Tidbits on October 31, 2017
Bob Jensen
at Trinity University
Set 12 of My Favorite Foliage Photographs ---
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Foliage/Set21/FoliageSet12.htm
Tidbits on October 31, 2017
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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
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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
Every Academy Award Winner for Best Cinematography
in One Supercut: From 1927’s Sunrise to 2016’s Moonlight ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/10/every-academy-award-winner-for-best-cinematography-in-one-supercut.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
The cuts to me seem too short.
Where Did the English Language Come From?: An
Animated Introduction ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/10/where-did-the-english-language-come-from-an-animated-introduction.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
How Saxophones are Made ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/10/how-saxophones-are-made.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Why Should You Read James Joyce’s Ulysses?: A New TED-ED Animation Makes the
Case ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/10/why-should-you-read-james-joyces-ulysses-a-new-ted-ed-animation-makes-the-case.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
The Inn on Sunset Hill (just down from our cottage) ---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5cqUX0LcbU&t=9s
National Geographic: Natural Disasters Science --- www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/natural-disasters-weather
YouTube: Seeing Art History Arts --- www.youtube.com/channel/UCGInLlFDxg-GgCEUQkjKwng
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 Boston Public Library Will Digitize & Put Online 200,000+
Vintage Records ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/10/the-boston-public-library-will-digitize-put-online-200000-vintage-records.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Stream Joni Mitchell’s Complete Discography: A 17-Hour Playlist Moving from
Song to a Seagull (1968) to Shine (2007) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/10/stream-joni-mitchells-complete-discography-a-17-hour-playlist-moving-from-song-to-a-seagull-1968-to-shine-2007.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
The Women of the Blues: Hear a Playlist of Great Blues Singers, from Bessie
Smith & Etta James, to Billie Holiday & Janis Joplin ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/10/the-women-of-the-blues.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
A-ha Performs a Beautiful Acoustic Version of Their 1980s Hit,
“Take on Me”: Recorded Live in Norway ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/10/a-ha-performs-a-beautiful-acoustic-version-of-their-1980s-hit-take-on-me-recorded-live-in-norway.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
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
2,000+ Architecture & Art Books You Can Read Free at the
Internet Archive ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/10/2000-architecture-art-books-you-can-read-free-at-the-internet-archive.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Studying the Arctic Wildlife of Russia's Wrangel Island ---
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2017/10/studying-the-arctic-wildlife-of-russias-wrangel-island/543282/
New Digital Archive Puts Online 4,000 Historic Images of Rome:
The Eternal City from the 16th to 20th Centuries ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/10/new-digital-archive-puts-online-4000-historic-images-of-rome-the-eternal-city-from-the-16th-to-20th-centuries.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Judging Books by Their Covers ---
https://longreads.com/2017/10/20/judging-books-by-their-covers/
California Art Research --- https://bancroftlibrarycara.wordpress.com/
YouTube: Seeing Art History Arts --- www.youtube.com/channel/UCGInLlFDxg-GgCEUQkjKwng
Rodolfo Lanciani and His Archive: A Digital History of Rome --- https://exhibits.stanford.edu/lanciani
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
Anna Julia Cooper Collection (Poetry of a woman with a Ph.D. who was born into slavery) --- http://dh.howard.edu/ajcooper/
Three Huge Volumes of Stoic Writings by Seneca Now Free Online, Thanks to Tim
Ferriss ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/10/three-huge-volumes-of-stoic-writings-by-seneca-now-free-online-thanks-to-tim-ferriss.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Why Should You Read James Joyce’s Ulysses?: A New TED-ED Animation Makes the
Case ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/10/why-should-you-read-james-joyces-ulysses-a-new-ted-ed-animation-makes-the-case.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Anne Finch Digital Archives (poetry) --- http://library.uncg.edu/dp/annefinch/
Judging Books by Their Covers ---
https://longreads.com/2017/10/20/judging-books-by-their-covers/
Free Electronic Literature ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm
Free Online Textbooks, Videos, and Tutorials ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm#Textbooks
Free Tutorials in Various Disciplines ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#Tutorials
Edutainment and Learning Games ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm#Edutainment
Open Sharing Courses ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
Now in
Another Tidbits Document
Political Quotations on October 31, 2017
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/2017/TidbitsQuotations103117.htm
USA Debt Clock --- http://www.usdebtclock.org/ ubl
To Whom Does the USA Federal Government Owe Money (the booked
obligation of $19+ trillion) ---
http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/politicalcalculations/2016/05/25/spring-2016-to-whom-does-the-us-government-owe-money-n2168161?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl
The US Debt Clock in Real Time ---
http://www.usdebtclock.org/
Remember the Jane Fonda Movie called "Rollover" ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollover_(film)
To Whom Does the USA Federal Government Owe Money (the
unbooked obligation of $100 trillion and unknown more in contracted
entitlements) ---
http://money.cnn.com/2013/01/15/news/economy/entitlement-benefits/
The biggest worry of the entitlements obligations is enormous obligation for the
future under the Medicare and Medicaid programs that are now deemed totally
unsustainable ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Entitlements.htm
Entitlements are two-thirds of the federal budget.
Entitlement spending has grown 100-fold over the past 50 years. Half of all
American households now rely on government handouts. When we hear statistics
like that, most of us shake our heads and mutter some sort of expletive. That’s
because nobody thinks they’re the problem. Nobody ever wants to think they’re
the problem. But that’s not the truth. The truth is, as long as we continue to
think of the rising entitlement culture in America as someone else’s problem,
someone else’s fault, we’ll never truly understand it and we’ll have absolutely
zero chance...
Steve Tobak ---
http://www.foxbusiness.com/business-leaders/2013/02/07/truth-behind-our-entitlement-culture/?intcmp=sem_outloud
"These Slides Show Why We Have Such A Huge Budget Deficit And Why Taxes
Need To Go Up," by Rob Wile, Business Insider, April 27, 2013 ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/cbo-presentation-on-the-federal-budget-2013-4
This is a slide show based on a presentation by a Harvard Economics Professor.
Peter G. Peterson Website on Deficit/Debt Solutions ---
http://www.pgpf.org/
Bob Jensen's threads on entitlements --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Entitlements.htm
Bob Jensen's health care messaging updates --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Health.htm
Why the Seattle Mystery Bookshop Must Close ---
http://seattlemysteryblog.typepad.com/seattle_mystery/2017/09/why-the-seattle-mystery-bookshop-must-close.html
Jensen Comment
As NetFlix soars bookstores implode. Of course Amazon is selling lots and lots
of books, but we have to wonder what portions of them get read in fact. In these
mountains we don't live close to a decent library. So I buy a lot of books from
Amazon (most of them are cheaper used versions). But honestly --- I skim those
books and only read parts of them except for the books that I keep in the car
and read in spurts from cover to cover during idle times such as when I staying
in hotels or hung up in medical offices. In retirement I should be sitting on
the porch or in the den devouring books. Wrong! In retirement I'm mostly darting
about computer screens for hours on end. I also skim my favorite magazines
(e.g., The Economist and Bloomberg) and parts of books. My wife and I do watch
one NetFlix movie every day during our afternoon "date." These are mostly BBC
mystery series films --- such as now we're in the middle of the "Endeavor"
mysteries. Sometimes we watch our favorite series (e.g., Foyle's War and Touch
of Frost) twice to test how much we can remember after a few years have lapsed.
In retirement perhaps I have too much curiosity about everything with too little time to learn great depth about any one thing. I would probably allow my scholarship in my primary field of accountancy lapse if I did not force myself to maintain blogs for accounting professors on accounting "new bookmarks" and fraud and education technology. In order to maintain scholarship in retirement I heartily recommend maintaining active blogs daily. You can learn a great deal from people who correct your mistakes and send you new ideas.
Bob Jensen's Blogs
Current and past editions of my newsletter called
Tidbits ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.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 Fraud
Updates ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm
Bob Jensen's World Library ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm
And yeah, I only skimmed the article on the Seattle Mystery Bookshop. I like to think of it as speed reading.
