Tidbits on June 14, 2017
Bob Jensen at Trinity University

My Pictures of Lilacs and Phlox of Springtime
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Lilacs/Set01/LilacsSet02.htm 

Tidbits on June 14, 2017
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Bob Jensen's Tidbits ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm

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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

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

USA Debt Clock --- http://www.usdebtclock.org/ ubl

Online Video, Slide Shows, and Audio

NASA Released an Inside Look at Jupiter's Rings ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-jupiter-juno-first-inside-look-rings-2017-5

Timelapse Animation Lets You See the Rise of Cities Across the Globe, from 3700 BC to 2000 AD ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/05/timelapse-animation-lets-you-see-the-rise-of-cities-across-the-globe-from-3700-bc-to-2000-ad.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Watch Clouds Roil Through the Grand Canyon: A Beautiful Timelapse Film Captures a Rare Full Cloud Inversion ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/05/watch-clouds-roil-through-the-grand-canyon-a-beautiful-timelapse-film-captures-a-rare-full-cloud-inversion.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Tornado Touching Down in Canada ---
http://time.com/4804168/three-hills-tornado-video-canada/?xid=newsletter-brief

Cab Calloway Stars in “Minnie the Moocher,” a Trippy Betty Boop Cartoon That’s Ranked as the 20th Greatest Cartoon of All Time (1932) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/06/cab-calloway-in-minnie-the-moocher-the-trippy-betty-boop-cartoon.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Animated GIFs Show How Subway Maps of Berlin, New York, Tokyo & London Compare to the Real Geography of Those Great Cities  ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/06/animated-gifs-show-how-subway-maps-of-berlin-new-york-tokyo-london-compare-to-the-actual-geography-of-those-great-cities.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

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 

The History of Classical Music in 1200 Tracks: From Gregorian Chant to Górecki ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/06/the-history-of-classical-music-in-1200-tracks-from-gregorian-chant-to-gorecki.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Cab Calloway Stars in “Minnie the Moocher,” a Trippy Betty Boop Cartoon That’s Ranked as the 20th Greatest Cartoon of All Time (1932) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/06/cab-calloway-in-minnie-the-moocher-the-trippy-betty-boop-cartoon.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Glen Campbell playing the William Tell Overture (with symphony orchestra) and dedicating it to Clayton  Moore, who played the Lone Ranger and Jay Silverheels, who played Tonto.   You may never have seen Glen play like this before. This is world-class guitar playing and Campbell makes it look easy.---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUBhE00h9U0 

#OperaBeforeInstagram (history of opera in the USA) --- http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/opera-portraits-1890-to-1955/

Watch Simon & Garfunkel Sing “The Sound of Silence” 45 Years After Its Release, and Just Get Hauntingly Better with Time ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/05/watch-simon-garfunkel-sing-the-sound-of-silence-45-years-after-its-release.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

The 50 Best TV Theme Songs of All Time ---
https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/05/the-50-best-tv-theme-songs.html

All That is or Ever Will Be" - Cosmos A SpaceTime Odyssey ---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1CYoTwhsDs

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

Google's Street View is now 10 years old — here are the most stunning pictures from around the world ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/beautiful-google-street-view-pictures-2017-5

Download 2,500 Beautiful Woodblock Prints and Drawings by Japanese Masters (1600-1915) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/06/download-2500-beautiful-woodblock-prints-and-drawings-by-japanese-masters-1600-1915.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Everything You Need to Know About Modern Russian Art in 25 Minutes: A Visual Introduction to Futurism, Socialist Realism & More ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/06/everything-you-need-to-know-about-modern-russian-art-in-25-minutes.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Amazing Places on Earth --- https://www.youtube.com/embed/ ICFQS_jpzFY?rel=

Many Lenses (American, African American, and Native American History Museums) ---
https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/manylenses

Daily Art Fixx --- http://www.dailyartfixx.com

#OperaBeforeInstagram (history of opera in the USA) --- http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/opera-portraits-1890-to-1955/

There's a "boneyard" in Arizona where most military planes go to die ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/boneyard-davis-monthan-air-force-base-military-retires-planes-amarg-2017-5

NASA's $1 billion Jupiter probe has taken more stunning new images of the gas giant ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/latest-jupiter-pictures-nasa-juno-2017-5

NASA Released an Inside Look at Jupiter's Rings ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-jupiter-juno-first-inside-look-rings-2017-5

Jupiter’s Super-Weird Atmosphere Is Astonishing Scientists ---
https://www.wired.com/2017/05/jupiters-super-weird-atmosphere-astonishing-scientists/

A US Marine photographer shot these beautiful portraits of troops overseas ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/marine-photographer-shot-these-beautiful-portraits-troops-overseas-2017-6

Construction of the 80-Year Old Golden Gate Bridge ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/historic-photos-golden-gate-bridge-san-francisco-2017-5/#the-proposal-for-a-bridge-connecting-san-francisco-and-marin-county-overcame-unlikely-odds-ferry-companies-fought-it-because-it-would-cut-into-their-profits-carrying-some-50000-commuters-a-day-into-the-city-environmentalists-thought-it-would-be-obtrusive-1

A tour of Mars assembled from NASA images reveals a wondrous but uninviting planet ---
https://aeon.co/videos/a-tour-of-mars-assembled-from-nasa-images-reveals-a-wondrous-but-uninviting-planet?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=2d21ab3a51-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-2d21ab3a51-68951505

The Vault at Pfaff's (Bohemian NYC) --- http://pfaffs.web.lehigh.edu

19 photos that show just how stunning US national parks are ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/us-national-parks-photos-2017-6

ArtNC (art education) --- http://www.artnc.org

Persuasive Cartography --- https://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu

Metropolitan Museum Heilbrunn Timeline of Art --- http://www.metmuseum.org/toah

5 of the most underrated national parks in the US ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/underrated-national-parks-2017-6

Hecho a Mano: Book Arts of Latin America ---
http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/hechoamano

The Frame Blog (history of picture frames) --- https://theframeblog.com

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

What Veterans' Poems Can Teach Us About Healing on Memorial Day ---
https://theconversation.com/what-veterans-poems-can-teach-us-about-healing-on-memorial-day-77758

Brain Pickings:  The Universe in Verse ---
https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/05/29/the-universe-in-verse/?utm_source=Brain+Pickings&utm_campaign=713bfece18-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_179ffa2629-713bfece18-234390133&mc_cid=713bfece18&mc_eid=4d2bd13843

Hayao Miyazaki Picks His 50 Favorite Children’s Books ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/05/hayao-miyazaki-picks-his-50-favorite-childrens-books.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Children’s Books --- http://childrensbooks.about.com

International Children’s Digital Library --- http://www.icdlbooks.org/

The International Children’s Digital Library Offers Free eBooks for Kids in Over 40 Languages ---
http://www.openculture.com/2013/12/the-international-childrens-digital-library.html

Poem:  Castles in Spain, by Amy Lowell ---
https://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2017/05/poem-of-the-week-castles-in-spain-by-amy-lowell/528306/

Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium: A Forgotten Treasure at the Intersection of Science and Poetry ---
https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/05/23/emily-dickinson-herbarium/?utm_source=Brain+Pickings&utm_campaign=183e0c4328-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_05_26&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_179ffa2629-183e0c4328-234390133&mc_cid=183e0c4328&mc_eid=4d2bd13843

The Vault at Pfaff's (Bohemian NYC) --- http://pfaffs.web.lehigh.edu

Shakespeare’s Genius Is Nonsense ---
http://nautil.us/issue/48/chaos/shakespeares-genius-is-nonsense-rp

William Corbett's Bookshop --- http://corbettsbookshop.omeka.net

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 June 14, 2017
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/2017/TidbitsQuotations061417.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

May 31, 2017 Request from Joe Hoyle

I'm giving a 2 hour teaching presentation next week at the Virginia Society of CPAs. I am always looking for something new to use to start off a program like this one. So, I am asking a few of my favorite teachers to respond (in one sentence) to this question. "For you, what was the very best thing about being a teacher?"

Joe

May 31, 2017 Reply from Bob Jensen

You may not like this, but before becoming a college professor I seriously considered becoming a K-12 teacher due to the number of free days relative to most other careers that only allow 1-3 weeks vacation.

Teachers at the K-12 and college level have opportunities to earn additional revenue from summer teaching, but they are also free to pursue other lines of work such as writing books, writing poems, raising cattle, organic farming, travel,  etc. 

In addition to summer freedoms teachers also have more break times during the academic year for things like skiing and chasing wild women (which was on my agenda before getting married).

Sorry Joe, but this is the way it was for me.

