http://www.wsj.com/graphics/college-rankings-2016/
US News Higher Education Rankings ---
http://www.usnews.com/info/blogs/press-room/articles/2016-09-13/us-news-releases-2017-best-colleges-rankings
In 2017 my Website was migrated to
the clouds and reduced in size.
Hence some links below are broken.
One thing to try if a “www” link is broken is to substitute “faculty” for “www”
For example a broken link
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Pictures.htm
can be changed to corrected link
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Pictures.htm
However in some cases files had to be removed to
reduce the size of my Website
Contact me at rjensen@trinity.edu if you really need to file that is missing
Tidbits on October 12, 2016
Bob Jensen
at
Trinity University
Wes Lavin's 2016 Foliage Photographs: Parts 1 and 2
Wes Lavin's 2016
Autumn Foliage Part 1
http://cs.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Lavin/2016Sept/2016FoliagePart1.htm
Wes Lavin's Autumn
Foliage Photographs: Part 2
http://cs.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Lavin/2016Oct/2016FoliagePart2.htm
Tidbits on October 12, 2016
Bob Jensen's Tidbits ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm
For
earlier editions of Fraud Updates go to
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm
For earlier editions of New Bookmarks go to
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookurl.htm
Bookmarks for the World's Library ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Bob Jensen's past
presentations and lectures
---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/resume.htm#Presentations
Bob Jensen's Threads ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/threads.htm
Bob Jensen's Home Page is at http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/
More of Bob Jensen's Pictures and
Stories
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Pictures.htm
Updates from WebMD --- Click Here
Scholarpedia (a cross between Wikipedia and Google Scholar) --- http://www.scholarpedia.org
Google Scholar --- https://scholar.google.com/
Wikipedia --- https://www.wikipedia.org/
Bob Jensen's search helpers --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/searchh.htm
Bob Jensen's World Library --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm
Tidbits October 2016 Special Edition for the AECM Blackout Period
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/2016/Tidbits101216SpecialEdition.htm
The above link contains tidbits for my three blogs added during the AECM listserv's blackout period in October 2016.
Rather than flood readers email boxes with separate messages I included all of them in the above link.
Online Video, Animations, Slide Shows, and Audio
What Life Was Like for Teenagers in Ancient Rome: Get a Glimpse from a TED-ED
Animation ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/10/what-life-was-like-for-teenagers-in-ancient-rome-get-a-glimpse-from-a-ted-ed-animation.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Las Vegas Magician Mac King Shows Us A Trick --- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmI9uwYzH9o
Free music downloads ---
http://faculty.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://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/music.htm
I Am The Edison Phonograph (1906) ---
http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/i-am-the-edison-phonograph-1906/
Hear the First Recording of Computer Music: Researchers Restore
Three Melodies Programmed on Alan Turing’s Computer (1951) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/09/hear-the-first-recording-of-computer-music.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Hear a Playlist of the 336 Songs Mentioned in Bruce
Springsteen’s New Memoir, Born to Run (no thanks) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/09/hear-a-playlist-of-the-336-songs-mentioned-in-bruce-springsteens-new-memoir-born-to-run.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Experience Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” in Virtual Reality:
Download the Free App Created by Queen & Google ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/10/experience-queens-bohemian-rhapsody-in-virtual-reality.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Wynton Marsalis Takes Louis Armstrong’s Trumpet Out of the
Museum & Plays It Again ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/05/wynton-marsalis-takes-louis-armstrongs-trumpet-out-of-the-museum-plays-it-again.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://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Music.htm
Photographs and Art
Wonderful wildlife: The winners of the ZSL Animal Photography
Prize 2016 ---
https://www.yahoo.com/news/wonderful-wildlife-the-winners-of-1524927452102710.html
Crocker Art Museum: Collections --- https://www.crockerartmuseum.org/collections
British Art Studies --- http://www.britishartstudies.ac.uk
Medieval Hungary --- http://jekely.blogspot.co.uk
Henri Matisse Illustrates James Joyce’s Ulysses (1935) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/10/henri-matisse-illustrates-james-joyces-ulysses-1935.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
#Opera Before Instagram: Portraits, 1890-1955 --- http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/opera-portraits-1890-to-1955
Artisans and Craft Production in Nineteenth-Century Scotland --- http://www.artisansinscotland.shca.ed.ac.uk
Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature --- https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/frankenstein
BioMedical Picture of the Day --- http://www.bpod.mrc.ac.uk
The 1995 Hubble Photo That Changed Astronomy ---
http://www.vox.com/2016/9/21/12989670/hubble-deep-field
Haiti: Hurricane Matthew's Aftermath ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/pictures-hurricane-matthew-haiti-2016-10/#the-port-city-of-les-cayes-flooded-suffering-badly-in-the-storm-1
Jim Martin's Gibbs Gardens Photographs ---
http://maaw.info/Photos/GibbsGardens.htm
31 vintage photos show what New York City looked like in the
early 1940s ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/beautiful-vintage-photos-of-manhattan-in-the-1940s-2016-10
10 breathtaking entries from the world's most famous photography
competition ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/entries-to-the-sony-world-photography-award-2016-9
The war in Afghanistan is 15 years old — here are 29 photos of
one of the US's longest wars ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/photos-of-15-years-of-us-war-in-afghanistan-2016-10
Gardenvisit.com --- http://www.gardenvisit.com/gardens
A Photographic History of Oregon State University --- http://photohistory.oregonstate.edu/works/photo-history
Bob Jensen's threads on art history ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm#ArtHistory
