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Tidbits on March 15, 2017
Bob Jensen
at Trinity University
My Photographer Friend
Wes
Lavin's Winter Pictures (Set 01) ---
http://cs.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Lavin/2017Winter/2017Winter.htm
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Bookmarks for the World's Library ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
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---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/resume.htm#Presentations
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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
Online Video, Slide Shows, and Audio
Video: A fascinating new discovery is stirring up a huge scientific
debate over the origin of life on Earth and beyond ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/discovery-worlds-oldest-fossil-sparks-debate-among-scientists-2017-3
Video: NASA Captured Footage of Incredible Tornadoes on Mars ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-photos-tornadoes-mars-2017-3
Researchers filmed rare beaked whales underwater for the first time ever —
take a look
http://www.businessinsider.com/researchers-filmed-rare-beaked-whales-underwater-for-the-first-time-2017-3
PBS: God in America --- http://www.pbs.org/godinamerica
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
Leonard Bernstein Introduces 7-Year-Old Yo-Yo Ma: Watch the
Youngster Perform for John F. Kennedy (1962) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/03/leonard-bernstein-introduces-7-year-old-yo-yo-ma.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Hear All the Music from Martin Scorsese’s Movies: A 326-Track,
20-Hour Spotify Playlist ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/03/hear-all-the-music-from-martin-scorseses-movies.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Historic Flamenco Dance Class ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/03/flamenco-at-515.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
The Milton and Nelma Fillius Jazz Archive --- http://elib.hamilton.edu/jazz-archive
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
33 stunning images shortlisted for the Sony World Photography
Awards 2017 ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/stunning-images-shortlisted-for-sony-world-photography-awards-2017-2017-3
The 2017 Sony Photography Awards ---
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2017/03/the-2017-sony-world-photography-awards/518823/
John Jack Hillers: Utah Tribes (1872-1875) ---
http://www.thunderbirdfoundation.com/information/events/jack-hillers-utah-tribes/
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg ---
https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/sharing-photographs/
People hadn't set foot in this ancient 'lost city' in the
Honduran jungle for 500 years — until now
http://www.businessinsider.com/douglas-preston-lost-city-honduras-2017-3
MoRE Museum (rejected art pieces) --- http://moremuseum.org
15 stunning photos shortlisted for the Smithsonian Magazine's
annual photo contest ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/smithsonian-magazine-photo-contest-finalists-2017-3
The 17 most powerful photos taken by Reuters' photojournalist of
the year ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/reuters-photojournalist-of-the-year-2017-3
These 17 photos show Finland's brutally cold World War II battle
with the Soviet Union ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/ussr-russia-finald-wwii-winter-war-photos-2017-3
17 stunning photos that show how Dubai has become the 'Manhattan
of the Middle East' ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/dubai-is-the-manhattan-of-the-middle-east-2017-3
Recording and Playing Machines ---
http://exhibitions.europeana.eu/exhibits/show/recording-and-playing-machines
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
Literary Hub --- http://lithub.com
365 Books by Women Authors to Celebrate International Women’s Day All Year
---
https://www.nypl.org/blog/2017/03/08/365-books-women-authors-international-womens-day
The Collected Poems of Gavin Turnbull Online --- http://lichen.csd.sc.edu/turnbull
Poetry and Prayer: Islamic Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum --- http://poetryprayer.thewalters.org
Pearls of Wisdom: The Arts of Islam at the University of Michigan --- http://lw.lsa.umich.edu/kelsey/pearls/index.html
Jonathan Swift Archives --- http://jonathanswiftarchive.org.uk
Download Influential Avant-Garde Magazines from the Early 20th Century:
Dadaism, Surrealism, Futurism & More ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/03/download-influential-avant-garde-magazines-from-the-early-20th-century.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Undersea: Rachel Carson’s Lyrical and Revolutionary 1937 Masterpiece Inviting
Humans to Explore Earth from the Perspective of Other Creatures
---
https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/02/28/undersea-rachel-carson/?utm_source=Brain+Pickings&utm_campaign=4b9d79af85-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_03_04&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_179ffa2629-4b9d79af85-234390133&mc_cid=4b9d79af85&mc_eid=4d2bd13843
The Travel Letters of Mrs. Kindersley --- http://travel-letters.org/kindersley
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 March 15, 2017
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/2017/TidbitsQuotations031517.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
USA Airport Pat Downs Get More Invasive ---
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-03/u-s-airport-pat-downs-are-about-to-get-more-invasive?cmpid=BBD030317_BIZ&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=170303&utm_campaign=bloombergdaily
Glasses to Consider Wearing When Looking at a Computer Monitor ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-stop-computer-screen-glare-felix-gray-glasses-review-2016-5
How Sultry 1940s Film Star Hedy Lamarr Helped Invent the Technology Behind
Wi-Fi & Bluetooth During WWII ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/03/how-sultry-1940s-film-star-hedy-lamarr-helped-invent-the-technology-behind-wi-fi-bluetooth-during-wwii.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Tim Berners-Lee --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee
Losing control of our personal data. The spread of
fake news. The lack of regulation around political advertising. These are three
of the biggest threats facing the web today, according to World Wide Web
inventor, Tim Berners-Lee on the Web's 28th birthday ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/web-inventor-tim-berners-lee-risks-fake-news-political-advertising-2017-3
The WWW was a initially a
combination of two inventions. One was the 1989 HTTP (hypertext transfer
protocol) scripting of documents with HTML (hypertext markup language) invisible
tags on hot words that linked to other parts of a document or to other documents
around the world. The second was the 1990s invention of a "browser" that could
read those tags. This was called Netscape . It was the brain child of Marc
Andreessen ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape
The next big invention for the WWW was the invention of Web crawlers that can
be used to search the Web using key words contained in the billions upon
billions of Web documents. These crawlers help find documents containing key
words or reproductions of parts of documents after the original documents
disappeared from the Web.- ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_crawler
The Internet itself was invented much earlier in in the 1960s. But it had only limited use among selected scientists until the Web was invented in the 1990s.
