Tidbits on March 28, 2018
Bob Jensen
at Trinity University
Wes Lavin's 2018 Maple
Sugaring Pictures (and some of mine)
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Lavin/2018March/2018March.htm
Tidbits on March 28, 2018
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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 ---
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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
Will these global religions all meld into one? Will
they wither away? Will they splinter into thousands?
Animated Map Shows How the Five Major Religions Spread Across the World (3000 BC
– 2000 AD) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/03/animated-map-shows-how-the-five-major-religions-spread-across-the-world-3000-bc-2000-ad.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Danah Boyd on Media Literacy | What Hath We Wrought? | SXSW EDU 2018 ---
A decade ago, we imagined a world of participatory
culture where youth would be empowered to actively and strategically use
technology. Through peer/self-learning and formal education, young people have
developed a well-informed understanding of the world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0I7FVyQCjNg
Voice Technology: JFK Speaks Fromj the Grave ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/jfk-speech-from-day-he-died-recreated-with-voice-tech-2018-3
NOVA: Prediction by the Numbers Mathematics (Law of Large Numbers) ---
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/prediction-numbers.html
Torch Films African Studies ---
https://www.torchfilms.com/collections/african-studies
YouTube: Art Explainer --- www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqeY2ZYh3t0&list=PLeR-PCKmp3f5-_zo2THu1ySpGoCPCvg1O
Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time: Resources for Teachers --- www.madeleinelengle.com/for-educators/wrinkle-in-time-teacher-resources
The Inn on Sunset Hill (just down from our cottage) ---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5cqUX0LcbU&t=9s
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
Take a Long, Strange Trip and Stream a 346-Hour Chronological
Playlist of Live Grateful Dead Performances (1966-1995) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/03/346-hour-chronological-playlist-of-live-grateful-dead-performances.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
The Pudding: How Music Taste Evolved --- https://pudding.cool/2017/03/music-history/
Naxos Records (classical music) --- https://www.naxos.com/
The MC5’s Wayne Kramer Demonstrates the Correct & Official Way
to Play “Kick Out the Jams” on the Guitar ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/03/the-mc5s-wayne-kramer-demonstrates-the-correct-official-way-to-play-kick-out-the-jams-on-the-guitar.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Shelf Understanding: Bloomington Public Library's Podcast ---
http://shelfawareness.blubrry.com/
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
YouTube: Art Explainer --- www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqeY2ZYh3t0&list=PLeR-PCKmp3f5-_zo2THu1ySpGoCPCvg1O
Photos: U.S. Navy Submarines Surface in the Arctic Circle ----
http://gcaptain.com/photos-u-s-navy-submarines-surface-in-the-arctic-circle/
The 21 most mesmerising photos from the 2018 Winter Paralympics
---
http://www.businessinsider.com/photos-winter-paralympics-2018-best-photos-2018-3
Asia Art Archive: Collection ---
https://aaa.org.hk/en/collection
An Archive of 20,000 Movie Posters from Czechoslovakia
(1930-1989) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/03/an-archive-of-20000-movie-posters-from-czechoslovakia-1930-1989.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
How the Ornate Tapestries from the Age of Louis XIV Were Made
(and Are Still Made Today) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/03/how-the-ornate-tapestries-from-the-age-of-louis-xiv-were-made.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Photographs from the World War I Memoir of Margaret Hall --- www.masshist.org/photographs/hall
America's Quietest Routes Social studies (Scenic Road Travel) --- www.geotab.com/americas-quietest-routes
de Young Museum: Curriculum Resources for Educators ---
https://deyoung.famsf.org/education/resources-educators/curriculum-resources-educators
Minnesota Historical Aerial Photographs Online --- www.lib.umn.edu/apps/mhapo
Conscientious Photography Magazine --- https://cphmag.com/
The Atlantic Photos of the Week ---
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2018/03/photos-of-the-week-the-sydney-skinny-a-glacial-arch-pelicans-at-play/555797/
Time Magazine: Most Popular Tourist Site/Event in Every
State ---
http://time.com/money/5186719/travel-tourist-attraction-every-state/?utm_source=time.com&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the-brief&utm_content=2018031813pm&xid=newsletter-brief&eminfo=%7b%22EMAIL%22%3a%22MOt2LMJiSIk%2fSjadSWyB4I9Monw61fXF%22%2c%22BRAND%22%3a%22TD%22%2c%22CONTENT%22%3a%22Newsletter%22%2c%22UID%22%3a%22TD_TBR_9341E248-F74B-4FC4-8A5B-F29E5D8E9ECB%22%2c%22SUBID%22%3a%2224083557%22%2c%22JOBID%22%3a%22681150%22%2c%22NEWSLETTER%22%3a%22THE_BRIEF%22%2c%22ZIP%22%3a%22035864237%22%2c%22COUNTRY%22%3a%22%22%7d
It's been 73 years since the Battle for Remagen — here are 8
photos of the Allies' first toehold in Nazi Germany ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/us-troops-capture-bridge-at-remagen-entering-nazi-germany-in-wwii-2017-3
How the 10 Largest and Most Important Naval Battles in Modern
History Played Out ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/largest-naval-battles-modern-history-2018-3
A Huge Scale Model of Ancient Rome at Its Architectural Peak,
Originally Commissioned by Mussolini ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/03/behold-a-huge-scale-model-of-ancient-rome-at-its-architectural-peak.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Death Dogs: the Jackal Gods of Ancient Egypt ---
http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/jackal-gods-ancient-egypt/
From the Scout Report on March 16, 2018
Smartify --- https://smartify.org/
Smartify is an app designed to enrich the experience of visiting a museum or gallery. At participating venues, users can photograph a work to access detailed contextual information on the work and the artist who created it. The Smartify website describes the goal of this approach: "to re-frame the use of smartphones as engagement rather than a distraction," and to, "help people make meaningful connections with art." Users can add art to their own personal gallery in the app to revisit and further explore. A list of participating venues can be found on the Smartify website, along with information for venues on how they can participate. Smartify is available for iOS and Android devices