The second reason was the freedom of time use even during my teaching weeks.
In my 40 years for full-time teaching I only had five hours of actual class time during every teaching week. There were added office hours combined with a huge expectation for research and publication. But I could choose my research topics and when I conducted research and writing. 

The bottom line of why I went into teaching is that I controlled my time use without having supervisors breathing down my back. 
It also helped to love my job such that on average I spent over 60 hours per week doing my job for over 40 years --- even during the summer months --- and even in "retirement."

But it was great to have the option of how I spent my time. If I had hated by job I could have probably been paid full time for working 20 hours per week. But that never happened for me, because I loved my work.

Bob Jensen

The Chronicle's Best Ideas for Teaching. 2017 ---
http://www.chronicle.com/resource/the-chronicle-s-best-ideas-for/6171/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=3dd5e3fb92204324b94f355f8f7e126a&elq=7b55c04ec3434210b6e25dd87de7860c&elqaid=14221&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=5973

A meal of fried worms, paper snowballs, pop quizzes: Professors are using whatever it takes to liven up the classroom and help students master and remember material. The 10 articles in this collection describes innovative teaching strategies — not just high-tech ones, like webcast introductory courses, but low-tech ones, like peer instruction, faculty learning communities, and reconsideration of the canon.

Jensen Comment
If you don't have access to this collection your campus library probably can give you access.

Bob Jensen's free threads on Tools and Tricks of the Trade (not just technology) ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm

HASTAC: The Pedagogy Project (technology in education and learning) --- https://www.hastac.org/pedagogy-project

Bob Jensen's threads on education technology --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/0000start.htm

Jane Goodall --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Goodall 

Dr. Jane Goodall Will Teach an Online Course About Conserving Our Environment --- 
http://www.openculture.com/2017/06/dr-jane-goodall-will-teach-an-online-course-about-conserving-our-environment.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29 

MOOC:  Massive Open Online Course (usually free from a prestigious university) --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_open_online_course
Certificates, Badges, and Transcript Credit may entail fees, but viewing the entire course is usually free under the definition of a MOOC

MIT:  What are MOOCs Good For?
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/533406/what-are-moocs-good-for/?utm_source=MIT+Technology+Review&utm_campaign=126ef5ab4e-Weekend_Reads&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_997ed6f472-126ef5ab4e-153727301&mc_cid=126ef5ab4e&mc_eid=fe7f400ea3

265 MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) Getting Started in June 2017: Enroll Free Today ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/05/265-moocs-massive-open-online-courses-getting-started-in-june-enroll-free-today.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Bob Jensen's threads on MOOCs and other free education and training modules ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI

India’s bees are dying out and only its farmers know why ---
https://qz.com/999599/indias-bees-are-dying-out-and-only-its-farmers-know-why/

Hypertext --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext

Hypercard (card stack) --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperCard

Leighton Christiansen and Deena Larsen struggled to find the key behind the patterns of connections

Visualize:  This is What Happens in an Internet Minute ---
https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=This+Is+What+Happens+in+an+Internet+Minute+2017&id=636C2CC32ADE8338A28C423651FDD5F3AAF66977&FORM=IDBQMV&adlt=strict

The Ten Biggest Tech Product Failures of the Past Decade ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/here-are-the-10-biggest-tech-product-failures-of-the-past-decade-2017-6/#hd-dvd-1

Jensen Comment
The privacy reason for the failure of Google Glass seems a bit farfetched. There are many more subtle spy cameras on the market for relatively cheap prices such as the video camera that is both a pen and a camera that can even shoot video while in your pocket. It was easy to spot a Google Glass attachment on a pair of spectacles. Probably the most popular spy camera is a cell phone. ---

Maybe you should turn that hotel room clock toward the wall and hang a towel beside a smoke alarm in the ceiling (don't cover the alarm)..---
http://www.zetronix.com/hidden-covert-cams.html?gclid=CJGGrpKFpNQCFVZMDQodqsgN0A
It's probably impossible to cover all possible spy devices in a hotel room. Hotels should, however, sweep for such devices out of fear of lawsuits. They may not catch every device, but in court it helps for the hotel to reveal how it made a serious effort.
 

Apple debuted the newest version of MacOS on Monday — here's what's new ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/macos-whats-new-2017-6

The iPad was supposed to revolutionize news, books, and computers. So what happened? ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/what-happened-to-the-ipads-promise-2017-6

Jensen Comment
In my opinion powerful laptop computers and smart phones both cut away at notebook computing and networking markets. The article above, however, focuses more on the possibility that the iPad will bounce back. Personally I don't think the article is all that convincing except in niche markets. For instance, iPads are almost an essential among many autistic people. Personally I've got three notebook computers that are laden with dust out in my barn. In retirement I don't find a lot of reason to by a smart phone since I don't travel much anymore. However, daily I use both my powerful Dell laptops (two) and our new Samsung smart TV that connects to our home wireless system.

Five Ways to Respond When Students Offer Incorrect Answers ---
http://maateachingtidbits.blogspot.com/2016/09/5-ways-to-respond-when-students-offer.html

Jensen Comment
I found it more troublesome when nobody in the class is capable of offering an answer.

When the answer is incorrect much depends upon the pedagogy of the course. Under the Socratic Method educators do not all agree on how to respond to incorrect answers ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socratic_method

W. K. C. Guthrie in The Greek Philosophers sees it as an error to regard the Socratic method as a means by which one seeks the answer to a problem, or knowledge. Guthrie claims that the Socratic method actually aims to demonstrate one's ignorance. Socrates, unlike the Sophists, did believe that knowledge was possible, but believed that the first step to knowledge was recognition of one's ignorance. Guthrie writes, "[Socrates] was accustomed to say that he did not himself know anything, and that the only way in which he was wiser than other men was that he was conscious of his own ignorance, while they were not. The essence of the Socratic method is to convince the interlocutor that whereas he thought he knew something, in fact he does not."

But in mathematics, science, and fields like accountancy questions are not all rhetorical ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetorical_question

Often there is best answers in the knowledge database, and students are encouraged how to discover those best answers. There is no "best answer," however, on how to respond to a student's incorrect answer. Sometimes it's probably more efficient and effective to give out a correct answer and show how to derive that answer. Sometimes it's best to give out a correct answer and make the students figure out how to derive that answer. Sometimes it's best to make students struggle with arriving at a consensus as to whether they have arrived at a correct answer.

In the BAM Pedagogy instructors are supposed to avoid giving out correct answers --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/265wp.htm
However, the instructor must not allow students to be self assured that their incorrect answers are correct. This is a real challenge in the BAM Pedagogy.

In the famous movie entitled "The Paper Chase" Professor Kingsfield gets away with insulting students about wrong answers mostly because he embarrasses any student offering up a wrong answer --- no favorites when it comes to insults ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paper_Chase_(film) 

The mounting pressure, as the course nears its end, gets to everyone. When Hart gives Kingsfield a flippant answer, the professor gives him a dime and tells him, "Call your mother. Tell her there is serious doubt about your becoming a lawyer." Hart calls Kingsfield a "son of a bitch" and starts to walk out. Surprisingly, Kingsfield agrees with his assessment and invites him to sit back down, which he does. Brooks makes an unsuccessful suicide attempt and drops out of school. The study group is torn apart by personal bickering. With final exams looming, Hart and Ford prepare feverishly in a hotel room for three days.

At Iowa State University when I was a lowly sophomore taking Business Law 101 Professor Shramford was a role model for Professor Kingsfield before Professor Kingsfield was invented. I'm doubt that Professor Shramford would have been awarded tenure had teaching evaluations been available to P&T committees like they are today. In retrospect, I considered Professor Shramford one of the best teachers I ever had in college. It's unfortunate that he'd be denied tenure in the 21st Century.

How Well Do Anomalies in Finance and Accounting Replicate ---
https://replicationnetwork.com/2017/05/19/how-well-do-anomalies-in-finance-and-accounting-replicate/

“The anomalies literature is infested with widespread p-hacking. We replicate the entire anomalies literature in finance and accounting by compiling a largest-to-date data library that contains 447 anomaly variables. With microcaps alleviated via New York Stock Exchange breakpoints and value-weighted returns, 286 anomalies (64%) including 95 out of 102 liquidity variables (93%) are insignificant at the conventional 5% level. Imposing the cutoff t-value of three raises the number of insignificance to 380 (85%). Even for the 161 significant anomalies, their magnitudes are often much lower than originally reported. Out of the 161, the q-factor model leaves 115 alphas insignificant (150 with t < 3). In all, capital markets are more efficient than previously recognized.”

