Tidbits on May 16, 2018
Bob Jensen at Trinity University

Early (Chilly) Springtime in our White Mountains ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/SummertimeFavorites/EarlySpringtime/Set02/EarlySpringtimeSet02.htm

 

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More of Bob Jensen's Pictures and Stories
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Pictures.htm

Updates from WebMD --- Click Here

Google Scholar --- https://scholar.google.com/

Wikipedia --- https://www.wikipedia.org/

Bob Jensen's search helpers --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/searchh.htm

Bob Jensen's World Library --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm

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




Online Video, Slide Shows, and Audio

A Cinematic Journey Through Paris, As Seen Through the Lens of Legendary Filmmaker Éric Rohmer: Watch Rohmer in Paris ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/04/a-cinematic-journey-through-paris.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Library of Congress: Moving Image Research Center --- www.loc.gov/rr/mopic

Watch the insane moment a Brazilian surfer rides a world record-breaking 80-foot wave ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-moment-a-brazilian-surfer-rides-world-record-breaking-80-foot-wave-2018-4
Scoll down to the second window

Bob Jensen's threads on the history of moving images and film --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#FilmMoviesTV

STAT: Boddities for the Classroom (human body videos) --- www.statnews.com/boddities-for-the-classroom

Smithsonian Libraries: Cultivating America's Gardens ---
https://library.si.edu/exhibition/cultivating-americas-gardens

Pelican Attacks College Graduation (Video) ---
http://www.1029thebuzz.com/2018/04/29/pelican-attacks-college-graduation-video/

University of Alaska-Fairbanks: Project Jukebox (Alaska oral history) ---
http://jukebox.uaf.edu/site7/

The 25 Worst Summer Movies to Ever Come Out ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/worst-summer-movies-ever-2018-5

Animated World Population ---
https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/6vpzhy/animated_world_population_19502100_oc/
I prefer this version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUwmA3Q0_OE

The Inn on Sunset Hill (just down from our cottage) ---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5cqUX0LcbU&t=9s

The best map of our galaxy ever created shows where we are in relation to 1.7 billion stars ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/map-of-milky-way-galaxy-by-gaia-spacecraft-2018-4


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 Gig When Miles Davis Jammed with Carlos Santana & Robben Ford (Giants Stadium, 1986) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/05/the-gig-when-miles-davis-jammed-with-carlos-santana-robben-ford-giants-stadium-1986.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical Debuted on Broadway 50 Years Ago: Watch Footage of the Cast Performing in 1968 ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/05/hair-the-american-tribal-love-rock-musical-debuted-on-broadway-50-years-ago.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

The 1901 to 1972 paintings of Georgia O'Keeffe, to a variety of music ---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNOSr6NsIOQ&index=1&list=PLYTtL1FB2XCq0H0Lat5EHhguwg2tnp4rR&t=0s

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

If you are considering travel to a park this summer, my photographic  threads and guides on worldwide parks (especially USA national parks) are at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob3.htm#Travel

Has the Best Art in the World Been Destroyed?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-02/has-the-best-art-in-the-world-been-destroyed

Tsarist Russia Comes to Life in Vivid Color Photographs Taken Circa 1905-1915 ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/04/tsarist-russia-comes-to-life-in-vivid-color-photographs-taken-circa-1905-1915.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Centre for Australian Art: Australian Prints + Printmaking --- www.printsandprintmaking.gov.au

Viennese Modernism 2018 Arts wienermoderne2018.info/en --- https://wienermoderne2018.info/en

Incunabula: The Art & History of Printing in Western Europe, c. 1450-1500 ---
www.loc.gov/ghe/cascade/index.html?appid=580edae150234258a49a3eeb58d9121c

Flower Fields in Carlsbad, California ---
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/photos/flower-fields-of-carlsbad/ss-AAwoXqF?ocid=spartandhp

20 spectacular mountains around the world that you need to see in your lifetime  ---
https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/tripideas/20-spectacular-mountains-around-the-world-that-you-need-to-see-in-your-lifetime/ss-AAvXyaW?ocid=spartandhp

Google Arts and Culture: Monet Was Here ---
https://artsandculture.google.com/project/monetwashere

13 Photos That Will Make You Want to Visit Rome ---
https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/tripideas/13-photos-that-will-make-you-want-to-visit-rome/ss-AAw77VT?ocid=spartandhp

The Charm of Amsterdam ---
https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/video/the-charm-of-amsterdam/vi-AAwkq7j?ocid=spartandhp

A Journey Through Western Tibet (1938) Social --- www.religion.ucsb.edu/tibetjourney1938

These photos show how crazy May Day used to be during the Cold War ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/these-photos-show-how-crazy-may-day-used-to-be-during-the-cold-war-2015-5

Hakai Magazine (coastal and ocean science) --- www.hakaimagazine.com

Enter an Archive of Over 95,000 Aerial Photographs Taken Over Britain from 1919 to 2006 ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/05/enter-an-archive-of-over-95000-aerial-photographs-taken-over-britain-from-1919-to-2006.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Satellite image shows eroding Louisiana coastline ---
http://www.nola.com/environment/index.ssf/2018/05/satellite_shows_greening_south_1.html

22 Free Things to Do In New York City This Summer ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/new-york-city-free-things-summer-2018-4

Aesthetics for Birds (Philosophy & Aesthetics) --- https://aestheticsforbirds.com/

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Images of Jupiter ---
https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/targetFamily/Jupiter

The 1901 to 1972 paintings of Georgia O'Keeffe, to a variety of music ---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNOSr6NsIOQ&index=1&list=PLYTtL1FB2XCq0H0Lat5EHhguwg2tnp4rR&t=0s

Pulp Covers for Classic Detective Novels by Dashiell Hammett, Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie & Raymond Chandler ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/05/pulp-covers-for-classic-detective-novels-by-dashiell-hammett-arthur-conan-doyle-agatha-christie-raymond-chandler.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Newberry Library Digitizes Trove of Lakota Drawings ---
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/20th-century-collection-drawings-sioux-tribe-have-been-digitized-180968953/   or go to
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/20th-century-collection-drawings-sioux-tribe-have-been-digitized-180968953/#3TJWO7kEqPEp58ew

Hakai Magazine (coastal and ocean science) --- www.hakaimagazine.com

The 16,000 Artworks the Nazis Censored and Labeled “Degenerate Art”: The Complete Historic Inventory Is Now Online ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/05/the-16000-artworks-the-nazis-censored-and-labeled-degenerate-art.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

National Geographic Has Digitized Its Collection of 6,000+ Vintage Maps: See A Curated Selection of Maps Published Between 1888 and Today ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/05/national-geographic-has-digitized-its-collection-of-6000-vintage-maps.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

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From the Scout Report on April


David Hockney's 82 Portraits and 1 Still-Life Exhibition Opens at LACMA

 

What's It Like to Pose for David Hockney? We Asked the People in His Portraits
https://www.npr.org/2018/04/17/600962098/whats-it-like-to-pose-for-david-hockney-we-asked-the-people-in-his-portraits
 

David Hockney's Fascinating Portrait Subjects Relive the Experience of Sitting for a Legend
http://www.lamag.com/culturefiles/david-hockney-82-portraits

David Hockney thinks you should take a longer look at life
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/david-hockney-thinks-you-should-take-a-longer-look-at-life

David Hockney's "The Road"
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cover-story/cover-story-2018-04-23

David Hockney's Life in Painting: Spare, Exuberant, Full
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/23/arts/design/david-hockney-art-review-metropolitan-museum-of-art.html

David Hockney: Born 1937
http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/david-hockney-1293

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

The Haiku Foundation: Education Resources Language --- www.thehaikufoundation.org/the-haiku-foundation-education-wall

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 May 16, 2018
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/2018/TidbitsQuotations051618.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




Scott Edward Bonacker, 63, Rogersville, Missouri departed this life Monday, May 7, 2018 after a short but courageous battle with cancer ---
https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/news-leader/obituary.aspx?n=scott-edward-bonacker&pid=188947418&fhid=12404

Jensen Comment
It was only a very short time ago that we ceased having Scott's valuable contributions to the AECM listserv ---
http://listserv.aaahq.org/cgi-bin/wa.exe?HOME

He was probably our all-time most active practitioner on the AECM. Whereas practitioners in large CPA firms are usually discouraged by their supervisors from becoming involved in academic debates on a listserv like the AECM, Scott worked for a very small firm and, I think, was pretty much his own boss. Since Scott was so interested in academics and academic debates he probably missed his calling in life by not becoming a professor. He really had a curious mind and spent a lot of time scanning the new media.

Scott had a liberal leaning and was never hesitant to challenge me in a polite way on the AECM. He probably disappointed some members of the AECM by not fitting the stereotype of a "conservative" practicing accountant. Scott also had a wide perspective regarding what he thought was on-topic for the AECM.

Scott was so unique on the AECM I doubt that any accounting practitioner will rise to take his place.