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
he Living Mountain: Pioneering Scottish Mountaineer and Poet Nan Shepherd’s
Forgotten Masterpiece About Our Relationship with Nature ---
https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/03/19/the-living-mountain-nan-shepherd/?utm_source=Brain+Pickings&utm_campaign=bd614b1847-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_179ffa2629-bd614b1847-234390133&mc_cid=bd614b1847&mc_eid=4d2bd13843
H.P. Lovecraft Writes “Waste Paper: A Poem of Profound Insignificance,” a
Devastating Parody of T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” (1923) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/03/h-p-lovecraft-writes-waste-paper-a-poem-of-profound-insignificance.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Harlem Shadows: An Electronic Edition (poetry) ---
http://harlemshadows.org/
Free Electronic Literature ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm
Free Online Textbooks, Videos, and Tutorials ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm#Textbooks
Free Tutorials in Various Disciplines ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#Tutorials
Edutainment and Learning Games ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm#Edutainment
Open Sharing Courses ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
Now in
Another Tidbits Document
Political Quotations on March 28, 2018
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/2018/TidbitsQuotations032818.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
Voice Synthesis: JFK Speaks Fromj the Grave ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/jfk-speech-from-day-he-died-recreated-with-voice-tech-2018-3
Jensen Comment
I wonder if one day there will be tweets from the grave?
I plan to continue my Tidbits.
The Best Laptops You Can Buy ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/best-laptop
Jensen Comment
My policy is to buy the most memory and hard drive available.
I've been partial to Dell for decades. Up here in the mountains I like Dell's
in-home service.
Inside Higher Ed: Cheap and Elite Masters Degrees (think Georgia
Tech and Illinois) ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/digital-learning/article/2018/03/20/analysis-shows-georgia-tech’s-online-masters-computer-science?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=3772500211-DNU20180111&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-3772500211-197565045&mc_cid=3772500211&mc_eid=1e78f7c952
Jensen Comment
The article makes repeated reference to "MOOC-inspired." The question to ask in
online degree programs is the rigor of admission standards for MOOC-inspired
degree programs. Onsite degree programs from prestigious universities filter out
weaker students with admissions filtering. Most competency-based online degree
programs, not all, tend to rely more on competency-based testing among larger
numbers of admitted students. It seems to me that competency-based online
program testing needs to be even more rigorous than onsite testing since onsite
programs have other filters for academic standards (e.g., GRE scores and class
participation) both before and after arriving on campus.
Also the key to success of online grading are the rigors of cheating protections. Many students cheat in both online and onsite courses. However, online courses present unique challenges dating back to 19th Century correspondence course testing administered by village vicars.
Bob Jensen's somewhat neglected threads to technologies that discourage
online cheating ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/assess.htm#OnsiteVersusOnline
Some prestigious online degree programs require occasional onsite visits for
live lectures, case-analysis classes, and testing. Exhibit A is the long-time
Chartered Accountancy Masters Degree program in the Chartered Accountancy School
of Business in Western Canada.
http://www.casb.com/
Exhibit B are the newer online JD law degrees at Syracuse and Southwestern that
have some weekend onsite experiences ---
http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2018/02/aba-approves-hybrid-online-jds-at-syracuse-southwestern.html
Jane Goodall Now Teaching a Free Online Course on Developing Compassionate
Leaders ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/03/jane-goodall-teaching-a-free-online-course-on-developing-compassionate-leaders.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Coursera Now Offering Complete Bachelor’s and Master’s Programs–With
Tuition Reduced by 70% ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/03/coursera-now-offering-complete-bachelors-and-masters-programs-with-tuition-reduced-by-70.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
edX Distance Education: Sign Language Structure, Learning, and Change --- www.edx.org/course/sign-language-structure-learning-change-georgetownx-slsx-401-01x
From Gallaudet University
Deaf Education Information Center from the Clerc Center ---
http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/
Bob Jensen's threads on technology for disabled and handicapped students ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm#Handicapped
Internet
Sales Tax Bill Dead for 2018 ---
https://www.statedatalab.org/news/detail/internet-sales-tax-bill-dead-for-this-year-after-filibust
The Babbage Engine (computer history) --- www.computerhistory.org/babbage
Bob Jensen's threads on computing and networking history ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#---ComputerNetworking-IncludingInternet
Why Wikipedia Works ---
http://nymag.com/selectall/2018/03/why-wikipedia-works.html
Jensen Comment
Two unstoppable forces in the world seem to be Amazon and Wikipedia. I read
where Amazon now takes in 40% of the USA shopping revenue, although I did not
investigate how "shopping revenue" was defined. I suspect it excluded some of
the big ticket items like vehicle purchases and service purchases (lawyers,
doctors, accountants, etc.) Even with free online shipping and enormous
resources Walmart has not put much of a dent in the roaring Amazon behemoth. One
key to its success are the millions of products available online from Amazon
with an easy-to-use free online return policy for virtually all those products.