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

Bob Jensen's threads on the very sorry state of replicated research in accountancy ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/TheoryTAR.htm
Validity of research outcomes is not a priority test of academic accountants seeking mostly to add hit lines to resumes. Top journal editors (think The Accounting Review) don't even want to publish readers comments on articles. If TAR referees accept an article for publication it becomes truth ipso facto.

Fake science publisher accepts (again) a paper already exposed as 'pile of dung' ---
http://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/fake-science-publisher-accepts-again-a-paper-already-exposed-as-pile-of-dung

COFFMAN & WILSON: Assessing the Rate of Replications in Economics ---
https://replicationnetwork.com/2017/05/31/coffman-wilson-assessing-the-rate-of-replications-in-economics/

In our AER Papers and Proceedings paper, “Assessing the Rate of Replications in Economics” we try to answer two questions. First, how often do economists attempt to replicate results? Second, how aware are we collectively of replication attempts that do happen?

Going into this project, the two of us were concerned about the state of replication in the profession, but neither of us really knew for sure just how bad (or good) it might be. To get a better handle on the problem, we set out to quantify just how often results produced in subsequent work spoke to the veracity of the core insights in empirical papers (even if this was not the main goal of the follow up work).

We couldn’t answer this for all work ever done, so we needed to limit the exercise to a meaningful subsample. To do this we chose a base set of papers from the AER’s 100th volume, published in 2010. This volume sample therefore represented important, general-interest ideas in economics, and gave all the papers at least 5 years since publication to accrue replication attempts.

We wanted to be fairly comprehensive on the fields we included, but we also wanted to focus on “replication” in a very broad sense: had the core hypothesis of the previous paper been exposed to a retest and incorporated into the published literature? But this broad definition led to a problem on the coding, as we wanted the reader of each volume paper to be an expert in the field providing his or her opinion on whether something was a replication. To solve this, we put together a group of coauthors who possessed expertise across of an array of fields (adding James Berry, Rania Gihleb, and Douglas Hanley to the project).

Assigning the volume papers by specialty, we read through and coded just over 1,500 papers citing one of the 70 empirical papers in our volume sample. For each paper we coded our subjective opinions on whether each was a replication and/or an extension for one of the original paper’s main hypotheses. Alongside this, we also coded more-objective definitions on the relationship of the data in each citing paper to the original, allowing us to compare our top-level replication coding to the definitions given by Michael Clemens.

The end results from our study indicate that only a quarter of the papers in our volume sample were replicated at least once, while 60 percent had either been replicated or extended at least once. While the replication figure is still lower than we would want, it was higher than we expected. Moreover, the papers that were replicated were the most important papers in our sample: Every single volume paper in our sample with 100 published citations had been replicated at least once. Given 50 published citations, the paper was more likely to have been replicated than not. While the quantitative rates differ slightly, this qualitative result is replicated by the findings in the session papers by Daniel Hamermesh and Sandip Sukhtankar (examining very well-cited papers in labor economics, and top-5/field publications in development economics, respectively.)

Jensen Question
Does anybody know the rate of replications in accounting research for 2016 and 2017?
The new (2016) Journal of Financial Reporting invited submissions that are replications, but I don't see evidence of replication studies published in that journal. Unlike The Accounting Review, however, JFR has published some commentaries ---
http://aaajournals.org/loi/jfir

JFR Editorial Policy

. . .

Replications
Replications include a partial or comprehensive repeat of an experiment that sustains as many conditions as possible but uses a different sample. The sample employed in the replication should be at least as “strong” as the original sample. JFR also uses the term “Replication” to describe an archival empirical analysis that primarily performs the same analysis as an existing study but adds, for example, another control variable or additional sensitivity analysis, or uses a slightly different sample. Replications are expected to be short. The Introduction should provide a limited review of the essential features of the analysis being replicated: the research issue addressed, the contribution of the original article, and the key differences between the manuscript's analysis and the replicated study. The remainder of the paper need only provide a limited summary of the analysis that restates the central theory and hypothesis or research questions addressed in the replicated study. Authors should provide more detail about the sample, if using a new sample is the purpose of the replication, or about any new variables. Sufficient results should be presented to support conclusions drawn regarding the comparison of the results of the current paper to the replicated study.

I think The Accounting Review still discourages submissions of either replication research or commentaries on previously-published articles. TAR considers referee acceptance as sufficient evidence of truth and accuracy.

Bob Jensen's threads on the sad state of research replication and validation in accounting research ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/TheoryTAR.htm

Elsevier and the 5 Diseases of Academic Research ---
https://www.elsevier.com/connect/5-diseases-ailing-research-and-how-to-cure-them

This article summarizes the “diseases” ailing scientific research as identified in the article “On doing better science: From thrill of discovery to policy implications” by John Antonakis, recently published in The Leadership Quarterly.  

Various Elsevier associates then discuss how they see these problems being addressed.  Given the huge role that Elsevier plays in academic publishing, their view of the problems of scientific research/publishing, and their ideas regarding potential solutions, should be of interest.

Stensland Family Farms, which sits in the northwest corner of Iowa, has 170 dairy cows, but nobody milks them. Robots do it ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/automation-dairy-farms-robots-milking-cows-2017-6

Jensen Comment
If robots can milk the cows there's almost no limit to what the clean up crew of machines can do for the barn and house.

Cars So Hot They're Out of Stock (Slide Show) ---
http://247wallst.com/special-report/2017/06/02/cars-so-hot-theyre-out-of-stock-2/2/
Jensen Comment
Especially note the higher demand cars selling more than 100,000 vehicles per year.

Microsoft Excel: How to evaluate complex formulas:  Learn how to use Excel's Evaluate tool, which can help you dissect and understand complicated formulas.---
http://www.journalofaccountancy.com/issues/2017/jun/how-to-evaluate-complex-excel-formulas.html?utm_source=mnl:cpald&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=06Jun2017

The Denver Library:  An Unofficial Homeless Shelter ---
http://lisnews.org/the_denver_libraryan_unofficial_homeless_shelter
Jensen Comment
To the extent that library users don't use the library out of fear or a feeling of discomfort being panhandled the use of public libraries as homeless shelters is dysfunctional. Do you really want to leave your teenager for a couple of hours at the Denver Library or similar public library?

What's the most misspelled word in your state?
https://twitter.com/GoogleTrends/status/869585144977342464
Or
https://twitter.com/hashtag/dataviz?src=hash
Scroll down to May 31, 2017

Jensen Comment
Up here in New Hampshire the word is diaria (or whatever)?

In Nevada there's no tomorrow (I suspect we know the reason).

Massachusetts has a license for everything except spelling.

Why do folks in Mississippi and South Carolina even want to spell the breed of little dog that's more popular in Mexico?

I'm suspicious of spellers in Wisconsin.

I'm also suspicious of the word that folks in Pennsylvania can't spell. Aren't many of them descended from German immigrants?

I think this study needs to be replicated. Then let's "exacerbate" the outcome in social media. See if Georgians can really do better spelling "exacerbate."

Fueled by cheap power and government subsidies, Norway is racing to ditch the “fossil car.” ---
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-01/the-country-adopting-electric-vehicles-faster-than-anywhere-else
Jensen Comment
But given Norway's enormous dependence on oil-well revenues my ancestors do not want other nations to abandon their dependency on oil and gas.

Norway is about the size of Iowa and only has about five million people. Unlike Iowa the topography and cold climate of Norway is not conducive to food crops. Without oil reserves the nation would be severely strapped for economic growth.

World Population Density in 2015 ---
http://ritholtz.com/2017/05/world-population-density-2015/

Jensen Comment
I love the way the map goes blank north of Boston.

Note the way the two hemispheres of the Earth vary in terms of centers o population density.

Columbia University Battles Age-Discrimination Suit:  Lawyers for New York City school seek dismissal of 78-year-old law professor’s complaint ---
https://www.wsj.com/articles/columbia-university-battles-age-discrimination-suit-1495745460?mg=id-wsj

Columbia University is battling allegations of age discrimination leveled by one of the elite school’s most prominent law professors.

Lawyers for the New York City-based university have asked a judge in Manhattan to dismiss a complaint brought by 78-year-old law professor George P. Fletcher, an influential scholar of criminal law.

Prof. Fletcher sued Columbia University and the dean of its law school in March, alleging that the administration was pressuring him to retire and giving favorable treatment to younger faculty members.

Lawyers retained by Columbia University filed a motion this week seeking to dismiss the suit. “There is simply no basis for that allegation, and none appears in the complaint,” their motion stated.

Federal and New York law forbids employers from discriminating against workers on the basis of age, covering not only hiring and firing but terms and conditions of employment. Prof. Fletcher is suing under local civil rights laws that set a lower bar for demonstrating discrimination.