Hardware Keylogger --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_keylogger
University of Iowa Athlete Changed Grades on Professors' Computers With a
Keylogger ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2017/10/30/athlete-arrested-over-alleged-high-tech-cheating?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=374302a953-DNU20171030&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-374302a953-197565045&mc_cid=374302a953&mc_eid=1e78f7c952
We need to turn the tide on financial literacy ---
http://www.thegazette.com/subject/opinion/guest-columnists/we-need-to-turn-the-tide-on-financial-literacy-20170929
Bob Jensen's helpers for financial literacy and personal finance ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob1.htm#InvestmentHelpers
MIT: How to Spend $1,900 on Gene Tests Without Learning a Thing ---
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609103/how-to-spend-1900-on-gene-tests-without-learning-a-thing/?utm_source=MIT+Technology+Review&utm_campaign=3255438ce7-The_Download&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_997ed6f472-3255438ce7-153727301
Copyright and Related Issues: Confining Resources to the Classroom
http://www.slj.com/2017/10/opinion/scales-on-censorship/edgy-kids-section-scales-censorship/#_
More expensive brand-name prescriptions come from doctors who received
perks, study finds ---
https://www.webmd.com/drug-medication/news/20171025/drug-co-gifts-might-change-how-docs-prescribe
Jensen Company
Often these gifts are bundled as education/training conferences such as those
group sessions on a cruise ship or at a ski resort. Much depends on how truly
"educational" those conferences are in fact. But they could be just as
educational in a DFW Airport Hotel or some university campus. There's huge moral
hazard in luxury perks provided by vendors. I like it when my general
practitioner points out all medication alternatives, including the generics. He
claims that he refuses all junket invitations from vendors. One of my wife's
surgeons (an excellent surgeon) makes no such claims and is often away on trips
to exotic places.
I was a faculty member when publishing companies gave out invitations go some pretty expensive "conferences" (with free air fare and hotels) and/or fancy parties at academic conventions. I think publishers now struggling with markets and cash flows are doing a lot less of that these days. Faculty teaching enormous classes (think thousands of students) probably still get tempted now and then, including an instructor who purportedly gets 30+ examination copies of a textbook each year that he sells resells to slimy "used" book buyers for over $50 per copy.
2017: Coursera Partners with Leading Universities to Offer Master’s
Degrees at a More Affordable Price
Includes University of Illinois masters degrees in entrepreneurship, MBA,
accountancy, and data science programs---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/10/coursera-partners-with-leading-universities-to-offer-masters-degrees-at-a-more-affordable-price.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
For students looking for a broader education in business, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has launched an entire MBA program through Coursera. Consisting of 18 online courses and three capstone projects, the iMBA program covers the subjects usually found in b-school programs--leadership, strategy, economics, accounting, finance, etc. The complete curriculum should take roughly 24 to 36 months to complete, and costs less than $22,000--about 25%-33% of what an on-campus MBA program typically runs.
(The iMBA is actually one of three degree programs the University of Illinois has launched on Coursera. The other two include a Masters in Accounting (iMSA) and a Master of Computer Science in Data Science (MCS-DS).)
Now, in case you're wondering, the diplomas and transcripts for these programs are granted directly by the universities themselves (e.g., the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and HEC Paris). The paperwork doesn't carry Coursera's name. Nor does it indicate that the student completed an "online program." In short, online students get the same transcript as bricks and mortar students.
Finally, all of the degree programs mentioned above are "stackable"--meaning students can (at no cost) take an individual course offered by any of these programs. And then they can decide later whether they want to apply to the degree program, and, if so, retroactively apply that course towards the actual degree. Essentially, you can try things out before making a larger commitment.
If you want to learn more about these programs, or submit an application, check out the following links. We've included the deadlines for submitting applications.
Online Master's in Innovation and Entrepreneurship from HEC Paris
Application deadline, December 7
Master of Business Administration (iMBA) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Application deadline, November 17
Master of Science in Accountancy (iMSA) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Application deadline, December 4
Master of Computer Science in Data Science (MCS-DS) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(Application deadline, October 15
Chatbot --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatbot
CHATBOTS EXPLAINED: Why businesses (and educators) should be paying
attention to the chatbot revolution ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/chatbots-explained-why-businesses-should-be-paying-attention-to-the-chatbot-revolution-2016-7
Jensen Comment
Early on in education technology I adopted and made visits to nearly 200 college
college campuses demonstrating the use of course management systems (in those
days ToolBooks) and screen capture videos (in those days Camtasia) for flipped
classrooms. If I were not retired these days I would adopt chatbots for my
courses and my traveling dog and pony shows.
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Resume.htm#Presentations
THE VOICE ASSISTANT LANDSCAPE REPORT: How artificially intelligent voice
assistants are changing the relationship between consumers and computers --
http://www.businessinsider.com/voice-assistant-report-2017-3
Doceri: The Interactive Whiteboard for iPad --- https://doceri.com/
DisplayNote Collaboration Beyond Wireless Presentation Systems --- https://www.displaynote.com/
Article Citation:
Veronica Paz (2017) Innovative New Apps and Uses for the Accounting Classroom. Journal of Emerging Technologies in Accounting: Spring 2017, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 63-75.
https://doi.org/10.2308/jeta-51653
Educational
Innovative New Apps and Uses for the Accounting Classroom
Veronica Paz
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Editor's note: Accepted by Hui Du.
ABSTRACT: |
New instructional technologies provide educators with opportunities for student engagement and collaboration. As technology evolves, educators will spend more time identifying and testing new platforms. This instructional resource paper reviews several recent innovative technologies by providing brief descriptions, pricing, and current and potential uses. More specifically, this paper examines Doceri and DisplayNote in detail. My results from analyzing exam scores and course grades identified that the use of Doceri improves overall course performance in an introductory managerial accounting class. Poll Everywhere is an audience response system using mobile phones, Twitter, and the web in place of clickers. Student surveys suggest that the use of the Poll Everywhere app encourages questions and class discussions. Students perceived they participated more, and the class provided more illustrative examples with the utilization of the Poll Everywhere app. Top Hat is a cloud-based classroom and student response system used to increase student engagement during lectures using cell phones, tablets, or other devices. Finally, nClass and Asana are new tools to consider for classroom adoption and future research.
Keywords: innovative classroom technologies, new apps, new teaching tools
Classroom Clickers (Student Response Pads) --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audience_response#Classroom_use
Article Citation:
Julia Kokina and Paul E. Juras (2017) Using Socrative to Enhance Instruction in an Accounting Classroom. Journal of Emerging Technologies in Accounting: Spring 2017, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 85-97.
https://doi.org/10.2308/jeta-51700
Educational
Babson College
We thank the organizers and participants of the Best Teaching Practices Panel of the 2015 AAA Northeast Regional Meeting in Providence, RI.
Editor's note: Accepted by Hui Du.
ABSTRACT: |
Are you interested in increasing the level of student engagement in your accounting course? You are not alone. In today's classroom, increased student engagement and active learning are desired by faculty and students alike. In this paper, we outline how to use Socrative Student Response by Mastery Connect (Socrative 2016), a variation of a real-time response tool called a “clicker.” We used this tool in both undergraduate and graduate-level managerial accounting courses. We provide a user's guide to Socrative, as well as helpful tips to ensure its successful implementation in the classroom.
Keywords: active learning, Socrative, clicker, student response systemBob Jensen's threads on response pads
and clickers ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm#ResponsePads
Innovators: 10 Classroom Trailblazers
Chronicl, e of Higher Education
October 18, 2017
Copies of the full report are available for purchase here.
http://www.chronicle.com/interactives/store?store=INNOV17PG#id=48
Ariel Anbar Designs Online Science Labs With Video-Game Appeal
http://www.chronicle.com/article/Ariel-Anbar-Designs-Online/241480?cid=cp156
By Beth McMurtrie
The inspiration for his popular, interactive courses stems from his frustration with the traditional lecture format.
Alan Goldstein Makes Disability Less Abstract
http://www.chronicle.com/article/Alan-Goldstein-Makes/241484?cid=cp156
By Ben Gose
His courses introduce engineering students to adults with disabilities, and together they make films about the adults’ lives.