Special thanks to Gary Zeune for calling my attention to Scott's passing ---
http://www.theprosandthecons.com/


Fifty Ways the World is Getting Better ---
http://awealthofcommonsense.com/2018/04/50-ways-the-world-is-getting-better/

Jensen Question
If given a choice, why would I still prefer to graduate from high school in the 1950s rather than the 21st Century?
In the 21st Century guerilla fighting never ends as hate grows more intense inside nations (think beheadings, gang violence, rape, kidnappings, dirty bombs, and partisan hate in DC) ?
Mexico and parts of Africa may be the model of the future where armies are helpless against vicious competing gangs.
Korea, Viet Nam, Cuba, and China now move onward toward capitalism while socialism takes root in Europe and the USA
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2018/04/27/the-bernieization-of-the-democratic-party-n2474572?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

Malthus will probably have the last cynical laugh! -


From a Chronicle of Higher Education Newsletter on May 15, 2018

That reminded us of the many such visions of the future we’ve covered over the years. Western Governors University, developed in the mid-1990s, is now a leader in competency-based education.
Virtual Online University, by contrast, vanished without a trace. The MUDs, MOOs, and chat rooms of the early internet evolved into MOOCs, that much-hyped and still-unproven technology.
And what of Georgia Tech’s forecast? Fortunately, by 2040, we’re likely to be retired.


Video: A Scenario of Higher Education in 2020 (or thereabouts)---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gU3FjxY2uQ

This Is What Georgia Tech Thinks College Will Look Like in 2040:  Continuous Learning, Subscription Fees, and Worldwide Networks of Advisers  ---
https://www.chronicle.com/article/This-Is-What-Georgia-Tech/243400?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=952a8d2642d341c39d19f526d7cc2716&elq=297064fea7b148129bd00f0e351fb0c1&elqaid=19028&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=8611

The Georgia Institute of Technology has a fondness for bold experiments. It created the nation’s largest online master’s program in computer science, which won praise for its quality and low cost. It is home to the Center for 21st Century Universities, a "living laboratory" for educational innovation. It introduced artificially intelligent tutors in the classrooms. And it is reimagining the campus library to focus less on books and more on teaching, research, and collaboration.

Three years ago, the university took this experimentation a step further when it established the Commission on Creating the Next in Education, asking it to imagine the public research university of 2040 and beyond. Which business and funding models will become outdated? How will Georgia Tech best serve the next generations of learners?

The commission’s report, recently released, contains a number of provocative ideas. Among them: new credentials that recognize continuous learning, a subscription fee model instead of tuition, "education stations" that bring services and experiences to students, and worldwide networks of advisers and coaches for life.

These ideas make sense, says Rafael L. Bras, Georgia Tech’s provost and executive vice president for academic affairs, when you consider the institute’s public mission. "A lot of our discussion is shaped by the concept of the iron triangle: affordability, accessibility, and excellence," he says. "In many ways you could say this is radical. In other ways you could say this is unavoidable. In time, if we read the world correctly, this is something that demands and need will call for."

Bras spoke with The Chronicle this week about the commission’s report and what the future may hold for public universities. Here are excerpts from that conversation, condensed and edited for clarity.

Q. In your report, one line in particular stood out to me: "The Georgia Tech Commitment imagines a future not marked by arbitrary entries on a calendar, but one with numerous entry and exit points where students associate with rather than enroll at Georgia Tech."

A. To me it is the heart of the idea, and it shapes everything else. It is quite evident to us that, after graduation, students and learners everywhere will probably have 10 jobs, 10 professions.

On our residential side, we see that many of our students are really and truly developing their own businesses. Our goal is to spin out in the reasonably near future no less than 100 companies of students a year. They are beginning to commingle their education with their work, with their job, with their profession.

So all this is blurring, and that is what the Georgia Tech Commitment is all about. It is recognizing that it is already happening and will happen more.

Q. What is the role of the traditional university in this future? Is it a question of rebalancing what you have now, to put more emphasis on a virtual university, or do you see a dismantling of the traditional undergraduate experience?

A. I don’t believe in dismantling the undergraduate experience. I believe there will still be a significant demand for high-quality residential experiences. What this says is that it will possibly be more hybrid. Not in the delivery of education, but in the activities of the students.

The campus will remain very strong, because in that age bracket you will probably still see significant interest from people maturing in that type of environment. But I do believe it will be a more porous environment, and more porous in that it will bleed more in and out in the K-to-12 arena and reach out into the older population.

Q. What’s the hypothetical student journey going to look like? Would a student take a year or semester on campus, stop out, then continue later?

A. You could imagine increasing engagement in the K-to-12 arena, where the teachers themselves are engaged with us all the time, where students in 10th, 11th, 12th grades are potentially taking some courses, if they are advanced enough, that put them in the college environment.

Then they may choose to come to Georgia Tech. Some would spend four years, others come for a couple of years, develop a company, and then may choose to stop out for a semester, while being mentored by us, and develop their business. They come back and optimally graduate and finish that period in life.

Then they go out for five years in a company, realize they want to do something else, and engage with us via other offerings. The question is what offerings are out there for them, and how do we establish a link that is beyond the digital or cyber?

Q. The report mentions something called the Georgia Tech atrium. What exactly is that? Is it an entrepreneurship lab? Or is it a place where someone could take a class?

A. We’re beginning to define it. Imagine us with a presence — not a large presence — in a shared space with entrepreneurs. That presence becomes a gathering place for individuals, some alums, some not, who are looking for a number of things. It could be access to information. It could be mentoring. It could be traditional lectures with visiting faculty. It could be a place where you participate online, but rather than doing it from your house, you sit there in a group that works together in going through this program.

We found already in many of our professional master’s degrees that students self-organize and love to be together. Just like start-ups want to be together. You could imagine self-organized cohorts that are going through a computer-science or analytics program, and that all occurs in the Georgia Tech atrium.

Q. The report also proposes a subscription model, like Netflix. Do you think higher ed might benefit from moving toward this model?

A. It’s something we need to explore seriously. You could imagine that, as you move with the Georgia Tech touchpoint throughout your life, that in essence once in, you’re in forever. Part of a possible business model for that would be a subscription basis that you pay ahead or pay as you go. I don’t know what the answer to that is yet, but how do you make it happen?

People have thought of that before, I don’t know that anybody has tried it. And maybe it’s not the perfect answer, but it has to be considered.

Q. The report also talks about the importance of artificial intelligence in executing this vision, through AI-enhanced services like advising and tutoring.

A. There is a role for AI agents for all types of things. Not to take the place of humans — in fact, we want to increase that, but in some dimensions and not in others.

We had an experiment with a teaching assistant that was an AI agent ("Jill Watson"). That was an eye-opener. It was very successful. We are increasingly doing that. The great majority of exchanges [between students and professors] are easily handled by that type of tool. Now, as you push the envelope for a more sophisticated tutor, I think there’s still work to be done. But it’s very feasible.

There are some things that an AI tutor is not going to be able to do, and that’s where we warm-blooded humans must come in. But we are moving in that direction, and that will allow better service to more people.

Public universities are public for a reason: It’s access. And we believe in that. So we need to find a way to provide excellent access information, and tutoring in a different way. Because we cannot do it with the old model.

Q. Do you expect that external partners will come along as well — accreditors, employers, government agencies? How optimistic are you that they will say, Sure, let’s try this new thing?

Continued in article

There are over 4,000 colleges and universities in the United States, but Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen says that half are bound for bankruptcy in the next few decades ---
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/15/hbs-professor-half-of-us-colleges-will-be-bankrupt-in-10-to-15-years.html?__source=twitter%7Cmain

This is related to issues of "badges" in academe
"A Future Full of Badges," by Kevin Carey, Chronicle of Higher Education, April 8, 2012 ---

http://chronicle.com/article/A-Future-Full-of-Badges/131455/?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en


Nationwide Shortage of Computer Science Professors ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/05/09/no-clear-solution-nationwide-shortage-computer-science-professors?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=38d3efa53e-DNU20180111&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-38d3efa53e-197565045&mc_cid=38d3efa53e&mc_eid=1e78f7c952

Jensen Comment
There are two main causes of professor shortages in some disciplines. The primary cause is too few Ph.D. graduates to fill demand. Related to this is opportunities outside academe that are too competitive. This particularly affects new Ph.Ds in computer science. It's less so in other disciplines having professor shortages such as accountancy and criminology. In those fields there are just too few Ph.D. graduates instead of temptations outside the academy. Fortunately, the adjunct market is fairly good in accountancy and criminology.

In some disciplines having a Ph.D. is relatively rare and really not needed for academic tenure track positions. This is typical in nursing and some other medical fields.


Get the History of the World in 46 Lectures, Courtesy of Columbia University ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/05/get-the-history-of-the-world-in-46-lectures-courtesy-of-columbia-university.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Groundbreaking Map from 1858 Colorfully Visualizes 6,000 Years of World History ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/05/groundbreaking-french-map-from-1858-colorfully-visualizes-6000-years-of-world-history.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29


Stanford on the Science Behind Cambridge Analytica's Psychological Profiling:  Does it Really Work?
https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/science-behind-cambridge-analytica-does-psychological-profiling-work?utm_source=Stanford+Business&utm_campaign=31ffe41aea-Stanford-Business-Issue-136-4-29-2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0b5214e34b-31ffe41aea-70265733&ct=t(Stanford-Business-Issue-136-4-29-2018)


Should you buy or lease a vehicle?
Accounting and finance instructors might ask students such a question.
Accounting students might additionally be asked how lease versus buy accounting differs for businesses (drill down to the journal entries).

 

My insurance agent sent me the following helper link:
https://blog.nationwide.com/should-i-buy-or-lease-a-car/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NI&utm_source=exacttarget&utm_content=Brand:na:na:na:na:ERM80418&utm_term=249645.31911002&WT.dcsvid=31911002

 

Leasing became increasingly popular after the economic crash of 2007 when interest rates for dealers dropped almost to zero. Much of the savings was then passed on to buyers who wanted to own and/or lease.