In 1994, Congress eliminated mandatory retirement for faculty in higher education. That contributed to an increase in the average retirement age of tenured professors. The average retirement age of Columbia tenured faculty is in the low 70s, according to a 2012 university study. That is a jump from the 1990s when the average age hovered in the middle-to-late 60s, the study found.

Prof. Fletcher has accused the Ivy League university and Columbia Law School Dean Gillian Lester of essentially plotting against him by making it harder for him to meet a teaching quota.

For more than a decade, he says, he was able to accumulate enough teaching hours, while spending spring semesters abroad as a visiting scholar in Israel.

That arrangement, he contends, unraveled in January under the leadership of Prof. Lester, a former University of California, Berkeley, law professor who joined Columbia as dean in 2015.

She told him he could no longer teach “Introduction to American Law,” citing weak student evaluations, among other performance concerns, according to his suit.

Prof. Fletcher says students overwhelmingly gave him positive reviews, but says the dean’s concerns were merely a pretext for putting his tenured status in jeopardy. He says he was assigned to teach an elective course that risked being canceled owing to low enrollment.

Prof. Fletcher alleges Columbia is showing bias toward “faculty members who are much younger” and “have had real, and more egregious, administrative shortcomings in their performance.”

Lawyers for Columbia argued that the discrimination claim is too unsubstantiated to hold up in court.

“[I]t is well settled (and common sense) that a university’s mere failure to accommodate a professor’s preferred course schedule does not give rise to a discrimination claim,” their motion stated.

Prof. Fletcher has been a tenured professor for more than 30 years and is the author or co-author of more than a dozen books, including “Rethinking Criminal Law” and recently “Law and The Bible.” His work exploring principles and theories behind criminal law and tort liability is widely cited and taught.

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Interesting Ways to Visualize Data ---
https://twitter.com/hashtag/dataviz?src=hash

Bob Jensen's threads on multivariate data visualization ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/352wpvisual/000datavisualization.htm

Which Carrier Has the Best Unlimited Plan? AT&T vs Verizon vs Sprint vs T-Mobile ---
https://www.howtogeek.com/302152/which-cell-phone-carriers-unlimited-plan-is-the-best/

Jensen Warning
In spite of what your contract states, watch for cheating on billings. Phone carriers and hospitals are notorious for "billing errors" in favor of the companies. Billing Errors? Yeah Right!

Economists say the ultra-wealthy are dodging taxes far more than we think
In Sweden and Denmark the wealthy avoid about 30% of their taxes
https://qz.com/994323/economists-say-the-ultra-wealthy-dodging-taxes-far-more-than-we-think/
Jensen Comment
Illegal tax evasion is not the same as finding legal loopholes (a ploy popular among the wealthy in the USA's complicated tax code)
In the USA, India, and Russia illegal tax evasion is facilitated by having enormous underground (cash-only economies) where the poor, middle class, and wealthy all evade both income taxes and payroll taxes.
The underground economy in the USA also facilitates fraud in other arenas such as Medicaid, welfare, food stamps, and crime (such as cash for the purchase of illegal narcotics).

Walmart's online sales are exploding ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/walmarts-online-sales-are-exploding-2017-5

Jensen Comment
Nothing beats low, low prices and free two-day shipping. Amazon might take notice after Walmart has half as many products online coupled with a used-product service.
Competition is a good thing usually and especially in this case --- except that Walmart and Amazon are driving out online smaller competitors. Keep and eye on LL Bean and other online vendors that still don't collect sales taxes in most states. They still have that advantage, at least for a while.

he company that Walmart bought for $3 billion just opened the 'grocery shop concept of the future' in NYC — here's what it's like ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/jet-nyc-boutique-photos

An Exact Quote from An Amazon Module:  "Fulfilled by Amazon"
"Sold by Alchemy Hour LLC and Fulfilled by Amazon."
Jensen Comment
This is not new at Amazon, but it does explain some of the reasons Amazon has over 5 million products online, more than double the number of products available from Walmart. There are clear advantages to buying products this way from Amazon. First is the security of not having to send your credit card number to Alchemy Hour LLC and over a million other vendors. This is especially important when buying a used book from some owner shipping the book from home. Otherwise selling a used book could become a scam for getting your credit card number.

Second is the ease of search for products you are looking at the wonderful Amazon product search site.

Third is the ease of placing an order and paying for an order in the same manner as ordering products that Amazon sells directly from its own inventory.

Fourth is the ease of buying used products ranging from a book to a vacuum cleaner. The used product can be shipped by the owner, John Doe, from the owner's home without having to be handled by Amazon.

Fifth is the assurance of vendor return of the purchase price if you return the product. What I discovered when I recently returned some Hudson Bay shirts (wrong size) is that those outside vendors do not all offer free return shipping that is available when Amazon ships the product. Be prepared to having to pay the return shipping costs to outside vendors.

There are other advantages to Amazon that we teach in basic accounting courses.
The first is that Amazon does not have to pay the inventory costs of storage, handling, and financing the inventory on hand. Amazon simply gets a commission of the selling price for its role in "fulfilling orders." There are probably times when Amazon has to pay a customer for losses due to a wayward vendor, but my guess is that this cost is relatively small for Amazon since vendors are in need of continued good relations with Amazon.

There are obvious advantages to outside vendors, especially just for having your product archived in the vast Amazon product database and sometimes promoted as a "special" by Amazon. The above "exact quote" was taken by me from an Amazon promotion of a cordless vacuum cleaner. Some outside vendors like persons wanting to sell a few used books do not have to have credit card processing systems.

Disadvantages to outside vendors include the sales losses of new products due to the ease with which used (often reconditioned) versions of their products are so conveniently found on Amazon at much cheaper prices.

Due to Walmart's aggressive pricing and  free two-day shipping Walmart's online sales are exploding. Amazon Prime has a yearly fee.  However, Amazon is still my first choice for online shopping do to having millions of products not available from Walmart, especially thosed used product deals.

Windows 10’s Settings Are a Mess, and Microsoft Doesn’t Seem to Care ---
https://www.howtogeek.com/293858/windows-10s-settings-are-a-mess-and-microsoft-doesnt-seem-to-care/

Jensen Comment
I sure miss the old Control Panel of Windows 7.

Museum of Obsolete Media --- http://www.obsoletemedia.org

The Impossible Mathematics of the Real World ---
http://nautil.us/issue/49/the-absurd/the-impossible-mathematics-of-the-real-world

Jensen Comment
The test for mathematical models in the real world is how robust the conclusions are to the underlying (and simplifying) assumptions of the those mathematical models. My favorite example of a robust model is the Pythagoian Theorem in a real world where there has never been a perfect right angle ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagorean_theorem

Examples where robustness fails abound in nearly all disciplines of the real world. My favorite is the CAPM model (1961) in finance and economics that exploded in popularity for real-world investing and academic research and resulted in Nobel Prizes for three independent researchers. It took decades for researchers and decision makers to admit that the CAPM was just not robust in terms of its highly limiting assumptions ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_asset_pricing_model#Problems_of_CAPM

Nobel Laureate William F. Sharpe --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_F._Sharpe

Tackling the ‘Nastiest, Hardest Problem in Finance’ William Sharpe, creator of a model that measures risk and reward, turns to retirement planning--
http://ritholtz.com/2017/06/thorniest-problem-finance/

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Many financial planners use a simple rule of thumb: withdraw 4 percent a year from your savings until you either die or run out of money. This one-size-fits-all solution is suboptimal for a reality where the potential outcomes are almost infinite, or as Sharpe describes it, a “multiperiod problem with actuarial issues, in a multidimensional scenario matrix.”