Bob Jensen's threads on the history of computing and networking ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#---ComputerNetworking-IncludingInternet
The above document is so huge that it loads very slowly.
These 11 little-known perks show why Amazon Prime is so much more than
free shipping ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-prime-membership-perks-explainer-2016-3
Jensen Comment
In my opinion, the main advantage of Amazon over Walmart is 30 million products
versus 3 million products, including the tremendous Amazon deals on many used
items like books. However, Walmart may be cheaper with free two-day shipping
that's really free. I also love the Amazon Reward points that add up to real
savings.
YouTube Tops 1 Billion Hours of Video a Day --- ---
https://www.wsj.com/articles/youtube-tops-1-billion-hours-of-video-a-day-on-pace-to-eclipse-tv-1488220851
Jensen Comment
I wonder what the distribution is of trash (including porn) to treasure.
Khan Academy Test
Prepartion Downloads (for various tests like the ACT, SAT, MCAT, LSAT, GRE,
etc.) ---
https://www.khanacademy.org/test-prep
Practice
Materials for the LSAT (law school) Examination ---
http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2017/03/khan-academy-offers-free-lsat-prep-is-free-bar-exam-prep-next.html
Khan Academy
provides over 1,000 videos for help in passing the MCAT (medical school)
examination ---
https://www.khanacademy.org/test-prep
Bob Jensen's Threads on Free Tutorials and Courses (thousands from the most
prestigious universities in the world) ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
Berkeley will begin removing more than 20,000 video and audio lectures from
public view as a result of a Justice Department accessibility order ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/03/06/u-california-berkeley-delete-publicly-available-educational-content?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=ee5e601e16-DNU20170306&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-ee5e601e16-197565045&mc_cid=ee5e601e16&mc_eid=1e78f7c952
Jensen Comment
Why don't we remove all the books from the electronic libraries (think millions
of books now available free from Google) that the blind cannot read?
For on-campus students the university can invest in what it takes to accommodate students with disabilities. This can be very costly such as paying a signing expert to be in a seminar when there is one deaf student in the classroom. But for off-campus students it can be so costly as to make an online course too prohibitive to offer and requiring that all videos have captioning.
There are many technologies to help disabled students
(including the blind, deaf, and learning-challenged). The issue becomes whether
it's the university's responsibility to pay the tab in every instance ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm#Handicapped
In my estimation having to remove such a massive amount of learning material (much of it free) from pubic view punishes everybody for the special needs of a relatively few number of potential learners.
"Harvard Accessibility Lawsuit Moves Forward," Inside Higher
Education, February 23, 2016 ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2016/02/23/harvard-accessibility-lawsuit-moves-forward?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=de86d60543-DNU20160223&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-de86d60543-197565045
"Harvard and MIT Are Sued Over Closed Captioning for Online Materials,"
by Andy Thomason, Chronicle of Higher Education, February 12, 2015 ---
http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/jp/harvard-and-mit-are-sued-over-closed-captioning-for-online-materials?cid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en
A new lawsuit accuses Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology of failing to provide closed captioning in online teaching materials, in violation of federal antidiscrimination laws, The New York Times reports. The lawsuits were filed by the National Association of the Deaf, and seek an injunction requiring that closed captioning be provided for all online materials.
Both colleges provide extensive educational resources free online, including through their membership in edX, which offers dozens of MOOCs to students around the world.
Advocates for the deaf on Thursday filed a federal class action against Harvard and M.I.T., saying both universities violate antidiscrimination laws by failing to provide closed captioning in their online lectures, courses, podcasts and other educational materials.
‘Access Moves’: How One Instructor Seeks Accessibility (Onsite and
Online) ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/03/07/how-one-instructor-pursuing-accessibility-online-education?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=31ca3c8528-DNU20170307&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-31ca3c8528-197565045&mc_cid=31ca3c8528&mc_eid=1e78f7c952
Jensen Comment
A instructor can create Camtasia videos that are captioned for the hearing
impaired and describe movements on screen for the sight impaired. However,
there's a huge problem in linking to videos and audios online that the
instructor cannot revise for the disabled. For example, how does one use films
like the historic Citizen Kane, Moby Dick, Twelve O'Clock High, or
educational podcasts without captioning?
Bob Jensen's links to free learning materials, videos, tutorials, and
complete courses provided free ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
College Resources for Students with Disabilities Guidebook --- http://www.affordablecollegesonline.org/college-resource-center/resources-for-students-with-disabilities
Bob Jensen's threads on new technology tools for disabled students,
including the hearing and sight impaired, ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm#Handicapped
NY 'Literacy’ test for teachers may be nixed (too many minority teacher
applicants failing the test) ---
http://nypost.com/2017/03/06/state-considering-major-changes-to-teacher-certification-exams/
State education officials plan to scrap a literacy exam given to prospective teachers and allow certification for some applicants who fail a performance assessment test — moves that critics warned will weaken the pool of candidates. The state Board of Regents will likely vote early next week on whether to ax the Academic Literacy Skills Test, one of four exams that teacher wannabes have to pass for certification, officials said Monday. The Regents will also consider changes to one of the other three prerequisite exams for would-be educators, the Teacher Performance Assessment, or edTPA.