Amazon is not always the cheapest alternative for new items, but that is more
than made up by the enormous range of "used" items at significantly lower prices
(think used books).
Wikipedia succeeds in my opinion because so many academics and other experts decided to join in to correct rather than merely protest errors in modules. Exhibit A is how medical schools out of worry concerning misinformation about medicine and health modules make a concerted effort (often with medical student assignments) to add to and delete portions of Wikipedia modules. The results thousands upon thousands of wonderful Wikipedia modules in medicine and health
Can a Waste Plant (think skiing) Be Copenhagen’s Biggest Attraction?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-22/can-a-waste-plant-become-copenhagen-s-biggest-tourism-attraction?cmpid=BBD032218_BIZ&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=180322&utm_campaign=bloombergdaily
From the physics journal PhysOrg: 15 Incredibly Genius
Gadgets That’ll Make Your Life Easier in 2018 ---
http://www.ceeny.com/sponsored/trending-gadgets-2018/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI4KPvmvT72QIVA5bICh0VMQgWEAEYASAAEgJn6_D_BwE
Bob Jensen's threads on gadgets ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob4.htm#Technology
PhysOrg: Extreme winter weather, such as 'Beast from the East',
can be linked to solar cycle ---
https://phys.org/news/2018-03-extreme-winter-weather-beast-east.html
Game Theory --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_theory
Game theory perfectly explains why OPEC members are going to cheat ---
http://markets.businessinsider.com/commodities/news/oil-price-opec-game-theory-expains-why-members-will-cheat-2018-3-1019171956
Chronicle of Higher Education on The Joke’s Over Academics are too
scared to laugh.---
https://www.chronicle.com/article/Academics-Are-Too-Scared-to/242817?cid=cr&utm_source=cr&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=9edc14fb2c7e42009b2005834646ca03&elq=106970b76fc64964a2aafb58cc45c961&elqaid=18227&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=8146
https://www.chronicle.com/article/Academics-Are-Too-Scared-to/242817?cid=cr&utm_source=cr&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=9edc14fb2c7e42009b2005834646ca03&elq=106970b76fc64964a2aafb58cc45c961&elqaid=18227&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=8146
John Cleese Makes a Stand Against Political Correctness ---
http://www.vulture.com/2017/09/john-cleese-monty-python-in-conversation.html
Walmart has hinted that it's building crop-pollinating robot bees ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/walmart-robot-bees-farming-patent-2018-3
Jensen Comment
Maybe our blueberry crops will be saved.
On the dark side we shudder at such bees carrying a few drops of nerve agents.
40 of History's Greatest Women ---
https://247wallst.com/special-report/2018/03/20/repub-40-of-historys-greatest-women/?utm_source=247WallStDailyNewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=MARCH212018A&utm_campaign=DailyNewsletter
Bob Jensen's threads on women ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#Women
Humanities at Risk in Denmark: Plan would link number of university
spots to labor market needs ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/03/22/new-policies-create-risks-humanities-danish-universities?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=cac9bb1b6f-DNU20180111&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-cac9bb1b6f-197565045&mc_cid=cac9bb1b6f&mc_eid=1e78f7c952
Question
Why do some people, notably elderly Japanese women, commit crimes because they
want to go to prison?
Jensen Comment
Some people in the USA commit crimes just to get free medical treatment,
including sex change operations and organ transplants. Some elderly people may
do it because the care is better, especially in Club Fed. Some prisoners cannot
deal well with the outside world after being locked up for many years. They just
want back on the inside.
In Nordic countries the apartments for prisoners are quite nice and in Finland most prisoners are free to come and go from their "free" apartments.
Japan’s Prisons Are a Haven for Elderly Women
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-03-16/japan-s-prisons-are-a-haven-for-elderly-women
Note: 90% Of Students Pass The Bar Within 2 Years of Law School
Graduation, But 10% Of Law Schools Have Fail Rates > 25% ---
http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2018/03/88-of-law-students-pass-the-bar-withing-2-years-of-graduation.html
Here are the top 20 law schools with the best overall bar passage rates for the Class of 2015:
1. Baylor: 100%
2. Wisconsin: 100%
3. Pennsylvania: 99.57%
4. Marquette: 99.55%
5. Virginia: 99.44%
6. Yale: 98.97%
7. Chicago: 98.96%
8. University of Washington: 98.95%
9. Stanford: 98.91%
10. Iowa: 98.50%
11. Harvard 98.43%
12. Michigan: 98.28%
13. Florida: 98.03%
14. Florida International: 97.87%
15. Campbell: 97.83%
16. Connecticut: 97.83%
17. UC-Berkeley: 97.75%
18. Kansas: 97.67%
19. Missouri: 97.58%
20. Ohio State: 97.53%
Jensen Comment
Unlike law I never heard of an accounting program with such high passage rates
of the CPA exam.