Dahpon Ho Brings History Alive
http://www.chronicle.com/article/Dahpon-Ho-Brings-History-Alive/241491?cid=cp156
By Ben Gose
By using their imaginations, says the University of Rochester historian, students absorb history far better than from a textbook.
Amardeep Kahlon Tailors Courses to Students’ Learning Styles
http://www.chronicle.com/article/Amardeep-Kahlon-Tailors/241482?cid=cp156
By Katherine Mangan
She puts the focus on online material that allows students to progress at their own pace but doesn’t let them get ahead of themselves.
Justin McDaniel Opens a Door to Contemplative Life
http://www.chronicle.com/article/Justin-McDaniel-Opens-a-Door/241487?cid=cp156
By Beckie Supiano
The religious-studies scholar at the U. of Pennsylvania oversees a course that requires students to live like monks.
Vicki Reitenauer Helps Students Find Their Voice — and Their Power
http://www.chronicle.com/article/Vicki-Reitenauer-Helps/241483?cid=cp156
By Fernanda Zamudio-Suaréz
She requires students to identify their course goals for the semester, the grade they expect to earn, and their plan for achieving both.
Eric Saliim Puts Science Into Everyday Life
http://www.chronicle.com/article/Eric-Saliim-Puts-Science-Into/241485?cid=cp156
By Lawrence Biemiller
At North Carolina Central U., he uses cellphones and Snapchat to prove that research isn’t too complex for anyone.
Catherine Shoulders Shows How an Expert’s Opinion Unfolds
http://www.chronicle.com/article/Catherine-Shoulders-Shows-How/241474?cid=cp156
By Dan Berrett
By recording on video her initial reaction to students’ assignments, this professor lets them see what an intellectual process looks like.
Stan Yoshinobu Spreads the Word About Inquiry-Based Math
http://www.chronicle.com/article/Stan-Yoshinobu-Spreads-the/241481?cid=cp156
By Kelly Field
The professor emphasizes that intellectual growth is based “on error recovery, not mistake avoidance.”
John Zubizarreta Gets Students Excited About Literature
http://www.chronicle.com/article/John-Zubizarreta-Gets-Students/241473?cid=cp156
By Lawrence Biemiller
The professor at Columbia College, in South Carolina, tells his students that “we’re here to build bridges in your brain.”
Commentary: A Newer Education for Our Era
http://www.chronicle.com/article/Commentary-A-Newer-Education/241313?cid=cp156
By Cathy N. Davidson
We need to teach creativity, collaboration, and adaptability.
Commentary: Could Apple Computer Have Survived Higher Ed?
http://www.chronicle.com/article/Commentary-Could-Apple/241490?cid=cp156
By Jeffrey Ratje
Ideas for improving academic culture abound, but too many die on the vine. Universities can change that.
Commentary: How an Experiment in 3-D Printing Illuminated Our Humanities Classroom
http://www.chronicle.com/article/Commentary-How-an-Experiment/241489?cid=cp156
By Marta Figlerowicz and Ayesha Ramachandran
The buggy unfamiliarity of the new technology helped students see older media with fresh eyes.
Commentary: What My Struggling Students Wanted Me to Understand
http://www.chronicle.com/article/Commentary-What-My-Struggling/241486?cid=cp156
By Nicole Matos
Developmental instructors need to make room for students’ feelings.
People told the MongoDB founders they were 'completely crazy' and now the
company is worth $1.6 billion ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/people-told-the-mongodb-founders-they-were-completely-crazy-2017-10
THE INSURTECH REPORT: How financial technology firms are helping — and
disrupting — the nearly $5 trillion insurance industry ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/insurtech-research-financial-technology-and-the-insurance-industry-2016-9
False Positive False Alarms --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_positives_and_false_negatives#False_positive_error
How to Possibly Mislead With Statistics
A local newspaper in England got a tip-off about 'big news' from America, 25
minutes before JFK was assassinated ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/jfk-assassination-cambridge-news-got-tip-off-before-president-killed-2017-10
Jensen Comment
We cannot really judge the importance of this call until we know how often
"false positive" tip offs are received.
I'm reminded of the wizard that correctly predicted that a jumbo jet airliner would crash on a given date when in fact a jumbo jet did indeed crash on that date. Upon further investigation, however, the wizard predicts that an airliner will crash every day. Eventually people will lose interest in such a wizard.
Having said this, there may indeed be more to the "wizard" that predicted a "big news" happening before the JFK assassination. But I'm a skeptic about such wizards.
Google Bombs Are Our New Normal ---
https://www.wired.com/story/google-bombs-are-our-new-normal/
Oxford, Cambridge Criticized for Lack of Black Students ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2017/10/23/oxford-cambridge-criticized-lack-black-students?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=3ee5da434a-DNU20171023&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-3ee5da434a-197565045&mc_cid=3ee5da434a&mc_eid=1e78f7c952
Openness and the Decline of the Textbook Author ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2017/10/24/openly-licensed-educational-content-and-decline-author-essay
Jensen Comment
In disciplines where textbooks are partly obsolete the day they first printed
(think intermediate accounting and tax) it makes sense to have free and open
textbooks that are a lot like Wikipedia. However, the publishers textbooks
provide important other materials that are not likely to be greatly improved
upon without paying for content (think multimedia supplements, end-of-chapter
cases and problems, and test banks). What may emerge is a free Wikipedia-like
textbook with fee-based supplements.
Ransomware --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ransomware
How to Protect Your Files From Ransomware With Windows Defender’s New
“Controlled Folder Access” ---
https://www.howtogeek.com/329532/how-to-protect-your-files-from-ransomware-with-windows-defenders-controlled-folder-access/
Windows 10 --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_10
Microsoft Released a Huge Update for Windows 10 --- Here's What's New
http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-windows-10-fall-creators-update-whats-new-2017-10
The Depth of Hate on Campus ---
http://www.dailywire.com/news/22457/watch-leftist-students-shut-down-student-robert-kraychik
Jensen Comment
One has to wonder at the success of the Russian efforts with tens of millions of
dollars to divide the races and politics on campuses, legislatures, and the
media in the USA
Washington Post: How Putin’s Russia uses Soviet-era tricks to evoke
racist white (and black) fears ----
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2017/10/09/how-putins-russia-uses-soviet-era-tricks-to-evoke-racist-white-fears/?utm_term=.9738f90e27e4
Jensen Comment
Will this the the best set of Russian "tricks" ever to divide the melting pot of
the USA?
I'd like to think of kneeling as an appeal that these "tricks" fail.
Club Fed Why the government goes easy on corporate crime.---
https://newrepublic.com/article/144969/club-fed-why-government-goes-easy-federal-crime
Corporate Crime Pays Even When You Know You're Going to Be Caught ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen//FraudConclusion.htm#CrimePays
Rotten to the Core ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudRotten.htm
Here are your chances of winning at popular casino games ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/casino-games-best-chance-at-winning-odds-2017-10
Jensen Comment
This article ignores the variance in games at times and places, a calculation
that is probably not something that can be reliably estimated using statistics.
Top gamblers generally prefer to play against each other rather than against
casino machines and casino dealers.
Library Links for the Day During September ---
http://www.tk421.net/librarylink/2017/09.html
Writing on the Wall for Future of M.B.A. Programs?
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/10/23/university-wisconsin-%E2%80%98considering-future%E2%80%99-mba-program?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=3ee5da434a-DNU20171023&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-3ee5da434a-197565045&mc_cid=3ee5da434a&mc_eid=1e78f7c952
Feeling changes in the M.B.A. market, the University of Wisconsin at Madison is considering changes to its M.B.A. program that would “increase accessibility, flexibility” and be “responsive to the changing needs of students and employers.”
That was the message delivered in a vague statement posted by the School of Business Friday, and -- as business schools across the country shake up their M.B.A. programs -- it leaves more questions than answers.
The Wisconsin Journal-Sentinel was unable to shake out any details of what those changes might mean, although a source told The Wall Street Journal that full-time M.B.A. programs might be coming to an end -- a trend that Virginia Tech, the University of Iowa and Wake Forest University, among others, have picked up on already -- in favor of shorter, more specialized programs.