Under that proposal, applicants who just barely fail the edTPA could still be certified based on other factors, including teacher recommendations.
Sources said the moves will likely be approved, leading to outcry from those who believe they are important assessment tools.
“It’s alarming because we’ve now abandoned or watered down the teacher evaluation process, and now we’re lowering the bar for entry certification as well,” said Charles Sahm, director of education policy at the Manhattan Institute.
The literacy test has been accused of skewing against minorities and being redundant — but Sahm called it an important tool in bringing in qualified candidates.
“I think it’s important that we increase the share of black and Hispanic teachers, and we certainly don’t have enough here or anywhere. But I don’t think this is the way to go,” Sahm said. “This is a literacy exam. If you’re going to be a teacher in New York state, this is a criteria you should be able to meet.”
A task force that has been reviewing teacher certification exams since May has recommended dropping the ALST.
Continued in article
Jensen Comment
Literacy requirements for K-12 teachers will always be unfair until their
college teachers are required to pass literacy tests.
Seriously, why are colleges graduating teachers who cannot pass literacy tests?
Standardization Importance Beyond Accounting Standardization ---
https://www.edge.org/annual-question/what-scientific-term-or%C2%A0concept-ought-to-be-more-widely-known
A student at UPenn's Wharton School negotiated almost $50,000 off his
yearly tuition — here's how he did it ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-negotiate-college-tuition-cost-2017-3
Former Law School Administrators Accused of Stealing More than $100,000 ---
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2017/3/1/law-school-criminal-complaint/
Bob Jensen's Fraud Updates --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm
Tesla is powering the Hawaiian island of Kauai with more than 54,000 solar
panels and its giant battery packs --- --
http://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-unveils-kauai-hawaii-solar-project-2017-3
Jensen Comment
Reserve estimates of lithium needed for Tesla batteries are highly uncertain.
Most estimates are encouraging for electric car needs but not for powering the
world. Especially troublesome will be the inevitable lithium production cartel
that will form due to only a few nations having a serious amount of reserves.
There's lithium in sea water, but methods of extraction are yet to be discovered
---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium
Unlike natural gas, where the USA has massive untapped reserves, most serious
lithium reserves are in South America and China.
In my opinion, regions should not become overly dependent upon any one energy source. Some of my professor friends in various parts of the USA now have home solar panels and Tesla battery storage for nights and cloudy days. In theory theory homes powered in this way might eliminate the need for power transmission lines to homes. However, there's a risk in tearing these ugly power lines down. For example, if lithium becomes prohibitively costly homes will once again need a power grid to back up the solar shingles and panels until low-cost alternatives to lithium battery storage are available.
Biomass became more hype than hope mostly due to the fall in oil prices. Our regional hospital, for example, built a new biomass electric production plant that thus far is a an idle waste of money. It's designed to be fed by wood chips from our surrounding forests. However, propane prices became so cheap that it's just too costly for the hospital to run its biomass electric plant. Cutting down trees, chipping up those trees, and hauling the wood chips is more costly at the moment as well as being destructive of wild life habitats.
Here are some pictures I took when a timber-cutting crew moved in for abut 10
days across the road to clear about 10 acres for wood chips ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/Trees/TimberHarvest/Set01/TimberHarvest01.htm
MIT: The FCC Graciously Sets Internet Providers Free to Sell Your
Data ---
https://www.wired.com/2017/03/fcc-graciously-sets-internet-providers-free-sell-data/
Comcast, Verizon, and other internet service providers got the go-ahead from the Federal Communications Commission today to sell your personal information without your permission. At least for now.
Last October the agency passed a set of rules that would have required internet providers to take steps to protect your private data from hackers, notify you if someone hacked your data, and require your explicit permission before selling your data. Today the FCC suspended those rules before they took effect.
“The Federal Communications Commission and the Federal Trade Commission are committed to protecting the online privacy of American consumers,” FCC chairman Ajit Pai and Federal Trade Commission chairman Maureen K. Ohlhausen said in a joint statement today. “We believe that the best way to do that is through a comprehensive and consistent framework.”
The move may head off a congressional review of the rules that could have hobbled the FCC’s ability to make new privacy regulations in the future. The agency will now likely pass a set of less stringent rules more in line with the way the FTC regulates websites like Facebook and Google. If the FTC does at some point require websites to seek explicit permission before selling your data, the FCC may then follow suit for internet providers. Neither agency responded to a request for comment, but Pai has said in the past that he believed having divergent rules for websites and ISPs would lead to confusion among consumers. We’re not sure you’re going to find the new status quo exactly crystal clear.
Tracking Shots
Your internet provider has a view of of your most intimate online activities. Although Google uses encryption to prevent prying eyes from seeing your online searches, your internet provider can see what websites you visit, when you visit them, and how much time you spend there.