Jensen Sidebar

Note how much the Capital Asset Pricing Model (the CAPM for which Bill shared his Nobel Prize) has fallen from grace in finance and economic research.---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_asset_pricing_model

Bill Sharpe, however, is still highly respected in finance, especially in the analysis of investment risk ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharpe_ratio

Empty storefronts litter the World Trade Center mall one year after its grand opening  ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/empty-storefronts-fill-the-world-trade-center-mall-2017-6

Microsoft is taking a second stab at one of its biggest failed experiments ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-windows-on-snapdragon-arm-laptops-announced-2017-5

76 Countries, But Not The U.S., Sign OECD BEPS Convention To Curb International Tax Avoidance ---
http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2017/06/76-countries-but-not-the-us-sign-oecd-beps-convention-to-curb-international-tax-avoidance.html

Caterpillar’s $4.2 Billion (Criminal) Tax Evasion Scheme Started as a Whistleblower Leak ---
https://moneymorning.com/2017/03/03/caterpillars-4-2-billion-tax-evasion-scheme-started-as-a-whistleblower-leak/

Jensen Comment
Now that whistleblower may get the largest whistleblower reward in history ($600 million give or take)

Quarterly Report on Household Debt and Credit, May 2017 ---
http://ritholtz.com/2017/05/quarterly-report-household-debt-credit/
Hit the + or - buttons near the bottom of the page for a slide show with lots and lots of charts

Walmart's online sales are exploding ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/walmarts-online-sales-are-exploding-2017-5

Jensen Comment
Nothing beats low, low prices and free two-day shipping. Amazon might take notice after Walmart has half as many products online coupled with a used-product service.
Competition is a good thing usually and especially in this case --- except that Walmart and Amazon are driving out online smaller competitors. Keep and eye on LL Bean and other online vendors that still don't collect sales taxes in most states. They still have that advantage, at least for a while.

The University of Utah introduced a humanities major option growing in popularity -- a job skills certificate program, what it has labeled as “degree-plus” ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/05/31/university-utah-program-pushes-technical-skills-liberal-arts-majors?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=ebecdaa28f-DNU20170531&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-ebecdaa28f-197565045&mc_cid=ebecdaa28f&mc_eid=1e78f7c952

Jensen Comment
The program is aimed primarily at older students, but I see potential here for younger students as well. For example, it might help a young major in art history to also get certificates in computer coding.

The company that Walmart bought for $3 billion just opened the 'grocery shop concept of the future' in NYC — here's what it's like ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/jet-nyc-boutique-photos

As Summer Sets In, a Chance to Regard the Good, Bad, and Ugly of Student Evaluations ---
http://www.chronicle.com/article/As-Summer-Sets-In-a-Chance-to/240203?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=5d5ff9ab7d9a4287ab69c8a655319aae&elq=088f20e8e164416eb2b5fe565edd5b0d&elqaid=14113&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=5916

Jim Vander Putten, a professor of higher education at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, was reviewing his classroom evaluations when he came across an odd assessment of his character. "I did not appreciate it when Dr. Vander Putten engaged in Satanic worship in class," the student had written.

Naturally, Mr. Vander Putten was surprised at the accusation. He scoured his brain for any details that could explain the student’s reasoning and then he remembered a class discussion that felt lopsided.

"As a result, to rebalance the discussion, I said, ‘Let me play the devil’s advocate here for a minute,’" he wrote in an email to The Chronicle. "… I don’t use that phrase in class anymore." 

At the time he saw that comment, in the fall of 1999, "I was a second-year assistant professor," Mr. Vander Putten said, "and I was quite concerned about the potential effect of that course evaluation comment on my tenure application."

Now, it’s a story that’s always a hit among his colleagues. It’s also one that highlights the dual nature of students’ evaluations of their professors. On the one hand, the students’ concerns can seem off-topic or mean-spirited. On the other hand, students’ unreserved criticism can be invaluable in improving a course.

This time of year, professors at residential colleges who don’t teach during the summer find themselves with time to contemplate a year’s worth of course evaluations. The Chronicle observed examples of the good, the bad, and the just-plain-weird after we asked subscribers who receive the Daily Briefing newsletter to share the most notable student evaluations they received during their career.

Season Ellison, an assistant professor of interdisciplinary studies at Bemidji State University, in Minnesota, said that at a former institution she had a class study 18 plays, including one by a lesbian playwright. One student later responded: "The focus on lesbian playwrights was too much. Don’t teach as many lesbian plays."

The next semester, Ms. Ellison included two lesbian playwrights. "I figure if it’s likely to be on my [evaluations], I might as well expose students to more!" she wrote to The Chronicle.

A retired professor at the University of Texas at Austin, Harry Cleaver, took an unusual approach. For about a decade, he posted online all of the comments students wrote on evaluations of his courses for all to see. "Having essentially been hired by students, I felt each generation deserved to know what the previous students thought about my courses. In as much as the pattern — good, bad, ugly — remained pretty much the same over the years, eventually I felt like I had provided enough insight to future students and stopped putting them up," Mr. Cleaver wrote in an email to The Chronicle.

Many professors would probably agree that some student evaluations may deserve to be written off entirely. Two professors wrote to The Chronicle saying students had criticized their wardrobes. In another case, one student told Barbara C. Hinkle, vice president for administration and registrar at Seton Hill University, that her "fake" accent was annoying. One problem: "Without apology, it is no fake accent; I’m a proud West Virginian, and the accent comes honestly," Ms. Hinkle wrote.

Other student evaluations can show blatant prejudice, as Nick Kapoor, an adjunct professor at Sacred Heart and Fairfield universities, experienced. Mr. Kapoor said he had received a review saying he was "too gay."

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Jensen Comment
Probably the best range of student comments can be found on RateMyProfessors.com. Some will break you up laughing while others make you cringe at the viciousness. Still others are the comments that every professor longs for like:  "You never let me give up."
http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/
Evaluations on this site are self selected and should not be statistically analyzed. But student comments paint what I think are fairly realistic profiles if there are more than 20 such evaluations accumulated from several years.. Contrary to popular opinion, I think there are many more positive than negative comments on RateMyProfessor.com

The comment that stands out in my mind is the one that Tony Catanack received using the BAM pedagogy at the University of Virginia:  "Everything I leaned in this course I learned by myself."

That's the whole purpose of the BAM pedagogy ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/265wp.htm

NIH neuroscientist up to 16 retractions (that may not be his fault)

Neuroscientist Stanley Rapoport just can’t catch a break.

Rapoport, who’s based at National Institute on Aging, is continuing to experience fallout from his research collaborations, after multiple co-authors have been found to have committed misconduct.

Most recently, Rapoport has had four papers retracted in three journals, citing falsified data in a range of figures. Although the notices do not specify how the data falsification occurred, Jagadeesh Rao, who was recently found guilty of research misconduct, is corresponding author on all four papers.

Back in December, Rapoport told us that a “number of retractions [for] Rao are still in the works:” Read the rest of this entry »

Posted by David Giles (Econometrics)
How to Publish in Academic Journals ---
http://marcfbellemare.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/BellemareAAEAEarlyCareerWorkshop.pdf

Bob Jensen's
Gaming for Promotion and Tenure as an Accounting Professor ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/TheoryTenure.htm
Jensen Comment
The most important happening in academic publishing, in my opinion, is the rise in joint authorship where much of it is game playing to increase the odds of an acceptance. An extreme is where three authors each put over 90% of the effort into one paper and then submit three papers for publication as joint authors. Another ploy is for a well-known researcher to attach her or his name to a paper that is mostly the effort of lesser-known authors (sometimes former students). Still another extreme is where a well-known researcher tries to to help a non-tenured colleague build a resume for promotion or tenure by adding that colleague as a joint author even though that colleague contributed very little to the research.

12 American companies that are no longer American ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/american-companies-that-are-no-longer-american-2017-6/#budweiser-1

Current owner: Anheuser-Busch InBev, Belgian brewers (including Budweiser hauled by the famous St. Louis Clydesdale horses)

Current owner: Unilever, Dutch-British consumer goods company (included Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream preferred by political progressives)

Current owner: Restaurant Brands International, Canadian fast food company (that includes Burger King)

Current owner: Aldi Nord, German discount supermarket chain (that includes Trader Joe's)

Current owner: British American Tobacco company, a British tobacco company (that includes Lucky Strike)

Current owner: Haier, Chinese consumer and electronics company (that includes General Electric Appliances)

Current owner: Gildan Activewear, Canadian clothing company (that includes American Apparel)

Current owner: Reckitt Benckiser, British consumer goods company (that includes America's hotdog favorite French's Mustard)

Current owner: Seven & i Holdings, Japanese retail group (that includes 7-Eleven)

Current owner: Luxottica Group, Italian eyewear company (that includes most eyewear stores in the USA including LensCrafters, Sunglass Hut, Apex by Sunglass Hut, Pearle Vision, Sears Optical, Target Optical, Eyemed vision care plan, and Glasses.com.)

Current owner: InterContinental Hotels, British hotel company (that includes Holiday Inn)

Current owner: Unilever, Dutch-British consumer goods company (that includes popular Hellman's Mayonnaise)

Jensen Comment
There are many other companies with widespread share ownership inside the USA that are headquartered outside the USA. Among the best known are the Big Four Accountancy and Consulting firms ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Four_accounting_firms#Tax_avoidance
Three of the Big Four are headquartered in the United Kingdom. The smallest of the Big Four, KPMG, is headquartered in Holland.