Has there ever been an accounting program with such a record among graduates who
repeatedly tried to pass the CPA examination.
Having said this, it should be noted that CPA passage rates have markedly
increased in the 21st Century, but never to the degree of Bar passage rates
among law graduates.
Will BookBots be the revolution libraries are looking for? ---
https://whyy.org/segments/will-bookbots-be-the-revolution-libraries-are-looking-for/
Jensen Comment
During my entire 40-year career on the faculties of four universities I used to,
on occasion, take random walks through the campus library stacks, pull down some
books, and flip through pages. It was fun and sometimes quite educational.
Looks like those random walk, book-flipping days will soon be over in large libraries.
Sigh!
ACT --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACT_(test)
SAT --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAT
WSJ: The Truth About The SAT And ACT
http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2018/03/wsj-the-truth-about-the-sat-and-act.html
March 16, 2018 reply from Tom Amlie
I'm a big fan of the SAT, ACT, GRE, and GMAT as admissions tools, not out of any specific admiration for the tests, but out of despair due to rampant grade inflation. If nothing else, these standardized tests should provide a consistent measure...of something. They might not measure exactly what we want, and the measurement may be impacted by other factors (income and racial bias, etc.), but at least they're consistent. I've long despaired of relying on good grades as evidence of learning or competence (although bad grades are presumably a reliable indicator of non-learning and non-performance).
That being said, I was reviewing an application this morning with a rather unfortunate GMAT score. In looking at the "analytical writing" essay, the applicant did an excellent job of analyzing the issue and separating the relevant from the irrelevant, and in putting in all of the appropriate caveats and coming to a very sound conclusion based on the evidence given. Despite that, due presumably to poor writing quality, the score for the "analytical writing" section was extremely low, as was the "integrated reasoning" score.
I assume the readers of these questions have rubrics which they follow. It just puzzled me that apparently the "writing" aspect of the score was weighted so heavily that it outweighed the "analytical" aspect.
Jensen Comment
Because of grade inflation I too am a fan of standardized testing and competency testing. Another reason is our growing distrust of recommendation letters in a litigious society where teachers, mentors, employers, and friends are afraid to say anything negative in a letter of recommendation.
Bob Jensen
Stanford University: Should We Stop Licensing Doctors and Lawyers
(and accountants and barbers)?
https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/should-we-stop-licensing-doctors-lawyers?utm_source=Stanford+Business&utm_campaign=19faf7fa63-Stanford-Business-Issue-133-3-18-2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0b5214e34b-19faf7fa63-70265733&ct=t(Stanford-Business-Issue-133-3-18-2018)
Jensen Comment
I strongly disagree with the conclusions of this paper. There's just too much at
stake in nearly all these fields where the consumer is too easily ripped off and
even injured. If anything the professions are too lenient in protecting the
public from their licensed professionals. There are just too many horror stories
where insiders (think colleagues, assistants) kept silent about an incompetent
licensed professional.
Licensing also discourages the poor academic performers from choosing a profession such as when marginal students choose to major in management rather than accounting because of fear of passing the CPA examination. Sure we lose a few good accountants this way but we also lose a lot of potential lousy accountants.
And there are a lot more technical accounting courses in a curriculum than in other business majors because those courses are required to sit for the Uniform (national) CPA Examination. Even in times of budgetary distress colleges cannot drop some of those courses if they want to keep graduates eligible to take the CPA exam. The same is true in other licensing disciplines like law, nursing, pharmacy, engineering, etc. Without licensing requirements it might be tempting to drop some of the technical and relatively expensive courses in a curriculum.
Licensing is not a perfect hurdle. Some bridges designed and/or inspected by licensed engineers do come crashing down on occasion, but I prefer to have licensing requirements to prevent more widespread bridge failures.
Licensing is not a perfect hurdle as evidenced by reputations of professionals among insiders. My wife was a surgical nurse for 20+ years. Insiders like her had their informal surgeon rating systems even if they seldom discussed those ratings in public. When I broke my hip years ago riding a bicycle she chose what she and other insiders at the Northeast Baptist Hospital in San Antonio considered the best hip surgeon relative to some others that were better avoided even if they were licensed. One of the huge problems in this type of performance evaluation, however, is that the system has better performance data on surgeons who operated in that hospital for 20+ years in the same hospital relative to newcomers.
It was interesting for me, as an outsider, to discover what specialty the nurses had the strongest feelings about regarding surgeons. The strongest feelings feelings seemed to be directed at plastic surgeons, perhaps because the messy plastic surgery mistakes were more observable in the operating room relative to some other types of surgeries like brain surgery.