In 2012, Verizon began tracking its wireless customers’ activities across the internet. It then used that data to target ads on the various sites it owns, such as the Huffington Post. Eventually the company gave customers the option to opt out of that tracking, and later it limited tracking your behavior on Verizon-owned sites only. The FCC’s newer rules, which would have taken effect in December at the earliest, would have banned Verizon or any other provider from similar data collecting without getting customers’ permission. Pre-existing FCC rules do still ban providers from tracking customers without at least notifying them, but for now at least telcos will have much more freedom to sell your data.
Continued in article
Jensen Comment
Buying your data may be easier for investigators than getting subpoenas.
MIT: Moscow Billboards Change With the Type of Car That's
Approaching ---
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603743/moscow-billboard-targets-ads-based-on-the-car-youre-driving/
Jensen Comment
This is more problematic in the USA where billboards are no longer allowed on
most interstate highways. However, passengers can view lodging screens on GPS
devices as a car approaches a village, town, or city. Cadillac and Lexis cars
might get different lodging and restaurant GPS suggestions than us Subaru
passengers. However, there will probably be options for lodging and restaurant
choices to override the car type. For example, even though Erika and I drive a
Subaru we usually want more pricey lodging accommodations than many Subaru
passengers.
Yale Presents a Free Online Course on Literary Theory, Covering
Structuralism, Deconstruction & More ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/02/yale-presents-a-free-online-course-on-literary-theory.html
Stanford University Launches Free Course on Developing Apps with iOS 10
---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/02/stanford-university-launches-free-course-on-developing-apps-with-ios-10.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Despite Modi’s anti-corruption drive, 70% of Indians must still pay bribes
for basic services ---
https://qz.com/926239/despite-modis-anti-corruption-drive-70-indians-must-still-pay-bribes-for-basic-services/
Here are some of the larger scandals ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_in_India
Bob Jensen's Fraud Updates ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm
Cardiff University Provides a Listing of Banned Politically Incorrect
Words ---
https://mishtalk.com/2017/03/03/cardiff-metropolitan-university-bans-all-politically-incorrect-words-amusing-list-of-banned-words/
Jensen Comment
Some don't make a whole lot of sense to such as why is "polio victim" banned and
"polio survivor" allowed. The two phrases are not equivalent since not all polio
victims survive. And "efficient" does not necessarily mean "workmanlike" since
some quality products were not produced efficiently such as painstaking handmade
crafts.
Charles Murray and the Bell Curve --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Murray_(political_scientist)
Race and Intelligence --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_intelligence
Violent Debate at Middlebury Over Co-author of the "Bell Curve" (race and
intelligence) ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2017/02/28/debate-middlebury-over-co-author-bell-curve?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=979f5ef0d8-DNU20170228&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-979f5ef0d8-197565045&mc_cid=979f5ef0d8&mc_eid=1e78f7c952
The (Political Correctness) Mob of Students at Middlebury
---
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-mob-at-middlebury-1488586505?mod=djemMER
Bob Jensen's threads on political correctness restraints on academic freedom of speech and writing in higher education ---A mob tries to silence Charles Murray and sends a prof to the ER.
Once again a scholar invited to speak at a university has been shouted down by an angry mob clearly unable to challenge him intellectually. On Thursday at Middlebury College, allegedly an institution of higher learning, a crowd of protesters tried to run Charles Murray off campus. Mr. Murray is the author of many influential books, including “Coming Apart,” which the kids might read if they want to understand their country and can cope without trigger warnings.
Amid the shouts, Mr. Murray was taken to another location where he was able to speak. But a Middlebury professor escorting Mr. Murray from campus—Allison Stanger—was later sent to the hospital after being assaulted by protesters who also attacked the car they were in. As if to underscore the madness, the headline over the initial Associated Press dispatch smeared Mr. Murray rather than focusing on the intolerance of those disrupting him: “College students protest speaker branded white nationalist.”
Middlebury President Laurie Patton apologized in a statement to those “who came in good faith to participate in a serious discussion, and particularly to Mr. Murray and Prof. Stanger for the way they were treated.” While she believes some protesters were “outside agitators,” Middlebury students were also involved—and she said she would be “responding.”
Mr. Murray tweeted: “Report from the front: The Middlebury administration was exemplary. The students were seriously scary.” Let’s hope President Patton follows through with discipline to scare these students straight.
These 9 entrepreneurs were paid $100,000 to drop out of college — here's
what they're up to today ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/where-are-they-now-peter-thiel-fellowship-2017-3/#ari-weinstein-and-conrad-kramers-app-was-recognized-by-apple-for-its-brilliance-1
Jensen Comment
There's a lot more to fulfillment in life beyond business success. And there's a
lot more to college than curriculum learning. Somehow I think that most
successful entrepreneurial dropouts lost out on a lot of what college life has
to offer.
But there's a big difference between short run fulfillment and long run fulfillment. It's a little like having had pre-school or kindergarten. Most of the impacts or pre-school and kindergarten are short-term at best and tend to wash out before high school.
Would the fulfillment of Bill Gate's life have really changed much had he not dropped out of college before forming the highly successful Microsoft? I doubt it. But not everybody is like Bill Gates apart from business success. For one thing, probably 99% of the people of the world are not as intense about reading as Bill Gates. Certainly not me!
University of California in San Francisco lays
off 49 IT workers, jobs head to India ---
http://www.metro.us/news/san-francisco-university-lays-off-it-workers-jobs-head-to-india/jZzqca---ic6RcrpJJv0RRb5eq5VT6A/
The University of California, San Francisco on Tuesday laid off 49 information technology (IT) employees and outsourced their work to a company based in India, ending a year-long process that has brought the public university under fire.