 

My neighbor and my barber both now own their leased cars. The nice thing about buying the vehicle when the lease expires is that by then you know the condition of the vehicle and whether you enjoy driving this particular vehicle.


How to Mislead With Economics
Stanford University:  An End to Traffic Jams? It Might Not Be a Dream ---

https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/end-traffic-jams-it-might-not-be-dream?utm_source=Stanford+Business&utm_campaign=937c696fa8-Stanford-Business-Issue-137-5-13-2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0b5214e34b-937c696fa8-70265733&ct=t(Stanford-Business-Issue-137-5-13-2018)

Jensen Comment
Most of this article is not misleading, but there are misleading parts. For example, suppose you teach third grade in Palo Alto, California. Your spouse teaches in an Oakland community college. On your combined incomes you would all have to live in a motor home if you wanted to live in Silicon Valley on the other side of the Bay. In other words living anywhere near Palo Alto and having your spouse commute to Oakland is just not affordable due to housing costs in the Silicon Valley. At present you live in an affordable house in a not-so-nice part of Oakland. Now the question is how to commute to work if tolls on both the Bay Bridge, San Mateo Bridge, and the Dunbarton Bridge were set at $50 going each way in rush hours to speed up commuting time using those bridges. This makes using those bridges no longer affordable unless you want to drive to Palo Alto at 1:00 am across the Dunbarton each work day and catch the rest of your sleep in the car before your work day begins. Public transportation during rush hour takes forever even if you use BART to pass under the San Francisco Bay. For one thing there's the problem of economically and conveniently getting from a train or bus terminal in Palo Alto to your school. After the long public transportation trip from Oakland to Palo Alto you will be too exhausted to ride a bike to school.

My point here is that for millions of commuters congestion pricing on roadways would be a disaster when public transportation and car pooling are both logistical nightmares. Like all economists the authors of the above study (Ostrovsky and Schwartz ) propose solutions that sound great if you ignore the assumptions behind those solutions. The simple fact of the matter is that with congestion pricing millions of people would have to abandon their present jobs --- such as trading your great teaching job in Palo Alto for a not-so-nice teaching job in Oakland. Or you could divorce your spouse and give up custody of your children. Then living in a motor home in a school parking lot becomes more feasible --- some workers at Apple making nearly a million dollars a year live in parking lot vans.

There are also millions of people who, in the right circumstances, fit nicely into the Ostrovsky and Schwartz model. On nice days some people can live in a city and ride a bicycle or scooter to work. The Danes and the Dutch have worked this system out to perfection by, among other things, taxing ownership of a car to the point where a car is not affordable by over half their citizens. In Moscow wintertime bikes and scooters aren't so great but the Moscow subway is fantastic. It would be nice to have such a subway system serving Los Angeles but the cost of such a system in sprawling Lost Angeles is astronomical. The same can be said for Silicon Valley.

But it is also true that something must be done about gridlock in USA large cities. Congestion pricing proposed by Ostrovsky and Schwartz  is a thought, but it's just not a realistic solution except under very restrictive assumptions. Elon Musk wants to bore tunnels in every city. Immensely costly tunnels relieve some of the congestion in Boston, but due to growth and other things traffic is worse than ever.

There is no Swiss Army knife solution to gridlock. But we must keep searching for practical ideas. Probably one of the best ideas in the age of technology is to expand the workforce doing their jobs from home. Indeed it's possible to teach most high school or college courses from home. It's probably not a good idea to teach third grade from home.


ALA: State of America's Libraries Report 2018 --- www.ala.org/news/state-americas-libraries-report-2018

ALA:  Library Systems Report 2018 --- https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2018/05/01/library-systems-report-2018/


The Nobel Literature Prize Will Not be Awarded in 2018 ---
Click Here

Also see BBC --- http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43999240


'Trust That Inner Voice.' Read Ronan Farrow's Emotional Commencement Speech at Loyola Marymount ---
http://time.com/5266989/ronan-farrow-loyola-marymount-graduation-speech/


Correactology® or How to Identify a Pseudoscience ----
https://mcgill.ca/oss/article/general-science-quackery/correactologyr-or-how-identify-pseudoscience

Bob Jensen's threads on real science versus pseudoscience ---
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/AccounticsDamn.htm#Pseudo-Science


Seeing Theory: A Visual Introduction to Probability and Statistics ---
https://students.brown.edu/seeing-theory/?vt=4

Visual Arts Data Service (VADS) --- https://vads.ac.uk

Powers of Ten: Census Edition (data visualization) --- https://jjjiia.github.io/powers/

"The Quick and Dirty on Data Visualization," by Nancy Duarte, Harvard Business Review Blog, April 16, 2014 ---
http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/04/the-quick-and-dirty-on-data-visualization/

Visualization of Multivariate Data (including faces) ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/352wpvisual/000datavisualization.htm 

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


Artificial Intelligence Is Cracking Open the Vatican's Secret Archives ---
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/04/vatican-secret-archives-artificial-intelligence/559205/


MIT:  California’s rooftop solar rule is a pricey path to emissions reductions ---
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611110/californias-rooftop-solar-rule-is-a-pricey-path-to-emissions-reductions/


The 10 Best Discounts in America According to Seniors ---
http://time.com/money/5273063/best-senior-discounts/?utm_source=time.com&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the-brief&utm_content=2018051411am&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%22742523%22%2c%22NEWSLETTER%22%3a%22THE_BRIEF%22%2c%22ZIP%22%3a%22035864237%22%2c%22COUNTRY%22%3a%22%22%7d


Brain Drain: Study shows many science and tech grads heading to U.S. for work ---
https://brocku.ca/brock-news/2018/05/brain-drain-study-shows-many-science-and-tech-grads-heading-to-u-s-for-work/


Yale’s Free Course on The Moral Foundations of Political Philosophy: Do Governments Deserve Our Allegiance, and When Should They Be Denied It?
http://www.openculture.com/2018/05/yales-free-course-the-moral-foundations-of-political-philosophy.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29


The FCC Will Terminate Net Neutrality on June 11 ---
https://gizmodo.com/the-fcc-will-terminate-net-neutrality-on-june-11-1825920287

Net neutrality is weeks away from dying, and the first signs of change are already showing up at Netflix and other internet companies ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/netflix-and-others-warn-about-the-end-of-the-net-neutrality-rules-2018-5


Democrats On Elite Liberal Art College Faculties Outnumber Republicans By 10:1 ---
http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2018/05/democrats-on-elite-liberal-art-college-faculties-outnumber-republicans-by-101.html

Jensen Comment
It surprised me to learn that some of these colleges had any Republicans on the faculty.
Of course in Anthropology and Communications there were no registered Republicans.


The New Gmail Interface (April 25, 2018) ---
https://www.howtogeek.com/fyi/the-new-gmail-interface-launches-today/


Romance Novelist Secures Trademark For Word 'Cocky,' Begins Beating Other Novelists Over The Head With It ---
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180507/11303539791/romance-novelist-secures-trademark-word-cocky-begins-beating-other-novelists-over-head-with-it.shtml

Jensen Comment
How long before companies own trademarks to words like "the" and "and?"
This seems almost as bad to me is getting a patent on a human gene.


How Criminals Steal $37 Billion a Year from America’s Elderly ---
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-05-03/america-s-elderly-are-losing-37-billion-a-year-to-fraud

Bob Jensen's Fraud Updates ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm


The Atlantic:  As younger generations become more racially diverse, many states are allocating fewer tax dollars to public colleges and universities ---
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/05/american-higher-education-hits-a-dangerous-milestone/559457/

Jensen Comment
The article misleadingly overlooks the major causes of reduced spending for higher education.
Soaring Medicaid expenses have become the biggest expenditure items in most state budgets, expenditures that cannot be as easily reduced as expenditures for higher education. Couple Medicaid with underfunded pensions for state workers and we see funding for higher education being left in political dust.

By way of illustration look at the Medi-Cal portion ($101.5 billion) of the 2018-19 pie chart for California at
http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/2018-19/pdf/BudgetSummary/HealthandHumanServices.pdf

For California the higher education budget for 2018-19 is proposed at $33.7 billion in comparison ---
http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/2018-19/pdf/BudgetSummary/HigherEducation.pdf

Click on "States" in the upper left corner to see states grading as to fiscal responsibility and debt crises ---
https://www.statedatalab.org/

In other words the "radical diversity" issue is not so much a cause of reduced support higher education as is a budgeting choice issue devoting the lion's share of state budgets to health and welfare, especially Medicaid. And a major cause of the increase in Medicaid spending is the way citizens are figuring out how to divert long-term assisted living and nursing home expenses to Medicaid. If families plan ahead more than five years in advance, they can funnel more of their parents and grandparents resources into their own pockets and shift the long-term nursing care expenses over to Medicaid. And then they complain that the states are paying less for their children's state-supported higher education.

Medicare and Medicaid were never intended by government to pay for so much long-term nursing care of the middle class, but by one means or another schemes have been devised to make long-term nursing care and the cost of dying for the middle class as well as the poor. Medicaid is picking up a larger share of long-term nursing costs and Medicare is picking up the cost of dying (hospital, medication, and doctor bills).. The cost of dying became the largest budget item in Medicare and is exploding as the population of the USA ages. This is also the major cause, along with underfunded pensions, of funds being diverted by states from higher education to Medicaid.

The bottom line is that as the population ages we're seeing a massive shift in state (and Federal) spending from the young to the old as education money is massively being diverted to Medicaid (and Medicare).