It was also interesting to discover that some of the best surgeons were the hardest to work for in the operating room in terms of bad temperaments and rudeness. Some nurses chose to have their own surgeries from the surgeons they preferred not to work with in the operating rooms. Nice professionals aren't always the best professionals.
Weight Loss Publication Gutted ---
https://retractionwatch.com/2018/03/22/journal-retracts-study-linking-gut-makeover-to-weight-loss-improved-health/
Management professor admits to falsification, resigns ---
https://retractionwatch.com/2018/03/21/marketing-researcher-admits-to-falsification-resigns/#more-63410
Bob Jensen's threads on professors who cheat ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Plagiarism.htm#ProfessorsWhoPlagiarize
Miley Cyrus is facing a $300 million copyright infringement lawsuit over
her hit song 'We Can't Stop' ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/miley-cyrus-300-million-copyright-infringement-lawsuit-song-we-cant-stop-2018-3
What Motivates Good Teaching? ---
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/03/22/study-faculty-motivation-teaching-says-intrinsic-motivation-and-believing-teaching?mc_cid=bfaa26ea3c&mc_eid=1e78f7c952
Jensen Comment
I agree with the conclusions of this article, but I think student evaluations of
teachers also play a huge role in improving teaching. But such evaluations are
double edged swords. On RateMyProfessors.com the nation's top teachers are
nearly always easy graders. Teaching evaluations thereby are the leading cause
of disgraceful grade inflation ----
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/assess.htm#RateMyProfessor
Having said that, however, student evaluations, in my opinion, do motivate better teaching. They may not, however, motivate better learning to the extent that teachers remove the most difficult content from courses in an effort to please a wider audience of students in their classrooms. For example, in my accounting theory class a majority of students complained that detailed teaching of SFAS 133 (accounting for derivative financial instruments and hedging activities) took an inordinate amount of time. If I had not been a tenured professor within ten years of retirement I perhaps would've been motivated into taking some of the hardest material out of the course. Older teachers can sometimes be more professional!
Embracing the Robot ---
https://aeon.co/essays/programmed-to-love-is-a-human-robot-relationship-wrong?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=8063c93bb4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_19&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-8063c93bb4-68951505
Research Shows That Published Versions Of Papers In Costly Academic Titles
Add Almost Nothing To The Freely-Available Preprints They Are Based On ---
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180308/03225939387/research-shows-that-published-versions-papers-costly-academic-titles-add-almost-nothing-to-freely-available-preprints-they-are.shtml
Jensen Comment
But you must download those preprints quickly before they disappear from sight
Consumer Reports: The 11 Best and Worst Airlines in America ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/best-worst-airlines-america-consumer-reports-2018-3
01. Southwest Airlines (Best)
02. Alaska Airlines
03. JetBlue Airways
04. Virgin America
05. Hawaiian Airlines
06. Delta Airlines
07.Allegiant Airlines
08. American Airlines
09. United Airlines
10. Frontier Airlines
11. Spirit Airlines (Worst)
Jensen Comment
I'm particularly down on United Airlines. When we took our daughter to the
Manchester Airport (over 100 miles from our home) we were belatedly informed
that her flight had a mechanical problem and there was no way to get her to
Milwaukee until a departure early the next morning. We were also informed that
the Airline would not pay for her meals or hotel, which used to be the case for
non-weather delays. Boo on United that breaks noses of passengers refusing to
give up their reserved seats, bumps reserved passengers when members of Congress
want their seats, kill dogs in overhead compartments, and mistakenly flies dogs
to Japan.
In retirement one of the joys of my life is not having to fly much anymore. Frequent flier awards should be renamed torture awards.
Having said this, I'm always dubious of rankings. Such rankings can be very misleading. For example, perhaps airlines should be higher ranked for having schedules to lots of airports. Southwest ranks high, but still does not forward luggage to connecting flights of other airlines.
From the Scout Report on March 16, 2018
Cappuccino Educational Technology --- http://cappuccinoapp.com/
Keeping current with updates from all over the web can present a challenge. Cappuccino is an RSS reader that can help manage that challenge. It uses a three column layout that will be familiar to users of Apple Mail. New stories are presented in a unified inbox. Individual feeds are displayed like email folders. Displayed stories can be filtered based on currency, read status, or only to show stories from starred feeds. Update frequency and notification settings can be customized for each feed. Cappuccino is available for macOS and iOS.
