speed.
On your right side is a sharp drop off.
And on your left side is an Elephant traveling at the same speed as you.
Directly in front of you is a galloping Kangaroo and your horse is unable to overtake it.
Behind you is a Lion running at the same speed as you and the Kangaroo.
What must you do to safely get out of this highly dangerous situation?
See answer below:
Get your drunk ass off the merry-go-round!
Humor April 2016 --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book16q2.htm#Humor043016.htm
Humor March 2016 --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book16q1.htm#Humor033116.htm
Humor February 2016 --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book16q1.htm#Humor022916.htm
Humor January 2016 --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book16q1.htm#Humor013116.htm
Humor December 1-31, 2015 --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q4.htm#Humor123115.htm.htm
Humor November 1-30, 2015 --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q4.htm#Humor113015.htm
Humor October 1-31, 2015 --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q4.htm#Humor103115
Humor September 1-30, 2015 --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q3.htm#Humor093015
Humor August 1-31, 2015 --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q3.htm#Humor081115
Humor July 1-31, 2015 --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q3.htm#Humor073115
Humor June 1-30, 2015 --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q2.htm#Humor043015
Humor May 1-31, 2015 --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q2.htm#Humor043015
Humor April 1-30, 2015 --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q2.htm#Humor043015
Humor March 1-31, 2015 --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q1.htm#Humor033115
Humor February 1-28, 2015 --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q1.htm#Humor022815
Humor January 1-31, 2015 --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q1.htm#Humor013115
Tidbits Archives --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm
More of Bob Jensen's Pictures and
Stories
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Pictures.htm
Update in
2014
20-Year Sugar Hill Master Plan ---
http://www.nccouncil.org/images/NCC/file/wrkgdraftfeb142014.pdf
Click here to search Bob Jensen's web site if you have key words to enter ---
Search Site.
For example if you want to know what Jensen documents have the term "Enron"
enter the phrase Jensen AND Enron. Another search engine that covers Trinity and
other universities is at
http://www.searchedu.com/
Online Distance Education Training and Education ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Crossborder.htm
For-Profit Universities Operating in the Gray
Zone of Fraud (College, Inc.) ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/HigherEdControversies.htm#ForProfitFraud
Shielding Against Validity Challenges in Plato's Cave ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/TheoryTAR.htm
The Cult of Statistical Significance:
How Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives ---
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/DeirdreMcCloskey/StatisticalSignificance01.htm
How Accountics Scientists Should Change:
"Frankly, Scarlett, after I get a hit for my resume in The Accounting Review
I just don't give a damn"
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/AccounticsDamn.htm
One more mission in what's left of my life will be to try to change this
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/AccounticsDamn.htm
What went wrong in accounting/accountics research?
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http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm#WhatWentWrong
The Sad State of Accountancy Doctoral
Programs That Do Not Appeal to Most Accountants ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm#DoctoralPrograms
AN ANALYSIS OF THE EVOLUTION OF RESEARCH
CONTRIBUTIONS BY THE ACCOUNTING REVIEW: 1926-2005 ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/395wpTAR/Web/TAR395wp.htm#_msocom_1
Bob Jensen's threads on accounting theory
---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm
Tom Lehrer on Mathematical Models and
Statistics ---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfZWyUXn3So
Systemic problems of accountancy (especially the
vegetable nutrition paradox) that probably will never be solved ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudConclusion.htm#BadNews
World Clock ---
http://www.peterussell.com/Odds/WorldClock.php
Facts about the earth in real time --- http://www.worldometers.info/
Interesting Online Clock
and Calendar
---
http://home.tiscali.nl/annejan/swf/timeline.swf
Time by Time Zones ---
http://timeticker.com/
Projected Population Growth (it's out of control) ---
http://geography.about.com/od/obtainpopulationdata/a/worldpopulation.htm
Also see
http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/P/Populations.html
Facts about population growth (video) ---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMcfrLYDm2U
Projected U.S. Population Growth ---
http://www.carryingcapacity.org/projections75.html
Real time meter of the U.S. cost of the war in Iraq ---
http://www.costofwar.com/
Enter you zip code to get Census Bureau comparisons ---
http://zipskinny.com/
Sure wish there'd be a little good news today.