The university announced the plan last July as a way to save $30 million over five years. The University of California system, which includes health care and research-focused UCSF, has been struggling to raise revenue and cut expenses.
Globalization and outsourcing have become hot-button political issues in the United States, as more employers cut costs by farming out work to low-cost workers in far-flung parts of the world. President Donald Trump campaigned on promises to restore lost U.S. jobs and to penalize companies that move factories overseas.
This was the University of California's first outsourcing, said a spokeswoman who added that the layoffs were necessary due to rising costs of technology. In addition to the 49 staff layoffs, another 48 positions that were vacant or filled by contractors were eliminated.
California Sen. Dianne Feinstein last year said the university had a responsibility to keep jobs in the United States and pledged to seek reforms to stop domestic jobs being outsourced.
Kurt Ho, 58, a laid off systems administrator, carried a box of his personal items with an American flag draped over it and said the university's decision will hurt service for a medical staff that relies on a smoothly running and secure computer network.
Continued in article
Time Magazine: Is Subway Chicken Really 50%
Filler?
http://time.com/4686280/subway-chicken-fast-food-filler/?xid=newsletter-brief
Jensen Comment
This article makes me wonder about fillers in those so-called meat cold cuts in
a deli.
Burger King has a half way decent tasting (not especially healthy) veggie
burger. I wonder why McDonalds did not introduce a competitive veggie burger?
From MAAW's
Blog on
Beard, A. 2017. The theory: "If you understand how the brain works, you can
reach anyone. A conversation with biological anthropologist Helen Fisher."
Harvard Business Review (March/April): 60-62.
http://maaw.info/ArticleSummaries/ArtSumBeard2017.htm
Theorem --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theorem
Kenneth Arrow's Impossibility Theorem ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow%27s_impossibility_theorem
Among the (other) theorems named after economists are:
the
Coase theorem, the
Modigliani-Miller theorem, the
Stolper-Samuelson theorem, the
Gibbard–Satterthwaite
theorem, and the
Debreu-Scarf theorem. Kudos to any graduate student
who can summarize the content of all 6 of them or
remind me of others
Larry Summers
http://larrysummers.com/2017/02/28/a-correction-to-my-farewell-to-kenneth-arrow/
Jensen Comment
The proof of a theorem rests upon the hypotheses and assumptions from which it
that proof is derived. Economics at best is a soft science since underlying
assumptions of so many of its conclusions are usually controversial. Real world
tests are generally corrupted by departures from underlying economic
assumptions.
The ultimate test of a "theorem" is the robustness of the conclusions in it's real-world tests. There is no such thing as a perfect right angle in the real world. But usually the Pythagorean Theorem is sufficiently robust for construction of things like bridges. The theorems of famous economists are not so robust. For example, market inefficiency is real, variable in different markets, and variable in a single market over time. Mathematical conclusions that assume market efficiency are always suspect.
Edward MacNeal in a book entitled Mathsemantics: Making
Numbers Talk Sense discusses some of the robustness problems of famous
theorems ---
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/938114.Mathsemantics
I bought my used copy of this book for less than a buck on
Amazon. What a buy!
Economists are the idiot savants of
our time.
John Stuart Mill
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/mathematical-economics-training-too-narrow-by-robert-skidelsky-2016-12
MIT: Weekend Reads: Forever Young
The quest to slow aging is tantalizing, complex—and divisive. While there are many researchers studiously experimenting to determine the tiniest of biological factors that could limit our life span, there are also enthusiasts making wild claims and clamoring for media attention. Here, we take a look back through the MIT Technology Review archives and find both parties to be present.
David Sinclair is a serious academic with a professorship at Harvard Medical School’s department of pathology—and he’s also optimistic that he can extend the human life span. We spoke to him back in 2007 to find out how he planned to do it.
In contrast, Aubrey de Grey is a computer scientist who taught himself biology. He thinks that aging is simply a problem in need of a solution, and he has developed a theory that he believes could allow people to live for thousands of years. He’s either brilliant or bananas.
Even if it is possible to slow aging, turning any theory into practice is a fiendish challenge. Google’s anti-aging spinout Calico may have as good a chance as any other organization at cracking the problem—not least because it has $1.5 billion in the bank.
One of the most plausible approaches to treating the relentless degradation of our cellular makeup is through modification of our DNA. But with troublesome regulations in the way, one biotech CEO decided to start running the experiments on herself.
Slowing the aging process isn’t just about seeing out more years on Earth: it’s also about enabling us do more with them. One startup claims that it can give women in their 40s a better shot at having children.
While researchers continue to toil in search of new ways to extend our lives, there’s a fortuitous by-product of their labors: powerful new approaches to treating the many diseases of old age.
From the Scout Report on March 3. 2017
Google Books: Ngram Viewer --- https://books.google.com/ngrams
Today, over 25 million books in the public domain are available online via Google Books. The Google Books Ngram Viewer is a tool that allows researchers, along with the generally curious, to perform a text search on all of these books in order to uncover major trends, vocabulary, and themes over time. By simply typing a name or word into the search box (e.g. "Shakespeare") and selecting a time frame (e.g. the years 1700-1900) users can instantly view a line graph to see how often that word appeared in books by publication date. Users can also select a narrow date range (which will appear underneath the graph) in order to explore specific titles featuring the selected term. Google Books Ngram Viewer allows users to compare the frequency of multiple keywords or names by using commas to separate variables.