Smartify --- https://smartify.org/
Smartify is an app designed to enrich the experience of visiting a museum or gallery. At participating venues, users can photograph a work to access detailed contextual information on the work and the artist who created it. The Smartify website describes the goal of this approach: "to re-frame the use of smartphones as engagement rather than a distraction," and to, "help people make meaningful connections with art." Users can add art to their own personal gallery in the app to revisit and further explore. A list of participating venues can be found on the Smartify website, along with information for venues on how they can participate. Smartify is available for iOS and Android devices
Remembering Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking, science's brightest star, dies at age 76
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/mar/14/stephen-hawking-professor-dies-aged-76Stephen Hawking Dies at 76; His Mind Roamed the Cosmos
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/14/obituaries/stephen-hawking-dead.htmlStephen Hawking's PhD thesis becomes freely available online, letting anyone see the essay that started it all
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/stephen-hawking-phd-thesis-access-essay-online-access-cambridge-university-a8014836.htmlBBC: Hawking radiation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6srN4idq1EStephen Hawking: Questioning the universe
https://www.ted.com/talks/stephen_hawking_asks_big_questions_about_the_universeStephen Hawking Lecture: How to Escape Out of a Black Hole
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_d7O9JGo_sOn Tuesday, March 14, physicist Stephen Hawking died at his home in Cambridge, England at the age of 76. Throughout his career, Hawking used quantum physics to illuminate one of the most enigmatic parts of the cosmos: black holes. Hawking was born in Oxford, England, on January 8, 1942. He attended University College, Oxford (where he later claimed that he studied only about an hour a day) and then attended Cambridge to pursue graduate studies. In 1963, at the age of 21, Hawking was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and was told that he had, at best, three years to live. Hawking later reported that his diagnosis sparked his determination to pursue his research. "When you are faced with the possibility of an early death, it makes you realize that life is worth living and that there are a lot of things you want to do," he said. In 1970, Hawking collaborated with Roger Penrose to publish an article explaining how the universe emerged from a singularity. In 1974, Hawking published a paper demonstrating that black holes emit radiation (now called "Hawking Radiations"). In 1988 Hawking wrote the best-selling A Brief History of Time, which garnered critical acclaim for making complex scientific ideas accessible the general public.
The first link takes readers to an obituary of Stephen Hawking by Ian Sample at The Guardian. This obituary includes a link to a second Guardian obituary for Hawking authored by his colleague Roger Penrose. The second link takes readers to Dennis Overbye's obituary of Hawking for The New York Times. Moving along, the third link takes readers to an October 2017 Independent report that Hawking's Ph.D. thesis is now available online through Cambridge's Apollo system. (The article includes a link for those interested in exploring the thesis). The fourth link takes readers to a short documentary film clip, courtesy of the BBC, that explains Hawking radiation. Finally, the last two links take readers to video recordings of two lectures by Hawking: his 2008 TED Talk, "Questioning the universe" and a 2015 lecture presented at the University of Southern California entitled "How to Get Out of a Black Hole."
From the Scout Report on March 23, 2018
Wehe --- https://dd.meddle.mobi/
Wehe is a tool to determine if your ISP is deliberately slowing down some kinds of traffic. It works by sending pre-recorded chunks of traffic to Wehe's servers. For example, one can send a recording of traffic when playing a YouTube video. Wehe then sends the same amount of random data to the same server. Lastly, it compares the transfer speeds of the pre-recorded traffic and the random traffic to see if your ISP slowed the recorded traffic down. Wehe comes with pre-recorded data from Amazon Video, NBC Sports, Netflix, Skype, Spotify, Vimeo, and YouTube. Future versions will allow users to record their own custom test data to sites of their choice. The stats section of Wehe's website gives anonymous summary information, showing which networks slow or block traffic to the popular sites they test. Source code for Wehe is also available on GitHub under the Community Research and Academic Programming License. Academic papers based on data collected by Wehe are listed in the "Technical details" and "Case Studies" sections of their site. Wehe is available for Android and iOS devices
Gitter --- https://gitter.im/
Gitter is a real-time chat system similar to Slack or IRC, but with an emphasis on ease of use for open-source communities, especially those using GitHub. For example, Gitter provides a "badge" that can be placed in a GitHub project's README file that allows users to join a Gitter chat with a single click. Rather than creating a dedicated Gitter account, users can sign in using either their Github or their Twitter credentials. Messages can be formatted using GitHub-flavored Markdown and can contain inline media files. Message archives are both browseable and searchable by month. In addition to Github integration, Gitter also integrates with Trello, Jenkins, Travis CI, Drone, Heroku, and Bitbucket. Public Gitter chats are provided with unlimited message history and can use all available integrations. Source code for Gitter is available under the MIT license on gitlab.org and the service can be self-hosted if users wish to do so. In addition to the web client, which works in any modern browser, device-specific Gitter clients are available for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS.