Corroborating the Journal’s source was an email sent to students Wednesday -- cited by Poets & Quants, an outlet that specializes in business schools -- in which Donald Hausch, associate dean for M.B.A. programs, said shutting down the full-time program was seriously being considered. Students were invited to a town hall meeting this week, and a faculty vote on the matter is expected in November.
Wisconsin's announcement noted that the executive and part-time M.B.A. programs would continue to be offered. That news comes as Washington University in St. Louis recently reined in its executive M.B.A. program, moving to close branch offerings in Denver and Kansas City, Mo. The executive M.B.A. program still has international branch offerings, but the move to scale back the domestic program was seen as result of a multitude of factors chipping away at the executive M.B.A. market, and the M.B.A. market as a whole: employers reluctant to pay, the proliferation of online courses and what some are saying is a declining interest in M.B.A. programs from U.S. students.
At Madison, those factors might be aligning to mean an end of the full-time M.B.A. program. It wouldn’t be the first time a business school took that route: in August, the University of Iowa announced that its full-time program was being cut, to focus on specialized degrees -- which is what the Journal reported could possibly happen in Madison.
In addition to Wake Forest and Virginia Tech, Simmons College has also closed its full-time M.B.A. program. In light of the news from Madison, a Fortune article published Friday attempted to explain “what’s killing U.S. business schools,” citing declining applications across the board and increased applications to legacy institutions such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Yale University and the University of Chicago. Indeed, no one is predicting the demise of full-time M.B.A. programs at the most elite universities. In addition, Fortune cited stats showing a declining interest in U.S. M.B.A. programs from foreign students and climbing student loan debt as factors shaking up business schools.
"The [Wisconsin] program may become the latest casualty in a string of closures of M.B.A. programs around the country," the report read.
Still, Poets and Quants called Wisconsin’s move a surprise, although it noted a drop in the business school’s rankings, according to U.S. News & World Report, and weak marketing and promotion of the program in recent years. The analysis was bleak.
Continued in article
Update
Wisconsin Calls Off Possible Shake-Up of Its Full-Time MBA Program (at least for
now) ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2017/10/26/wisconsin-calls-shake-full-time-mba?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=99c33b076f-DNU20171026&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-99c33b076f-197565045&mc_cid=99c33b076f&mc_eid=1e78f7c952
For details see
http://www.chronicle.com/article/After-Outcry-U-of-Wisconsin/241565?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=e3e057b3dce4436390b45e7134499a26&elq=23f0f62cfcd14470907cf6ab7296faa3&elqaid=16311&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=7048
Jensen Comment
It would seem that the concept of badges as certificates of competency in a
specialty and graduate programs that are "shorter and more specialized"
are converging on the same thing. But beware of
what "shorter" really means. Unless various shorter programs are combined into
some kind of competency portfolio, they may not lead to great things in careers.
Degree programs that have licensing requirements (e.g., law, medicine, pharmacy,
and cpa programs) generally are tending not
to shorten programs. Indeed those such as cpa programs and some engineering
specialties lengthened the credit hour requirements.
MBA programs are particularly vulnerable to shortening because there are no licensing requirements to become an MBA. The MBA was mainly intended (at least in some prestigious universities) to provide rudimentary business acumen to liberal arts, science, and engineering graduates. On the other hand, my ophthalmologist tells me he getting an online MBA degree (in an Auburn University program for physicians ) to relieve the boredom of removing cataracts from about 20 eyeballs week in and week out --- a career that made him quite wealthy and bored with life.
In any case our future college graduates may look like military generals with breast plates full of badges and colorful ribbons of specialties.
Fraud Scandals Sap China’s Dream of Becoming a Science Superpower ---
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/13/world/asia/china-science-fraud-scandals.html?mabReward=ACTM5&recid=0v2wXDilbtFRnYBYtCn8s0B3YCa&recp=3&action=click&pgtype=Homepage®ion=CColumn&module=Recommendation&src=rechp&WT.nav=RecEngine
BEIJING — Having conquered world markets and challenged American political and military leadership, China has set its sights on becoming a global powerhouse in a different field: scientific research. It now has more laboratory scientists than any other country, outspends the entire European Union on research and development, and produces more scientific articles than any other nation except the United States.
But in its rush to dominance, China has stood out in another, less boastful way. Since 2012, the country has retracted more scientific papers because of faked peer reviews than all other countries and territories put together, according to Retraction Watch, a blog that tracks and seeks to publicize retractions of research papers.
Now, a recent string of high-profile scandals over questionable or discredited research has driven home the point in China that to become a scientific superpower, it must first overcome a festering problem of systemic fraud.
“China wants to become a global leader in science,” said Zhang Lei, a professor of applied physics at Xi’an Jiaotong University. “But how do you achieve that and still preserve the quality of science? We still haven’t figured out
In April, a scientific journal retracted 107 biology research papers, the vast majority of them written by Chinese authors, after evidence emerged that they had faked glowing reviews of their articles. Then, this summer, a Chinese gene scientist who had won celebrity status for breakthroughs once trumpeted as Nobel Prize-worthy was forced to retract his research when other scientists failed to replicate his results.
Continued in article
Retraction: Cookies Versus Apples ---
http://retractionwatch.com/2017/10/20/retract-replace-retract-beleaguered-food-researcher-pulls-article-jama-journal/
Jensen Comment
At our house cookies never have time to go bad while some apples rot away.
Tostitos never last as long as the cookies. Who cares about Elmo?
A promising new kind of battery is based on sodium, not lithium ---
https://engineering.stanford.edu/magazine/article/promising-new-kind-battery-based-sodium-not-lithium
Zinc-air Batteries --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinc%E2%80%93air_battery#Vehicle_propulsion
Metallic zinc could be used as an alternative fuel for vehicles, either in a zinc–air battery[15] or to generate hydrogen near the point of use. Zinc's characteristics have motivated considerable interest as an energy source for electric vehicles. Gulf General Atomic demonstrated a 20 kW vehicle battery. General Motors conducted tests in the 1970s. Neither project led to a commercial product.[16]
In addition to liquid, pellets could be formed that are small enough to pump. Fuel cells using pellets would be able to quickly replace zinc-oxide with fresh zinc metal.[17] The spent material can be recycled. The zinc–air cell is a primary cell (non-rechargeable); recycling is required to reclaim the zinc; much more energy is required to reclaim the zinc than is usable in a vehicle.
One advantage of utilizing zinc–air batteries for vehicle propulsion is that earth's supply of zinc metal is 100 times greater than that of lithium, per unit of battery energy. Current yearly global zinc production is sufficient to produce enough zinc-air batteries to power over one billion electric vehicles, whereas current lithium production is only sufficient to produce ten million lithium-ion powered vehicles.[18] Approximately 35% of the world's supply, or 1.8 gigatons of zinc reserves are in the United States,[19] whereas the U.S. holds only 0.38% of known lithium reserves.
Initial rechargeable zinc air batteries, developed for use in vehicles, were used for buses in Singapore. Their developer, Miro Zorič, chose zinc air chemistry specifically due to zinc air battery production requiring only abundant raw materials without requiring rare earth materials. When used to power vehicular AC (induction) drive trains, this would allow global road transport electrification, without destabilizing global supply chains or cause adverse raw material bottlenecks.
Continued in article
GRUNOW: Say Hello to IREE – A New Economics Journal
Dedicated to the Publishing of Replication Studies ---
https://replicationnetwork.com/2017/10/06/grunow-say-hello-to-iree-a-new-economics-journal-dedicated-to-the-publishing-of-replication-studies/
Jensen Comment
This would not be much of a journal in accountancy because there virtually are
no replication studies, at least studies devoted solely to reproducing the
results of published studies. On occasion there are replications mentioned in
extensions of prior studies, but these replications are usually long delayed
(think years) from the dates of the original studies. Results waiting that long
for validation can't be viewed as being very important results.
Since accounting practitioners show virtually no interest in academic accounting research journals there's less incentive to do validity testing for the good of the profession.