Bob Jensen's threads on history, literature and art ---
http://faculty.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://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm
Bob Jensen's threads on libraries --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm#---Libraries
A Master List of 800 Free Classic eBooks for iPad, Kindle & Other Devices ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/10/a-master-list-of-800-free-classic-ebooks-for-ipad-kindle-other-devices.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Henri Matisse Illustrates James Joyce’s Ulysses (1935) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/10/henri-matisse-illustrates-james-joyces-ulysses-1935.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Selected Shorts (performing arts short stories) --- http://www.selectedshorts.org/listen
Interesting Literature --- https://interestingliterature.com
The Big Roundtable: Publishing nonfiction short stories --- http://www.thebigroundtable.com/
8+ Hours of Classic Charles Dickens Stories Dramatized, Starring Orson Welles,
Boris Karloff, Richard Burton & More ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/09/8-hours-of-classic-charles-dickens-stories-dramatized.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Anthony Burgess Names the 99 Best Novels in English Between 1939 & 1983:
Orwell, Nabokov, Huxley & More ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/10/anthony-burgess-names-the-99-best-novels-in-english.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
The New Yorker Fiction Podcast --- http://www.newyorker.com/series/fiction-podcast
Free Electronic Literature ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm
Free Online Textbooks, Videos, and Tutorials ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm#Textbooks
Free Tutorials in Various Disciplines ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#Tutorials
Edutainment and Learning Games ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm#Edutainment
Open Sharing Courses ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
Now in
Another Tidbits Document
Political Quotations on October 12, 2016
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/2016/TidbitsQuotations101216.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://faculty.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://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Entitlements.htm
Bob Jensen's health care messaging updates --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Health.htm
How to Live Less Anxiously in Academe ---
http://www.chronicle.com/article/How-to-Live-Less-Anxiously-in/237920?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=de3966054c8b4a3db4920f8c9c51546d&elq=63ef1de6e7dc4e72b99de8df6aca5123&elqaid=10906&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=4147
Jensen Comment
To this I might add that great rewards come from becoming an academic specialist
to a level where there are relatively few specialists in the world of academe.
Literature professors leaned this long ago where we have professors who
literally followed in the footsteps of a famous author or poet. For example,
years ago Trinity University hired a highly-regarded professor in England named
Norman Sherry who first built his own reputation on literally following in the
footsteps of the famous author Joseph Conrad by traveling to places where Conrad
lived and worked and even staying in the same hotels whenever possible. Later
while at Trinity Norman did the same things at an even more intense level
re-living much of the life of Graham Greene ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Sherry
To me Norman was always very friendly and interesting on and off campus,
although there are many Norman Sherry stories floating around campus. He's a bit
of a character to say the least.
In my own case, as luck would have it in the 1980s, an extremely complex
accounting standard was being written on Accounting for Derivatives and Hedging
Activities. It later emerged as SFAS 133. I knew that virtually nobody in
academe knew much about this extremely complicated topic in terms of the new
accounting rules. Hence, by the time SFAS 133 emerged I became one of the few
academic experts teaching and consulting on this technical standard. I built my
reputation on it ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/caseans/000index.htm
Because of this specialization I was invited to numerous universities,
companies, and conferences to speak on the topic around the world ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Resume.htm#Presentations
Unlike the topics of Joseph Conrad and Graham Greene, the topic of hedge accounting does not make for exciting conversation at dinner parties. I helped further the reputation of accountants as being dull until I also learned a bit more about sports and weather --- topics about which Norman Sherry knows absolutely nothing.
Unimaginative Engineering Education: The Ingenious Richard K. Miller
http://nautil.us/issue/40/learning/ingenious-richard-k-miller
Jensen Comment
One of the most challenging courses in the Trinity University Engineering
Department is the Senior Design course. When reading the above article it I
thought about how in most five-year accounting programs accounting students
don't design anything in accountancy. They view the world of standards, rules,
and tax laws as if these were set in concrete --- and they are set in concrete
as far as the culminating national CPA examination is concerned.
Wouldn't it perhaps be better if in a five-year accountancy program accounting students had at least one accountancy design course?
Inside Higher Ed 2016: Key Trends in Graduate and Professional
Education: Attracting Students in Changing Times ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2016/10/05/new-compilation-graduate-education?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=56ea154f66-DNU20161005&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-56ea154f66-197565045&mc_cid=56ea154f66&mc_eid=1e78f7c952
Inside Higher Ed 2016: The State of Undergraduate Education ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/09/22/more-people-enroll-college-even-rising-price-tag-report-finds?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=00a3f1d133-DNU20160922&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-00a3f1d133-197565045&mc_cid=00a3f1d133&mc_eid=1e78f7c952
Jensen Comment
What the study fails to mention is the superiority of undergraduates today
relative to decades past. Half of today's students earn A- or better grades
whereas in the 1940s the median grade in the USA was closer to a C grade. College teachers today must all be doing a much better job
in Lake
Wobegon across the USA where nobody is average --- Bravo!