MIT:  These DNA testing companies are mainly trying to sell you other stuff ---
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611002/these-dna-testing-companies-are-mainly-trying-to-sell-you-other-stuff/

The consumer genetics market is booming. In 2017, the number of people who took direct-to-consumer ancestry tests more than doubled, reaching over 12 million customers.

The craze is quickly expanding beyond ancestry, too. A wave of new tests claim to make all sorts of personalized lifestyle recommendations—from what skin-care products you should use to what kind of diet is best for you. But buyer beware: in many cases these tests amount to little more than a way to hawk a product. The science underpinning them is often flimsy, if it exists at all.

That’s why many of these tests come with a survey or questionnaire that asks about your habits, health, and other personal information. What’s marketed as a DNA test may mostly be an analysis of your answers—the DNA may not factor in that much at all.

Another red flag is a result that recommends other products or services. “When someone who is selling you a test says you need this product, you should question their motives,” says James Evans, a physician and geneticist at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine.

Beyond those rules of thumb, we’ve noticed a few tests that stand out as particularly spurious. They should be approached with more than a little skepticism.

Continued in article


Chronicle of Higher Ed
Why Are States Spending Less on Higher-Ed? Medicaid and Lazy Rivers Could Be to Blame --
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https://www.chronicle.com/article/Why-Are-States-Spending-Less/243281?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=aa553b6359274fe4bb69d8955f1bb553&elq=04a5d74466b64f239b6596d0417f1f44&elqaid=18883&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=8512

Three decades of spending cuts by states have left public colleges with nearly 25 percent declines in state funding per student. What happened to the money that could have been invested in higher education during that time? Most of it went to Medicaid, according to a new study. 

The study, “Higher Ed, Lower Spending: As States Cut Back, Where Has the Money Gone?” found that state spending has increased for public-school education, prisons, police, and fire protection, but the largest spending increases have gone to public welfare. Public higher ed is the only category in spending decline.

Doug Webber, author of the study and an associate professor of economics at Temple University, said Medicaid is the single biggest cause of the decline in higher-education funding at the state and local levels. He also found that a $1 increase in per capita public-welfare spending was associated with a $2.44 decrease in per-student higher-education funding.

Red and blue states alike have had increased Medicaid funding since 2017, according to Families USA, a nonprofit consumer advocacy group. Part of what makes the finding difficult to swallow, Webber said, is that people who generally support public welfare also support public colleges, even though spending on the former may be eating away at higher-ed’s slice of the pie.

The study comes at a time when there is plenty of public debate over how much should be invested in higher education. When states experience declining budgets, program cuts and layoffs soon follow. Still, some observers may be less sympathetic to colleges' budget problems after reading about laser-tag playpens, lazy rivers and multimillion-dollar student centers, Webber said in an interview with The Chronicle. Headlines about such facilities may create the perception that higher education doesn’t need more money, he said.

“One of the reasons for why higher ed is often cut, anecdotally, is because when a legislator decides where to allocate money, they say, We see people hurting right now,” Webber said. “So it makes sense to them to allocate more money to things that affect right now.”

People outside the university world don’t always distinguish differences between state funding and donor dollars for college construction and other major projects, Webber said. Extravagant spending of any kind may create a harder argument for higher-ed administrators to sell.

“Most colleges are not opening up a $200-million facility. That’s unrepresentative of the entirety of higher ed. But those types of big spending items don’t do higher education any favors,” he said. “It makes it easier for legislators to argue that other spending may do more good.”

Given decreased political will in some states to raise revenue through taxes to offset the declines,  higher-ed proponents should prepare for this cycle to continue, Webber said. But there’s still time for higher-ed officials to argue for why they need more funding, not less.

“It is important to recall that state budgets result from complicated political processes and that new financial pressures — such as from ailing pension funds or withdrawn federal social-service support — are constantly emerging,” Webber writes in the study. “There is no reason to think that the politicians of tomorrow will make the same choices as the politicians of yesterday.”


Creative Accounting --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_accounting

From a New Yorker Cartoon
"Elmer, only a new accounting idea can save this company."

Creativity:  19 creative accounting schemes for money-losing startups ---
https://qz.com/1263214/pro-forma-accounting-19-creative-schemes-for-money-losing-startups/

Jensen Comment
While things are going from bad to worse at General Electric accounting creativity seems to have failed in the financial markets. But the classic teaching case on creative accounting is still Enron ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudEnron.htm

Bob Jensen's threads on accounting creativity (e.g., earnings management) ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory02.htm#Manipulation


How to Mislead With Statistics
Who pays the most tax in Europe?
http://www.euronews.com/2018/04/26/who-pays-the-most-tax-in-europe-

Jensen Comment
You've probably heard me warn repeatedly that when taxes are compared it can be misleading unless you also compare what those taxes are paying for in family living. Income tax rates in the USA are relatively low and highly progressive with nearly half of the taxpayers paying zero income taxes. But this is misleading since things like health care and public education are paid out of other taxes and/or personal savings. Even when comparing nations with national health care plans funded heavily out of income taxes, comparing tax rates can be misleading. Firstly there are taxes other than income taxes such as VAT taxes and sales taxes. Secondly, not all national health care programs are equivalent in terms of how certain coverages are paid for. In Germany, for example, the public health plan is rather minimal and most Germans that can afford it have private supplemental medical insurance. My neighbors from England at the moment are back in the U.K. arranging to sell a parent's home for nursing home care expenses. Nursing home care in the U.K. is covered in the national health plan but revenues from home sales must be applied to this care --- so I'm told by my neigbors.

In Europe taxes supposedly pay for college education and/or job training, but less than half the young people are admitted to programs funded by tax dollars ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/HigherEdControversies.htm#Tertiary
Other people depend upon companies to fund on-the-job training, and many people are not allowed into college unless they study in other countries or take distance education courses such as MOOCs..


K-12 International Study: 
Too Much Help From Mom Might Backfire
---
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/inside-school-research/2018/05/homework_help_can_cause_longterm_problems.html?cmp=eml-enl-eu-news2-rm&M=58479851&U=2290378

Jensen Comment
There's a distinction between "help" versus "control." Asian Tiger Moms are often thought of as controlling the amount of time their children study, but they may leave them alone to study and only check on performance. Of course, those tiger moms do not have a monopoly on this type of control. Such control might hinder creativity that often emerges in play rater than study at young ages.


Too Much Help From Mom Might Backfire, Study Suggests

How Economists Became So Timid The field used to be visionary. Now it’s just dull ---
https://www.chronicle.com/article/How-Economists-Became-So-Timid/243326?cid=cr&utm_source=cr&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=e2d09de47e544696abef42de6455758f&elq=0d2c3cc821f040c7ae28da603abc6bb5&elqaid=18957&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=8559

May 8, 2018 reply from Paul Williams

It isn't merely dull. Economists now sit in judgment over public policy. As Schumacher noted, not matter how bad something may be,"...if you have not demonstrated that it is uneconomic, you have not questioned its right to live, grow and prosper." If the pretensions of economists were confined only to themselves it matters little how dull economics has been made. But when the pretensions of economists are such that they acquire veto power over actions that people might take, then the ante is raised substantially. There are economists everywhere; the Prez. has a council of economic advisers but not a council of sociological advisers or a council of historical advisers or a council of scientific advisers (Congress has one but Newt Gingrich de-funded it). As a former mathematics colleague of mine (a native of Kenya) opined: "What is this thing you Americans call "The Economy? You worship like it is a God." The sarcasm was not lost on me.

Jensen Comment
Could we say the same thing about accounting research? In particular what academic accounting research discovery contributed in a known way by the practicing profession?
Why did the profession of accountancy lose interest in the research and publications of academic accountants?

Here's where to start looking among thousands of academic accounting articles:
MAAW's Table of Contents Service Update ---
http://maaw.info/MAAWContents.htm
What do you think is the best visionary article that the practicing profession overlooked?


Stanford University on K-12 Learning:  Welcome to the math revolution ---
https://medium.com/stanford-magazine/jo-boaler-transforming-math-education-ddc23ab45158


One in Every Six Retirees in the USA is a Millionaire (on paper before taxes at least) ---
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-03/america-is-minting-more-millionaire-retirees-than-ever

Jensen Comment
Having close to $1 million in total savings doesn't really go very far for people that retire at around age 65. With low interest rates it's virtually impossible to live to live on the after-tax income. For example, if part of that $1 million is your $250,000 house that you live in the house generates no cash; instead it drains cash for property taxes and maintenance. Your stock market portfolio may be doing pretty well, but liquidating that for living expenses may deplete most of your capital if you live a long life, especially if there are years of expensive assisted living/nursing care years.

Most of your $1 million is savings is probably pre-tax such that spending it for retirement entails paying those long-deferred taxes. And don't rely on Social Security benefits to pay for much more than your Medicare premiums and supplemental premiums.

If you own your own home and have an added $1 million in savings, a lifetime annuity for you and your partner used to be a pretty good deal when interest rates were above 6%. Now that interest rates are close to zero lifetime annuities lost their luster big time.

The bottom line is that being a millionaire when you retire is not such a good deal unless you are a multi-millionaire.


How Technology Is Changing The Way Blind People Get Visual Information ---
http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2018/04/26/blind-people-apps-technology

Bob Jensen's threads on technology aids for the blind ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm#Handicapped


The Economics of Artificial Intelligence ---
https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/mckinsey-analytics/our-insights/the-economics-of-artificial-intelligence


Toyota to invest $170 million in Mississippi plant, create 400 jobs ---
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/toyota-to-invest-dollar170-million-in-mississippi-plant-create-400-jobs/ar-AAwodYw?ocid=spartandhp


These 10 electric SUVs will take on Tesla's Model X ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/electric-suvs-coming-to-market-soon-2018-4
Jensen Comment
Don't hold your breath while saving a lot of money to buy most of these future competitors.
The good news is that these brands have existing dealers in the USA.
The bad news is that, unlike Tesla, these brands do not have a head start on charging stations.