Textile Artist Katherine Westphal Dies at 99
Katherine Westphal, Fiber Art Pioneer, Dies at 99
https://hyperallergic.com/433118/katherine-westphal-obituary-fiber-artistKatherine Westphal, Creator of Unusual Textile Art, Dies at 99
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/20/obituaries/katherine-westphal-creator-of-unusual-textile-art-dies-at-99.htmlBrowngrotta Arts: Katherine Westphal
http://www.browngrotta.com/Pages/westphal.phpArtist and professor: oral history transcript / 1984
https://archive.org/details/artistprofessor00westrichWearable Art from California: Katherine Westphal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbQrBnXn4uo&t=25sTextileArtist.org
https://www.textileartist.org
Free Online Tutorials, Videos, Course Materials, and Learning Centers
Education Tutorials
Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time: Resources for Teachers --- www.madeleinelengle.com/for-educators/wrinkle-in-time-teacher-resources
Women Who Shape History: Education Resources --- www.smithsonianmag.com/history/women-who-shape-history-womens-history-education-resources-180968296
de Young Museum: Curriculum Resources for Educators ---
https://deyoung.famsf.org/education/resources-educators/curriculum-resources-educators
Annenberg Learner: Interpreting Stories and Graphs ---
www.learner.org/courses/teachingmath/grades6_8/session_05/section_02_b.html
edX Distance Education: Sign Language Structure, Learning, and Change --- www.edx.org/course/sign-language-structure-learning-change-georgetownx-slsx-401-01x
Shelf Understanding: Bloomington Public Library's Podcast ---
http://shelfawareness.blubrry.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
Remembering Stephen Hawking and Future Science ---
https://daily.jstor.org/stephen-hawking-future-of-science/
Stephen Hawking on the Meaning of the Universe ---
https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/03/14/stephen-hawking-origins-interview/?utm_source=Brain+Pickings&utm_campaign=c29b448551-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_179ffa2629-c29b448551-234390133&mc_cid=c29b448551&mc_eid=4d2bd13843
Astrobiology at NASA: The Ask an Astrobiologist Show ---
https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/ask-an-astrobiologist/
The Chymistry of Isaac Newton --- http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/newton/
Embracing the Robot ---
https://aeon.co/essays/programmed-to-love-is-a-human-robot-relationship-wrong?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=8063c93bb4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_19&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-8063c93bb4-68951505
National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science: Vaccines, Social Media,
and the Public Health ---
http://sciencecases.lib.buffalo.edu/cs/collection/detail.asp?case_id=940&id=940
Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation: Coral Reef Ecology Curriculum ---
https://www.livingoceansfoundation.org/education/portal/
The Academic Family Tree (multiple-discipline research linkages) ---
https://academictree.org/
Professions like business and accounting are excluded
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
Video: Danah Boyd on Media Literacy | What Hath We Wrought? | SXSW EDU
2018 ---
A decade ago, we imagined a world of participatory
culture where youth would be empowered to actively and strategically use
technology. Through peer/self-learning and formal education, young people have
developed a well-informed understanding of the world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0I7FVyQCjNg
Rupert Murdoch’s American Legacy ---
https://daily.jstor.org/rupert-murdochs-american-legacy/
Professor Buzzkill #127: Computer Dating ---
http://professorbuzzkill.libsyn.com/professor-buzzkill-127-computer-dating
National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science: Vaccines, Social Media,
and the Public Health ---
http://sciencecases.lib.buffalo.edu/cs/collection/detail.asp?case_id=940&id=940
Black Broadway on U: Where D.C.'s Cultural Renaissance was born ---
http://blackbroadwayonu.com/
The Academic Family Tree (multiple-discipline research linkages) ---
https://academictree.org/
Professions like business and accounting are excluded
Harlem Shadows: An Electronic Edition (poetry) ---
http://harlemshadows.org/
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
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Math Tutorials
NOVA: Prediction by the Numbers Mathematics (Law of Large Numbers) ---
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/prediction-numbers.html
Annenberg Learner: Interpreting Stories and Graphs ---
www.learner.org/courses/teachingmath/grades6_8/session_05/section_02_b.html
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
40 of History's Greatest Women ---
https://247wallst.com/special-report/2018/03/20/repub-40-of-historys-greatest-women/?utm_source=247WallStDailyNewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=MARCH212018A&utm_campaign=DailyNewsletter
Bob Jensen's threads on women ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#Women
Will these global religions all meld into one? Will
they wither away? Will they splinter into thousands?
Animated Map Shows How the Five Major Religions Spread Across the World (3000 BC
– 2000 AD) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/03/animated-map-shows-how-the-five-major-religions-spread-across-the-world-3000-bc-2000-ad.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Death Dogs: the Jackal Gods of Ancient Egypt ---
http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/jackal-gods-ancient-egypt/
Collection: Isabella Stewart Gardner (Arts and Crafts History) --- www.gardnermuseum.org/experience/collection
An Archive of 20,000 Movie Posters from Czechoslovakia (1930-1989) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/03/an-archive-of-20000-movie-posters-from-czechoslovakia-1930-1989.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
How the Ornate Tapestries from the Age of Louis XIV Were Made (and Are Still
Made Today) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/03/how-the-ornate-tapestries-from-the-age-of-louis-xiv-were-made.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
A Huge Scale Model of Ancient Rome at Its Architectural Peak, Originally
Commissioned by Mussolini ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/03/behold-a-huge-scale-model-of-ancient-rome-at-its-architectural-peak.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Minnesota Historical Aerial Photographs Online --- www.lib.umn.edu/apps/mhapo
Photographs from the World War I Memoir of Margaret Hall --- www.masshist.org/photographs/hall
The oldest known culinary recipes. YBC 4644 from the Old Babylonian Period,
ca. 1750 BC, via Yale University Library.---
https://gastropod.com/cooking-the-books-with-yotam-and-nigella/
T