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/assess.htm#RateMyProfessor
Learn to Code with Harvard’s Popular Intro to Computer Science Course: The
2016 Edition ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/10/learn-to-code-with-harvards-popular-intro-to-computer-science-course-the-2016-edition.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
The Math Dude --- http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/math-dude
I don't know how many other academic journals do this, but the
Chronicle of Higher Education will publish "sponsored" articles that bypass
the normal refereeing and commentary process ---
http://www.chronicle.com/page/Sponsor-Content/654/
Here's an example of such an article paid for by the University of
Connecticut ---
http://www.chronicle.com/paid-article/Going-Going-Gone-A-Fish/4?cid=at&elqTrackId=2f1c3917b11b4508a6a05e2c6875427e&elq=1bc2b90621a94ebb90c300a37bda9c4a&elqaid=10969&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=4186
It's not clear whether or not the author contributed all or some of the funds to
the University of Connecticut for publication of the article.
Jensen Comment
Although such articles are not refereed in the usual sense I'm certain an editor passes judgment on the appropriateness of the sponsored article. For example, I seriously doubt whether a sponsored Chronicle article would be accepted that denies climate change. Some articles might also be deemed as too promotional although some promotion is deemed acceptable for sponsored articles.
What is more problematic is the role sponsored articles play in the hiring, promotion, tenure, and performance evaluation process. Of course this is an issue that may vary by institution. However, colleges and universities should probably start considering the role of such non-refereed articles in performance evaluations. For example, since the University of Connecticut paid for the above particle perhaps it was submitted ahead of time for some type of refereeing process by expert readers before it was submitted to the Chronicle by the University of Connecticut.
Although readers of the article can send comments to the University of Connecticut and/or the author of the paper, to my knowledge the Chronicle of Higher Education will not publish reader comments on the above article. The Chronicle does publish comments on most (but not all) of its mainline articles.
There's also an issue of liability and responsibility for legal issues in the article. I assume that the Chronicle and the authors are responsible for sponsored articles pretty much the same as their responsibility for traditional articles. What is not clear is how much responsibility also accrues to the sponsor paying for the article. For example, if there was a lawsuit concerning the above article would the University of Connecticut also become a party to that lawsuit? I suspect this is the case.
There also is a related question of responsibility for publishing serious corrections to the sponsored articles. Presumably the Chronicle will publish seriousl-needed corrections such as corrections for math errors, data errors, attribution errors, and other types of errors the Chronicle corrects for traditional articles.
Question
Do robots really eat novels to improve their ability to make conversation?
Answer
In a manner of speaking and some authors of those digested novels aren't
particularly happy about entering the digestive tracks of artificial
intelligence.
Google swallows 11,000 novels to improve AI's conversation ---
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/sep/28/google-swallows-11000-novels-to-improve-ais-conversation?CMP=share_btn_tw
Robot Written Reviews (of serious academic journals) Fool Academics ---
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/robot-written-reviews-fool-academics
. . .
Using automatic text generation software, computer scientists at Italy’s University of Trieste created a series of fake peer reviews of genuine journal papers and asked academics of different levels of seniority to say whether they agreed with their recommendations to accept for publication or not.
In a quarter of cases, academics said they agreed with the fake review’s conclusions, even though they were entirely made up of computer-generated gobbledegook – or, rather, sentences picked at random from a selection of peer reviews taken from subjects as diverse as brain science, ecology and ornithology.
“Sentences like ‘it would be good if you can also talk about the importance of establishing some good shared benchmarks’ or ‘it would be useful to identify key assumptions in the modelling' are probably well suited to almost any review,” explained Eric Medvet, assistant professor at Trieste’s department of engineering and architecture, who conducted the experiment with colleagues at his university’s Machine Learning Lab.
“If, by chance, a generated review combines sentences which are not too specific, but credible, the review itself may appear as written by a real, human reviewer even to the eyes of an experienced reader,” added Dr Medvet, whose paper, "Your Paper has been Accepted, Rejected, or Whatever: Automatic Generation of Scientific Paper Reviews", was published in the journal Lecture Notes in Computer Science last month.
Mixing the fake reviews with real reviews was also likely to distort decisions made by academics by making weak papers appear far stronger thanks to a series of glowing reviews, the paper found.
The research team was able to influence the peer review process in one in four cases by throwing fake reviews into the mix, it said.
“This [may be] the situation [faced by a] real conference programme chair…who has to take decisions about all the submissions at his or her conference,” Dr Medvet told Times Higher Education.
“He or she could decide [who to accept] without actually reading all the reviews, or maybe by giving them just a shallow read,” he added.
While computer-generated reviews “cannot possibly deceive any rigorous editorial procedure, [they] could nevertheless find a role in several questionable scenarios and magnify the scale of scholarly frauds”, the paper concludes.
With nearly 1,000 so-called "predatory publishers" seeking pay-to-publish journal papers, automatically generated reviews may make it easier for bogus papers to gain credibility, he added.
“It is quite easy to spot the fact that [these reviews] are not sound, but not if you do not read them,” said Dr Medvet.
Jensen Comment
I may have to get one of those to improve my three blogs. Maybe then I can
finally retire.
New Handbook for Educators Explains How to Produce & Distribute Free
Video for the World ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/10/new-handbook-for-educators-explains-how-to-produce-distribute-free-video-for-the-world.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Bob Jensen's threads on Tools and Tricks of the Trade ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm
More than 94M Americans (over the age
of 15) out of workforce Statistics show that 94 million people in the US older
than 15 don't have a job and aren't seeking one. The Labor Department projects
that by 2020, the number will top 101 million.)
http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2016/10/06/over-94-million-americans-are-outside-the-labor-force-and-thats-almost-certain-to-rise/
The 2016 labor force in the USA is 160 million ---
http://www.dlt.ri.gov/lmi/laus/us/usadj.htm
Jensen Comment
This ignores parents who are at home caring for a family full time. It also
ignores many millions of hard workers in the $2 trillion cash-only underground
economy who pay no income or payroll taxes.