Many USA firms have sham headquarters in tax havens.
In October 2002, the Congressional General Accounting Office (GAO) identified Accenture as one of four publicly traded federal contractors that were incorporated in a tax haven country ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accenture#Bermuda_headquarters
In 2009 Accenture moved its headquarters to Ireland.

From the Scout Report on June 2, 2017

Pale Moon ---  https://www.palemoon.org 

Firefox users who find themselves dissatisfied with recent changes to Firefox's user interface and corresponding reductions in customizability may be interested in Pale Moon. Originally forked from Firefox in 2009, Pale Moon initially focused on improving browser performance. Since then, customizability has largely eclipsed performance as Pale Moon's primary distinguishing feature, as reflected by the project's motto, "Your browser, your way."  Pale Moon has retained the fully customizable user interface from Firefox 3-28. It will also continue support for extension types that Firefox is currently working to remove (XPCOM, XUL) and for the NPAPI extensions that Firefox has already removed. Official installers are available for Windows and Linux. An unofficial, experimental installer is also available for Macintosh.

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Unpaywall --- http://unpaywall.org 

Open access journals are making research findings more accessible within and beyond academia. However, these journals are relatively young and few in number, representing just a drop in the flood of research findings currently being published. As such, publication-quality research in many fields is only available within the pages of traditional fee-for-access journals. These journals frequently allow authors to upload and distribute pre-publication versions of their papers to promote the published versions, and many authors do, but these are often difficult to locate. The Unpaywall browser extension addresses that problem. The extension uses data aggregated from PubMed Central, the DOAJ, Crossref, DataCite, GoogleScholar, and BASE to alert users when a free version of a paper is available. The Unpaywall FAQ estimates that free full text versions can be located from 50-85% of publications depending on topic and publication year. The plugin and the data driving it are provided by Impactstory, a 501(c)(3) non-profit with funding from the National Science Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Unpaywall is available for Chrome and Firefox.

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291 Youth Compete in Scripps National Spelling Bee
Spellers are preparing for 90th annual Scripps National Spelling Bee
http://www.abcactionnews.com/news/spelling-bee/spellers-are-preparing-for-90th-annual-scripps-national-spelling-bee

How quaint 18th-century 'spellfights' evolved into the Scripps National
Spelling Bee
http://theweek.com/articles/700471/how-quaint-18thcentury-spellfights-evolved-into-scripps-national-spelling-bee

Scripps National Spelling Bee
http://spellingbee.com

What Makes the Spelling Bee So Hard
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-makes-the-spelling-bee-so-hard

Is Wisconsin Really That Hard to Spell?
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/31/us/misspelled-words-states.html

Annenberg Learner: Interactives: Spelling Bee
https://www.learner.org/interactives/spelling

From the Scout Report on June 9, 2017

Typeform --- https://www.typeform.com 

Collecting data from users presents technical and human interface challenges. Technically, storing user responses requires a publicly accessible server attached to a database. This is infrastructure that many people do not have easy access to. User interface concerns exist for users answering questions along with users asking them. For those answering, poorly presented questions can lead to "survey fatigue" and low response rates. For those asking, form builders can be difficult to navigate and results hard to interpret. Typeform seeks to solve all three of these issues. It provides all the necessary infrastructure wrapped in a simple to use interface. Typeform generates millions of forms every month. Its users include Apple, Airbnb, Uber, and Nike. Users of its free service tier may process 100 responses/month with up to ten questions per response. Higher levels of service are also available for a fee.

 figshare --- https://figshare.com 

Many publishers and funding sources now require archiving of research data. However, many repositories are difficult to use, charge ongoing fees, or both. Figshare provides a free, simple to use repository for research outputs. Their service is already integrated with the PLOS family of open access journals. Additionally, they have a repository-as-a-service offering that institutions may consider. Data uploaded to figshare can be connected to a publication by DOI and to an author by ORCID. Beyond archiving for data in publications, figshare can also archive unpublished data. This helps address the "file drawer" problem where negative results are never publicized. It also provides an outlet for findings smaller than a "least publishable unit". Figshare accepts files in any format as long as they are less than 5 GB in size. For many formats, figshare provides in browser previews. The total size of private files on the service is limited to 20 GB. Unlimited storage is provided for public files

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Lithuanian Mummies Offer New Insight into Health and Disease, Including
the History of Smallpox
The Mummies' Medical Secrets? They're Perfectly Preserved
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/02/science/mummies-smallpox-vilnius-lithuania-crypt.html

A Mummy's DNA May Help Solve The Mystery Of The Origins Of Smallpox
http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/12/08/504618235/a-mummys-dna-may-help-solve-the-mystery-of-the-origins-of-smallpox

17th Century Variola Virus Reveals the Recent History of Smallpox
http://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(16)31324-0

What Ancient Mummies Tell Us About What to Eat
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/what-ancient-mummies-tell-us-about-what-to-eat-a6793926.html

The History of Vaccines: Smallpox
https://www.historyofvaccines.org/gallery?field_timeline_categories_target_id%5B%5D=53

Outbreak Lesson Plans
http://www.outbreak1885.com/Outbreak_LessonPlans.pdf

Free Online Tutorials, Videos, Course Materials, and Learning Centers

Education Tutorials

Community College Research Center: Publications --- http://ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/our-research.html

The Open Door Web Site (science) ---  http://www.saburchill.com

SciShow Kids (science questions and answers) --- https://www.youtube.com/user/scishowkids

Nanotechnology 101--- http://www.nano.gov/nanotech-101

MAA: Teaching Tidbits Blog (mathematics) --- http://maateachingtidbits.blogspot.com

A very, very interesting mathematics teaching blog ---
dy/dan (mathematics teaching blog) --- http://blog.mrmeyer.com 

Ice and Sky (glacers) --- http://education.iceandsky.com

Immigration Syllabus --- http://editions.lib.umn.edu/immigrationsyllabus

ArtNC (art education) --- http://www.artnc.org

Metropolitan Museum Heilbrunn Timeline of Art --- http://www.metmuseum.org/toah

Daily Art Fixx --- http://www.dailyartfixx.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

HASTAC: The Pedagogy Project --- https://www.hastac.org/pedagogy-project
Bob Jensen's threads on education technology --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/0000start.htm

The Open Door Web Site (science) ---  http://www.saburchill.com

Deena Larsen Collection (early hypertext application in literature history) --- http://mith.umd.edu/larsen

Ice and Sky (glacers) --- http://education.iceandsky.com

Undark (science journalism) --- https://undark.org

Microbe TV --- http://www.microbe.tv/science-shows

A tour of Mars assembled from NASA images reveals a wondrous but uninviting planet ---
https://aeon.co/videos/a-tour-of-mars-assembled-from-nasa-images-reveals-a-wondrous-but-uninviting-planet?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=2d21ab3a51-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-2d21ab3a51-68951505

Nanotechnology 101--- http://www.nano.gov/nanotech-101

Wikiverse (data visualization of Wikipedia concepts) --- http://wikiverse.io

Antarctic Dispatches --- https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/05/18/climate/antarctica-ice-melt-climate-change.html

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

Global Open Data Index (database for governments across the globe) --- https://index.okfn.org

Busy Beaver Button Museum (such as political buttons) --- http://www.buttonmuseum.org

Journal of Digital and Media Literacy (journalism and the social media)  --- http://www.jodml.org

Persuasive Cartography --- https://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu

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

The Public Domain Review (copyrights are expired in the public domain media) --- http://publicdomainreview.org

Bob Jensen's threads on law and legal studies are at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Scroll down to Law

Math Tutorials

How math education can catch up to the 21st century ---
https://theconversation.com/how-math-education-can-catch-up-to-the-21st-century-77129

MAA: Teaching Tidbits Blog (mathematics) --- http://maateachingtidbits.blogspot.com

Marilyn Burns Math Blog --- http://www.marilynburnsmathblog.com

Blog on Math Blogs --- http://blogs.ams.org/blogonmathblogs/

A very, very interesting mathematics teaching blog ---
dy/dan (mathematics teaching blog) --- http://blog.mrmeyer.com 

Wikiverse (data visualization of Wikipedia concepts) --- http://wikiverse.io

Bob Jensen's threads on free online mathematics tutorials are at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Scroll down to Mathematics and Statistics

Bob Jensen's links to free courses and tutorials --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI

History Tutorials

Metropolitan Museum Heilbrunn Timeline of Art --- http://www.metmuseum.org/toah

Museum of Obsolete Media --- http://www.obsoletemedia.org

Stuff You Missed in History Class --- http://www.missedinhistory.com/

Deena Larsen Collection (early hypertext application in literature history) --- http://mith.umd.edu/larsen

