Tidbits on May 26, 2016
Bob Jensen
at
Trinity University
Photograph Set
1 About Erika's Spinal Cord Stimulator Installed in May 2016
www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/ErikaBob/ErikaPain/Set01/Set01.htm
Tidbits on May 26, 2016
Bob Jensen
Bob Jensen's Tidbits ---
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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
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http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Pictures.htm
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Online Video, Slide Shows, and Audio
String Field Theory ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_field_theory
String field theory could be the key to solving the greatest mystery in physics
– explained in under 60 seconds ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/sean-carroll-explains-string-theory-in-60-seconds-2016-5
What Are the Most Beautifully & Creatively Shot Films of All Time?
Cinematographers Pick Their Favorites ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/05/cinematographers-pick-their-favorite-films-of-all-time.html
YouTube: Veritasium (facts in science) ---
https://www.youtube.com/user/1veritasium
Monty Python’s Philosopher’s Football Match: The Epic Showdown Between the
Greeks & Germans (1972) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/05/monty-pythons-philosophers-football-match-greeks-v-germans-1972.html
Mad Magazine’s Al Jaffee & Other Cartoonists Create Animations to End
Distracted Driving ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/05/mad-magazines-al-jaffee-other-cartoonists-create-animations-to-end-distracted-driving.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
Watch 82-Year-Old Igor Stravinsky Conduct The Firebird, the
Ballet Masterpiece That First Made Him Famous (1965) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/05/watch-82-year-old-igor-stravinsky-conduct-the-firebird-the-ballet-masterpiece-that-first-made-him-famous-1965.html
Edward Snowden & Jean-Michel Jarre Record a Techno Protest Song,
“Exit” ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/05/edward-snowden-jean-michel-jarre-record-a-techno-protest-song-exit.html
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra: Podcasts ---
http://www.laco.org/podcasts
Andre Rieu and Child ---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN2SQ4m7M04
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
Google Cultural Institute: Albertina (art history) ---
https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/collection/albertina-vienna
Colorized Photographs of Russia Before the Communist Revolution
---
http://www.businessinsider.com/russia-before-communist-revolution-2016-5
1,000+ Haunting & Beautiful Photos of Native American Peoples,
Shot by the Ethnographer Edward S. Curtis (Circa 1905) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/05/1000-haunting-beautiful-photos-of-native-american-peoples.html
2015: The Year in Visual Stories and Graphics ---
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/us/year-in-interactive-storytelling.html?_r=0
11 Photographs of Jet After Burner Fires ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/jets-using-afterburners-2016-5
India just launched a mini space shuttle on top of a rocket and
the photos are amazing ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/india-space-shuttle-launch-images-2016-5
Twain was describing the city’s
Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, a massive four-wing indoor arcade that rises 126
feet to an expansive vaulted glass ceiling. Nearly 150 years after the
interior’s completion, the Galleria today remains largely unchanged—a twinkling,
honey-hued backdrop to La Belle Époque and an operatic stage set of luxury
retailers, restaurants, cafés, decorative arts and pedestrians.
Mark Meyers
---
http://www.wsj.com/articles/a-city-under-glass-1463770623?mod=djemMER
See
https://www.google.com/search?q="Galleria+Vittorio+Emanuele+II"&lr=&as_qdr=all&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjG-bfdquvMAhUCNj4KHWBAC9gQsAQIKQ&biw=1097&bih=502
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
Hear Robert Frost Read His Most Famous Poems: “The Road Not Taken,” “Mending
Wall,” “Nothing Gold Can Stay” & More ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/05/hear-robert-frost-read-his-most-famous-poems.html
Found Poetry: Retelling History through Poetry ---
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/primarysourcesets/poetry
Five Books Bill Gates Wants You to Read This Summer ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/05/5-books-bill-gates-wants-you-to-read-this-summer.html
8 Glorious Hours of Dylan Thomas Reading Poetry–His Own & Others'---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/05/8-glorious-hours-of-dylan-thomas-reading-poetry-his-own-others.html
Eileen Myles sent poems to The New Yorker for 30 years. Finally, one
was accepted. Payment: $600 and two nights at a motel ---
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2016/04/times-ive-got-paid/
2015: The Year in Visual Stories and Graphics ---
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/us/year-in-interactive-storytelling.html?_r=0
Awful Library Books ---
http://awfullibrarybooks.net
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 26, 2016
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/2016/TidbitsQuotations052616.htm
To Whom Does the USA Federal Government Owe Money (the booked
obligation of $19+ trillion) ---
http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/politicalcalculations/2016/05/25/spring-2016-to-whom-does-the-us-government-owe-money-n2168161?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl
The US Debt Clock in Real Time ---
http://www.usdebtclock.org/
Remember the Jane Fonda Movie called "Rollover" ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollover_(film)
To Whom Does the USA Federal Government Owe Money (the
unbooked obligation of $100 trillion and unknown more in contracted
entitlements) ---
http://money.cnn.com/2013/01/15/news/economy/entitlement-benefits/
The biggest worry of the entitlements obligations is enormous obligation for the
future under the Medicare and Medicaid programs that are now deemed totally
unsustainable ---
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
"These Slides Show Why We Have Such A Huge Budget Deficit And Why Taxes
Need To Go Up," by Rob Wile, Business Insider, April 27, 2013 ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/cbo-presentation-on-the-federal-budget-2013-4
This is a slide show based on a presentation by a Harvard Economics Professor.
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
MOOC ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
The 50 Most Popular MOOCs of All time ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/05/learning-how-to-learn-enroll-in-the-latest-edition-of-the-most-popular-mooc.html
"This Mongolian Teenager Aced a MOOC. Now He Wants to Widen Their Impact,"
by Jeffrey R. Young, Chronicle of Higher Education, May 4, 2016 ---
http://chronicle.com/article/This-Mongolian-Teenager-Aced-a/236362?cid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=d2d2bb431560465bbc40d7fc9fdba41a&elq=515025d323e34845a1279920e3ae34cc&elqaid=8993&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=3088
Free online courses changed the life of one
super-smart Mongolian teenager. His name is Battushig Myanganbayar, and four
years ago, while he was still a high-school student in Ulan Bator, he took a
massive open online course from MIT. It was one of the first they had ever
offered, about circuits and electronics, and he was one of about a hundred
and forty thousand people to take it. He not only passed, he was one of
about three hundred who got a perfect score. He was only 15 years old.
He was hailed in The New York Times and other media
outlets as a boy wonder, and soon he got accepted to the real MIT campus. It
was a feel-good story that matched the hopeful narrative about MOOCs at the
time. These free courses were touted as a way to bring top education to
underserved communities around the world. The New York Times columnist
Thomas Friedman soon wrote that "Nothing has more potential to unlock a
billion more brains to solve the world’s biggest problems." This was the
peak of the MOOC hype.
Today, Mr. Myanganbayar remains a fan of MOOCs, but
he also has a critique of this knowledge giveaway, and he questions how much
good it’s really doing for people in the developing world.
After taking a MOOC, "What do you do?" he asks. "If
you’re just learning for the sake of the learning, the knowledge alone is
useless without the opportunity to build, or show, or to use it."
While at MIT, he has continued to take free online
courses on the side, especially those on data science to help him with
research projects that he’s worked on here. Like many students that I’ve met
at MIT, he’s focused on trying to solve real-world problems with his student
research — he helped build an electronic glove for the blind, for instance —
and that’s his main problem with how colleges have handled MOOCS.
The courses aren’t really an end, after all,
they’re a means to an end. Why don’t colleges do more to help connect
students to resources, he asks, to apply their knowledge?
Listen to the full audio. Below is an edited and
adapted transcript of the podcast.
https://soundcloud.com/relearning/episode-6-this-mongolian-teenager-aced-a-mooc-now-he-wants-to-widen-their-impact
Q. Do you think your work as a MOOC student made
you more hungry to experience all the unique aspects of a campus that you
can’t get by sitting at home at a computer?