How the owners of Fidelity get richer at everyday investors’ expense ---
http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-fidelity-family/
Quiz: How Well Do You Know Microsoft PowerPoint?
http://www.cgma.org/magazine/features/pages/microsoft-powerpoint-quiz.aspx
Click on "Submit" for more questions
Toyota Unveils Robot Baby to Tug at Maternal Instinct in Aging Japan ---
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-toyota-robot-baby-idUSKCN1230BR
Jensen Comment
I imagine a lot of young men can't wait for Toyota to advance the capabilities
of their blow up bedroom "companions."
Easy ways to clean stainless steel sinks and appliances ---
http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/house-home/housekeeping/6-easy-ways-to-clean-stainless-steel-appliances-and-sinks
Excel: Keyboarding for speed ---
http://www.journalofaccountancy.com/issues/2016/oct/excel-keyboard-commands.html?utm_source=mnl:cpald&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=10Oct2016
A Much Scarier Version of the Grandparent Scam: "We have your child"
Previously I reported that wegot
hit as grandparents by a phony call from a supposed grandchild allegedly
arrested outside the USA. As luck would have it we did not fall for it, although
this is a very convincing scam for grandparents who do not talk with a
grandchild frequently on the telephone and are not quite fine tuned in to voice
recognition like we are with our children ---
"Grandparent
scam" explained: What you need to know ---
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/grandparent-scam-explained-by-former-scammer-what-you-need-to-know/
These days it's often more common for grandparents and some of their
grandchildren to communicate via email rather than telephone. If you get an
emergency request from a grandchild don't fall for it immediately unless you are
100% certain that the call is genuine. You can ask a grandchild a question that
a scammer cannot answer such as what did we do together during our most recent
visit. If you send money send it via something like a postal money order or
certified check rather than give out a credit card number or checking account
number.
This is a less common scarier version where fake kidnappers report that
they have your child ---
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/we-have-your-daughter-a-virtual-kidnapping-and-a-mothers-five-hours-of-hell/2016/10/03/8f082690-8963-11e6-875e-2c1bfe943b66_story.html
This scam will probably get the FBI's attention.
Professors should make students aware of both of these types of scams. Students, in turn, should warn their parents and grandparents.
Indian police seek kingpins in tax scam aimed at Americans ---
https://www.yahoo.com/news/indian-police-seek-kingpins-tax-scam-aimed-americans-163430236--finance.html
Jensen Comment
Based upon voice accents, I suspect those computer repair scams also come out of
India.
How do you get impeccable handwriting (and earn a college diploma) when
you're blind and deaf?
Helen Keller’s Impeccable Handwriting: See a Collection of Her Childhood Letters
---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/10/helen-kellers-impeccable-handwriting.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Jensen Comment
Most of us with advanced degrees cannot yet write this well.
A 2016 Master List of 1,200
Free Courses From
Top Universities: 40,000 Hours of Audio/Video Lectures ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/09/a-master-list-of-1200-free-courses-from-top-universities.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
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
MOOCs and edX: World Religions Through Their Scriptures --- https://www.edx.org/xseries/world-religions-through-scriptures
By definition there are no admission standards to take a MOOC and admission is free, although fees may be charged for recognition (badges, completion credentials, or college credits) that have added academic standards. In general, MOOCs are video windows into advanced courses filmed live across the curriculum at prestigious universities. Although some universities provide MOOCs for introductory courses (undergraduate or graduate) MOOCs are not well suited to introductory students who need more hand holding and personalized supervision that are seldom, if ever, available in a MOOC taken by a "massive" number of students. At the Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania introductory courses in the first-year MBA core can be taken for free as MOOCs. Students who are planning to go into MBA programs around the world often take these MOOCs in preparation when they will later be taking similar courses in accounting, finance, management, marketing, etc. for credit.
Whereas the Wharton Business
School offers core MBA courses as MOOCs, other programs have distance education
courses that are not MOOCs because of fees and
admission standards. For example, the Harvard Business School has an extension
program for pre-MBA courses that are relatively expensive and capped regarding
course size with competitive admission standards. Bob Jensen's threads on these
and other free-based distance education courses are at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Crossborder.htm
The
cumulative number of MOOCs didn’t break 100 until the end of 2012. But by the
end of 2013 that number had grown to over 800. And today the number of
registered MOOC students added in 2015 is nearly equal to the last three years
combined.
"MOOCs Are Still Rising, at Least in Numbers," by Ellen Wexler,
Chronicle of Higher Education, October 19, 2015 ---
http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/moocs-are-still-rising-at-least-in-numbers/57527?cid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en&elq=7bf78ed93ead47d3a4da220c40587cbd&elqCampaignId=1647&elqaid=6629&elqat=1&elqTrackId=f325471009eb4e959e66d27de2031216
Bob Jensen's threads on free courses from top universities (transcript credits
are not free and entail taking competency tests from credit providers)
---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
The Industry (for-profit
education and training) That Was Crushed By The Obama Administration ---
https://www.buzzfeed.com/mollyhensleyclancy/the-industry-that-was-crushed-by-the-obama-administration?utm_term=.xh23WyRlep#.pb909levyp
Jensen Comment
I side with the Department of Education (call it Obama if you want) on this
issue. The problem with most for-profit education providers is that they could
not compete for tuition payers when traditional universities commenced to offer
online degrees. When students use their own money they prefer the prestige of a
degree from some university like Indiana University that earned all of its
accredited degree programs relative to a less-prestigious for-profit university
that that rarely has specialized accreditations like an AACSB accreditation of
its undergraduate and graduate business degree programs.