Having said this, academic accounting research is often of considerable interest to academic accounting researchers if not the accounting profession or other academic disciplines. I track and post quotations frequently in my Website and in my blogs, because I find some of this research very interesting to me even if it's not of great interest outside of accounting academia. I often try to point out where others should be paying more attention to academic accounting research. It's also a good thing to have accounting doctoral research critique academic accounting research.
The there are two enormous problems in academic accounting research.
The first problem as so many factors (variables) of great importance in accounting seemingly are impossible to quantify in a research world (that I call accountics) is mainly focused on quantitative model research.
The second major problem, somewhat related to the first problem, is that unlike engineering and finance, academic accounting researchers do not seek out and focus of problems of great interest to accounting practitioners. To attract more interest of practitioners in our research we must get our butts off campus and down to where the action is in accounting, auditing, tax, and information system practice. In this regard I myself am the pot calling the kettle black.
Bob Jensen's threads on the lack of validity testing in
academic accounting research ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/TheoryTAR.htm
2018 Business Tax Climate: Chilliest In Blue States, Warmest In Red States
---
http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2017/10/2018-business-tax-climate-chilliest-in-blue-states.html
Here are the ten states with the best and worst business tax climates:
1
Wyoming
41
Rhode Island
2
South Dakota
42
Louisiana
3
Alaska
43
Maryland
4
Florida
44
Connecticut
5
Nevada
45
Ohio
6
Montana
46
Minnesota
7
New Hampshire
47
Vermont
8
Utah
48
California
9
Indiana
49
New York
10
Oregon
50
New Jersey
Jensen Comment
I think this is an example of how to mislead somewhat with statistics. For
instance New York looks pretty bad in the above table. And yet New York makes
some very competitive, albeit temporary, business tax relief deals for new
businesses (and their employees). Of course other states also have relief deals
combined with other incentives.
Also the total tax environment should be considered rather than just "business taxes." For example, along the border with Vermont and Massachusetts New Hampshire has some impressive retail outlets for big ticket items like tires and computers. It's not so much that the business taxes are lower in New Hampshire as it is that retail customers don't have to pay sales taxes on items purchased. The Wal-Mart store closest to me has an enormous parking lot that often has more vehicles with green Vermont plates than white New Hampshire plates. Wal-Mart did not build any stores just inside the Vermont border. One definition of New Hampshire is that it's a state where Vermont shoppers come to avoid sales taxation. It's quite common for our medical doctors to have moved their practices from Vermont and Massachusetts due to savings on personal income taxes. Exhibit A is my ophthalmologist who relocated here from Vermont. Exhibit B is my wife's pain management physician.
My point is that "business taxes" are only a small part of a much larger tax and employment and customer environment for businesses and employees. Wyoming may have the best "business tax" climate because it's pretty lousy on many other pieces of the business location puzzle. States Ranked 41-50 above are very competitive in the total picture of attracting and keeping businesses. Note that the state closest to bankruptcy (Illinois) is in neither the top 10 nor the bottom ten in terms of business taxation. It is a state notorious for corruption with three recent Illinois governors having been shipped off to prison.
Something like 43 states are now competing for the new Amazon headquarters. It's virtually certain that none of states ranked 1-10 in terms of business taxes will win the Amazon location prize. Some of the states ranked 41-50 have a good shot at winning the prize. My point is that business taxes can be overrated in terms of affecting business location choices.
PS
New Hampshire is a blue state in the table above mostly because it allows people
from Vermont and Massachusetts to vote in New Hampshire as well as their home
states.
The University of Illinois Was in Need of This Great News In a State With
Millions of Unpaid Bills
$150 Million Gift Renames Illinois Business School
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2017/10/27/150-million-gift-renames-illinois-business-school?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=38380dc454-DNU20171027&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-38380dc454-197565045&mc_cid=38380dc454&mc_eid=1e78f7c952
PayPal is now worth more than American Express ---
https://www.theatlas.com/charts/rkA8xA2pW
Jensen Comment
These sort of capitalization estimates can be very misleading.
Have your students debate about whether Tesla is really "worth more" than
General Motors using the various accounting concepts of valuation ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory02.htm#BasesAccounting
Tips for Using Excel ---
https://www.inc.com/larry-kim/these-8-excel-time-savers-will-make-you-a-spreadsheet-speed-demon.html
A smarter way to calculate grand totals in Excel ---
https://www.intheblack.com/articles/2017/10/01/excel-subtotal
Question
What is a Bayes Factor and why is it important?
Bayes Factor --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayes_factor
A statistical fix for the replication crisis in science ---
https://theconversation.com/a-statistical-fix-for-the-replication-crisis-in-science-84896
In a trial of a new drug to cure cancer, 44 percent of 50 patients achieved remission after treatment. Without the drug, only 32 percent of previous patients did the same. The new treatment sounds promising, but is it better than the standard?
That question is difficult, so statisticians tend to answer a different question. They look at their results and compute something called a p-value. If the p-value is less than 0.05, the results are “statistically significant” – in other words, unlikely to be caused by just random chance.
The problem is, many statistically significant results aren’t replicating. A treatment that shows promise in one trial doesn’t show any benefit at all when given to the next group of patients. This problem has become so severe that one psychology journal actually banned p-values altogether.
My colleagues and I have studied this problem, and we think we know what’s causing it. The bar for claiming statistical significance is simply too low.
Most hypotheses are false
The Open Science Collaboration, a nonprofit organization focused on scientific research, tried to replicate 100 published psychology experiments. While 97 of the initial experiments reported statistically significant findings, only 36 of the replicated studies did.
Several graduate students and I used these data to estimate the probability that a randomly chosen psychology experiment tested a real effect. We found that only about 7 percent did. In a similar study, economist Anna Dreber and colleagues estimated that only 9 percent of experiments would replicate.
Both analyses suggest that only about one in 13 new experimental treatments in psychology – and probably many other social sciences – will turn out to be a success.
This has important implications when interpreting p-values, particularly when they’re close to 0.05.
The Bayes factor
P-values close to 0.05 are more likely to be due to random chance than most people realize.
To understand the problem, let’s return to our imaginary drug trial. Remember, 22 out of 50 patients on the new drug went into remission, compared to an average of just 16 out of 50 patients on the old treatment.
The probability of seeing 22 or more successes out of 50 is 0.05 if the new drug is no better than the old. That means the p-value for this experiment is statistically significant. But we want to know whether the new treatment is really an improvement, or if it’s no better than the old way of doing things.
To find out, we need to combine the information contained in the data with the information available before the experiment was conducted, or the “prior odds.” The prior odds reflect factors that are not directly measured in the study. For instance, they might account for the fact that in 10 other trials of similar drugs, none proved to be successful.
If the new drug isn’t any better than the old drug, then statistics tells us that the probability of seeing exactly 22 out of 50 successes in this trial is 0.0235 – relatively low.
What if the new drug actually is better? We don’t actually know the success rate of the new drug, but a good guess is that it’s close to the observed success rate, 22 out of 50. If we assume that, then the probability of observing exactly 22 out of 50 successes is 0.113 – about five times more likely. (Not nearly 20 times more likely, though, as you might guess if you knew the p-value from the experiment was 0.05.)