A. I always try to go to office hours that
professors do because it’s one of the disadvantages of the MOOC. You learn
about things, but your questions, it’s really hard to get a good answer. You
can post it in the forum in an online course, but having a chance to meet
with the professor is an amazing thing.
After coming to MIT, the biggest thing I learned
was, as one person, no matter how good you are, you can do nothing. You need
a team or you need a group of people in order to really build the complex
and amazing thing. Just by yourself, sitting in your room and reading a
book, nothing will happen. No matter how good you are, unless you are Albert
Einstein or unless you’re a theoretical mathematician then something might
happen, but for engineers you need a team. I think that’s one of the biggest
lessons that I learned at MIT.
Q.
What do you think is missing for MOOC
students, as far as support?
Continued in article
"What You Need to Know About MOOC's," Chronicle of Higher Education,
August 20, 2012 ---
http://chronicle.com/article/What-You-Need-to-Know-About/133475/
. . .
Who are the major players?
Several start-up companies are working with
universities and professors to offer MOOC's. Meanwhile, some colleges are
starting their own efforts, and some individual professors are offering
their courses to the world. Right now four names are the ones to know:
edX
A nonprofit effort run jointly by
MIT, Harvard, and Berkeley.
Leaders of the group say they intend to slowly add
other university partners over time. edX plans to freely give away the
software platform it is building to offer the free courses, so that anyone
can use it to run MOOC’s.
Coursera
A for-profit company founded by two computer-science
professors from Stanford.
The company’s model is to sign contracts with colleges that agree to use
the platform to offer free courses and to get a percentage of any revenue.
More than a dozen high-profile institutions, including Princeton and the U.
of Virginia, have joined.
Udacity
Another for-profit company founded
by a Stanford computer-science professor.
The company, which works with individual professors
rather than institutions, has attracted a range of well-known scholars.
Unlike other providers of MOOC’s, it has said it will focus all of its
courses on computer science and related fields.
Udemy
A for-profit platform that lets
anyone set up a course.
The company encourages its instructors to charge a
small fee, with the revenue split between instructor and company. Authors
themselves, more than a few of them with no academic affiliation, teach many
of the courses.
Bob Jensen's threads about MOOCs ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
"Distance Ed’s Second Act," by Phil Hill,
Chronicle of Higher
Education, May 24, 2016 ---
http://chronicle.com/article/Distance-Ed-s-Second-Act/236571?cid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=db09c79a6b904181b6f4f6c62c2f7186&elq=a09c5c90756240e6bff2f53f58cf0f04&elqaid=9185&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=3192
The Babson Survey
Research Group, which has
tracked
online college enrollment for the past 12 years, reports growth from 9
percent of U.S. students taking at least one course online in the fall of
2002 to more than 28 percent in the fall of 2014. The overall growth has
slowed recently, but the drastic decrease in for-profit enrollment masks two
very interesting numbers:
Sixty-seven percent of students taking online courses do so at public
institutions.
The
number of students at public and private nonprofit colleges who took at
least one online course rose by 26 percent in just two years (2012-2014).
Online education is no longer the province of a small subset of colleges and
professors. We are well above the 16-to-20-percent level in Everett Rogers’s
technology-adoption curve that indicates a shift into the mainstream. As I
described in a
previous article,
the characteristics of people trying out a new approach (primarily
professors in this discussion) change significantly after the technology
moves beyond the innovators and early adopters. You start getting people who
are more cautious and even skeptical about the outcomes and who need more
holistic support to make the jump. We are seeing signs that more and more
professors accept that online education is inevitable, even in traditional
institutions, and is appropriate for a growing number of nontraditional
students and a growing number of disciplines
Continued in article
Bob Jensen's threads on free distance education
alternatives (some of the best courses in the world from prestigious
universities) ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
Bob Jensen's threads on fee-based education
alternatives (some of the best online degree programs from top universities) ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Crossborder.htm
Maria Popova Selects 2016 Reads tagged with “commencement” ---
https://www.brainpickings.org/tag/commencement/?mc_cid=94b2eea625&mc_eid=4d2bd13843
Angelina Jolie has been hired as a professor at the London School of
Economics ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/angelina-jolie-london-school-economics-2016-5
Jensen Comment
This could ignite a trend in hiring celebrities at prestigious universities.
It's common for top executives to teach at prestigious universities, but these
executives don't have the celebrity attraction of top movie stars. One day there
may even be script writers, although top business schools have been writing
scripts for years in their case development programs.
"Why I'm Saying Goodbye to In-Class Tests,"
by David Perry, Chronicle of Higher Education,
May 24, 2016 ---
https://chroniclevitae.com/news/1410-why-i-m-saying-goodbye-to-in-class-tests?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=9d175177690d4fbcb48d8012db54c024&elq=5767a867ed964fcd97a20da17e8915b3&elqaid=9199&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=3202
Jensen Comment
The article misses the main purpose of examinations and testing ---
motivation to learn. If instructors don't have examinations they must have some
other means of making students shed blood, sweat, and tears. Papers and class
discussions can be used for tough grading in small classes. Unfortunately most
instructors in North America and Europe have large classes to a point where
homework and class discussion (or other oral feedback) cannot be used for tough
grading.
Why not use examinations in large classes and reserve alternate grading
hurdles for students that are declared by the college's medical services to be
officially declared eligible for alternate grading hurdles? David Perry
apparently does not have large classes.
Recent incidents at DePaul and
UC Irvine raise the question of what obligations a college has to make sure that
protesters -- while objecting to an event -- can't shut it down or block its
ideas from being heard.
Ellen Wexler
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/05/26/two-colleges-what-happens-when-protesters-obstruct-free-speech?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=635cd19f6e-DNU20160526&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-635cd19f6e-197565045
Jensen Comment
To say nothing about blocking emergency vehicles from doing their job or
instructors from having class. And should Harvard discourage campus protesters
from insulting speakers by proclaiming aloud that Jewish women have foul body
odor?
Flash Storage for Dummies ---
https://redmondmag.com/whitepapers/2016/03/netapp/flash-storage-for-dummies-special-edition.aspx?pc=cr43em09&utm_source=webmktg&utm_medium=E-Mail&utm_campaign=cr43em09
Top 100 Economics Blogs of 2016 ---
https://www.intelligenteconomist.com/top-economics-blogs-2016/
Bob Jensen's threads on listservs and blogs and the social media ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/listservroles.htm
The above reference contains links to the miniscule number of accounting
professor blogs.
Twitter 'to stop counting photos and links in character limit'
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36305921
Chromebooks are about to take over and Apple and Microsoft should be
worried ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/chromebooks-to-run-android-apps-2016-5
Philosophers once needed books, writing tools, and perhaps a glass of sherry.
Now they think with the Internet. Cognition itself is connected to the web
Rethinking Knowledge in the Internet Age ---
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/rethinking-knowledge-internet-age/
The internet started out as the Information
Highway, the Great Emancipator of knowledge, and as an assured tool for
generating a well-informed citizenry. But, over the past 15 years, that
optimism has given way to cynicism and fear — we have taught our children
that the net is a swamp of lies spun by idiots and true believers, and,
worse still, polluted by commercial entities whose sole aim is to have us
click to the next ad-riddled page.
Perhaps our attitude to the net has changed because
we now see how bad it is for knowledge. Or perhaps the net has so utterly
transformed knowledge that we don’t recognize knowledge when we see it.
For philosopher Michael P. Lynch, our fears are
warranted — the internet is a wrong turn in the history of knowledge.