What happened is that
for-profit universities became almost totally dependent upon the Federal
government for revenue such as the tuition of returning veterans who,
with shaky prior academic credentials, are nervous about competing with students
at Indiana University and other prestigious traditional universities now
offering online degrees. To make matters worse for-profit universities commenced
questionable marketing promotions such as when the University of Phoenix sends
rock bands to military bases to drum up interest in using VA education benefits
at the University of Phoenix. When faced with falling profits some for-profit
universities commenced to drastically cut costs. Some like ITT became
increasingly fraudulent in providing lower and lower quality of training and
education. The Department of
Education has to make a decision as to whether it would continue to foot the
bill for frauds. Not all the remaining for-profit schools are fraudulent.
But they somehow have to find a way to compete in a world of more prestigious
non-profit programs, especially the online programs. Here are some of the top
non-profit online degree programs ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Crossborder.htm#Education
US News: 2015 Best Online Bachelor's Programs ---
http://www.usnews.com/education/online-education/bachelors/rankings?int=a2bb09&int=a56509
- Penn State University World Campus
- Daytona State College
- University of Illinois Chicago
- Western Kentucky University
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University—Worldwide
- Oregon State University
- Colorado State University Global Campus
- Arizona State University
- Ohio State University --- Columbus
- Pace University
- Others --- http://www.usnews.com/education/online-education/bachelors/rankings?int=a2bb09&int=a56509
US News: 2015 Best Online Graduate Education Programs ---
http://www.usnews.com/education/online-education/education/rankings1. University of Houston
2 .Florida State University
3. Northern Illinois University
4. Penn State University World Campus
5. Central Michigan University
Graceland University
University of Nebraska --- Lincoln
8. Auburn University
Ball State University
George Washington University
11. Creighton Unversity
Emporia State University
Michigan State University
Others --- http://www.usnews.com/education/online-education/education/rankingsUS News: 2015 Best Online MBA Programs
http://www.usnews.com/education/online-education/mba1. Indiana University (Kelly)
Temple (Fox)
University of North Carolina --- Chapel Hill
4. Arizona State University (Carey)
University of Florida (Hough)
6 . University of Texas --- Dallas
7. Carnegie-Mellon University (Tepper)
Penn State University World Campus
9. North Carolina State University (Jenkins)
10. Auburn UniversityUS News: 2015 Online Higher Education Search Engine ---
http://www.usnews.com/education/online-education
http://www.wsj.com/graphics/college-rankings-2016/
US News Higher Education Rankings ---
http://www.usnews.com/info/blogs/press-room/articles/2016-09-13/us-news-releases-2017-best-colleges-rankings
Bob Jensen's threads on other rankings and rankings controversies ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/HigherEdControversies2.htm#BusinessSchoolRankings
Visual Cinnamon (data visualization) --- http://www.visualcinnamon.com
Visualization of Multivariate Data (including faces) --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/352wpvisual/000datavisualization.htm
Consumers Are Getting Plucked: Why America Pays 50% More for Chicken
---
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-28/is-there-a-vast-conspiracy-to-overcharge-you-for-chicken?cmpid=BBD092816_BIZ
Larry Summers: Four things the Fed should do now to help the economy ---
http://larrysummers.com/2016/09/30/four-modifications-to-feds-current-posture/
Harvard's Oliver Hart and MIT's Bengt Holmström just won the 2016 Nobel
Prize in economics ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/nobel-prize-in-economics-winner-2016-10
Still, there’s little to celebrate from
Bankrate’s survey of banks. To make sure you’re not hit with egregious ATM
fees, here are three simple ways to avoid them
---
http://time.com/money/3433402/how-to-avoid-atm-fees/
Bob Jensen's personal finance helpers ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob1.htm#InvestmentHelpers
Here's how the Internet of Things will explode by 2020 ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/iot-ecosystem-internet-of-things-forecasts-and-business-opportunities-2016-2
From the Scout Report on September 30, 2016
Open eBooks --- http://openebooks.net
Open eBooks, a project headed by the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) and First Book with support from a variety of publishers and foundations, strives to make a variety of books freely available to children and families who need them. Any educator or librarian who works in a Title I eligible school or in a program or library that "serves at least 70 percent of children from in-need families" can sign up for an Open eBooks account. These educators and librarians can then provide an access code to youth in their program, allowing youth and their family to access up to 10 books at a time on any device free of charge. Youth can then "return" a book to check out a new one at any time.
Peek A Tab --- https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/peek-a-tab/nnpdamdaknpnohmlbnmgphiodghbohop?hl=en
Anyone who browses the internet with multiple tabs open knows that doing so can both help and hinder productivity: while multiple tabs allow users to quickly switch between websites and documents, it can also clutter one's browser so that it is difficult to remember what tabs are open. Peek A Tab, a free extension for Google Chrome, may be the answer. Users can install it with just one click. Once installed, visitors can select a small Peek A Tab icon, which will appear on the upper right corner of their browser, to see an easily readable, vertical list of all currently opened tabs. Users can then quickly visit - or close - tabs using this list.