Lapse-It --- http://www.lapseit.com
Perhaps you have a video of a butterfly approaching a flower that you'd like to slow down in order to view each wing flap in full detail. Alternatively, you may have footage of a crowded party or your growing herb garden that you want to speed up. Lapse-It is a free mobile application that allows users to create "astonishing time-lapse videos." Available for iOS and Android devices, a basic version of Lapse-It is free; users have the option of purchasing a Pro version in order to take videos at higher resolutions. Looking for inspiration? The Lapse-It website includes a gallery of time-lapse videos to browse.
Annual Pritzker Prize for Architecture Honors RCR Arquitectes, a
Catalonian Trio
3 Win the Pritzker, Long a Prize for Starchitects
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/01/arts/design/3-win-the- pritzker-long-a-prize-for- starchitects.html
Pritzker prize for architecture won by little known Catalonian trio
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/mar/01/ pritzker-architecture-prize- rcr-arquitectes
ArchDaily: The Pritzker Prize
http://www.archdaily.com/tag/pritzker-prize
The Pritzker Architecture Prize: Laureates by Year
http://www.pritzkerprize.com/laureates/year
The Abstractionist: Zaha Hadid's unfettered invention
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/12/21/the- abstractionist
The Met: Lesson Plan: Architecture and the Natural World
http://www.metmuseum.org/learn/educators/lesson-plans/ architecture-and-the-natural- world
From the Scout Report on March 10, 2017
Ghost Browser --- https://ghostbrowser.com
Do you have multiple social media accounts - perhaps a Facebook account for work as well as a personal one? Or do you manage multiple Twitter accounts as part of your job? If so, Ghost Browser may be for you. This free web browser allows users to be logged into multiple social media accounts simultaneously. Available for Mac and Windows computers, Ghost Browser allows users to open and save different accounts through a color-coded tab system. Users can also save these accounts as a project (e.g. "Twitter accounts") in order to open a series of accounts quickly and easily in the future. Ghost Browser also allows users to import bookmarks from existing web browsers and to import Google Chrome extensions.
Pixabay --- https://pixabay.com
Finding the perfect image or video clip for a website, poster, or presentation can be a challenge. Pixabay is a helpful repository of images and videos available for use under the Creative Commons CC0 license. On this website, users can browse for images by a number of categories, including Education, Health/Medical, Computers/Communications, and Emotion. In addition to photos, this collection also includes Illustrations, Vector Graphics, and Videos. Pixabay is also available as an Android or iOS application.
Ancient Dental Plaque Provides a Glimpse into Early Medicine and the
Original Paleolithic Diet
Neanderthal Dental Plaque Shows What a Paleo Diet Really Looks Like
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/03/ neanderthal-dental-plaque- shows-what-a-paleo-diet- really-looks-like/518949
Neanderthal dental tartar reveals plant-based diet - and drugs
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/mar/08/ neanderthal-dental-tartar- reveals-plant-based-diet-and- drugs
Dental Plaque DNA Opens New Window on Neanderthal Life-Ways
http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/june-2013/article/ dental-plaque-dna-opens-new- window-on-neanderthal-life- ways
Neanderthals Were People, Too
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/11/magazine/neanderthals- were-people-too.html
NOVA: A Neanderthal Burial
http://www.pbs.org/video/2324065933
Human Family Tree
http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-family-tree
Free Online Tutorials, Videos, Course Materials, and Learning Centers
Education Tutorials
Khan Academy: Introduction to Storytelling --- https://www.khanacademy.org/partner-content/pixar/storytelling/we-are-all-storytellers
The Glossary of Education Reform --- http://edglossary.org
From Psychology to Logic: Learning Computer Programing in the Kitchen ---
https://blossoms.mit.edu/videos/lessons/psychology_logic_learning_computer_programming_kitchen
YALSA Academy (teen library topics) --- http://www.ala.org/yalsa/academy
Newberry Library: Digital Collections for the Classroom (American History) --- http://dcc.newberry.org
Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy --- http://www.umanitoba.ca/publications/cjeap
TypeWolf (creatjng a Website) --- https://www.typewolf.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
Video: A fascinating new discovery is stirring up a huge scientific
debate over the origin of life on Earth and beyond ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/discovery-worlds-oldest-fossil-sparks-debate-among-scientists-2017-3
Video: NASA Captured Footage of Incredible Tornadoes on Mars ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-photos-tornadoes-mars-2017-3
NASA Scientific Visualization Studio --- http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov
open.NASA --- https://open.nasa.gov
ScienceNordic --- http://sciencenordic.com
YouTube: Reactions (chemistry) --- https://www.youtube.com/user/ACSReactions
Learn Chemistry: Chemistry Resources for Teachers ---
http://www.rsc.org/learn-chemistry/resource/listing?searchtext=&fcategory=all&filter=all&Audience=AUD00000001&displayname=teachers
Data Nuggets (biology) --- http://datanuggets.org
CDC WONDER (Epidemiologic Research) --- https://wonder.cdc.gov
EdX: The Extremes of Life: Microbes and their Diversity ---
https://www.edx.org/course/extremes-life-microbes-diversity-kyotoux-003x-0
Ecology: The Cancer of the Great Lakes ---
http://nautil.us/issue/46/balance/the-cancer-of-the-great-lakes
EurekAlert! Science News: Marine Science --- https://www.eurekalert.org/marinescience
Undersea: Rachel Carson’s Lyrical and Revolutionary 1937 Masterpiece Inviting
Humans to Explore Earth from the Perspective of Other Creatures
---