“Information technology,” Professor Lynch argues in his new book,
The
Internet of Us, “while expanding our ability to know in one way, is
actually impeding our ability to know in other, more complex ways.” He
pursues his argument with commendable seriousness, clarity, and attunement
to historical context — and yet he misses where knowledge actually lives on
the net, focusing instead on just one aspect of the phenomenon of knowledge.
He is far from alone in this.
The net in fact exposes problems that have long
lurked in our epistemology, problems that come into stark relief when
knowledge is freed of paper, and we freely connect with it and through it
across all boundaries of time and place. There’s something about how we’ve
been thinking about knowledge — something inherent in traditional
epistemology — that blinds Lynch and many others to the knowledge-enhancing
aspects of what’s happening on the screens in front of us.
Knowing Beyond Google
The rhetoric of internet criticism often follows a
typical pattern, such as, “Yes, but,” as in: “The internet does many
wonderful things, but …,” followed by a long list of everything that’s wrong
with the net. Lynch is far more thoughtful than most, but his arguments
nonetheless suffer from the flaws that typically bedevil this type of
criticism. His idea of what the net gets right — the “Yes” before the “but”
— is itself qualified, and a good place to start. He characterizes knowing
on the net as “Google-knowing,” or what we might otherwise call “looking
something up.” He acknowledges that having instantaneous access to facts via
Google-knowing ranges from handy to lifesaving, but his conception misses
the full picture in two important ways.
First, we should include in Google-knowing more
than just factual look-ups. If, in the 19th century, almanacs commoditized
facts, then the net has taken the process one big step further,
commoditizing the encyclopedia article. Not only can we look up when Thomas
Jefferson was the United States minister to France (May 1785-September
1789), we can also get some quick context about what that meant to the
Colonies, to France, and even to him. (To his credit, Lynch does not engage
in the usual Wikipedia bashing.)
More important, to focus a discussion of internet
knowledge on people looking things up on Google, or even in Wikipedia, is
like describing libraries as places where people use the encyclopedia. Far
more typically, when we’re on the net, someone or some service links us to a
bit of news that’s interesting to us. It might be politics, quantum physics,
or the Kardashians. Whatever it is, let’s say we want to know more. Before
the era of the net, the reader’s curiosity was bounded by the physical
rectangle in the newspaper within which the article sat. On the net, if the
source of the tidbit — a tweet, a Facebook post, an email — doesn’t itself
contain links to additional information, then we can pop some terms into a
search engine and find more avenues to explore; push a comment or question
back into the social medium through which we first learned of the topic; hop
it over to a different social network; or, even reach out to the thinker or
writer who stimulated the discussion in the first place.
Continued in article
The University of Cambridge is planning one of the most expensive business
(Doctoral) degrees in the world ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/cambridge-expensive-executive-mba-2016-5
The University of Cambridge has
proposed a new business program that may cause some sticker shock.
The four-year course is a doctorate
of business and will cost students $332,000, as Times
Higher Education reported. Not including room and
board, that makes it one of the most expensive degrees in the world.
The "Doctor of Business Degree"
will be comparable to a PhD program, a representative for Cambridge told
Business Insider in an email, noting that it's still subject to approval.
"The four-year programme's annual fees are
comparable to leading Executive MBA programmes, while also reflecting the
fact that the programme will be very small and selective, demanding
substantial resources for intensive teaching and support services," the
representative said. For comparison, the Wharton School of the University of
Pennsylvania has a two-year executive-education program that runs students
$192,900. The London Business School has a 20-month-long program that runs
students 72,795 pounds, or $106,328. The University of Cambridge's massive
price tag has already led some faculty members to implore the school to
think through the implications of creating the new course.
Continued in article
Jensen Comment
In the past few decades DBA degrees are on the decline relative to Ph.D.
degrees. Typically a DBA entails less specialization in a given business
discipline such as accounting, finance, marketing, management, MIS, etc.
Executive Ph.D. or DBA programs are more popular in Europe than the USA and
typically are of much shorter duration than a North American business Ph.D.
program. Usually research universities in the USA do not hire executive doctoral
program graduates on tenure tracks, although this proposed Cambridge program may
become more of an exception. One sign of prestige of a doctoral program is the
research reputations of thesis supervisors plus the number of doctoral theses
being supervised by a given thesis supervisor. Executive doctoral programs
whether online or onsite tend to lack research prestige.
Bob Jensen's threads on the sad state of accounting (read that "accountics"
doctoral programs ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm#DoctoralPrograms
MIT: Exxon Has a Clever Way to Capture Carbon—If It Works ---
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601402/exxon-has-a-clever-way-to-capture-carbon-if-it-works/#/set/id/601413/
"Review of 'The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It … Every Time',"
by Scott McLemee, Inside Higher Ed, March 5, 2016 ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2016/03/09/review-maria-konnikova-confidence-game-why-we-fall-it-every-time
Bob Jensen's Fraud Updates ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm
USA: The Most Under-Represented Groups In Law Teaching Are Whites,
Christians, Republicans, Males
"MEASURING DIVERSITY: LAW FACULTIES IN 1997 AND 2013," by James Lindgren,
Harvard
Journal of Law & Public Policy ---
http://www.harvard-jlpp.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/39_1_Lindgren_F.pdf
When the white male Protestants who ran American
law schools thought that women and minorities were better suited for
sweeping the classrooms than for teaching in them, one did not need
statistics to know which groups were underrepresented. Women and minorities
were locked out, and Jews were subject to quotas in many law schools and
locked out of others. By the late 1990s, which groups were the most
underrepresented in legal academia?2 After twenty-five years of increasingly
vigorous affirmative action hiring, there had been a few pockets of
success—enough to merit the first careful comparison of the racial, gender,
religious, and political makeup of law faculties with the populations from
which professors are drawn. It is time to take a close look at how far we
have come and how far we have left to go to reach parity with the general
population—or at least with the lawyer population.3 Additionally, it would
help to know which subgroups within the broad traditional diversity
categories are the most underrepresented and thus most in need of redoubled
efforts on their behalf.
Continued in article
Affirmative Action Favors Women, Blacks and Latinos Over Whites and Asian
Males in Science Tenure Track Hiring
"Advantage Women," by Colleen Flaherty," National Academy of Sciences via
Inside Higher Ed, April 14, 2015 ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/04/14/study-suggests-stem-faculty-hiring-favors-women-over-men
Many studies suggest that women scientists aspiring
to careers in academe face roadblocks, including bias -- implicit or overt
-- in hiring.
But a new study is throwing
a curveball into the literature, suggesting that women candidates are
favored 2 to 1 over men for tenure-track positions in the science,
technology, engineering and math fields.
Could it be that STEM gender diversity and bias awareness efforts are
working, or even creating a preference for female candidates -- or is
something more nuanced going on? Experts say it’s probably both.
Wendy M. Williams, professor of human development
at Cornell University, and Stephen Ceci, the Helen L. Carr Professor of
Developmental Psychology at Cornell, are no strangers to complicating
research on gender bias in STEM. In a
2010 paper in the
Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences, for example, they argued that women’s life
choices, whether voluntary or constrained, better explain women’s
underrepresentation in STEM than the usual suspects of discrimination in
journal and grant reviewing and hiring. (They argued such biases were things
of the past, and that efforts to address them missed the real source of the
problem.)
Continued in article
38 Percent Of Women Earn More Than Their Husbands," by Mona Chalabi,
NPR via Nate Silver's 5:38 Blog, February 8, 2015 ---
http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/38-percent-of-women-earn-more-than-their-husbands/
Bob Jensen's threads on affirmative action in colleges and universities
---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/HigherEdControversies2.htm#AffirmativeAction
Claims of Cheating in Online Courses at Iowa ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2016/05/23/claims-cheating-online-courses-iowa?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=3bae57df2e-DNU20160523&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-3bae57df2e-197565045
Respondus and other online tools for monitoring and exam cheating
monitoring ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/assess.htm#OnlineOffCampus
Jensen Comment
Security video proctoring can sometimes be more preventative than onsite
proctoring. For example, if there is an onsite proctor students can see when the
proctor is distracted and cheat during the distraction such as pass answers or
use a cell phone when the proctor is looking elsewhere. If they are being
watched continuously by a proctoring camera they cannot be certain if and when
their cheating will be detected if they are cheating in a way that can be
detected by reviewing a video much like stores use videos to detect shoplifting.