Convert your Excel PivotTable to a formula-based report ---
https://www.journalofaccountancy.com/issues/2018/may/convert-pivottable-to-formula-based-excel-report.html?utm_source=mnl:cpald&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=04May2018


A Boston restaurant has replaced human chefs with robots — and it's a glimpse into the future of dining ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/robots-replace-human-chefs-at-boston-restaurant-future-of-dining-2018-5

Jensen Comment
If robots don't work the entire restaurant I would argue that robots can replace cooks and bartenders but not the chefs. One of the chef's main duties is to manage workers, and I doubt that robots are yet able to deal with the many unknowns of managing workers.


Six Hidden Gems in Office 365 ---
https://www.fm-magazine.com/news/2018/may/microsoft-office-365-hidden-features-201818882.html?utm_source=mnl:cpald&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=10May2018


Dealing With Excel's Ctrl Key Paradox ---
https://www.accountingweb.com/technology/excel/dealing-with-excels-ctrl-key-paradox?source=pe050418


Adrienne:  Has Microsoft Excel Ruined the World?
http://goingconcern.com/has-microsoft-excel-ruined-world/

Jensen Comment
It's nice to hear from Adrienne since she ended her "Junior Accountant" blog. Excel is an app, albeit a very complicated and wildly popular evolving app. Most any app or tool before we had "apps" can also lead to errors.

When I was a "Junior Accountant" in the Denver Office of E&E (now E&Y) I was sent each year to audit a local tire manufacturer. One year I detected a strange outcome that a gasoline station in Ogallala, Nebraska had 999,999 million tires on consignment. This was a computing error in the era punched-card computing, long before spreadsheet software was invented. The error turned out to be what techies called a "summary punch" error that significantly overstated the inventory of our client.

My point here is that Excel did not ruin the world due to its computing errors since computing tools before Excel also made errors. In fact, functions (think IF functions) in Excel can be built into the application to avoid such serious inventory overstatement errors.

Probably one of the best error checking tool ever invented for accounting is double-entry bookkeeping --- trial balances have to balance. However, trial balances that balance are no guarantees that errors were not made. It's probably safe to say that there's no computing tool that's error free even though the computing tools just keep getting better and better.


MIT:  Investigators searched a million people’s DNA to find Golden State serial killer ---
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611038/investigators-searched-a-million-peoples-dna-to-find-golden-state-serial-killer/


A Thing Meant to Be: The Work of a Book Editor ---
https://www.pw.org/content/a_thing_meant_to_be_the_work_of_a_book_editor


Budweiser brewer orders 800 Nikola hydrogen-powered semi-trucks ---
https://www.motorauthority.com/news/1116563_budweiser-brewer-orders-800-nikola-hydrogen-powered-semi-trucks
Also see
https://www.engadget.com/2018/05/03/anheuser-busch-orders-nikola-hydrogen-trucks/

Budweiser maker Anheuser-Busch reserves 40 Tesla electric trucks ---
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-trucks-buyers/budweiser-maker-anheuser-busch-reserves-40-tesla-electric-trucks-idUSKBN1E11V9

Jensen Comment
The point here is that the fuel-cell model is not dead, and things are not yet promising for electric semi-trucks according to engineers at Carnegie-Mellon University.

Carnegie Mellon Department of Engineering:  Performance Metrics Required of Next-Generation Batteries to Make a Practical Electric Semi Truck ---
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsenergylett.7b00432


What is full employment? An economist explains the latest jobs data ---
https://theconversation.com/what-is-full-employment-an-economist-explains-the-latest-jobs-data-95908


In Europe, Amazon.com Remains Out of Fashion ---
https://www.wsj.com/articles/in-europe-amazon-com-remains-out-of-fashion-1525080604

Amazon.com Inc. AMZN 3.60% might look like it’s taking over the world. But it hasn’t conquered Europe.

Two decades after the internet behemoth’s first international foray into the region, it’s still working to gain traction selling apparel and footwear. That weakness in a major, growing market illustrates Amazon’s challenge as it expands abroad and tries to replicate its U.S. dominance of e-commerce.

To explain Amazon’s struggles in conquering apparel in Europe, retail executives and analysts point to an absence of top fashion brands, a website they say isn’t conducive to browsing for clothes and a fragmented market full of plucky competitors.

In the U.S., Amazon accounts for nearly half of online sales, according to Euromonitor International, and is also No. 1 in apparel and footwear, with 35% of that market. In Western Europe, it is the biggest e-commerce site by a wide margin, with 22% of the market, but it has just 8% of apparel and footwear.

To woo more shoppers, Amazon is broadening its selection. It is also encouraging U.S. merchants to ship abroad and in recent months has launched three of its own clothing brands in Europe.

“That really is our goal: Earth’s largest selection for our customers,” said Eric Broussard, a vice president who oversees the company’s international marketplaces. Those marketplaces allow independent merchants to sell via Amazon’s site. An Amazon spokeswoman declined to comment further.

Amazon doesn’t provide financial details on Europe, but for 2017 its overall international business saw sales rise 23% to $54.3 billion, and it reported an operating loss of $3.06 billion.

European rivals have so far kept Amazon at bay in clothes and shoes by focusing on adding an increasing number of fashion brands, something they achieve in part by providing those brands with more data on shoppers, industry executives say.

“Major fashion players in Europe of course don’t want to underestimate the threat of Amazon, because Amazon seems to be able to do anything,” said Marguerite Le Rolland, a Euromonitor analyst. “However, our clients still feel relatively safe. They feel [Amazon] hasn’t convinced consumers yet on its fashion credentials.

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Jensen Comment
Two things that make it more difficult for Amazon in Europe relative to the USA might be higher delivery costs and labor unions.  Among other things fuel prices for delivery vans are much higher in Europe.

In the USA Amazon sells a lot of goods imported from around the world (think socks and shirts made in Bangladesh). Eurupe has much higher tariffs on imported goods. Higher tariffs mean higher prices, and higher prices mean less sales volume.


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

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

Crypto Crime Wave:  From stickups and drug deals to white-collar scams, cryptocurrency-related crime is soaring—and law enforcement is scrambling to keep up ---
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-crypto-crime-wave-is-here-1524753366

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

WARREN BUFFETT: Bitcoin is 'probably rat poison squared' ---
http://markets.businessinsider.com/currencies/news/bitcoin-price-warren-buffett-says-probably-rat-poison-squared-2018-5-1023494784

MIT:  Let's Destroy Bitcoin ---
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610809/lets-destroy-bitcoin/

What is Bitcoin, and How Does it Work?
https://www.howtogeek.com/141374/htg-explains-what-is-bitcoin-and-how-does-it-work/

What’s the Difference Between Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Bitcoin Gold, and Others?
https://www.howtogeek.com/349263/whats-the-difference-between-bitcoin-bitcoin-cash-bitcoin-gold-and-others/

MIT:  A Canadian hydropower operation put out the welcome mat for bitcoin miners. Shortly thereafter, it was overrun ---
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610786/bitcoin-is-eating-quebec/

The Dumb Money: The definitive explanation of why Bitcoin is stupid ---
https://jacobinmag.com/2018/04/bitcoin-cryptocurrency-monetary-system

Blockchain is not only crappy technology but a bad vision for the future ---
https://medium.com/@kaistinchcombe/decentralized-and-trustless-crypto-paradise-is-actually-a-medieval-hellhole-c1ca122efdec

MIT:  In Blockchain We Trust ---
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610781/in-blockchain-we-trust/

Everything (well not really everything) You Wanted to Know About Blockchain (But Were Afraid to Ask) ---
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2018/04/03/everything-always-wanted-know-blockchain-afraid-ask/

The rise of blockchain and cryptocurrency uncertainties in the theory as well as the street profession of finance that still is unsure whether cryptocurrencies are really Ponzi schemes ---
Blockchain --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockchain
Cryptocurrency --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptocurrency

Bitcoin --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin
Ethereum --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethereum

This Interactive Simulation Will Teach You How Blockchain Works ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/sc/ibm-blockchain-think-conference-2018-3

IBM told investors that it has over 400 blockchain clients — including Walmart, Visa, and Nestlé ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/ibm-blockchain-enterprise-customers-walmart-visa-nestl-2018-3

A good place to start reading
AICPA:  Blockchain was made to solve one problem and here's what it is ---
http://blog.aicpa.org/2018/02/blockchain-was-made-to-solve-1-problem-heres-what-that-is.html#sthash.NHgU1LDZ.dpbs

Blockchain Is Pumping New Life Into Old-School Companies Like IBM ---
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-26/blockchain-pumping-new-life-into-old-school-companies-like-ibm?cmpid=BBD122617_BIZ&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=171226&utm_campaign=bloombergdaily

Even Congress is jumping on the blockchain bandwagon --- and IBM is urging it on
http://www.businessinsider.com/congressional-hearing-explored-uses-of-blockchains-in-government-2018-2

All at once, it seems, corporate treasury departments are embracing the distributed-ledger technology to manage Foreign Exchange more efficiently, among other reasons ---
http://ww2.cfo.com/cash-management/2018/02/blockchain-suddenly-hot/