SpaceX Founder Elon Musk Announces Bold Plan to Colonize Mars
SpaceX founder Elon Musk plans to get Humans to Mars in six years
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/27/elon- musk-spacex-mars-colony
Elon Musk's Plan: Get Humans to Mars, and Beyond
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/28/science/elon-musk- spacex-mars-exploration.html?_ r=0
YouTube: Elon Musk unveils Mars colonization plan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10gECHeMSds
SpaceX's Elon Musk Unveils Interplanetary Spaceship to Colonize Mars
http://www.space.com/34210-elon-musk-unveils-spacex-mars- colony-ship.html
StarTalk Radio: The Future of Humanity with Elon Musk
http://www.startalkradio.net/show/the-future-of-humanity- with-elon-musk
NASA: Mars Log
http://mars.nasa.gov/programmissions/missions/log
From the Scout Report on October 7, 2016
XMind --- http://www.xmind.net
Visual learners looking for a free study or note taking tool may want to check out XMind. This "mind-mapping" program, designed for Mac or Windows computers, allows users to create and save a variety of organizational maps, diagrams, charts, and spreadsheets. Users can create their own maps or select from a variety of templates, including timelines, fishbone charts, and flowcharts. Users can then save their maps to other note-taking tools like Evernote, or share them on social media via Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn. (Users may also purchase a version of XMind that allows them to export mindmaps to a variety of formats, including PDF or Microsoft Office). As of now, XMind is available only on computers; a mobile version is in the works.
Block & Flow --- http://www.blockandflowapp.com
Block & Flow is a free productivity iOS application and Google Chrome extension that uses the pomodoro technique (short work intervals followed by brief, regular breaks) and provides users with self-generated data about how they spend their time. Users create a number of categories to describe work activities (e.g. writing, email, studying, etc), then assign each of these tasks a color. Next, users select from their self-designed categories as they start to work. A timer, in the shape of block, appears on the screen for 25 minutes. Once this time is over, users are prompted to take a 5 minute break. Block and Flow is unique from other pomodoro devices in that users can then view the amount of time - or total blocks - they spend each week on each of their self-created categories. This allows users to regularly assess and adjust their work habits and productivity.
October is for Book Lovers: National Book Foundation Announces Book
Award Finalists; Nobel Prize for Literature and Man Booker Prize to be
Announced in Coming Weeks
These are the 2016 National Book Awards Finalists
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/10/06/ 496760469/these-are-the-2016- national-book-award-finalists
The 2016 National Book Awards Finalists
http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-2016- national-book-awards- finalists?mbid=social_twitter
Readers' Guide to This Fall's Big Book Awards
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/03/books/readers-guide-to- this-falls-big-book-awards. html
Meet the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35
http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-ca-jc-5-under- 35-20160908-snap-story.html
Robert Caro, The Art of Biography No. 5
http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6442/the-art-of- biography-no-5-robert-caro
National Book Foundation
http://www.nationalbook.or g
Free Online Tutorials, Videos, Course Materials, and Learning Centers
Education Tutorials
Learn to Code with Harvard’s Popular Intro to Computer Science Course: The
2016 Edition ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/10/learn-to-code-with-harvards-popular-intro-to-computer-science-course-the-2016-edition.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
New Handbook for Educators Explains How to Produce & Distribute Free
Video for the World ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/10/new-handbook-for-educators-explains-how-to-produce-distribute-free-video-for-the-world.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
NSTA: Classroom Resources K-12 science) --- http://ngss.nsta.org/Classroom-Resources.aspx
Global Math Department --- http://globalmathdepartment.org
The Elizabeth Murray Project (history resources for teachers) --- http://web.csulb.edu/projects/elizabethmurray/EM
Smithsonian Learning Lab --- https://learninglab.si.edu
open.NASA https://open.nasa.gov
Philosophy of Sport --- http://philosophyandsports.blogspot.com
Bob Jensen's threads on general education tutorials are at http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#EducationResearch
Bob Jensen's bookmarks for multiple disciplines --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm
Bob Jensen's links to free courses and tutorials --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
Engineering, Science, and Medicine Tutorials
Visual Cinnamon (data visualization) ---
http://www.visualcinnamon.com
Visualization of Multivariate Data (including faces) ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/352wpvisual/000datavisualization.htm
open.NASA https://open.nasa.gov
Medieval Islamic Views of the Cosmos: The Book of Curiosities --- http://cosmos.bodley.ox.ac.uk
Periodic Table Battleship!: A Fun Way To Learn the Elements ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/10/periodic-table-battleship-a-fun-way-to-learn-the-elements.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Cosmos Magazine: The science of everything --- https://cosmosmagazine.com
Gazzaley Lab: Select Lectures (neuroscience) --- http://gazzaleylab.ucsf.edu/select-lectures
BioMedical Picture of the Day --- http://www.bpod.mrc.ac.uk
Contagions: Thoughts on Historic Infectious Diseases --- https://contagions.wordpress.com
Gardenvisit.com --- http://www.gardenvisit.com/gardens
Old Weather --- https://www.oldweather.org
From the Scout Report on September 30, 2016
SpaceX Founder Elon Musk Announces Bold Plan to Colonize Mars
SpaceX founder Elon Musk plans to get Humans to Mars in six years
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/27/elon- musk-spacex-mars-colony
Elon Musk's Plan: Get Humans to Mars, and Beyond
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/28/science/elon-musk- spacex-mars-exploration.html?_ r=0
YouTube: Elon Musk unveils Mars colonization plan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10gECHeMSds
SpaceX's Elon Musk Unveils Interplanetary Spaceship to Colonize Mars
http://www.space.com/34210-elon-musk-unveils-spacex-mars- colony-ship.html
StarTalk Radio: The Future of Humanity with Elon Musk