Of course not all forms of cheating can be detected by a camera.
If the facial images on camera are quite good this will also help detect when
an unauthorized student is taking an exam.
"Study: Big-Time College Sports Neglect Academics, Deflect Blame."
Inside Higher Ed, May 19, 2016 ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2016/05/19/study-big-time-college-sports-neglect-academics-deflect-blame?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=a475478d0c-DNU20160519&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-a475478d0c-197565045
Colleges with high-profile sports programs may say
they put the academic performances of their players first, but a new study
suggests that the organizational culture of those programs prioritizes
athletic success at the expense of academics -- and that athletes are
unfairly blamed for the academic failures that result from such a system.
In the study, to
be published
in the Journal of Higher Education, the
University of California at Riverside's Uma Jayakumar and Eddie Comeaux
interviewed and observed athletes, coaches and other athletics employees at
an unnamed Football Bowl Subdivision public university. The researchers
found that coaches "emphasized personal control and choice, deflecting the
pressure of the inherent tension on the athlete." Even athletes who came
into the program wanting to focus equally on academics and athletics found
that it was difficult to do so with the 40 hours per week they were devoting
to their sport, and thus shifted their focus to athletics.
Continued in article
Timothy Parker, Accused Of Plagiarism, Is Out As USA Today’s Crossword
Puzzle Editor ---
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/timothy-parker-accused-of-plagiarism-is-out-as-usa-todays-crossword-puzzle-editor/
Bob Jensen's threads on plagiarism ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Plagiarism.htm
Five Books Bill Gates Wants You to Read This Summer ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/05/5-books-bill-gates-wants-you-to-read-this-summer.html
A new book says you need passion and perseverance to
achieve your goals in work and life. Is this a bold new idea or an old one
dressed up to be the latest self-help sensation?
"Is “Grit” Really the Key to Success?" by Daniel Engber, Slate, May 2016
---
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/cover_story/2016/05/angela_duckworth_says_grit_is_the_key_to_success_in_work_and_life_is_this.html#rt
Scientists have tried to solve this puzzle
for more than 50 years, writes Duckworth in her new book
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance.
But even the school’s best means of screening its applicants—something
called the “whole candidate score,” a weighted mixture of a student’s SATs,
high school ranking, leadership ability, and physical fitness—does not
anticipate who will succeed and who will fail at Beast. So Duckworth
designed her own way of scoring candidates, giving each a survey that tested
his or her willingness to persevere in pursuit of long-term goals. She
called this measure “grit.” And guess what? Grit worked. The cadets’ survey
answers helped predict whether they would make it through the grueling
program. Duckworth’s best-seller peddles a pair of big ideas: that
grit—comprising a person’s perseverance and passion—is among the most
important predictors of success and that we all have the power to increase
our inner grit. These two theses, she argues, apply not just to cadets but
to kids in troubled elementary schools and undergrads at top-ranked
universities and to scientists, artists, and entrepreneurs. Duckworth’s book
describes a wide array of “paragons of grit,” people she’s either
interviewed or studied from afar: puzzlemasters and magicians, actors and
inventors, children and adults, Steve Young and Julia Child. Grit appears in
all of them, sprinkled over their achievements like a magic Ajax powder. In
tandem with some feisty scrubbing, it dissolves whatever obstacles might
hold a person back.
While her book has only just arrived,
Duckworth’s gritty tales—and the endlessly extensible ideas they
represent—have already spread throughout the country, into
classrooms,
boardrooms, and
locker rooms
alike. Popularized in a
viral TED talk from
2013 and validated by that year’s
MacArthur “genius” grant, they’ve been inscribed into
national education policy, and public school districts in California are
grading kids—as well as
schools themselves—on
grit. Duckworth’s message has been broadcast with such speed and
thoroughness that other people even started selling
books on grit
before she published her own.
With
Grit,
Duckworth has now put out the definitive handbook for her theory of success.
It parades from one essential topic to another on a float of common sense,
tossing out scientific insights as it goes along. How to raise your kids,
how to unearth your inner passion, how to find a higher purpose—like other
self-help authors, Duckworth finds authoritative answers to these questions,
promising to change how we see the world. And like other self-help authors,
she pulls a sleight of hand by which even widely held assumptions end up
looking like discoveries. It’s as important to work hard, the book contends,
as it is to be a natural talent. Who would disagree with that?
Continued in article
Jensen Comment
Years ago one of my psychology professors at Stanford who did a long-term
(funded by the US Navy) study of predictors of success and concluded that the
fundamental problem of such research was in defining and measuring "success."
He termed this "The Criterion Problem" ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/assess.htm#Predictors
A message from Professor XXXXX
I recently
submitted an article on Assessment Outcomes for distance education (DE)
to "The Technology Source". The editor suggested that I include a
reference to profiling the successful DE student because he was sure
some research existed on the subject. Well I have been looking for it
casually for 3 years in my reading and the 3-4 conferences per year that
I attend, and never have come across anything. Have spent the last week
looking in InfoTrac and reviewed close to 300 abstracts, without a
single good lead. You are the man. So hoping you can answer the question
- is there any empirical research on the question of profiling a
successful DE student and in particular any research where an
institution actually has a hurdle for students to get into DE based on a
pedagogically sound questionnaire? Hoping you know the answer and have
time to respond.
Reply from Bob Jensen
Hi XXXXX,
I am reminded of a psychology
professor, Tom Harrell, that I had years ago at Stanford University. He had
a long-term contract from the U.S. Navy to study Stanford students when they
entered the MBA program and then follow them through their careers. The
overall purpose was to define predictors of success that could be used for
admission to the Stanford GSB (and extended to tests for admission into
careers, etc.) Dr, Harrell's research became hung up on "The Criterion
Problem (i.e., the problem of defining and measuring "success.") You will
have the same trouble whenever you try to assess graduates of any education
program whether it is onsite or online. What is success? What is the role
any predictor apart from a myriad of confounded variables?
You might take a look at the
following reference:
Harrell, T.W. (1992). "Some history of the army general classifications
test," Journal of Applied Psychology, 77, 875-878.
Success is a relative term. Grades
not always good criteria for assessment. Perhaps a C student is the
greatest success story of a distance education program. Success may lie in
motivating a weak student to keep trying for the rest of life to learn as
much as is possible. Success may lie in motivating a genius to channel
creativity. Success may lie in scores on a qualification examination such
as the CPA examination. However, use of "scores" is very misleading,
because the impact of a course or entire college degree is confounded by
other predictors such as age, intellectual ability, motivation, freedom to
prepare for the examination, etc.
Success may lie in advancement in
the workforce, but promotion and opportunity are subject to widely varying
and often-changing barriers and opportunities. A program's best graduate
may end up on a dead end track, and its worst graduate may be a maggot who
fell in a manure pile. For example, it used to be virtually impossible for
a woman to become a partner in a large public accounting firm. Now the way
is paved with all sorts of incentives for women to hang in there and attain
partnership. Success also entails being at the right place at the right
time, and this is often a matter of luck as well as ability. George Bush
probably would never have had an opportunity to become one of this nation's
best leaders if there had not been a terrorist attack that afforded him such
an opportunity. Certainly this should not be termed "lucky," but it is a
rare "opportunity" to be a great "success."