This ratio of the probabilities is called the Bayes factor. We can use Bayes theorem to combine the Bayes factor with the prior odds to compute the probability that the new treatment is better.Continued in article
Bayesian Inference --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_inference
Jensen Comment
The section on "In the Courtroom" is especially interesting in the above module on Bayesian Inference
Bob Jensen's threads on the demise of p-values are at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm#WhatWentWrong
“The Philosopher’s Web,” an Interactive Data Visualization Shows the Web
of Influences Connecting Ancient & Modern Philosophers ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/10/the-philosophers-web.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Bob Jensen's threads on philosophy ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#Social
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The Money Supply Explained ---
http://professorelam.typepad.com/my_weblog/2017/10/money-supply-explained.html
Bill Gates will invest more than $1 billion in public schools — but he'll
have to learn from Mark Zuckerberg's mistake ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-1-billion-public-schools-2017-10
Unions and Government Bureaucracy Squandered Zuckerberg's Gifts --- much of it
going for rewarding mediocre or bad teachers
Thomas Piketti --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Piketty
The One Percent Across Two Centuries: Piketty Presents
Misleading Picture Of The Dynamics Of Wealth Inequality In The United States
---
http://economics.ucr.edu/repec/ucr/wpaper/201602.pdf
This exercise reproduces and assesses the historical time-series on the top shares of the wealth distribution for the United States presented by Thomas Piketty in Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Piketty’s best-selling book has gained as much attention for its extensive presentation of detailed historical statistics on inequality as for its bold and provocative predictions about the continuing rise in inequality in the twenty-first century. Those predictions were derived and justified by reference to the historical data, so it is helpful to assess the robustness of the historical evidence presented. Here I examine only Piketty’s U.S. data for the period 1810 to 2010 for the top ten percent and the top one percent of the wealth distribution. I conclude that Piketty’s data for the wealth share of the top ten percent for the period 1870-1970 are unreliable. The values he reported are manufactured from the observations for the top one percent inflated by a constant 36 percentage points. Piketty’s data for the top one percent of the distribution for the nineteenth century (1810-1910) are also unreliable. They are based on a single mid-century observation that provides no guidance about the antebellum trend and only very tenuous information about trends in inequality during the Gilded Age. The values Piketty reported for the twentieth-century (1910-2010) are based on more solid ground, but have the disadvantage of muting the marked rise of inequality during the Roaring Twenties and the decline associated with the Great Depression. The reversal of the decline in inequality during the 1960s and 1970s and subsequent sharp rise in the 1980s is hidden by a fifteen-year straight-line interpolation. This neglect of the shorter-run changes is unfortunate because it makes it difficult to discern the impact of policy changes (income and estate tax rates) and shifts in the structure and performance of the economy (depression, inflation, executive compensation) on changes in wealth inequality.
Continued in article
A revised version of the paper is published as follows:
Richard Sutch (UC-Riverside), The One Percent Across Two Centuries: A Replication of Thomas Piketty's Data on the Concentration of Wealth in the United States, 41 Soc. Sci. Hist. 587 (2017)
Is Piketty’s Data Reliable? Or is the Disclaimer Unreliable?
http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2017/10/pikettys-data-reliable.html
“My dog ate the data:” Eight excuses journal editors hear
---
http://retractionwatch.com/2017/10/26/dog-ate-data-eight-excuses-editors-hear/
Here are the problematic excuses they encounter:
Nothing to see here. Move along.’ This excuse comes from authors who can’t stop denying there are problems with their paper, even in the face of overwhelming evidence.
My dog ate the data.’ The “missing data” excuse makes more sense once a significant amount of time has passed since the paper was published, Stebbing and Sanders write.
‘If you look hard enough, you can find a trivial difference between two supposedly duplicated images.’ Um, not really, say Stebbing and Sanders — image processing can introduce artifacts, for instance. And even if there are minor differences, how can images with distinct origins be so similar?
‘It was the fault of a junior researcher.’ This could be true — but if so, why didn’t anyone else notice?
‘The responsible researcher is from another country and therefore unfamiliar with the standards expected in scientific publications.’ This excuse is “highly insulting” to researchers from other countries, Stebbing and Sanders note. And if the practices are so problematic, why didn’t the researcher’s supervisor school him or her on proper procedures?
‘It was only a control experiment.’ The authors note: “How many scientists have not had an unexpected result in a ‘control’ experiment that actually led to some insight? If control experiments were unimportant, why were they included in the article in the first place?”
‘The results have been replicated by ourselves or others, so the image manipulation is irrelevant.’
‘Someone is out to get me.’ Stebbing and Sanders write: “Perhaps true but irrelevant.”
Jensen Comment
One more excuse (possibly more of a reason) that I've encountered before goes
something like:
"I spent half my life painstakingly collecting this data. Why should I just give
it away for free for replication purposes?"
From the Scout Report on October 27. 2017
Firefox Multi-Account Containers --- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/
We all use the web in a variety of contexts and with a variety of roles, but most web browsers don't provide a way to separate browsing data from those different usages. The Firefox Multi-Account Containers extension provides a solution to this problem. Users may create as many distinct containers as they wish, each of which maintains its own separate set of browsing data. By default, the plugin provides containers for "personal, work, finance, and shopping." None of the browsing data from tabs in the "Personal" container will be available to the "Work" containers. So, for example, a user could log in to a work Twitter account and a personal Twitter account simultaneously in different browser tabs - similarly for work and personal email. A user could also keep social media sites like Facebook confined in their own container to keep these sites from tracking the user across the web
Brave --- https://brave.com/
Brave is a web browser built to safeguard end-user privacy against tracking companies and intrusive advertisers while also providing a way for content producers to be paid for their work. According to Brendan Eich, co-founder of Brave Software, the web currently faces a "primal threat" caused by a growing conflict between users and the advertising companies so often necessary for authors to be compensated for the work they put online. In addition to their sheer intrusiveness, ads and trackers also increase the "page weight" of sites, which can lead to increased data charges for mobile users. The Brave homepage presents data showing that these costs add up to about $270 per year for the average mobile user. By default, Brave blocks these ads and trackers. Users may instead opt-in to a monthly contribution that Brave Software will distribute among sites the user has visited. Brave for mobile is available for iOS and Android devices. Beta releases of Brave for desktops are available for Windows, macOS, and several Linux distributions.
Emoji --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji
Considering the Impact of the Emoji: From the World of Language to the World of Public HealthHow the Appetite for the Emoji Complicates the Efforts to Standardize the World's Alphabet ---
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/18/magazine/how-the-appetite-for-emojis-complicates-the-effort-to-standardize-the-worlds-alphabets.htmlWhy There's A Lot of Buzz About a Possible Mosquito Emoji
http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/10/18/554282679/if-a-pile-of-poo-has-an-emoji-shouldnt-a-mosquito-have-one-tooMeet the 63-Year-Old in Charge of Approving New Emojis
http://time.com/4244795/emoji-consortium-mark-davis/Unicode Emoji Subcommittee
http://www.unicode.org/emoji/In defence of the emoji: how they are helping us to communicate better than ever
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/emoji-iphone-android-communication-better-than-ever-defence-a7980496.htmlEmoji, Texting, and Social Media: How Do They Impact Language?
https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2017/07/27931/Today, there are 2,666 emojis available to help us express ourselves, including an octopus, a slice of pizza, and a tears-of-joy face (which was famously added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2015). As emojis become increasingly ubiquitous, they have also provoked a variety of new debates. On October 18th, The New York Times published an article about how emojis are shaping the Unicode Consortium, an organization developed to assign a numerical value for every character used in writing. In doing so, Unicode has made it possible for users to type online in over 100 languages, including Latin and Cherokee. Since 2010, Unicode has also been responsible for assigning values to emojis, a development that is not without its detractors. On one hand, supporters argue that the popularity of emojis has accelerated the adaptation of Unicode. On the other hand, critics fear that as Unicode becomes bogged down with requests to add emojis, the consortium has less time to devote to the task of adding new languages. Meanwhile, emojis have also been in the news in the world of public health. Currently, Unicode is considering a request to add a mosquito emoji. Supporters of the mosquito emoji include the the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the John Hopkins Center for Communication Progress, who hope that a mosquito emoji could help people communicate about mosquito-borne diseases including malaria, dengue, and Zika. In January Unicode will announce what emojis they will add to their collection, so stay tuned. [MMB]
The first link takes readers to an article by The New York Times, authored by Michael Erard, about the history of the Unicode Consortium and how emojis are changing the organization. Next, the second link takes readers to an article by NPR's Courtney Columbus about the campaign for the mosquito emoji. Those interested in learning more about how Unicode decides which emojis to add will want to check out the third link, a 2016 interview by Time's Victor Luckerson with Unicode president Mark Davis. Visitors may also want to check out the official homepage of the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee, available via the fourth link. Here, visitors will find a chart of all existing emojis, along with a chart of current "emoji candidates." The last two links takes readers to two pieces that consider the impact of emojis on language and communication. Kashmira Gander of The Independent recently penned an editorial in defense of the emoji, which readers will find in the fifth link. Finally, the sixth link takes readers to a conversation between a number of language and communications experts about the impact of the emoji on human communication, which was published this summer in the Library of Congress's blog, The Signal.