Scams & stupidities around 'blockchain stocks' ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/bitcoin-blockchain-stocks-price-moves-2017-12

Knowledge @ Wharton
Blockchain, The Bard and Building More Inclusion in Blockchain ---
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/blockchain-the-bard-and-building-more-inclusion-for-banking/

A soybean shipment to China became the first commodity deal to use blockchain tech ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/energy-and-commodity-companies-use-blockchain-tech-for-trading-2018-1

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

MIT Business of Blockchain 2018 Coverage ---
https://www.technologyreview.com/collection/business-of-blockchain-2018-coverage/

Deloitte’s new blockchain lab in New York anticipating make-or-break year ---
http://www.big4.com/big4-thought-leader-interviews/deloittes-new-blockchain-lab-in-new-york-anticipating-make-or-break-year/

Zorba:  Blockchain ledgers are not accounting ledgers ---
https://zorba-research.blogspot.ca/2018/01/blockchain-ledgers-are-not-accounting.html


How To Automatically Add Citations And Bibliographies To Microsoft Word ---
https://www.howtogeek.com/349774/how-to-automatically-add-citations-and-bibliographies-to-microsoft-word/


USA Weekly Unemployment Claims at Lowest Levels Since 1969 ---
https://www.yahoo.com/amphtml/finance/news/u-weekly-jobless-claims-fall-lowest-level-since-123708205--finance.html?__twitter_impression=true


Researchers have isolated what may be the single most important trait that makes kids successful in school ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/how-kids-learn-curiosity-helps-children-succeed-school-2018-

Jensen Comment
I recall a study in Australia where very young children were placed in front of a pile of toys. In one ethnic group the children trended to flit from toy to toy to toy. In the other group a child tended to focus much longer on one toy. That group did more poorly in school.

But I'm wondering whether this type of curiosity is an important predictor across all childhood ages. It seems to me that among teens ability to concentrate in narrow spaces may be more important to creativity. Its that old comparison of learning more and more about less and less versus learning less and less about more and more. In this context which type of child is more "curious?"


Three Balls of Wool: An Illustrated Celebration of Nonconformity and the Courage to Remake Society’s Givens ---
https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/04/25/three-balls-of-wool/?utm_source=Brain+Pickings&utm_campaign=2da75251ed-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_05_04&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_179ffa2629-2da75251ed-234390133&mc_cid=2da75251ed&mc_eid=4d2bd13843


Theodore Roosevelt on the Cowardice of Cynicism and the Courage to Create Rather Than Criticize ---
https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/04/30/theodore-roosevelt-arena-cynicism-critic/?utm_source=Brain+Pickings&utm_campaign=2da75251ed-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_05_04&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_179ffa2629-2da75251ed-234390133&mc_cid=2da75251ed&mc_eid=4d2bd13843


Why are there 10,000 species of birds, but only 5,000 species of mammals?
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/05/10/the-key-to-everything/
Jensen Comment
When I taught a Freshman Seminar at Trinity University I requested that students discuss some of the lectures of Freeman Dyson

Powers of Ten: Census Edition (data visualization) --- https://jjjiia.github.io/powers/

Nine letters by Freeman Dyson portray his relationship with the Nobel Laureate.Richard Feynman ---
http://nautil.us/issue/59/connections/another-side-of-feynman


Vox:  Energy storage is considered a green technology. But it actually increases carbon emissions ---
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/4/27/17283830/batteries-energy-storage-carbon-emissions

MIT:  This battery advance could make electric vehicles far cheaper ---
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610792/this-battery-advance-could-make-electric-vehicles-far-cheaper/


Forbes:  Why Reverse Mortgages May Not Boost Retirement Income ---
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnwasik/2018/04/27/why-reverse-mortgages-may-not-boost-retirement-income/#7c9c5f831d94

Jensen Comment
I think reverse mortgages should be saved until late into retirement when all other sources of income and living expense reductions are exhausted other than Social Security (that usually is not enough by itself).


Upwards of 35 million (many with high school diplomas) cannot read above a fourth-grade level
Casting Aside Shame And Stigma, Adults Tackle Struggles With Literacy ---
https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/04/26/602797769/casting-aside-shame-and-stigma-adults-tackle-struggles-with-literacy

Jensen Comment
A far greater number (many with college degrees) are financially illiterate
Financial Literacy and Personal Finance ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob1.htm#InvestmentHelpers


NFL legend Michael Irvin says he wants to 'beat that boy up' after seeing what he spent money on the day he was drafted ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/michael-irvin-nfl-draft-gold-chain-2018-4

Ray Williams --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Williams_(basketball)
"Nobody wnats you when you're down and out" --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsrA2fMn0sk&feature=fvst

A Sad, Sad Case That Might Be Used When Teaching Personal Finance:  Another Joe Lewis Example
"Desperate times:  Ex-Celtic Williams, once a top scorer, is now looking for an assist," by Bob Hohler, Boston Globe, July 2, 2010 ---
http://www.boston.com/sports/basketball/celtics/articles/2010/07/02/desperate_times/

Every night at bedtime, former Celtic Ray Williams locks the doors of his home: a broken-down 1992 Buick, rusting on a back street where he ran out of everything.

The 10-year NBA veteran formerly known as “Sugar Ray’’ leans back in the driver’s seat, drapes his legs over the center console, and rests his head on a pillow of tattered towels. He tunes his boom box to gospel music, closes his eyes, and wonders.

Williams, a generation removed from staying in first-class hotels with Larry Bird and Co. in their drive to the 1985 NBA Finals, mostly wonders how much more he can bear. He is not new to poverty, illness, homelessness. Or quiet desperation.

In recent weeks, he has lived on bread and water.

“They say God won’t give you more than you can handle,’’ Williams said in his roadside sedan. “But this is wearing me out.’’

A former top-10 NBA draft pick who once scored 52 points in a game, Williams is a face of big-time basketball’s underclass. As the NBA employs players whose average annual salaries top $5 million, Williams is among scores of retired players for whom the good life vanished not long after the final whistle.

Dozens of NBA retirees, including Williams and his brother, Gus, a two-time All-Star, have sought bankruptcy protection.

“Ray is like many players who invested so much of their lives in basketball,’’ said Mike Glenn, who played 10 years in the NBA, including three with Williams and the New York Knicks. “When the dividends stopped coming, the problems started escalating. It’s a cold reality.’’

Williams, 55 and diabetic, wants the titans of today’s NBA to help take care of him and other retirees who have plenty of time to watch games but no televisions to do so. He needs food, shelter, cash for car repairs, and a job, and he believes the multibillion-dollar league and its players should treat him as if he were a teammate in distress.

One thing Williams especially wants them to know: Unlike many troubled ex-players, he has never fallen prey to drugs, alcohol, or gambling.

“When I played the game, they always talked about loyalty to the team,’’ Williams said. “Well, where’s the loyalty and compassion for ex-players who are hurting? We opened the door for these guys whose salaries are through the roof.’’

Unfortunately for Williams, the NBA-related organizations best suited to help him have closed their checkbooks to him. The NBA Legends Foundation, which awarded him grants totaling more than $10,000 in 1996 and 2004, denied his recent request for help. So did the NBA Retired Players Association, which in the past year gave him two grants totaling $2,000.

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Financial Literacy and Personal Finance ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob1.htm#InvestmentHelpers


Women Say LuLaRoe’s Legging Empire Is a Scam ---
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-04-27/thousands-of-women-say-lularoe-s-legging-empire-is-a-scam?cmpid=BBD042718_BIZ&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=180427&utm_campaign=bloombergdaily


Great Scientific Discoveries That Weren't ---
https://daily.jstor.org/great-scientific-discoveries-that-werent/


Company That Created ‘Drew Cloud,’ the Phony Student-Loan Expert, Says It’s ‘Deeply Sorry’ ---
https://www.chronicle.com/article/Company-That-Created-Drew/243225?cid=wb&utm_source=wb&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=a655591c5144466e9204fcfbb0e9ac9d&elq=35b158d9a6e84686ba1557df7e83caa6&elqaid=18849&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=8491

LendEDU, the student-loan refinancing company that created a fictional expert who was widely quoted by media outlets, has apologized for hiding the fact that it created “Drew Cloud.”

That announcement was posted on the company’s website, the Student Loan Report, on Wednesday morning.

“I want to apologize for a couple things,” wrote Nate Matherson, chief executive of LendEDU, the parent company of the Student Loan Report. “We never disclosed that ‘Drew Cloud’ was a pen name that represented a group of us writing these posts. I really regret that. We are proud of our personal backgrounds and where they have brought us today. We should’ve chosen to be clear about who was authoring the posts. We have made a change on the site, effective immediately, to use each author’s real name for every post. We will also retroactively notate posts by Drew Cloud.”

That statement comes after The Chronicle published an article on Tuesday that revealed Cloud was a fiction, despite having authored numerous reports and spoken to media outlets over email as if he were a real human being.

Cloud recently made headlines for writing a report that suggested that nearly one in five students was investing extra student-loan money in cryptocurrencies. He had published similar surveys in the past that often drew attention.

Before Drew Cloud was scrubbed from the Student Loan Report website, on Monday, he was listed as the site’s founder — complete with an elaborate backstory. He was described as having “a knack for reporting throughout high school and college where he picked up his topics of choice.” There was a photo, too, which Matherson said on Wednesday was one of his friends. “When we pictured what Drew Cloud looked like, we pictured a friend of ours from college, so we used his photo (with his permission) to round out the pen name,” he wrote.