Eileen Myles sent poems to
The New Yorker for 30 years. Finally,
one was accepted. Payment: $600 and two nights at a motel ---
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2016/04/times-ive-got-paid/
Here’s What You’ll Pay for Health Care In
Retirement (Social Security benefits won't even cover your health care costs
if you add supplemental Medicare insurance (that I recommend by the way)) ---
http://time.com/money/4340299/what-youll-pay-healthcare-in-retirement/
Forget about retiring
on Social Security. Health care costs alone will devour the entire lifetime
benefits—and then some—of a 45-year-old couple when they retire, according
to projections released Wednesday by HealthView Services, a Danvers, Mass.-
based company that provides retirement health care cost data and tools to
financial advisers.
Social Security
payments will stretch farther for current retirees, but the numbers are
still stark: In 2016, the average 66-year-old couple will require 57% of
their lifetime, pre-tax Social Security benefits to pay for health care
costs, according to HealthView Services. The average 45-year-old couple, by
contrast, will need 116% of lifetime Social Security payments to cover
health care costs.
Total retirement health care expenses for that 45-year-old couple planning
to retire at age 65 will come to $592,275 in today’s dollars and $1.6
million in future dollars, HealthView Services projects. The projection
assumes the male member of the couple will live to 87 and the female to 89.
The total tab includes premiums for Medicare Part B, which covers doctors’
visits, Part D, which covers drugs, and Part F, which is the most
comprehensive supplemental insurance. It also includes expenses not covered
by Medicare, such as dental work and hearing aids. Notably, it does not
include long-term care costs. Medicare does not pay for long-term stays in
nursing homes, or for assisted living facilities.
Of course, these averages won’t reflect everyone’s experience. People’s
individual health status will influence how much they pay. What’s more, not
everyone will choose to buy a Part F Medigap policy. It’s a popular but
expensive choice, with monthly premiums that vary widely by region but
average around $200.
While expensive, Part F plans eliminate a lot of the uncertainty of medical
expenses. Premiums are predictable and cover most of beneficiaries’
out-of-pocket expenses. Without a supplemental plan, beneficiaries could be
on the hook for even more if they have a big medical episode, such as a
stroke, or a serious diagnosis like cancer.
On Plan F, “if you never have a problem and drop dead at 110, you’ll have
wasted a lot of money,” said Ron Mastrogiovanni, founder and CEO of
HealthView Services. A more likely scenario, he said, is that, “We’re not
going to stay healthy throughout retirement.”
Continued in article
Bob Jensen's universal health care messaging ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Health.htm
Sorry, Bernie fans. His health care plan is short
$17,000,000,000,000.
The studies, published
jointly by the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center and the Urban Institute in
Washington, concludes that Sanders's plans are short a total of more than $18
trillion over a decade ---
Max Ehrenfreund.
Washington Post ---
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/05/09/the-17-trillion-problem-with-bernie-sanderss-health-care-plan-2/
Thomas Piketty ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Piketty
"Why Does Inequality Matter?
Reflections on the Political Morality of Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First
Century"
SSRN, December 11, 2015
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2769759
Tax Law Review, Vol. 68, No. 3, 2015
Author
Liam Murphy, New York University School of Law
Abstract
In the
Conclusion to Capital in the Twenty-First Century Thomas Piketty issues a
call for a political and historical economics. Like Marx and the political
economists before him, Piketty is interested in how markets work because he
is interested in the rights and wrongs of institutional, especially legal,
design. His is book is guided by a clear sense that economic inequality,
especially inequality of wealth, raises serious prima facie problems of
social justice. This essay is a critical investigation into the political
morality underlying Capital in the Twenty-First Century that unravels and
evaluates the different ways in which economic inequality may or may not
matter.
Bob Jensen's threads on Bob Jensen's Threads
on Real Options, Option Pricing Theory, and Arbitrage Pricing Theory ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/realopt.htm
Real Options Valuation ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_options_valuation
Real Options
by Vladimir Antikarov and Thomas E. Copeland
ISBN: 1587991861 Hard Cover 9/1/2003
http://www.traderslibrary.com/s/Real-Options-Revised-Edition-A-Practitio-9781587991868/2097420.htm
Synopsis:
This revised edition of the highly successful book, Real Options, offers
corporate decision-makers the ability to assess the profitability of their
ventures and decide which avenue of expansion or investment to go down and,
crucially, when to take that leap. The reader goes on a journey through real
options, from the basics to more advanced topics such as options and game
theory. It provides expert guidance on how to implement the theory to
maximize investment opportunities by utilizing uncertainty as an asset and
reducing downside risk.
Jacket Description:
Determining the feasibility and the priority of potential investments is
critical in business decision making. A new method for estimating the value
of investments -- real options -- is gaining ground over the traditional
approach of calculating net present value (NPV). Tom Copeland and Vladimir
Antikarov argue that in ten years real options will replace NPV as the
central paradigm for investment decisions. This book offers the first
practitioner's guide for understanding and implementing real options in
everyday decision making. The authors bring years of experience with dozens
of corporations in implementing real options. Copeland and Antikarov show
how NPV is flawed and tends to undervalue investment opportunities. NPV is a
static calculation that fails to consider the many options that management
has over the lifetime of an investment project. Such options include
expanding or extending the project if results are better than expected or
scaling down or abandoning the project if it turns out to be worse than
expected. There are chapters that deal with valuing various types of simple
options, such as deferral, abandonment, expansion, and contraction of
projects, and more advanced options such as compound and switching options.
Chapter 2 shows how Airbus Industrie uses real options in its marketing
efforts and discusses the difficulties encountered in implementing real
options. Chapter 7 shows how to write an Excel spreadsheet to value simple
options, combinations of them, and compound options. Chapters 9 and 10
discuss ways of modeling uncertainties. The analysis is enriched with case
histories and case solutions. The end-of-chapter questions and problems
provide both experience and additional insights into the application of real
options. The authors also offer solutions to the questions posed in the
book, as well as real option models useful to the would-be practitioner on
their Web site,
www.corpfinontine.com .
"Real option analysis of aircraft acquisition:
A case study," by Qiwei Hu and Anming Zhang,
Journal of Air Transport Management, Volume 46, July 2015, Pages 19–29 ---
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0969699715000381
This paper demonstrates
that aircraft acquisition by airlines may contain a portfolio of real
options (flexible strategies) embedded in the investment's life cycle, and
that if airlines rely solely on the static NPV method, they are likely to
underestimate the true investment value. Two real options are investigated:
i) the “shutdown-restart” option (a carrier may shutdown a plane if revenues
are less than costs, but restarts it if revenues are more than costs), and
ii) the option to defer aircraft delivery. We quantify the values of these
options in a case study of a major U.S. airline. The economic insight could
help explain observed capital expenditures of airlines, and serve as a rule
of thumb in evaluating capital budgeting decisions. A compound option
(consisting of both the shutdown-restart and defer options) is also
analyzed.
Airbus and Boeing: Superjumbo Decisions
by Samuel E BodilyKenneth C. Lichtendahl
Harvard Case
https://hbr.org/product/airbus-and-boeing-superjumbo-decisions/UV1312-PDF-ENG
Real Options Valuation Limitations ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_options_valuation#Limitations
Jensen Comment
Many moons ago, Stewart Myers and I were in a doctoral program together at
Stanford University. After graduation, Stewart became one of the most
outstanding economics and financial researchers of the world --- http://mitsloan.mit.edu/faculty/detail.php?in_spseqno=95&co_list=F
The term "real options" can be attributed to the Stewart Myers ("Determinants
of Capital Borrowing", Journal of Financial Economics, Vol..5, 1977). The theory
of real options extends the concept of financial options (in particular call
options) into the realm of capital budgeting under uncertainty and valuation of
corporate assets or entire corporations.
The real options approach is dynamic in the sense that includes the effect of
uncertainty along the time, and what/how/when the relevant real options shall be
exercised. Some argue that real options do little more than can be done with
dynamic programming of investment states under uncertainty, real options add a
rich economic theory to capital investing under uncertainty.