Mill Girls in Nineteenth-Century Print (women in textile mills) --- http://americanantiquarian.org/millgirls

Many Lenses (American, African American, and Native American History Museums) ---
https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/manylenses

Timelapse Animation Lets You See the Rise of Cities Across the Globe, from 3700 BC to 2000 AD ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/05/timelapse-animation-lets-you-see-the-rise-of-cities-across-the-globe-from-3700-bc-to-2000-ad.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Who are the Coptic Christians of the Middle East ---
https://theconversation.com/who-are-the-coptic-christians-76273

Archaeology of the Great War --- http://archeologie1418.culture.fr/en

Hecho a Mano: Book Arts of Latin America ---
http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/hechoamano

Busy Beaver Button Museum (such as political buttons) --- http://www.buttonmuseum.org

Immigration Syllabus --- http://editions.lib.umn.edu/immigrationsyllabus

#OperaBeforeInstagram (history of opera in the USA) --- http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/opera-portraits-1890-to-1955/

Atlas of Early Modern Printing --- http://atlas.lib.uiowa.edu

Moveable Type --- https://www.ucl.ac.uk/moveable-type

The Vault at Pfaff's (Bohemian NYC) --- http://pfaffs.web.lehigh.edu

The Frame Blog (history of picture frames) --- https://theframeblog.com

Five Books (about Henry VIII) --- http://fivebooks.com

Old NYC --- http://www.oldnyc.org/

Food History Jottings --- http://foodhistorjottings.blogspot.co.uk/

William Corbett's Bookshop --- http://corbettsbookshop.omeka.net

The Public Domain Review (copyrights are expired in the public domain media) --- http://publicdomainreview.org

What Veterans' Poems Can Teach Us About Healing on Memorial Day ---
https://theconversation.com/what-veterans-poems-can-teach-us-about-healing-on-memorial-day-77758

National Archives: Records Related to D-Day --- https://www.archives.gov/research/military/ww2/d-day.html

Wikiverse (data visualization of Wikipedia concepts) --- http://wikiverse.io
Jensen Comment
This is an interesting, albeit limited, site to play around with. I found using the wheel of the mouse useful for zooming in and out of cluster points.

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  

O Say Can You See: Early Washington D.C., Law & Family --- http://earlywashingtondc.org

Shakespeare’s Genius Is Nonsense ---
http://nautil.us/issue/48/chaos/shakespeares-genius-is-nonsense-rp

Animated GIFs Show How Subway Maps of Berlin, New York, Tokyo & London Compare to the Real Geography of Those Great Cities  ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/06/animated-gifs-show-how-subway-maps-of-berlin-new-york-tokyo-london-compare-to-the-actual-geography-of-those-great-cities.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Time Magazne:  The Six Most Mysterious Murderers of All Time  ---
http://time.com/4788951/unsolved-murders-mysteries-list/?xid=newsletter-brief

Persuasive Cartography --- https://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu

ArtNC (art education) --- http://www.artnc.org

Metropolitan Museum Heilbrunn Timeline of Art --- http://www.metmuseum.org/toah

Daily Art Fixx --- http://www.dailyartfixx.com

Bob Jensen's links to free courses and tutorials --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI

Language Tutorials

Bob Jensen's links to language tutorials are at http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2-Part2.htm#Languages

Music Tutorials

#OperaBeforeInstagram (history of opera in the USA) --- http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/opera-portraits-1890-to-1955/

The History of Classical Music in 1200 Tracks: From Gregorian Chant to Górecki ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/06/the-history-of-classical-music-in-1200-tracks-from-gregorian-chant-to-gorecki.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
Scroll down to Music

Bob Jensen's threads on music performances ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/music.htm

Writing Tutorials

Hunter S. Thompson Typed Out The Great Gatsby & A Farewell to Arms Word for Word: A Method for Learning How to Write Like the Masters ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/06/hunter-s-thompson-typed-out-the-great-gatsby-farewell-to-arms.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

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/

May 26, 2017

• Adults Who Exercise May Gain 9 'Biological' Years
• 'Baby Boxes' May Help Prevent SIDS in Newborns
• Alzheimer's Deaths Jump 55 Percent: CDC
• Recall: Graco Car Seats
• Diets, Supplements for Autism a Question Mark
• Do Daughters Bring Out a Dad's 'Softer Side'?
• Haywire Immune Cells May Help Cause Baldness
• Top Beach Hazards: How to Stay Safe on the Sand
• CBO: 23 Million Would Lose Insurance Under Bill

May 27, 2017

• Adults Who Exercise May Gain 9 'Biological' Years
• 'Baby Boxes' May Help Prevent SIDS in Newborns
• Alzheimer's Deaths Jump 55 Percent: CDC
• Recall: Graco Car Seats
• Diets, Supplements for Autism a Question Mark
• Do Daughters Bring Out a Dad's 'Softer Side'?
• Haywire Immune Cells May Help Cause Baldness
• Top Beach Hazards: How to Stay Safe on the Sand
• CBO: 23 Million Would Lose Insurance Under Bill

May 31, 2017

• Costs of ER Treatments a Mystery to Many Docs
• Can People 'Sniff' Out Illness in Others?
• Could a Century-Old Drug Ease Autism Symptoms?
• Promising Results for Drug for Psoriatic Arthritis
• 'Baby Boxes' May Help Prevent SIDS in Newborns
• Adults Who Exercise May Gain 9 'Biological' Years
• Alzheimer's Deaths Jump 55 Percent: CDC
• Recall: Graco Car Seats
• Diets, Supplements for Autism a Question Mark

June 1, 2017

• The Whole Truth About Whole Fruits
• U.S. Teen Births Hit Historic Low: CDC
• 1 in 4 Nursing Home Residents Has Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria
• Does Dad Time With Infants Boost Babies' IQ?
• Can a Senior Have the Arteries of a 20-Year-Old?
• Can People 'Sniff' Out Illness in Others?
• Costs of ER Treatments a Mystery to Many Docs
• Could a Century-Old Drug Ease Autism Symptoms?
• Promising Results for Drug for Psoriatic Arthritis

June 2, 2017

• Wild 'Death Cap' Mushroom Sickens 14 in California
• Harmed by Sunscreen? What Parents Need to Know
• New Teen Drivers Face Triple the Risk of a Fatal Crash
• Marijuana May Make Your Gums Go to Pot
• MS-Related Brain Changes May Affect Social Skills
• New Combo Pill May Help Treatment Resistant Hep C
• Drug Prolongs Survival for Some with Breast Cancer
• Did a 1980 Letter Help Spark the Opioid Crisis?
• Communication Not at Root of Tantrums in Autism

June 3, 2017

• Is One Round of Radiation Enough for Spine Pain in Cancer Patients?
• Conquering One Big Cancer Side Effect: Fear
• Air Mattresses Linked to More Than 100 Infant Deaths
• Baby Teeth Study Links Autism to Lead Levels
• Zika: What to Expect this Year
• Overcharging Common in U.S. Emergency Rooms
• Compression Tights Won't Trim Running Times
• Elite High Schools May Increase Risk of Addiction
• Wild 'Death Cap' Mushroom Sickens 14 in California

June 5, 2017

• Americans Buying Less Salt-Laden Foods
• Drug Helps Some Kids With Rare Type of Leukemia
• Online Reporting Helps Cancer Patients Live Longer
• Drug Extends Lives of Prostate Cancer Patients
• Pregnancy Not Risk Factor for Breast Cancer Return
• Is One Round of Radiation Enough for Spine Pain in Cancer Patients?
• Childhood Cancer Survivors Now Living Healthier Lives
• Conquering One Big Cancer Side Effect: Fear
• Air Mattresses Linked to More Than 100 Infant Deaths

June 6, 2017

• Gene-Based Therapy May Thwart a Tough Blood Cancer
• Are Many A-Fib Patients Getting the Wrong Dose?
• Gene-Targeted Drugs Fight Advanced Lung Cancers
• Americans Buying Less Salt-Laden Foods
• Drug Helps Some Kids With Rare Type of Leukemia
• Online Reporting Helps Cancer Patients Live Longer
• Drug Extends Lives of Prostate Cancer Patients
• Pregnancy Not Risk Factor for Breast Cancer Return
• Conquering One Big Cancer Side Effect: Fear

June 7, 2017

• Does ‘Room Sharing’ With Baby Come With Risks?
• Gene-Based Therapy May Thwart a Tough Blood Cancer
• Moving Toward a Better Blood Pressure Pill
• Bitter Divorce May Harm Kids' Immune Systems
• Are Many A-Fib Patients Getting the Wrong Dose?
• Gene-Targeted Drugs Fight Advanced Lung Cancers
• Americans Buying Less Salt-Laden Foods
• Drug Helps Some Kids With Rare Type of Leukemia
• Online Reporting Helps Cancer Patients Live Longer