http://www.startalkradio.net/show/the-future-of-humanity- with-elon-musk
NASA: Mars Log
http://mars.nasa.gov/programmissions/missions/log
Bob Jensen's threads on free online science, engineering, and medicine tutorials are at --http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Bob Jensen's links to free courses and tutorials --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
Social Science and Economics Tutorials
The Nature of Cities --- http://www.thenatureofcities.com
Gardenvisit.com --- http://www.gardenvisit.com/gardens
Pew Research Center: Libraries 2016 --- http://www.pewinternet.org/2016/09/09/libraries-2016
Philosophy of Sport --- http://philosophyandsports.blogspot.com
Contagions: Thoughts on Historic Infectious Diseases --- https://contagions.wordpress.com
Bob Jensen's threads on Economics, Anthropology, Social Sciences, and
Philosophy tutorials are at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Bob Jensen's links to free courses and tutorials --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
Law and Legal Studies
Bob Jensen's threads on law and legal studies are at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Math Tutorials
Global Math Department --- http://globalmathdepartment.org
The Math Dude --- http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/math-dude
Bob Jensen's threads on free online mathematics tutorials are at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Bob Jensen's links to free courses and tutorials --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
History Tutorials
The Elizabeth Murray Project (history resources for teachers) --- http://web.csulb.edu/projects/elizabethmurray/EM
Smithsonian Learning Lab --- https://learninglab.si.edu
Interesting Literature --- https://interestingliterature.com
MOOCs and edX: World Religions Through Their Scriptures --- https://www.edx.org/xseries/world-religions-through-scriptures
Hear the First Recording of Computer Music: Researchers Restore Three
Melodies Programmed on Alan Turing’s Computer (1951) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/09/hear-the-first-recording-of-computer-music.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Crocker Art Museum: Collections --- https://www.crockerartmuseum.org/collections
Medieval Hungary --- http://jekely.blogspot.co.uk
#Opera Before Instagram: Portraits, 1890-1955 --- http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/opera-portraits-1890-to-1955
Discovering Literature: Romantics and Victorians --- https://www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians
Religion and Gender --- https://www.religionandgender.org
Medieval Islamic Views of the Cosmos: The Book of Curiosities --- http://cosmos.bodley.ox.ac.uk
Philosophy of Sport --- http://philosophyandsports.blogspot.com
I Am The Edison Phonograph (1906) ---
http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/i-am-the-edison-phonograph-1906/
British Art Studies --- http://www.britishartstudies.ac.uk
History of Hunting Dogs --- http://calsportsmanmag.com/history-of-hunting-dogs/
Old Weather --- https://www.oldweather.org
Minnesota Historical Society: The U.S.-Dakota War of 1862 --- http://www.usdakotawar.org
Artisans and Craft Production in Nineteenth-Century Scotland --- http://www.artisansinscotland.shca.ed.ac.uk
8+ Hours of Classic Charles Dickens Stories Dramatized, Starring Orson Welles,
Boris Karloff, Richard Burton & More ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/09/8-hours-of-classic-charles-dickens-stories-dramatized.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Gardenvisit.com --- http://www.gardenvisit.com/gardens
UR Football Comes Home (football history at the University of Richmond) --- http://football.urlibraries.org
Selected Shorts (performing arts short stories) --- http://www.selectedshorts.org/listen
What Life Was Like for Teenagers in Ancient Rome: Get a Glimpse from a TED-ED
Animation ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/10/what-life-was-like-for-teenagers-in-ancient-rome-get-a-glimpse-from-a-ted-ed-animation.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
A Photographic History of Oregon State University --- http://photohistory.oregonstate.edu/works/photo-history
The New Yorker Fiction Podcast --- http://www.newyorker.com/series/fiction-podcast
The First World War saw the first major use of chemical warfare in battle.--- http://daily.jstor.org/deterrence/
Bob Jensen's threads on history tutorials are at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Also see
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm
Bob Jensen's links to free courses and tutorials --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
Language Tutorials
Langscape (history of languages) --- http://langscape.umd.edu
Bob Jensen's links to language tutorials are at http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2-Part2.htm#Languages
Music Tutorials
Pete Seeger Teaches You How to Play Guitar for Free in The Folksinger’s
Guitar Guide (1955) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/10/pete-seeger-teaches-you-how-to-play-guitar-for-free-in-the-the-folksingers-guitar-guide-1955.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Bob Jensen's threads on free music tutorials are at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Bob Jensen's threads on music performances ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/music.htm
Writing Tutorials
Stop Trying to Sound Smart When You’re Writing
Eliminate fancy-pants words
https://hbr.org/2016/10/stop-trying-to-sound-smart-when-youre-writing?referral=00202&cm_mmc=email-_-newsletter-_-weekly_hotlist-_-hotlist_date&utm_source=newsletter_weekly_hotlist&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=hotlist_date
Rilke on Writing and What It Takes to Be an Artist ---
https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/10/04/rilke-letters-to-a-young-poet-writing/?mc_cid=533d31dcb0&mc_eid=4d2bd13843
Bob Jensen's helpers for writers are at http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob3.htm#Dictionaries
Bob Jensen's threads on medicine ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2-Part2.htm#Medicine
CDC Blogs --- http://blogs.cdc.gov/
Updates from WebMD --- http://www.webmd.com/
September 28, 2016
September 29, 2016
September 30, 2016
October 1, 2016
October 3, 2016
October 4, 2016
October 5, 2016
October 6, 2016
October 7, 2016
October 8, 2016
October 10, 2016
October 11, 2016
Orange Juice is the Biggest Con of Your Life ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/orange-juice-not-healthy-2016-10
Jensen Comment
This does not extrapolate to all juices from fruits and vegetables, although
many of those are probably very high in calories.