The real options problem can be viewed as a problem of optimization under
uncertainty of a real asset (project, firm, land, etc.) given the available
options. Since I have been asked to teach a bit about real options theory while
I lectured years ago at Monterrey Tech in Mexico, I thought I might share a bit
of my source material that I discovered on the Web.
Real Options are mentioned in the FASB's "Special Report: Business and
Financial Reporting, Challenges from the New Economy," by Wayne Upton, Financial
Accounting Standards Board, Document 219-A, April 2000 ---
http://accounting.rutgers.edu/raw/fasb/new_economy.html (Like so many
older Rutgers FASB links the link is broken and lost forever)
Wayne Upton wrote as follows on pp. 91-93:
Measurement and Real
Options
Perhaps the most
promising area for valuation of intangible assets is the developing
literature in valuation techniques based on the concept of real options.
Techniques using real options analysis are especially useful in estimating
the value of intangible assets that are under development and may not prove
to be commercially viable.
A real option is easier
to describe than to define. A financial option is a contract that grants to
the holder the right but not the obligation to buy or sell an asset at a
fixed price within a fixed period (or on a fixed date). The word option in
this context is consistent with its ordinary definition as “the power, right
or liberty of choosing.” Real option approaches attempt to extend the
intellectual rigor of option-pricing models to valuation of nonfinancial
assets and liabilities. Instead of viewing an asset or project as a single
set of expected cash flows, the asset is viewed as a series of compound
options that, if exercised, generate another option and a cash flow. That’s
a lot to pack into one sentence. In the opening pages of their recent book,
consultant Martha Amram and Boston University professor Nalin Kulatilaka
offer five examples of business situations that can be modeled as real
options: 56
• Waiting to invest
options, as in the case of a tradeoff between immediate plant expansion (and
possible losses from decreased demand) and delayed expansion (and possible
lost revenues)
• Growth options, as in
the decision to invest in entry into a new market
• Flexibility options,
as in the choice between building a single centrally located facility or
building two facilities in different locations
• Exit options, as in
the decision to develop a new product in an uncertain market
• Learning options, as
in a staged investment in advertising.
Real-options approaches
have captured the attention of both managers and consultants, but they
remain unfamiliar to many.
Proponents argue that
the application of option pricing to nonfinancial assets overcomes the
shortfalls of traditional present value analysis, especially the
subjectivity in developing risk-adjusted discount rates. They contend that a
focus on the value of flexibility provides a better measure of projects in
process that would otherwise appear uneconomical. A real-options approach is
consistent with either fair value (as described in Concepts Statement 7) or
an entity-specific value. The difference, as with more conventional present
value, rests with the selection of assumptions. If a real option is
available to any marketplace participant, then including it in the
computation is consistent with fair value. If a real option is
entity-specific, then a measurement that includes that option is not fair
value, but may be a good estimate of entity-specific value.
Bob Jensen's threads on Bob Jensen's Threads
on Real Options, Option Pricing Theory, and Arbitrage Pricing Theory ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/realopt.htm
Bob Jensen's threads on valuation ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/roi.htm
Cost of a high school football stadium in McKinney,
Texas, that the school board just approved. There will be
12,000 seats, which seems patently absurd to this life-long
East Coaster. [Sports
Illustrated]
High school football in Texas
is no joke, as the city of Allen has a $60 million
football stadium that holds 18,000 fans. Katy, Texas is
finalizing its own $62.5 million stadium
Jensen Comment
That should give taxpayers a concussion.
From the Scout Report on May 13, 2016
Google Photos ---
https://photos.google.com/
When Google retired Picasa in 2015, some users
bemoaned the loss of one of the web's more beloved photo services. Google
Photos, however, has proven itself a more comprehensive, flexible, and
advanced free service than Picasa ever was. Setup, which features easy drag
and drop methods, is simple. From there Google Photos automatically
organizes photos by people, places, and things, using advanced image
technology, and allows readers to search their photos in a manner similar to
the way they might search their Gmail account for a missing email. Google
Photos also provides easy-to-learn tools for cropping, filtering, and
sharing, as well as tools that allow readers to create albums, GIFs,
collages, and more. Google Photos is an advanced and streamlined free photo
service, and the app can be downloaded for both iOS and Android devices.
Kahoot! ---
https://getkahoot.com/
Kahoot! is a service that allows teachers to create
educational games for their students in a matter of minutes. The games are
usually built from a series of multiple choice questions, onto which
teachers may add videos, images, and diagrams in order to encourage
engagement. The games are designed to be played interactively, in a group
setting, in which each player answers questions on his or her own device
while games are displayed at the front of the room so every student can
engage in the total experience of the lesson. There is also a social
learning component, in that students contribute to discussion boards and
chat rooms in order to deepen their understanding.
In Response to Stress, France Seeks to Protect Workers from Emailing
from Home
The plan to ban work emails out of hours
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-36249647
France may give workers right to ignore emails at home
http://money.cnn.com/2016/02/18/news/france-email-work-law/
Workplace stress 'a collective challenge' as work-life boundaries become
blurred
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=53807
The Psychological Toll of the Smartphone: Researchers Uncover a New Form of
Social Pressure
http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/publications/observer/2014/may-june-14/the-psychological-toll-of-the-smartphone.html
Technology Use Before Bed Linked with Increased Stress
http://www.livescience.com/34807-technology-before-bed-increases-stress.html
How stress affects your health
http://www.apa.org/helpcenter/stress.aspx
From the Scout Report on May 20, 2016
Fotor Collage Maker ---
http://www.fotor.com/features/collage.html
Making a collage used to be labor intensive. First
the artist needed to print pictures or cut them out from magazines. Then
there was the process of scissors and glue. Mistakes were often made that
could not be fixed. Those days are long gone, and in their place we have
Fotor's Collage Maker, which makes collaging fun, easy, and glue-free. Click
"get started" on the site to begin. From there, the program shows you how to
drag and drop your photos onto the working space. Borders can be shifted,
different templates can be used, and color and texture can be adjusted at
will. Best of all, the entire process is simple to learn and completely
free.
Remember the Milk ---
https://www.rememberthemilk.com
For readers who are looking for a basic to-do app,
Remember the Milk can help by breaking tasks down into smaller parts. For
those who don't need the bells and whistles of more complex professional
apps, it hits the sweet spot between functionality and simplicity of use.
Sign up is free, and requires nothing more than an email address. From
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doing, wherever you are, whenever the time is right. The app also includes a
subtasks category, which breaks larger tasks down into smaller, more
manageable pieces, so that you can make headway on even the largest
projects.
Looking Back on the History of Social Media as Twitter Adjusts its 140
Character Limit
Twitter's 140 Character Limit _ Time to Ditch It?
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/05/17/technology/ap-us-tec-twitter-character-limits.html
Twitter 'to stop counting photos and links in character limit'
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36305921
Two-Hit Wonder
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/10/21/two-hit-wonder
Timeline of Instagram from 2010 to Present [INFOGRAPHIC]
http://www.socialmediatoday.com/content/timeline-instagram-2010-present-infographic
The History of Social Media [INFOGRAPHIC]
http://mashable.com/2011/01/24/the-history-of-social-media-infographic/#8m6FeUD3hkqH
Social Media: Did It Really Start With Facebook?