Mining the Dispatch (visualization of Civil War data) ---
http://dsl.richmond.edu/dispatch/pages/home
Bob Jensen's threads on multivariate data visualization ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/352wpvisual/000datavisualization.htm
Women Who Shape History: Education Resources --- www.smithsonianmag.com/history/women-who-shape-history-womens-history-education-resources-180968296
America's Quietest Routes Social studies (Scenic Road Travel) --- www.geotab.com/americas-quietest-routes
Overlooked (Obituaries of Overlooked Women) --- https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/obituaries/overlooked.html
YouTube: Art Explainer --- www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqeY2ZYh3t0&list=PLeR-PCKmp3f5-_zo2THu1ySpGoCPCvg1O
de Young Museum: Curriculum Resources for Educators ---
https://deyoung.famsf.org/education/resources-educators/curriculum-resources-educators
U.S. News Map (newspaper history) --- http://usnewsmap.com/
Media History Digital Library --- http://www.mediahistoryproject.org The Pudding: How Music Taste Evolved --- https://pudding.cool/2017/03/music-history/
Black Broadway on U: Where D.C.'s Cultural Renaissance was born ---
http://blackbroadwayonu.com/
The Academic Family Tree (multiple-discipline research linkages) ---
https://academictree.org/
Professions like business and accounting are excluded
Conscientious Photography Magazine --- https://cphmag.com/
Torch Films African Studies ---
https://www.torchfilms.com/collections/african-studies
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa: Collections Online ---
https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/
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
The Pudding: How Music Taste Evolved --- https://pudding.cool/2017/03/music-history/
Naxos Records (classical music) --- https://www.naxos.com/
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
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/
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Humor for March 2018
The Lighter Side of Stephen Hawking: The Physicist Cracks Jokes and a Smile
with John Oliver ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/03/the-lighter-side-of-stephen-hawking-the-physicist-cracks-jokes-and-a-smile-with-john-oliver.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
The Onion: Tips for a Successful Parent-Teacher Conference ---
https://www.theonion.com/tips-for-a-successful-parent-teacher-conference-1823988216
Humor February 2018--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book18q1.htm#Humor0218.htm
Humor January 2018--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book18q1.htm#Humor0118.htm
Humor December 2017--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book17q4.htm#Humor1217.htm
Humor November 2017--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book17q4.htm#Humor1117.htm
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 August 2017--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book17q3.htm#Humor0817.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
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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
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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
http://accountantsworld.com/forums/default.asp?scope=1 This site hosts various discussion groups on such topics as accounting software, consulting, financial planning, fixed assets, payroll, human resources, profit on the Internet, and taxation. |
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Business Valuation Group
BusValGroup-subscribe@topica.com This discussion group is headed by Randy Schostag [RSchostag@BUSVALGROUP.COM] |
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FEI's Financial Reporting Blog
Smart Stops on the Web, Journal of Accountancy, March 2008 --- http://www.aicpa.org/pubs/jofa/mar2008/smart_stops.htm
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The CAlCPA Tax Listserv September 4, 2008 message from Scott Bonacker
[lister@bonackers.com]
Scott forwarded the following message from Jim Counts
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Many useful accounting sites (scroll down) --- http://www.iasplus.com/links/links.htm
Bob Jensen's Sort-of Blogs ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/JensenBlogs.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called New
Bookmarks ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookurl.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called
Tidbits ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called Fraud
Updates ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm
Some Accounting History Sites
Bob Jensen's
Accounting History in a Nutshell and Links ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm#AccountingHistory
Accounting
History Libraries at the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) ---
http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/accountancy/libraries.html
The above libraries include international accounting history.
The above libraries include film and video historical collections.
MAAW Knowledge Portal for Management and Accounting ---
http://maaw.info/
Academy of Accounting Historians and the Accounting Historians Journal ---
http://www.accounting.rutgers.edu/raw/aah/
Sage Accounting History ---
http://ach.sagepub.com/cgi/pdf_extract/11/3/269
A nice timeline on the development of U.S. standards and the evolution of
thinking about the income statement versus the balance sheet is provided at:
"The Evolution of U.S. GAAP: The Political Forces Behind Professional
Standards (1930-1973)," by Stephen A. Zeff, CPA Journal, January 2005
---
http://www.nysscpa.org/cpajournal/2005/105/infocus/p18.htm
Part II covering years 1974-2003 published in February 2005 ---
http://www.nysscpa.org/cpajournal/2005/205/index.htm
A nice timeline of accounting history --- http://www.docstoc.com/docs/2187711/A-HISTORY-OF-ACCOUNTING
From Texas
A&M University
Accounting History Outline ---
http://acct.tamu.edu/giroux/history.html
Bob
Jensen's timeline of derivative financial instruments and hedge accounting ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudRotten.htm#DerivativesFrauds
History of
Fraud in America ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/415wp/AmericanHistoryOfFraud.htm
Also see
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Fraud.htm
Bob Jensen's
Threads ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/threads.htm
More of Bob Jensen's Pictures and
Stories
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Pictures.htm
All my online pictures --- http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/PictureHistory/
Professor Robert E. Jensen (Bob)
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen
190 Sunset Hill Road
Sugar Hill, NH 03586
Phone: 603-823-8482
Email:
rjensen@trinity.edu