Sweden: Woman's Womb Does Double Duty, First For Daughter, Then
Grandson ---
http://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/woman-s-womb-does-double-duty-first-daughter-then-grandson-n661746
Government Health Plans Spent Over $1 Billion on EpiPens Over Five Years
---
http://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/government-health-plans-spent-over-1-billion-epipens-over-five-n660741
Jensen Comment
The $465 fine sounds like a good deal as a fine for pricing fraud. I would've
like to see some jail time. Sigh!
CDC Sounds Alarm on Travel to Asia as Zika Spreads There ---
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/zika-virus-outbreak/cdc-sounds-alarm-travel-asia-zika-spreads-there-n657416
Humor for June 2015
At the vice presidential debate last night, the
Republican nominee, Mike Pence, made sure to thank the hosts at Norwood
University. One problem: The institution is named Longwood University.
Jensen Comment
Wasn't it Robert Kennedy who, from the back of a train during whistle stop
campaign train, said good morning to the wrong Iowa town?
When he woke up Marilyn Monroe forgot to tell him where they were
The 8 Greatest Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Impressions of All Time ---
http://time.com/4451557/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-impressions/?xid=newsletter-brief
Alec Baldwin's SNL Donald Trump Spoof ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/10/alec-baldwin-does-a-perfect-donald-trump-watch-snls-spoof-of-the-trump-clinton-debate.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Humor September 2016 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book16q3.htm#Humor0916.htm
Humor August 2016 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book16q3.htm#Humor083116.htm
Humor July 2016 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book16q3.htm#Humor0716.htm
Humor June 2016 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book16q2.htm#Humor063016.htm
Humor May 2016 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book16q2.htm#Humor053116.htm
Humor April 2016 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book16q2.htm#Humor043016.htm
Humor March 2016 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book16q1.htm#Humor033116.htm
Humor February 2016 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book16q1.htm#Humor022916.htm
Humor January 2016 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book16q1.htm#Humor013116.htm
Humor December 1-31, 2015 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q4.htm#Humor123115.htm.htm
Humor November 1-30, 2015 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q4.htm#Humor113015.htm
Humor October 1-31, 2015 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q4.htm#Humor103115
Humor September 1-30, 2015 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q3.htm#Humor093015
Humor August 1-31, 2015 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q3.htm#Humor081115
Humor July 1-31, 2015 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q3.htm#Humor073115
Humor June 1-30, 2015 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q2.htm#Humor043015
Humor May 1-31, 2015 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q2.htm#Humor043015
Humor April 1-30, 2015 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q2.htm#Humor043015
Humor March 1-31, 2015 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q1.htm#Humor033115
Humor February 1-28, 2015 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q1.htm#Humor022815
Humor January 1-31, 2015 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q1.htm#Humor013115
Tidbits Archives --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm
More of Bob Jensen's Pictures and
Stories
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Pictures.htm
Update in
2014
20-Year Sugar Hill Master Plan ---
http://www.nccouncil.org/images/NCC/file/wrkgdraftfeb142014.pdf
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Online Distance Education Training and Education ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Crossborder.htm
For-Profit Universities Operating in the Gray
Zone of Fraud (College, Inc.) ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/HigherEdControversies.htm#ForProfitFraud
Shielding Against Validity Challenges in Plato's Cave ---
http://faculty.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://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm#WhatWentWrong
The Sad State of Accountancy Doctoral
Programs That Do Not Appeal to Most Accountants ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm#DoctoralPrograms
AN ANALYSIS OF THE EVOLUTION OF RESEARCH
CONTRIBUTIONS BY THE ACCOUNTING REVIEW: 1926-2005 ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/395wpTAR/Web/TAR395wp.htm#_msocom_1
Bob Jensen's threads on accounting theory
---
http://faculty.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://faculty.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://faculty.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://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/AccountingNews.htm
Bob Jensen's Threads ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/threads.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called
New
Bookmarks ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookurl.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called
Tidbits ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called
Fraud
Updates ---
http://faculty.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://faculty.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://faculty.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://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/JensenBlogs.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called
New
Bookmarks ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookurl.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called
Tidbits ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called
Fraud
Updates ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm
Some Accounting History Sites
Bob Jensen's
Accounting History in a Nutshell and Links ---
http://faculty.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://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudRotten.htm#DerivativesFrauds
History of
Fraud in America ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/415wp/AmericanHistoryOfFraud.htm
Also see
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Fraud.htm
Bob Jensen's
Threads ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/threads.htm
More of Bob Jensen's Pictures and
Stories
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Pictures.htm
All my online pictures --- http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/PictureHistory/
Professor Robert E. Jensen (Bob)
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen
190 Sunset Hill Road
Sugar Hill, NH 03586
Phone: 603-823-8482
Email:
rjensen@trinity.edu