https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/02/28/undersea-rachel-carson/?utm_source=Brain+Pickings&utm_campaign=4b9d79af85-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_03_04&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_179ffa2629-4b9d79af85-234390133&mc_cid=4b9d79af85&mc_eid=4d2bd13843
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
Race and Intelligence ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_intelligence
Debate at Middlebury Over Co-author of the "Bell Curve" (race and intelligence)
---
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2017/02/28/debate-middlebury-over-co-author-bell-curve?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=979f5ef0d8-DNU20170228&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-979f5ef0d8-197565045&mc_cid=979f5ef0d8&mc_eid=1e78f7c952
CDC WONDER (Epidemiologic Research) --- https://wonder.cdc.gov
Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy --- http://www.umanitoba.ca/publications/cjeap
Atlas of ReUrbanism --- http://forum.savingplaces.org/act/pgl/atlas
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
Scroll down to Law
Math Tutorials
Bob Jensen's threads on free online mathematics tutorials are at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Scroll down to Mathematics and Statistics
Teaching Calculus --- https://teachingcalculus.com
Bob Jensen's links to free courses and tutorials --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
History Tutorials
365 Books by Women Authors to Celebrate International Women’s Day All Year
---
https://www.nypl.org/blog/2017/03/08/365-books-women-authors-international-womens-day
How Sultry 1940s Film Star Hedy Lamarr Helped Invent the Technology Behind
Wi-Fi & Bluetooth During WWII ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/03/how-sultry-1940s-film-star-hedy-lamarr-helped-invent-the-technology-behind-wi-fi-bluetooth-during-wwii.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
PBS: God in America --- http://www.pbs.org/godinamerica
The Quack Doctor --- http://thequackdoctor.com
Recording and Playing Machines ---
http://exhibitions.europeana.eu/exhibits/show/recording-and-playing-machines
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg ---
https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/sharing-photographs/
Download Influential Avant-Garde Magazines from the Early 20th Century:
Dadaism, Surrealism, Futurism & More ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/03/download-influential-avant-garde-magazines-from-the-early-20th-century.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Jonathan Swift Archives --- http://jonathanswiftarchive.org.uk
Newberry Library: Digital Collections for the Classroom (American History) --- http://dcc.newberry.org
Trailblazing: 100 Years of Our National Parks --- https://postalmuseum.si.edu/trailblazing
Knitting Reference Library (knitting or crocheting) --- https://archive.org/details/knittingreferencelibrary&tab=collection
A Window into the Regina Tornado of 1912 --- http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/virtual-exhibits/exhibit/a-window-into-the-regina-tornado-of-1912
MoRE Museum (rejected art pieces) --- http://moremuseum.org
Quad Royal: British Post War Posters and Graphics --- http://vintageposterblog.com
Mapping the Overland Trails --- http://dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/overlandtrails
The Collected Poems of Gavin Turnbull Online --- http://lichen.csd.sc.edu/turnbull
Poetry and Prayer: Islamic Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum --- http://poetryprayer.thewalters.org
Literary Hub --- http://lithub.com
The Travel Letters of Mrs. Kindersley --- http://travel-letters.org/kindersley
Bob Jensen's threads on history tutorials are at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Scroll down to History
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
Slate: Lexicon Valley (technical aspects of language) --- http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/lexicon_valley.html
Bob Jensen's links to language tutorials are at http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2-Part2.htm#Languages
Music Tutorials
The Milton and Nelma Fillius Jazz Archive --- http://elib.hamilton.edu/jazz-archive
Recording and Playing Machines ---
http://exhibitions.europeana.eu/exhibits/show/recording-and-playing-machines
Bob Jensen's threads on free music tutorials are at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Scroll down to Music
Bob Jensen's threads on music performances ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/music.htm
Writing Tutorials
Khan Academy: Introduction to Storytelling --- https://www.khanacademy.org/partner-content/pixar/storytelling/we-are-all-storytellers
Slate: Lexicon Valley (technical aspects of language) --- http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/lexicon_valley.html
The University of Texas at Austin Linguistics Research Center --- http://liberalarts.utexas.edu/lrc
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/
Shots: NPR Health News --- http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots
Updates from WebMD --- http://www.webmd.com/
February 28, 2017
March 2, 2017
March 3, 2017
March 6, 2017
March 7, 2017
March 8, 2017
March 10, 2017
March 11, 2017
March 13, 2017
March 14, 2017
CDC WONDER (Epidemiologic Research) --- https://wonder.cdc.gov
Glasses to Consider Wearing When Looking at a Computer Monitor ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-stop-computer-screen-glare-felix-gray-glasses-review-2016-5
The Quack Doctor --- http://thequackdoctor.com
Humor for March 2017
No. 1 Amazon bestseller: 266 blank pages on
why to vote Democrat ---
Yale Professor Michael J. Knowles
http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/09/us/book-best-seller-trnd/
For a laugh read the price and reviews on Amazon ---
https://www.amazon.com/Reasons-Vote-Democrats-Comprehensive-Guide/dp/1543024971/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1489399625&sr=1-1&keywords=Reasons+To+Vote+For+Democrats
I don't recommend buying this book for any reason other than as a conversation
piece in your living room. Make a game out of filling in the pages among your
guests.