Matherson said in the statement that LendEDU created the character as the main author of the site and to be a “shared pen name through which we could share experiences and information related to the challenges college students face while funding their education.”

He also defended the accuracy of the content and stories on the site, saying, “all of the data we published on The Student Loan Report was vetted, accurate, and licensed from the related polling companies.”

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From the Scout Report on April 27, 2018

xsv (a computer file format) --- https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv#readme
Many organizations make their data available in CSV format (for example, the US Census Bureau, NOAA, and the US Department of Education). Xsv is a tool for quickly performing analysis and filtering on CSV files without first needing to import the data into a database system. It can generate basic statistics like the mean, standard deviation, median, and range for each column in the input file. CSV files can be combined using inner, outer, and cross join operations. They can also be a subset using regular expression searches, select operations on columns, and random sampling. Users can optionally create index files to improve performance. The xsv readme includes a "whirlwind tour" of many of these features using sample files from the Data Science Toolkit. Xsv is free software, dual-licensed under the MIT License and the Unlicense. Source code is available on GitHub. Executables can be downloaded for Windows, macOS, and Linux


jq --- https://stedolan.github.io/jq/
JSON is a lightweight markup language widely used for exchanging and storing structured data. Many websites provide APIs that return JSON data -- GitHub, Google Maps, and Wikidata to name a few. Jq provides a tool for slicing, filtering, mapping, and transforming JSON data similar to the sed, awk, and grep command-line utilities. The jq tutorial uses the GitHub API to produce summary information about recent changes to jq itself.


David Hockney's 82 Portraits and 1 Still-Life Exhibition Opens at LACMA

 

What's It Like to Pose for David Hockney? We Asked the People in His Portraits
https://www.npr.org/2018/04/17/600962098/whats-it-like-to-pose-for-david-hockney-we-asked-the-people-in-his-portraits
 

David Hockney's Fascinating Portrait Subjects Relive the Experience of Sitting for a Legend
http://www.lamag.com/culturefiles/david-hockney-82-portraits

David Hockney thinks you should take a longer look at life
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/david-hockney-thinks-you-should-take-a-longer-look-at-life

David Hockney's "The Road"
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cover-story/cover-story-2018-04-23

David Hockney's Life in Painting: Spare, Exuberant, Full
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/23/arts/design/david-hockney-art-review-metropolitan-museum-of-art.html

David Hockney: Born 1937
http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/david-hockney-1293


From the Scout Report on May 4, 2018

SatCam ---  http://satcam.ssec.wisc.edu/
SatCam is a citizen science smartphone app that helps improve the quality of information derived from satellite data. Users capture observations of sky and ground conditions when a satellite is overhead. This data is then submitted to the Space Science and Engineering Center at the University of Wisconsin - Madison where it is used for quality control. In return for submitting their observations, users receive a copy of the satellite image that was taken at their location. SatCam currently works with the Terra, Aqua, and Suomi NPP satellite networks. Sample submissions can be viewed through the Browse SatCam Records link at the top of the page. SatCam is available for iOS can be downloaded via the App Store


Waterfox --- www.waterfoxproject.org 
Waterfox is a Firefox fork that emphasizes browsing speed, ethical software development, and user privacy while continuing to support the XUL extensions that Firefox dropped in version 57. To protect user privacy, Waterfox maintains a policy of not collecting any data that could be problematic - dropping features like Pocket integration, Telemetry, Sponsored Tiles, and startup profiling. The default search engine for Waterfox is Ecosia rather than Google or Yahoo. Because the Waterfox creators view digital rights management as a user-hostile anti-feature, it does not support Adobe DRM or the W3C's Encrypted Media Extension. Waterfox is free software, licensed under the Mozilla Public License, with source code available on GitHub. Waterfox executables can be downloaded for Windows, macOS, and 64-bit Linux. A mobile version is also available for Android devices.


Sweden Clarifies the Turkish Origins of "Swedish Meatballs"

 

'My whole life has been a lie': Sweden admits meatballs are Turkish
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/03/my-whole-life-has-been-a-lie-sweden-admits-meatballs-are-turkish

Swedish Meatballs Are Turkish? 'My Whole Life Has Been a Lie'
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/02/world/europe/swedish-meatballs-turkey.html

The Turkish Roots of Swedish Meatballs
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/swedish-meatballs-turkey

NPR: Food History
https://www.npr.org/tags/141521435/food-history

The Feast
http://www.thefeastpodcast.org

Gastropod
https://gastropod.com




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


Education Tutorials

ALA: State of America's Libraries Report 2018 --- www.ala.org/news/state-americas-libraries-report-2018

Graphic Medicine (health comics) --- www.graphicmedicine.org

Economix Explained in Comics/Cartoons --- http://economixcomix.com/

Agree or Disagree Math (K-12 teaching) --- www.aodmath.com

School Library Journal: Good Comics for Kids --- http://blogs.slj.com/goodcomicsforkids/

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

In honor of his centennial, the Top 10 Feynman quotations ---
https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/context/top-10-richard-feynman-quotations

The best map of our galaxy ever created shows where we are in relation to 1.7 billion stars ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/map-of-milky-way-galaxy-by-gaia-spacecraft-2018-4

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Images of Jupiter ---
https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/targetFamily/Jupiter

Bob Jensen's threads on astronomy ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2-Part2.htm#---Astronomy

Stephen Hawking’s Final Theory of the Cosmos Now Published & Available Online ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/05/stephen-hawkings-final-theory-of-the-cosmos-now-published-available-online.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Why are there 10,000 species of birds, but only 5,000 species of mammals?
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/05/10/the-key-to-everything/
Jensen Comment
When I taught a Freshman Seminar at Trinity University I requested that students discuss some of the lectures of Freeman Dyson

Nine letters by Freeman Dyson portray his relationship with the Nobel Laureate.Richard Feynman ---
http://nautil.us/issue/59/connections/another-side-of-feynman

The convoluted history of the double-helix ---
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-convoluted-history-double-helix.html

Smithsonian Libraries: Cultivating America's Gardens ---
https://library.si.edu/exhibition/cultivating-americas-gardens

MIT:  Researchers are keeping pig brains alive outside the body ---
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611007/researchers-are-keeping-pig-brains-alive-outside-the-body/

STAT: Boddities for the Classroom (human body videos) --- www.statnews.com/boddities-for-the-classroom

Graphic Medicine (health comics) --- www.graphicmedicine.org

Powers of Ten: Census Edition (data visualization) --- https://jjjiia.github.io/powers/

Purdue OWL: Writing for the Engineering Classroom ---
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/section/3/76

Budburst (Botony) --- www.budburst.org

Satellite image shows eroding Louisiana coastline ---
http://www.nola.com/environment/index.ssf/2018/05/satellite_shows_greening_south_1.html

BHL: Antarctic Exploration and Discovery (Diversity) --- www.biodiversitylibrary.org/browse/collection/85

Hakai Magazine (coastal and ocean science) --- www.hakaimagazine.com

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

Rural Kansas is Dying --- https://newfoodeconomy.org/rural-kansas-depopulation-commodity-agriculture/

BHL: Antarctic Exploration and Discovery (Diversity) --- www.biodiversitylibrary.org/browse/collection/85

School Library Journal: Good Comics for Kids --- http://blogs.slj.com/goodcomicsforkids/

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

Teaching Law & Religion Case Study Archive ---
https://sites.northwestern.edu/lawreligion/

98 Years of Mail Fraud ---
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/05/98-years-of-mail-fraud/559661/

How Criminals Steal $37 Billion a Year from America’s Elderly ---
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-05-03/america-s-elderly-are-losing-37-billion-a-year-to-fraud

Bob Jensen's Fraud Updates ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm

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


Math and Statistics Tutorials

Stanford University on K-12 Learning:  Welcome to the math revolution ---
https://medium.com/stanford-magazine/jo-boaler-transforming-math-education-ddc23ab45158

Seeing Theory: A Visual Introduction to Probability and Statistics ---
https://students.brown.edu/seeing-theory/?vt=4 v

Powers of Ten: Census Edition (data visualization) --- https://jjjiia.github.io/powers/

Visualization of Multivariate Data (including faces) --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/352wpvisual/000datavisualization.htm 

STAT: Boddities for the Classroom (human body videos) --- www.statnews.com/boddities-for-the-classroom

Agree or Disagree Math (K-12 teaching) --- www.aodmath.com

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

Has the Best Art in the World Been Destroyed?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-02/has-the-best-art-in-the-world-been-destroyed

A Cinematic Journey Through Paris, As Seen Through the Lens of Legendary Filmmaker Éric Rohmer: Watch Rohmer in Paris ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/04/a-cinematic-journey-through-paris.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

The convoluted history of the double-helix ---
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-convoluted-history-double-helix.html

Library of Congress: Moving Image Research Center --- www.loc.gov/rr/mopic

ALA: State of America's Libraries Report 2018 --- www.ala.org/news/state-americas-libraries-report-2018

Bob Jensen's threads on the history of moving images and film --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#FilmMoviesTV

A Journey Through Western Tibet (1938) Social --- www.religion.ucsb.edu/tibetjourney1938

The First 100 Years of the Bicycle: A 1915 Documentary Shows How the Bike Went from Its Clunky Birth in 1818, to Its Enduring Design in 1890 ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/05/the-first-100-years-of-the-bicycle.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

University of Alaska-Fairbanks: Project Jukebox (Alaska oral history) ---
http://jukebox.uaf.edu/site7/