Free (updated) Basic Accounting Textbook --- search for Hoyle at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm#Textbooks
CPA Examination ---
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cpa_examination
Free CPA Examination Review Course Courtesy of Joe Hoyle ---
http://cpareviewforfree.com/
Rick Lillie's education, learning, and technology blog is at http://iaed.wordpress.com/
Accounting News, Blogs, Listservs, and Social
Networking ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/AccountingNews.htm
Bob Jensen's Threads ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/threads.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called New
Bookmarks ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookurl.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called
Tidbits ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called Fraud
Updates ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm
Online Books, Poems, References,
and Other Literature
In the past I've provided links to various types electronic literature available
free on the Web.
I created a page that summarizes those various links ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm
Some of Bob Jensen's Tutorials
Accounting program news items for colleges are posted at
http://www.accountingweb.com/news/college_news.html
Sometimes the news items provide links to teaching resources for accounting
educators.
Any college may post a news item.
Accounting and Taxation News Sites ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/AccountingNews.htm
AECM
(Educators)
http://listserv.aaahq.org/cgi- AECM is an email Listserv list which provides a forum for discussions of all hardware and software which can be useful in any way for accounting education at the college/university level. Hardware includes all platforms and peripherals. Software includes spreadsheets, practice sets, multimedia authoring and presentation packages, data base programs, tax packages, World Wide Web applications, etc. Over the years the AECM has become the worldwide forum for accounting educators on all issues of accountancy and accounting education, including debates on accounting standards, managerial accounting, careers, fraud, forensic accounting, auditing, doctoral programs, and critical debates on academic (accountics) research, publication, replication, and validity testing.
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Yahoo (Practitioners)
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AccountantsWorld
http://accountantsworld.com/forums/default.asp?scope=1 This site hosts various discussion groups on such topics as accounting software, consulting, financial planning, fixed assets, payroll, human resources, profit on the Internet, and taxation. |
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Business Valuation Group
BusValGroup-subscribe@topica.com This discussion group is headed by Randy Schostag [RSchostag@BUSVALGROUP.COM] |
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FEI's Financial Reporting Blog
Smart Stops on the Web, Journal of Accountancy, March 2008 --- http://www.aicpa.org/pubs/jofa/mar2008/smart_stops.htm
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The CAlCPA Tax Listserv September 4, 2008 message from Scott Bonacker
[lister@bonackers.com]
Scott forwarded the following message from Jim Counts
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Many useful accounting sites (scroll down) --- http://www.iasplus.com/links/links.htm
Bob Jensen's Sort-of Blogs ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/JensenBlogs.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called New
Bookmarks ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookurl.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called
Tidbits ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called Fraud
Updates ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm
Some Accounting History Sites
Bob Jensen's
Accounting History in a Nutshell and Links ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm#AccountingHistory
Accounting
History Libraries at the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) ---
http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/accountancy/libraries.html
The above libraries include international accounting history.
The above libraries include film and video historical collections.
MAAW Knowledge Portal for Management and Accounting ---
http://maaw.info/
Academy of Accounting Historians and the Accounting Historians Journal ---
http://www.accounting.rutgers.edu/raw/aah/
Sage Accounting History ---
http://ach.sagepub.com/cgi/pdf_extract/11/3/269
A nice timeline on the development of U.S. standards and the evolution of
thinking about the income statement versus the balance sheet is provided at:
"The Evolution of U.S. GAAP: The Political Forces Behind Professional
Standards (1930-1973)," by Stephen A. Zeff, CPA Journal, January 2005
---
http://www.nysscpa.org/cpajournal/2005/105/infocus/p18.htm
Part II covering years 1974-2003 published in February 2005 ---
http://www.nysscpa.org/cpajournal/2005/205/index.htm
A nice timeline of accounting history --- http://www.docstoc.com/docs/2187711/A-HISTORY-OF-ACCOUNTING
From Texas
A&M University
Accounting History Outline ---
http://acct.tamu.edu/giroux/history.html
Bob
Jensen's timeline of derivative financial instruments and hedge accounting ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudRotten.htm#DerivativesFrauds
History of
Fraud in America ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/415wp/AmericanHistoryOfFraud.htm
Also see
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Fraud.htm
Bob Jensen's
Threads ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/threads.htm
More of Bob Jensen's Pictures and
Stories
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Pictures.htm
All my online pictures --- http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/PictureHistory/
Professor Robert E. Jensen (Bob)
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen
190 Sunset Hill Road
Sugar Hill, NH 03586
Phone: 603-823-8482
Email:
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