Free Online Tutorials, Videos, Course Materials, and Learning Centers
Education Tutorials
We need to turn the tide on financial literacy ---
http://www.thegazette.com/subject/opinion/guest-columnists/we-need-to-turn-the-tide-on-financial-literacy-20170929
THE ALAN REVIEW (literature review for adolescents) --- http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ALAN/
THE LEARNING KALEIDOSCOPE (mathematics) --- https://andrewgael.com/
Letters to a Young Librarian --- http://letterstoayounglibrarian.blogspot.com/
Bob Jensen's threads on general education tutorials are at http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#EducationResearch
Bob Jensen's bookmarks for multiple disciplines --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm
Bob Jensen's links to free courses and tutorials --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
Engineering, Science, and Medicine Tutorials
Royal Society: The Repository (history of science) --- http://blogs.royalsociety.org/history-of-science/
A Primer on Neutron Stars --- https://daily.jstor.org/a-primer-on-neutron-stars/
STEM Smart Briefings --- http://successfulstemeducation.org/resources/briefs
National Geographic: Natural Disasters Science --- www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/natural-disasters-weather
Daily Overview (Arts & Science) --- www.dailyoverview.com
FEYNMAN LECTURES ON PHYSICS SCIENCE --- www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu
Studying the Arctic Wildlife of Russia's Wrangel Island ---
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2017/10/studying-the-arctic-wildlife-of-russias-wrangel-island/543282/
Love After Life: Nobel-Winning Physicist Richard Feynman’s Extraordinary
Letter to His Departed Wife ---
https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/10/17/richard-feynman-arline-letter/?utm_source=Brain+Pickings&utm_campaign=acc6edb0a6-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_10_20&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_179ffa2629-acc6edb0a6-234390133&mc_cid=acc6edb0a6&mc_eid=4d2bd13843
Plight of the Masked Bobwhite Quail --- https://fws.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/index.html?appid=637adcdb1ae74448aecbf5d35a4db7d4
UGA Extension Viticulture Blog (grape growing and wine) --- http://blog.extension.uga.edu/viticulture/
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
Google Newspaper (archives of newspapers) --- https://news.google.com/newspapers
Harvard: The Rise of Behavioral Economics and Its Influence on
Organizations ---
https://hbr.org/2017/10/the-rise-of-behavioral-economics-and-its-influence-on-organizations?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter_monthly&utm_campaign=finance&referral=00209&spMailingID=18360890&spUserID=MTkyODM0MDg0MAS2&spJobID=1121918405&spReportId=MTEyMTkxODQwNQS2
Steve Keen: Behavioral Finance Lectures 2012 ---
http://www.valueinvestingworld.com/2012/09/steve-keen-behavioral-finance-lectures.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ValueInvestingWorld+%28Value+Investing+World%29&utm_content=Google+Reader
Staring Out to Sea: Stories of Hurricane Sandy on the Jersey Shore --- http://staringouttosea.com/
Bob Jensen's threads on Economics, Anthropology, Social Sciences, and
Philosophy tutorials are at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Bob Jensen's links to free courses and tutorials --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
Law and Legal Studies
Bob Jensen's threads on law and legal studies are at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Scroll down to Law
Math Tutorials
THE LEARNING KALEIDOSCOPE (mathematics) --- https://andrewgael.com/
Graphing Stories (Mathematics) --- www.graphingstories.com
October 15, 2017: Free Online Courses Start Today: Mathematical Play &
Mathematical Anthropology ---
http://blog.mrmeyer.com/2017/free-online-courses-start-today-mathematical-play-mathematical-anthropology/
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
Royal Society: The Repository (history of science) --- http://blogs.royalsociety.org/history-of-science/
Google Newspaper (archives of newspapers) --- https://news.google.com/newspapers
Ancient History Encyclopedia Social studies --- www.ancient.eu
2,000+ Architecture & Art Books You Can Read Free at the Internet Archive ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/10/2000-architecture-art-books-you-can-read-free-at-the-internet-archive.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Library Link of the Day Social studies --- www.tk421.net/librarylink
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps --- www.historyofphilosophy.net/home
“The Philosopher’s Web,” an Interactive Data Visualization Shows the Web of
Influences Connecting Ancient & Modern Philosophers ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/10/the-philosophers-web.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy --- http://plato.stanford.edu/
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Ludwig Wittgenstein --- http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/wittgenstein
PhilSci-Archive (philosophy of science history) --- http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/
What is Logic? The Rise and Fall and Rise Again of Logic
https://aeon.co/essays/the-rise-and-fall-and-rise-of-logic
Library Link of the Day Social studies --- www.tk421.net/librarylink
California Art Research --- https://bancroftlibrarycara.wordpress.com/
Staring Out to Sea: Stories of Hurricane Sandy on the Jersey Shore --- http://staringouttosea.com/
Shakespeare's World Language Arts --- www.shakespearesworld.org/#!
Anna Julia Cooper Collection (Poetry of a woman with a Ph.D. who was born into slavery) --- http://dh.howard.edu/ajcooper/
YouTube: Seeing Art History Arts --- www.youtube.com/channel/UCGInLlFDxg-GgCEUQkjKwng
Meet Cipe Pineles: The Remarkable Life and Illustrated Recipes of the
Forgotten Pioneer Who Blazed the Way for Women in Design and Publishing ---
https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/10/19/leave-me-alone-with-the-recipes-cipe-pineles-book/?utm_source=Brain+Pickings&utm_campaign=acc6edb0a6-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_10_20&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_179ffa2629-acc6edb0a6-234390133&mc_cid=acc6edb0a6&mc_eid=4d2bd13843
Anne Finch Digital Archives (poetry) --- http://library.uncg.edu/dp/annefinch/
Rodolfo Lanciani and His Archive: A Digital History of Rome --- https://exhibits.stanford.edu/lanciani
IOWA COOKBOOK COLLECTION --- www.add.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/exhibits/iowacookbook/home.html
Bob Jensen's threads on history tutorials are at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Scroll down to History
Also see
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm
Bob Jensen's links to free courses and tutorials --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
Language Tutorials
Bob Jensen's links to language tutorials are at http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2-Part2.htm#Languages
Music Tutorials
Maria Anna Mozart Was a Musical Prodigy Like Her Brother Wolfgang, So Why Did
She Get Erased from History?
http://www.openculture.com/2017/10/maria-anna-mozart-was-a-musical-prodigy-like-her-brother-wolfgang-so-why-did-she-get-erased-from-history.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
Bob Jensen's threads on women ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#Women
Writing Tutorials
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/
October 16, 2017
October 17, 2017
October 19, 2017
October 20, 2017
October 21, 2017
October 23, 2017
- Medical Marijuana's Benefit to Kids Still Limited
- U.S. Opioid Painkiller Abuse May Be Leveling Off
- Heart Disease, Stroke Cutting Black Lives Short
- Wind-Up Musical Toys Recalled Over Choking Hazard
- Yoga + Aerobics Doubles Heart Benefits
- Solving the Mystery of Chronic Fatigue
- Hep C Screen May Boost Opioid Treatment Success
- How Many Mutant Genes Drive Cancer?
- Drug OD Rate Now Higher in Rural U.S. Than Cities
October 24, 2017
October 25, 2017
October 26, 2017
October 27, 2017
October 28, 2017
From the CFO Journal's Morning Ledger on October20, 2017
Hacking is a risk for pacemakers. So is the fix
A new software patch from Abbott Laboratories to fix a cybersecurity weakness in hundreds of thousands of implanted heart devices has raised a dilemma among doctors and patients: it carries a slight risk of causing a malfunction in the pacemakers, which are implanted in patients’ chests to correct abnormal heart rhythms, reports WSJ.