Forwarded by Paula
Two robins were sitting in a tree. "I'm really hungry", complained the first
one. "Me, too" consented the second. "Let's fly down and find some lunch." They
flew to the ground and found a nice plot of plowed ground full of worms. They
ate and ate and ate and ate 'til they could eat no more. "I'm so full I don't
think I can fly back up to the tree," admitted the first one. "Me either. Let's
just lay here and bask in the warm sun," suggested the second. "O.K." agreed the
first. They plopped down, basking in the sun. No sooner than they had fallen
asleep, when a big fat tomcat snuck up and gobbled them up! As he sat, washing
his face after his meal, he thought to himself, "I just love baskin' robins."
Forwarded by Paula
Born 1903--Died 1942.
Looked up the elevator shaft to see if the
car was on the way down. It was.
=============================
In a Thurmont, Maryland, cemetery:
Here lies an Atheist, all dressed up and no
place to go.
=============================
East Dalhousie Cemetery , Nova Scotia :
Here lies Ezekial Aikle, Age 102. Only The
Good Die Young.
=============================
In a London, England cemetery:
Here lies Ann Mann, Who lived an old maid
but died an old Mann. Dec. 8, 1767
=============================
In a Ribbesford, England, cemetery:
Anna Wallace
The children of Israel wanted bread,
And the
Lord sent them manna.
Clark
Wallace wanted
a wife,
And
the Devil sent him Anna.
===============================
In a Ruidoso, New Mexico, cemetery:
Here lies Johnny Yeast... Pardon me
for not rising.
===============================
In a Uniontown, Pennsylvania, cemetery:
Here lies the body of Jonathan Blake.
Stepped on the gas instead of the brake.
==============================
In a Silver City, Nevada, cemetery:
Here lays The Kid.
We planted him raw.
He was quick on the trigger
But slow on the draw.
================================
A lawyer's epitaph in England :
Sir John Strange.
Here lies an honest lawyer,
and that is Strange.
=================================
John Penny's epitaph in the Wimborne,
England, cemetery:
Reader, if cash thou art in want of any,
Dig 6 feet deep and thou wilt find a Penny.
==================================
In a cemetery in Hartscombe, England :
On the 22nd of June, Jonathan Fiddle went
out of tune.
==================================
Anna Hopewell's grave in Enosburg Falls ,
Vermont:
Here lies the body of our Anna,
Done to death by a banana.
It wasn't the fruit that laid her low,
But the skin of the thing that made her go.
==================================
On a grave from the 1880s in Nantucket ,
Massachusetts:
Under the sod and under the trees,
Lies the body of Jonathan Pease.
He is not here, there's only the pod.
Pease shelled out and went to God.
==================================
In a cemetery in England:
Remember man, as you walk by,
As you are now, so once was I
As I am now, so shall you be.
Remember this and follow me.
To which someone replied by writing
on the tombstone:
To follow you I'll not consent .
Until I know which
way you went.
===============================
And finally, on a grave in tombstone, Arizona:
Here lies Lester Moore
Shot to death by a .44
No
Les, No more
Forwarded by Paula
The following are called paraprosdokians, a derivative of a Greek word meaning beyond expectation.
A paraprosdokian is a figure of speech in which the latter part
of a sentence is unexpected and oft times very humorous.
|
If I had a dollar for every girl who found me unattractive,
they'd eventually find me very attractive.
|
I find it ironic that the colors
red, white, and blue
stand for freedom, until
they're flashing behind you.
|
Today a man knocked on my door
and asked for a
small donation towards the
local swimming pool,
so I gave him a glass of
water.
|
Artificial intelligence is
no match for natural
stupidity.
|
I'm great at multi-tasking:
I can waste time, be
unproductive,
and procrastinate all at
once.
|
If you can smile when things go
wrong,
you have someone in mind to
blame.
|
Take my advice,
I'm not using it.
|
Hospitality is the art of making
guests feel
like they're at home when
you wish they were.
|
Behind every great man
is a woman rolling her eyes.
|
Ever stop to think
and forget to start again?
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Women spend more time wondering
what men are thinking than
men spend thinking.
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He who laughs last
thinks slowest.
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Is it wrong that only one
company
makes the game Monopoly?
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Women sometimes make fools of
men,
but most guys are the
do-it-yourself type.
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Men say women should come with an instruction manual;
but since when has any man
stopped to read the instructions.
I was going to give him a nasty look,
but he already had one.
Change is inevitable,
except from a vending machine.
I was going to wear my camouflage shirt today,
but I couldn't find it.
If at first you don't succeed,
skydiving
is not for you.
Humor February 2017 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book17q1.htm#Humor0217.htm
Humor January 2017 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book17q1.htm#Humor0117.htm
Humor December 2016 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book16q4.htm#Humor1216.htm
Humor November 2016 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book16q4.htm#Humor1116.htm
Humor October 2016 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book16q4.htm#Humor1016.htm
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
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
Click here to search Bob Jensen's web site if you have key words to enter ---
Search Site.
For example if you want to know what Jensen documents have the term "Enron"
enter the phrase Jensen AND Enron. Another search engine that covers Trinity and
other universities is at
http://www.searchedu.com/
Online Distance Education Training and Education ---
http://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?
---
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://www.trinity.edu/rjensen
190 Sunset Hill Road
Sugar Hill, NH 03586
Phone: 603-823-8482
Email:
rjensen@trinity.edu