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/social-media-did-it-really-start-with-facebook-geek-history-lesson/
Free Online Tutorials, Videos, Course Materials, and
Learning Centers
Education Tutorials
NEA: The 10 Best STEM Resources ---
http://www.nea.org/tools/lessons/stem-resources.html
The Concord Consortium: Bridges (STEM bridges for college preparation) ---
https://concord.org/stem-resources/bridges
About Bioscience ---
http://www.aboutbioscience.org/
YouTube: Veritasium (facts in science) ---
https://www.youtube.com/user/1veritasium
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
String Field Theory ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_field_theory
String field theory could be the key to solving the greatest
mystery in physics – explained in under 60 seconds ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/sean-carroll-explains-string-theory-in-60-seconds-2016-5
About Bioscience ---
http://www.aboutbioscience.org/
NEA: The 10 Best STEM Resources ---
http://www.nea.org/tools/lessons/stem-resources.html
The Concord Consortium: Bridges (STEM bridges for college preparation) ---
https://concord.org/stem-resources/bridges
DNA ---
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA
The DNA Files ---
http://www.dnafiles.org/
DNA Barcoding 101 ---
http://www.dnabarcoding101.org/
The Plan to Rescue Hawaii’s Birds with Genetic Engineering ---
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601383/the-plan-to-rescue-hawaiis-birds-with-genetic-engineering/#/set/id/601436/
American Birding Association ---
http://aba.org
Evolution of Terrestrial Ecosystems Program (Smithsonian) ---
http://naturalhistory.si.edu/ETE
YouTube: Veritasium (facts in science) ---
https://www.youtube.com/user/1veritasium
APA: Education and Psychology ---
http://www.apa.org/education
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
APA: Education and Psychology ---
http://www.apa.org/education
Atlas of Emotions ---
http://atlasofemotions.com
The World Bank: Annual Report 2015 ---
http://www.worldbank.org/en/about/annual-report
Advances in Visualization
Mapping for Results: The World Bank ---
http://maps.worldbank.org
USA First Amendment ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
First Amendment Center
http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org
Woman Suffrage and the 19th Amendment ---
http://teachinghistory.org/teaching-materials/lesson-plan-reviews/23943
An Invitation to Dance: A History of Social Dance in America ---
http://www.americanantiquarian.org/Exhibitions/Dance
Pew Research Center: Israel's Religiously Divided Society ---
http://www.pewforum.org/2016/03/08/israels-religiously-divided-society/
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Abhidharma (historical Buddah) ---
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/abhidharma/
Frontloading HQ (USA politics and elections) ---
http://frontloading.blogspot.com/
IssueLab ---
http://www.issuelab.org/
Rebuilding Haiti ---
http://apps.rue89.com/haiti/en/
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
Bob Jensen's threads on law and legal studies are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Math and Statistics Tutorials
Khan Academy: Right triangles and trigonometry ---
https://www.khanacademy.org/math/geometry/right-triangles-topic
PredictWise (politics and sports) ---
http://predictwise.com
Nate Silver's 5:38 Blog ---
http://fivethirtyeight.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
Awful Library Books ---
http://awfullibrarybooks.net
An Invitation to Dance: A History of Social Dance in America ---
http://www.americanantiquarian.org/Exhibitions/Dance
Google Cultural Institute: Albertina (art history) ---
https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/collection/albertina-vienna
The World Bank: Annual Report 2015 ---
http://www.worldbank.org/en/about/annual-report
George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum ---
http://www.georgewbushlibrary.smu.edu/
2015: The Year in Visual Stories and Graphics ---
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/us/year-in-interactive-storytelling.html?_r=0
Pew Research Center: Israel's Religiously Divided Society ---
http://www.pewforum.org/2016/03/08/israels-religiously-divided-society/
Found Poetry: Retelling History through Poetry ---
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/primarysourcesets/poetry
USA First Amendment ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
First Amendment Center
http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org
Woman Suffrage and the 19th Amendment ---
http://teachinghistory.org/teaching-materials/lesson-plan-reviews/23943
Reno Historical ---
http://renohistorical.org/
Rebuilding Haiti ---
http://apps.rue89.com/haiti/en/
Baylor Institute for Oral History (philosophy, religion, Baptist Church,
Texas history) ---
http://digitalcollections.baylor.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/buioh
Texas ---
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas
The Portal to Texas History ---
http://texashistory.unt.edu/
Texas State Library and Archives Commission ---
https://www.tsl.texas.gov/arc
Dallas Museum of Art: Texas Art ---
http://www.dma.org/art/texas-art
Abilene Public Library Centennial Series: Oral History
Transcripts ---
http://wtda.alc.org/handle/123456789/8
The Painted Churches of Texas ---
http://www.klru.org/paintedchurches/history_czechs.html
Historic Houston Photographs ---
http://digital.lib.uh.edu/cdm4/about_collection.php?CISOROOT=/p15195coll2
Houston Area Digital Archives ---
http://digital.houstonlibrary.org/cdm/
Houston Area Digital Archives ---
http://digital.houstonlibrary.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/maps
The Signal: Digital Preservation (digital historical preservation
technology) ---
http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/
Texas Public Interest Research Group ---
http://www.texpirg.org/
Casasola Studio Photo Database (history of El Paso) ---
http://digitalcommons.utep.edu/casasola/
Bob Jensen's threads on history tutorials are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Also see
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm
Bob Jensen's links to free courses and tutorials ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
Language Tutorials
Bob Jensen's links to language tutorials are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2-Part2.htm#Languages
Music Tutorials
An Invitation to Dance: A History of Social Dance in America ---
http://www.americanantiquarian.org/Exhibitions/Dance
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra: Podcasts ---
http://www.laco.org/podcasts
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/
May 11, 2016
May 13, 2016
May 16, 2016
FFDA:
Stronger Warnings for Class of Antibiotics
More Kids Accidentally Poisoned by Essential Oils
Booze, High Blood Pressure a Dangerous Mix
How to Manage Your Tot's Screen Time
Inactive
Women and Higher Cervical Cancer Risk
5 Warning Signs of Stroke
Puerto Rico Reports First Zika-Linked Birth Defect
Early Breast Cancer and Alternative Medicine
Is Ovary Removal Tied
to Colon Cancer Risk?
Severe Childhood Asthma Linked to COPD Risk Later
May 19, 2016
May 20, 2016
Precision' Cancer Treatment May Extend Lives
FDA Approves New Drug to Treat Bladder Cancer
Melanoma Drug Boosting Survival for Many
25M Will Struggle With Vision Problems by 2050
This After Mini-Stroke May Drop Major Stroke Risk
Public Pools, Hot Tubs Closed for Dirty Water: CDC
Breast Milk May Have Helped Spread Ebola in Africa
Many Smokers Have COPD Symptoms, Without Diagnosis
High HIV Rates for Gay Men in Some Southern Cities
Drug May Help Kids With Sickle Cell Breathe Easier
May 21, 2016
May 23, 2016
May 24, 2016
May 25, 2016
Scott McLemee reviews a new book by Christina Crosby, who discusses the
reality of her life after a horrific accident with a candor that must be
experienced to be believed ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2016/05/11/review-christina-crosby-body-undone-living-after-great-pain-memoir?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=bc70753926-DNU20160511&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-bc70753926-197565045
Erika will have spine surgery Number 16 on May 13, 2016 at Dartmouth's
Medical Center. The above article was especially scary to read two days before
May 13, which also happens to be Friday 13. This time an electric pain
stimulator will be installed in Erika's lower back in between the four rods. I
will not be tending to my email mailbox for about a week or so.
Erika is not paralyzed and has the courage to have elective surgery that could leave her paralyzed. I don't think I have that kind of courage.
Here are pictures of our fond memories of 24 years in Texas
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Erika is not paralyzed and has the courage to have elective surgery that could leave her paralyzed. I don't think I have that kind of courage.
Here are pictures of our fond memories of 24 years in Texas
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Erika is not
paralyzed and has the courage to have elective surgery that could leave her
paralyzed. I don't think I have that kind of courage.