A Great Montage About Aging ---
http://aging.nautil.us/
Also see
'No One Is Coming.' Hospices Are Abandoning Their Patients ---
http://time.com/4995043/no-one-is-coming-investigation-reveals-hospices-abandon-patients-at-deaths-door/?utm_source=time.com&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the-brief&utm_content=2017102511am&xid=newsletter-brief
Jensen Comment
One of the huge problems of the future will be overcrowding of nursing homes and
underfunding of services for a burgeoning population of older folks. Around the
world, and especially in the USA, we're not prepared to deal with the exploding
problem of dementia and the caring for people no longer able to care for
themselves. In the USA Medicare does not pay for nursing care and Medicaid is
woefully under funded to meet the growing challenge. In nations with national
healthcare funding (think Canada and the United Kingdome) the aged are
bankrupting the foundering programs. Compounding the problem is the breakdown of
family structures in society that used to take responsibility for the health and
well-being of the aged in those families.
Everybody now wants government to take care of the elderly, but governments are going broke (think of massive unpaid bill piles in Illinois state government).
And the media focuses repetitively on NFL kneeling and Hollywood sex scandals without so much as a few minutes of prime time to looming big disasters such as dementia.
Disassociative Identity Disorder ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-differences-between-schizophrenia-and-dissociative-identity-disorder-2017-10
A Massive Health Study on Booze, Brought to You By Big Alcohol ---
https://www.wired.com/story/a-massive-health-study-on-booze-brought-to-you-by-big-alcohol/
Publisher apologises for 'racist' text in medical book ---
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-41692593
The Wonder Drug for Aging (Made From One of the Deadliest Toxins on Earth)
---
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-10-26/inside-fort-botox-where-a-deadly-toxin-yields-2-8-billion-drug
Humor for October 2017
Italian Lemmings: Runner Wins Marathon After Competitors Totally Ran
the Wrong Way ---
http://time.com/4993234/venice-marathon/?utm_source=time.com&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the-brief&utm_content=2017102317pm&xid=newsletter-brief
Humor October 2017--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book17q4.htm#Humor1017.htm
Humor September 2017--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book17q3.htm#Humor0917.htm
Humor July 2017--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book17q3.htm#Humor0717.htm
Humor June 2017--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book17q2.htm#Humor0617.htm
Humor May 2017--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book17q2.htm#Humor0517.htm
Humor April 2017--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book17q2.htm#Humor0417.htm
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
Click here to search Bob Jensen's web site if you have key words to enter ---
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For example if you want to know what Jensen documents have the term "Enron"
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other universities is at
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Online Distance Education Training and Education ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Crossborder.htm
For-Profit Universities Operating in the Gray
Zone of Fraud (College, Inc.) ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/HigherEdControversies.htm#ForProfitFraud
Shielding Against Validity Challenges in Plato's Cave ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/TheoryTAR.htm
The Cult of Statistical Significance:
How Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives ---
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/DeirdreMcCloskey/StatisticalSignificance01.htm
How Accountics Scientists Should Change:
"Frankly, Scarlett, after I get a hit for my resume in The Accounting Review
I just don't give a damn"
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/AccounticsDamn.htm
One more mission in what's left of my life will be to try to change this
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/AccounticsDamn.htm
What went wrong in accounting/accountics research?
---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm#WhatWentWrong
The Sad State of Accountancy Doctoral
Programs That Do Not Appeal to Most Accountants ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm#DoctoralPrograms
AN ANALYSIS OF THE EVOLUTION OF RESEARCH
CONTRIBUTIONS BY THE ACCOUNTING REVIEW: 1926-2005 ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/395wpTAR/Web/TAR395wp.htm#_msocom_1
Bob Jensen's threads on accounting theory
---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm
Tom Lehrer on Mathematical Models and
Statistics ---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfZWyUXn3So
Systemic problems of accountancy (especially the
vegetable nutrition paradox) that probably will never be solved ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudConclusion.htm#BadNews
World Clock ---
http://www.peterussell.com/Odds/WorldClock.php
Facts about the earth in real time --- http://www.worldometers.info/
Interesting Online Clock
and Calendar
---
http://home.tiscali.nl/annejan/swf/timeline.swf
Time by Time Zones ---
http://timeticker.com/
Projected Population Growth (it's out of control) ---
http://geography.about.com/od/obtainpopulationdata/a/worldpopulation.htm
Also see
http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/P/Populations.html
Facts about population growth (video) ---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMcfrLYDm2U
Projected U.S. Population Growth ---
http://www.carryingcapacity.org/projections75.html
Real time meter of the U.S. cost of the war in Iraq ---
http://www.costofwar.com/
Enter you zip code to get Census Bureau comparisons ---
http://zipskinny.com/
Sure wish there'd be a little good news today.
Free (updated) Basic Accounting Textbook --- search for Hoyle at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm#Textbooks
CPA Examination ---
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cpa_examination
Free CPA Examination Review Course Courtesy of Joe Hoyle ---
http://cpareviewforfree.com/
Rick Lillie's education, learning, and technology blog is at http://iaed.wordpress.com/
Accounting News, Blogs, Listservs, and Social
Networking ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/AccountingNews.htm
Bob Jensen's Threads ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/threads.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called New
Bookmarks ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookurl.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called
Tidbits ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called Fraud
Updates ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm
Online Books, Poems, References,
and Other Literature
In the past I've provided links to various types electronic literature available
free on the Web.
I created a page that summarizes those various links ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm
Some of Bob Jensen's Tutorials
Accounting program news items for colleges are posted at
http://www.accountingweb.com/news/college_news.html
Sometimes the news items provide links to teaching resources for accounting
educators.
Any college may post a news item.
Accounting and Taxation News Sites ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/AccountingNews.htm
AECM
(Educators)
http://listserv.aaahq.org/cgi- AECM is an email Listserv list which provides a forum for discussions of all hardware and software which can be useful in any way for accounting education at the college/university level. Hardware includes all platforms and peripherals. Software includes spreadsheets, practice sets, multimedia authoring and presentation packages, data base programs, tax packages, World Wide Web applications, etc.
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Yahoo (Practitioners)
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AccountantsWorld
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Business Valuation Group
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FEI's Financial Reporting Blog
Smart Stops on the Web, Journal of Accountancy, March 2008 --- http://www.aicpa.org/pubs/jofa/mar2008/smart_stops.htm
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The CAlCPA Tax Listserv September 4, 2008 message from Scott Bonacker
[lister@bonackers.com]
Scott forwarded the following message from Jim Counts
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Many useful accounting sites (scroll down) --- http://www.iasplus.com/links/links.htm
Bob Jensen's Sort-of Blogs ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/JensenBlogs.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called New
Bookmarks ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookurl.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called
Tidbits ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called Fraud
Updates ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm
Some Accounting History Sites
Bob Jensen's
Accounting History in a Nutshell and Links ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm#AccountingHistory
Accounting
History Libraries at the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) ---
http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/accountancy/libraries.html
The above libraries include international accounting history.
The above libraries include film and video historical collections.
MAAW Knowledge Portal for Management and Accounting ---
http://maaw.info/
Academy of Accounting Historians and the Accounting Historians Journal ---
http://www.accounting.rutgers.edu/raw/aah/
Sage Accounting History ---
http://ach.sagepub.com/cgi/pdf_extract/11/3/269
A nice timeline on the development of U.S. standards and the evolution of
thinking about the income statement versus the balance sheet is provided at:
"The Evolution of U.S. GAAP: The Political Forces Behind Professional
Standards (1930-1973)," by Stephen A. Zeff, CPA Journal, January 2005
---
http://www.nysscpa.org/cpajournal/2005/105/infocus/p18.htm
Part II covering years 1974-2003 published in February 2005 ---
http://www.nysscpa.org/cpajournal/2005/205/index.htm
A nice timeline of accounting history --- http://www.docstoc.com/docs/2187711/A-HISTORY-OF-ACCOUNTING
From Texas
A&M University
Accounting History Outline ---
http://acct.tamu.edu/giroux/history.html
Bob
Jensen's timeline of derivative financial instruments and hedge accounting ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudRotten.htm#DerivativesFrauds
History of
Fraud in America ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/415wp/AmericanHistoryOfFraud.htm
Also see
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Fraud.htm
Bob Jensen's
Threads ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/threads.htm
More of Bob Jensen's Pictures and
Stories
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Pictures.htm
All my online pictures --- http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/PictureHistory/
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