June 8. 2017

Toddlers Who Drink Milk Alternatives May Be Shorter
Antidepressants During Pregnancy Safe for Baby
Overtaken by Opioids: A Growing Problem for Women
Do You Have 'Social Jet Lag?'
Even Moderate Drinking May Dull Aging Brain
Legionnaires' Hiding in Hospital Plumbing Systems: CDC
Is White Bread OK for Some People?
Does ‘Room Sharing’ With Baby Come With Risks?
Gene-Based Therapy May Thwart a Tough Blood Cancer

June 9. 2017

• Is Full Lymph Node Removal Needed for Melanoma?
• Unknown Street Drug Linked to Four Deaths in Georgia
• Recall: Star Snacks Co. Cashews
• Toddlers Who Drink Milk Alternatives May Be Shorter
• Special Brain Scans May Predict Autism
• Antidepressants During Pregnancy Safe for Baby
• Overtaken by Opioids: A Growing Problem for Women
• Do You Have 'Social Jet Lag?'
• Even Moderate Drinking May Dull Aging Brain

June 10, 2017

• Recall: Birth Control Pills
• FDA Asks Maker of Opioid Painkiller to Pull Drug
• 5% of Zika Pregnancies Results in Birth Defects
• It's Snakes to the Rescue for Heart Patients
• Does a Low-Fat Dairy Habit Boost Parkinson's Risk?
• Tattoo Aftercare What to Know
• Tick-Borne Illness Suspected in 2-Year-Old's Death
• Is Full Lymph Node Removal Needed for Melanoma?
• Unknown Street Drug Linked to Four Deaths in Georgia

June 12, 2017

• Recall: Birth Control Pills
• FDA Asks Maker of Opioid Painkiller to Pull Drug
• 5% of Zika Pregnancies Results in Birth Defects
• It's Snakes to the Rescue for Heart Patients
• Does a Low-Fat Dairy Habit Boost Parkinson's Risk?
• Tattoo Aftercare What to Know
• Tick-Borne Illness Suspected in 2-Year-Old's Death
• Is Full Lymph Node Removal Needed for Melanoma?
• Unknown Street Drug Linked to Four Deaths in Georgia

The death rate from Alzheimer's disease increased 55% over 15 years — and it points to an important problem ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/alzheimers-increased-death-rate-and-caregiver-burden-2017-5

MIT:  Scientists have solved fundamental problems that were holding back cures for rare hereditary disorders. Next we’ll see if the same approach can take on cancer, heart disease, and other common illnesses ---
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603498/10-breakthrough-technologies-2017-gene-therapy-20/?utm_source=MIT+Technology+Review&utm_campaign=e3bb346bdb-Weekend_Reads&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_997ed6f472-e3bb346bdb-153727301&mc_cid=e3bb346bdb&mc_eid=fe7f400ea3

Bill Gates is backing the waterless toilet of the future — here's how it works ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/waterless-toilet-future-backed-bill-gates-foundation-2017-5

A powerful drug derived from marijuana is on the cusp of federal approval ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/marijuana-epilepsy-drug-2017-5

Humor for June 2017

Tech Support Humor ---
http://nicerdays.org/wife-write-to-tech-support/

Dear Tech Support,

’Last year I upgraded from Boyfriend 5.0 to Husband 1.0 and noticed a distinct slowdown in overall system performance, particularly in the flower and jewelry applications, which operated flawlessly under Boyfriend 5.0.

In addition, Husband 1.0 uninstalled many other valuable programs, such as: Romance 9.5 and Personal Attention 6.5, and then installed undesirable programs such as: NBA 5.0, NFL 3.0 and Golf Clubs 4.1.

Conversation 8.0 no longer runs, and House cleaning 2.6 simply crashes the system. Please note that I have tried running Nagging 5.3 to fix these problems, but to no avail.
What can I do?

Signed,
Desperate

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The response:

Dear Desperate,

“First keep in mind, Boyfriend 5.0 is an Entertainment Package, while Husband 1.0 is an operating system. Please enter command: I thought you loved me.html and try to download Tears 6.2 and do not forget to install the Guilt 3.0 update. If that application works as designed, Husband 1.0 should then automatically run the applications Jewelry 2.0 and Flowers 3.5.

However, remember, overuse of the above application can cause Husband 1.0 to default to Grumpy Silence 2.5, Happy Hour 7.0 or Beer 6.1. Please note that Beer 6.1 is a very bad program that will download the Farting and Snoring Loudly Beta.

Whatever you do, DO NOT, under any circumstances, install Mother-In-Law 1.0 (it runs a virus in the background that will eventually seize control of all your system resources.)
In addition, please, do not attempt to re-install the Boyfriend 5.0 program. These are unsupported applications and will crash Husband 1.0.

In summary, Husband 1.0 is a great program, but it does have limited memory and cannot learn new applications quickly. You might consider buying additional software to improve memory and performance. We recommend: Cooking 3.0.Good Luck!’

Good Luck!

 

What's the most misspelled word in your state?
https://twitter.com/GoogleTrends/status/869585144977342464
Or
https://twitter.com/hashtag/dataviz?src=hash
Scroll down to May 31, 2017

Jensen Comment
Up here in New Hampshire the word is diaria (or whatever)?

In Nevada there's no tomorrow (I suspect we know the reason).

Massachusetts has a license for everything except spelling.

Why do folks in Mississippi and South Carolina even want to spell the breed of little dog that's more popular in Mexico?

I'm suspicious of spellers in Wisconsin.

I'm also suspicious of the word that folks in Pennsylvania can't spell. Aren't many of them descended from German immigrants?

I think this study needs to be replicated. Then let's "exacerbate" the outcome in social media. See if Georgians can really do better spelling "exacerbate."

Forwarded by Paula

To my friends who enjoy a glass of wine and those who don't and are always seen with a bottle of water in their hand,

 

 Ben Franklin said:

 

"In wine there is wisdom,

 

 In beer there is freedom,

 

 In water there is bacteria."

 

In a number of carefully controlled trials, scientists have demonstrated that if we drink 1 litre of water each day, at the end of the year we would have absorbed more than 1 kilo of Escherichia coli, (E.. Coli) bacteria found in feces.

 

In other words, we are consuming 1 kilo of poop annually.  However, We do NOT run that risk when drinking wine and beer (or rum, whiskey or other liquor) because alcohol has to go through a purification process of boiling, filtering and fermenting.                   

 

 So Remember:

 

 Water = Poop,

 

Wine = Health

 

Therefore, it's better to drink wine and talk stupid, than to drink water and be full of shit.                  

 

VERIFICATION:

 

BOTH THE HOUSE AND SENATE DRINK A LOT OF WATER WHILE IN SESSION.

 

THIS EXPLAINS THE RESULTS THEREIN  . . . .

 

There is no need to thank me for this valuable information.

I'm doing it as a public service

Forwarded by Paula

Housework was a woman's job, but one evening, Wilma arrived home from work
to find the children bathed, one load of laundry in the washer and another in the
dryer. Dinner was on the stove, and the table set. She was astonished!

It turns out that Ralph had read an article that said, "Wives who work full-time and
had to do their own housework were too tired to have sex."

The night went very well. The next day, she told her office friends all about it.
"We had a great dinner. Ralph even cleaned up the kitchen. He helped the
kids do their homework, folded all the laundry and put it away. I really enjoyed
the evening.

"But what about afterward?" asked her friends.

"Oh, that........ Ralph was too tired."

Humor March 2017 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book17q1.htm#Humor0317.htm

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.
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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

• With a Rejoinder from the 2010 Senior Editor of The Accounting Review (TAR), Steven J. Kachelmeier
• With Replies in Appendix 4 to Professor Kachemeier by Professors Jagdish Gangolly and Paul Williams
• With Added Conjectures in Appendix 1 as to Why the Profession of Accountancy Ignores TAR
• With Suggestions in Appendix 2 for Incorporating Accounting Research into Undergraduate Accounting Courses

The Cult of Statistical Significance: How Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives ---
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/DeirdreMcCloskey/StatisticalSignificance01.htm

How Accountics Scientists Should Change: 
"Frankly, Scarlett, after I get a hit for my resume in The Accounting Review I just don't give a damn"
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/AccounticsDamn.htm
One more mission in what's left of my life will be to try to change this
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/AccounticsDamn.htm 

What went wrong in accounting/accountics research?  ---
http://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

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.

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