Here are pictures of our fond memories of 24 years in Texas ---
www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/TexasMemories\Set01\Set01.htm
The Case Against Artificial Sweeteners is Getting Stronger ---
http://time.com/4323328/aspartame-artificial-sweeteners-sugar/?xid=newsletter-brief
"When Doctors Stop ‘Seeing’ Patients," by Abraham M. Nussbaum,
The
Wall Street Journal, May 8, 2016 ---
http://www.wsj.com/articles/when-doctors-stop-seeing-patients-1462738682?mod=djemMER
Physicians
aptly speak of “seeing” patients. After all, medical training is a series of
vision lessons. Students look closely at a nameless cadaver and disassemble
it until it resembles the pictures in an anatomy text. They watch lectures
in which interrelated organ systems are displayed as simple machines.
Often,
however, doctors’ vision narrows too far. We begin to see the body as a
collection of parts and lose sight of the person before us. Early in my
medical training, this way of seeing began intruding on the rest of my life.
During movies I imagined the best surgical approach for the actress. I saw
friends’ physical imperfections as signs of syndromes.
So I took a
leave of absence from med school to study history, literature and theology.
The humanities taught me that the questions I was wrestling with are
foundational to the history of medicine. In Platonic medicine, a physician
sought to diagnose disease as a concrete fact. Hippocrates,
who lived around 400 B.C., reoriented doctors toward seeking to understand
the beneficial and deleterious forces in a patient’s life and then helping
rebalance them in favor of health.
For the
past two centuries, physicians have been counseled to pursue something akin
to Platonic medicine, to act like scientists. Remarkable
technologies—antibiotics, anesthesia, antisepsis—resulted. But physicians
also shifted away from the Hippocratic pursuit of understanding patients.
Today’s clinics are often alienating, as when a physician spends a checkup
gazing into a computer screen. Half of doctors
report
feeling burned out, and a majority
would advise
against a medical career.
Physicians
are trained to speak in numbers: prevalence rates, survival odds and
remission statistics. They talk to administrators about days of
uncompensated care and billing variances. But numbers are, as the historian
of science Theodore Porter says, “a technology of distance.” They require us to abstract and
standardize. The patient becomes a case report, a billing code, a quality
metric.
I wonder
about renewing medicine through the kind of vision lessons I received when I
took a break from med school. Sustained encounters with the humanities would
be beneficial. So would recommitting to the Hippocratic ideal of seeking
understanding of each particular patient.
Continued in article
So you want to have a baby. Why leave anything -- gender, intelligence,
personality, propensity for disease -- to chance? Welcome to the future of
sex-free reproduction
Is This the End of Sex? ---
http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2016/05/end-sex
A baby grown from a flake of skin or from the genes
of three parents – the future of reproduction is mind-boggling
Continued in article
Jensen Comment
Since the writings of Darwin we've known that evolution is the process of
adaptation which, according to Darwin, leads to survival of the fittest. One of
the concerns with cloning is that it will halt adaptation. But by the time this
is a genuine problem we will be building robots that do the adaptation for us.
Humor May 1-11, 2015
Monty Python’s Philosopher’s Football Match: The Epic Showdown Between the
Greeks & Germans (1972) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/05/monty-pythons-philosophers-football-match-greeks-v-germans-1972.html
Forwarded by Paula
WHOREHOUSE SUES LOCAL CHURCH OVER LIGHTNING STRIKE!
What an interesting turn of events in Pahrump, Nevada...
Diamond D's brothel began construction on an expansion of their building to
increase their ever-growing business.
In response, the local Baptist Church started a campaign to block the
business from expanding -- with morning, afternoon, and evening prayer sessions
at their church.
Work on Diamond D's progressed right up until the week before the grand
re-opening when lightning struck the whorehouse and burned it to the ground!
After the brothel burned to the ground by the lightning strike, the church
folks were rather smug in their outlook, bragging about "the power of prayer."
But late last week 'Big Jugs' Jill Diamond, the owner/madam, sued the church,
the preacher and the entire congregation on the grounds that the church ... "was
ultimately responsible for the demise of her building and her business -- either
through direct or indirect divine actions or means."
In its reply to the court, the church vehemently and vociferously denied any
and all responsibility or any connection to the building's demise.
The crusty old judge read through the plaintiff's complaint and the
defendant's reply, and at the opening hearing he commented, "I don't know how
the hell I'm going to decide this case, but it appears from the paperwork, that
we now have a whorehouse owner who staunchly believes in the power of prayer,
and an entire church congregation that thinks it's all bullshit."
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
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http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q4.htm#Humor123115.htm.htm
Humor November 1-30, 2015
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http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q4.htm#Humor113015.htm
Humor October 1-31, 2015
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http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q4.htm#Humor103115
Humor September 1-30, 2015
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http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q3.htm#Humor093015
Humor August 1-31, 2015
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http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q3.htm#Humor081115
Humor July 1-31, 2015
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http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q3.htm#Humor073115
Humor June 1-30, 2015
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http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q2.htm#Humor043015
Humor May 1-31, 2015
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http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q2.htm#Humor043015
Humor April 1-30, 2015
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http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q2.htm#Humor043015
Humor March 1-31, 2015
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http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q1.htm#Humor033115
Humor February 1-28, 2015
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http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q1.htm#Humor022815
Humor January 1-31, 2015
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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 ---
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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
-
With a Rejoinder from the 2010 Senior Editor of The Accounting Review
(TAR), Steven J. Kachelmeier
- With Replies in Appendix 4 to Professor Kachemeier by Professors
Jagdish Gangolly and Paul Williams
- With Added Conjectures in Appendix 1 as to Why the Profession of
Accountancy Ignores TAR
- With Suggestions in Appendix 2 for Incorporating Accounting Research
into Undergraduate Accounting Courses
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?
---
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 ---
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http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/threads.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called
New
Bookmarks ---
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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
For an elaboration on the reasons you should join a ListServ (usually for
free) go to http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ListServRoles.htm
AECM
(Educators)
http://listserv.aaahq.org/cgi-bin/wa.exe?HOME
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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CPAS-L
(Practitioners)
http://pacioli.loyola.edu/cpas-l/ (Closed
Down)
CPAS-L provides a forum for discussions of
all aspects of the practice of accounting. It provides an
unmoderated environment where issues, questions, comments,
ideas, etc. related to accounting can be freely discussed.
Members are welcome to take an active role by posting to CPAS-L
or an inactive role by just monitoring the list. You qualify for
a free subscription if you are either a CPA or a professional
accountant in public accounting, private industry, government or
education. Others will be denied access. |
Yahoo (Practitioners)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xyztalk
This forum is for CPAs to discuss the activities of the AICPA.
This can be anything from the CPA2BIZ portal to the XYZ
initiative or anything else that relates to the AICPA. |
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. |
Business Valuation Group
BusValGroup-subscribe@topica.com
This discussion group is headed by Randy Schostag
[RSchostag@BUSVALGROUP.COM] |
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
FINANCIAL REPORTING PORTAL
www.financialexecutives.org/blog
Find news highlights from the SEC, FASB
and the International Accounting
Standards Board on this financial
reporting blog from Financial Executives
International. The site, updated daily,
compiles regulatory news, rulings and
statements, comment letters on
standards, and hot topics from the Web’s
largest business and accounting
publications and organizations. Look for
continuing coverage of SOX requirements,
fair value reporting and the Alternative
Minimum Tax, plus emerging issues such
as the subprime mortgage crisis,
international convergence, and rules for
tax return preparers. |
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The CAlCPA Tax Listserv
September 4, 2008 message from Scott Bonacker
[lister@bonackers.com]
Scott has been a long-time contributor to the AECM listserv (he's a techie as
well as a practicing CPA)
I found another listserve
that is exceptional -
CalCPA maintains
http://groups.yahoo.com/taxtalk/
and they let almost anyone join it.
Jim Counts, CPA is moderator.
There are several highly
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the answers are often in depth.
Scott
Scott forwarded the following message from Jim
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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:
rjensen@trinity.edu