Tsarist Russia Comes to Life in Vivid Color Photographs Taken Circa 1905-1915 ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/04/tsarist-russia-comes-to-life-in-vivid-color-photographs-taken-circa-1905-1915.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Aesthetics for Birds (Philosophy & Aesthetics) --- https://aestheticsforbirds.com/

Get the History of the World in 46 Lectures, Courtesy of Columbia University ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/05/get-the-history-of-the-world-in-46-lectures-courtesy-of-columbia-university.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Groundbreaking Map from 1858 Colorfully Visualizes 6,000 Years of World History ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/05/groundbreaking-french-map-from-1858-colorfully-visualizes-6000-years-of-world-history.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

The 16,000 Artworks the Nazis Censored and Labeled “Degenerate Art”: The Complete Historic Inventory Is Now Online ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/05/the-16000-artworks-the-nazis-censored-and-labeled-degenerate-art.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

Logic Matters (philosophy) --- www.logicmatters.net/blogfront

An Archive of 8,000 Benjamin Franklin Papers Now Digitized & Put Online ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/04/huge-trove-of-benjamin-franklin-papers-now-digitized-put-online.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

University of Michigan: Seven Fantasy Classics for Children --- www.lib.umich.edu/online-exhibits/exhibits/show/seven-fantasy-classics

Incunabula: The Art & History of Printing in Western Europe, c. 1450-1500 ---
www.loc.gov/ghe/cascade/index.html?appid=580edae150234258a49a3eeb58d9121c

Google Arts and Culture: Monet Was Here ---
https://artsandculture.google.com/project/monetwashere

Enter an Archive of Over 95,000 Aerial Photographs Taken Over Britain from 1919 to 2006 ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/05/enter-an-archive-of-over-95000-aerial-photographs-taken-over-britain-from-1919-to-2006.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Nine letters by Freeman Dyson portray his relationship with the Nobel Laureate. ---
http://nautil.us/issue/59/connections/another-side-of-feynman

The Haiku Foundation: Education Resources Language --- www.thehaikufoundation.org/the-haiku-foundation-education-wall

LGBT Religious Archives Network (LGBT-RAN) --- www.lgbtran.org

Viennese Modernism 2018 Arts wienermoderne2018.info/en --- https://wienermoderne2018.info/en

Pulp Covers for Classic Detective Novels by Dashiell Hammett, Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie & Raymond Chandler ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/05/pulp-covers-for-classic-detective-novels-by-dashiell-hammett-arthur-conan-doyle-agatha-christie-raymond-chandler.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Teaching Law & Religion Case Study Archive ---
https://sites.northwestern.edu/lawreligion/

The Literary Propaganda Campaign Against Mary, Queen of Scots ---
https://daily.jstor.org/the-literary-propaganda-campaign-against-mary-queen-of-scots/

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

School Library Journal: Good Comics for Kids --- http://blogs.slj.com/goodcomicsforkids/

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


Music Tutorials

 

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

Purdue OWL: Writing for the Engineering Classroom ---
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/section/3/76

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/

 April 26,2018

·  Fetal Immune System May Trigger Premature Birth

·  Can Diabetes Lead to Irregular Periods in Teens?

·  Advil + Tylenol Better Than Opioids for Dental Pain

·  Exercise Your Blues Away

·  Big Decline in Births to Girls Under 15, CDC Says

·  Medical Marijuana May Not Help Your Sleep Apnea

·  Anesthesia Doesn't Seem to Harm Child's IQ: Study

·  New Hope Against Disease That Prematurely Ages Children

·  Kids Are Naturally as Fit as an 'Iron Man'

April 28, 2018

April 30, 2018

May 1, 2018

May 2, 2018

May 3, 2018

May 5, 2018

May 7, 2018

May 8, 2018

May 9, 2018

May 10, 2018

May 11, 2018

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May 15, 2018

May 16, 2018

 


MIT:  Researchers are keeping pig brains alive outside the body ---
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611007/researchers-are-keeping-pig-brains-alive-outside-the-body/


The Pulse (radio show on health and science) --- https://whyy.org/programs/the-pulse


Humor for May 2018

SNL:  Mothers Day Remembrance for the Day You Were Born
http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2018/05/mothers-day-remembrance-the-day-you-were-born.html

Buffett & Munger’s Funniest Moments ---
http://ritholtz.com/2018/05/buffett-mungers-funniest-moments/

Pelican Attacks College Graduation (Video) ---
http://www.1029thebuzz.com/2018/04/29/pelican-attacks-college-graduation-video/

Pun competitions prove that it's possible to elevate these groan-worthy jokes into an art form ---
https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/a15872842/in-defense-of-puns/


Question
How was copper wire invented?

Answer
It happened when two accountants were arguing over a penny.

Probably an old joke among many at my recent birthday celebration.

Bob Jensen's threads on accounting humor ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudEnron.htm#Humor


Forwarded by Paula

Codger Quiz….

Great mental exercise for the “elderly” crowd.  Which of the following names are you familiar with?

1. Monica Lewinsky

2. Spiro Agnew

3. Benito Mussolini

4. Adolf Hitler

5. Jorge Bergoglio

6. Alfonse Capone

7. Vladimir Putin

8. Linda Lovelace

9. Saddam Hussein

10. Tiger Woods

You had trouble with #5, didn't you?

You know all the liars, criminals, adulterers, murderers, thieves, sluts, and cheaters, but you don't know the Pope??

 


Forwarded by Paula

What happens if you get scared half to death twice?

I checked into the Hokey Pokey Clinic, and then turned myself around.

This is my step ladder; I never knew my real ladder.

My wife said I never listen to her or something to that effect.

Frog parking only --- all others will be toad.

If you think eduaction is costly, try ignorence.

Ban shredded cheese to make America grate again.

 




Humor April 2018--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book18q1.htm#Humor0418.htm

Humor March 2018--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book18q1.htm#Humor0318.htm 

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

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 --- Search Site.
For example if you want to know what Jensen documents have the term "Enron" enter the phrase Jensen AND Enron. Another search engine that covers Trinity and other universities is at http://www.searchedu.com/

Online Distance Education Training and Education --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Crossborder.htm
For-Profit Universities Operating in the Gray Zone of Fraud  (College, Inc.) --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/HigherEdControversies.htm#ForProfitFraud

Shielding Against Validity Challenges in Plato's Cave ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/TheoryTAR.htm

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

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

What went wrong in accounting/accountics research?  ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm#WhatWentWrong

The Sad State of Accountancy Doctoral Programs That Do Not Appeal to Most Accountants ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm#DoctoralPrograms

AN ANALYSIS OF THE EVOLUTION OF RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS BY THE ACCOUNTING REVIEW: 1926-2005 ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/395wpTAR/Web/TAR395wp.htm#_msocom_1

Bob Jensen's threads on accounting theory ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm

Tom Lehrer on Mathematical Models and Statistics ---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfZWyUXn3So

Systemic problems of accountancy (especially the vegetable nutrition paradox) that probably will never be solved ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudConclusion.htm#BadNews

 

World Clock --- http://www.peterussell.com/Odds/WorldClock.php
Facts about the earth in real time --- http://www.worldometers.info/

Interesting Online Clock and Calendar --- http://home.tiscali.nl/annejan/swf/timeline.swf
Time by Time Zones --- http://timeticker.com/
Projected Population Growth (it's out of control) --- http://geography.about.com/od/obtainpopulationdata/a/worldpopulation.htm
         Also see http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/P/Populations.html
        
Facts about population growth (video) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMcfrLYDm2U
Projected U.S. Population Growth --- http://www.carryingcapacity.org/projections75.html
Real time meter of the U.S. cost of the war in Iraq --- http://www.costofwar.com/ 
Enter you zip code to get Census Bureau comparisons --- http://zipskinny.com/
Sure wish there'd be a little good news today.

Free (updated) Basic Accounting Textbook --- search for Hoyle at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm#Textbooks

CPA Examination --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cpa_examination
Free CPA Examination Review Course Courtesy of Joe Hoyle --- http://cpareviewforfree.com/

Rick Lillie's education, learning, and technology blog is at http://iaed.wordpress.com/

Accounting News, Blogs, Listservs, and Social Networking ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/AccountingNews.htm

Bob Jensen's Threads --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/threads.htm 
Current and past editions of my newsletter called New Bookmarks --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookurl.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called Tidbits --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called Fraud Updates --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm

Online Books, Poems, References, and Other Literature
In the past I've provided links to various types electronic literature available free on the Web. 
I created a page that summarizes those various links --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm

Some of Bob Jensen's Tutorials

Accounting program news items for colleges are posted at http://www.accountingweb.com/news/college_news.html
Sometimes the news items provide links to teaching resources for accounting educators.
Any college may post a news item.

Accounting  and Taxation News Sites ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/AccountingNews.htm

 

For an elaboration on the reasons you should join a ListServ (usually for free) go to   http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/ListServRoles.htm
AECM (Educators) http://listserv.aaahq.org/cgi-bin/wa.exe?HOME
AECM is an email Listserv list which provides a forum for discussions of all hardware and software which can be useful in any way for accounting education at the college/university level. Hardware includes all platforms and peripherals. Software includes spreadsheets, practice sets, multimedia authoring and presentation packages, data base programs, tax packages, World Wide Web applications, etc.

Over the years the AECM has become the worldwide forum for accounting educators on all issues of accountancy and accounting education, including debates on accounting standards, managerial accounting, careers, fraud, forensic accounting, auditing, doctoral programs, and critical debates on academic (accountics) research, publication, replication, and validity testing.

 

CPAS-L (Practitioners) http://pacioli.loyola.edu/cpas-l/  (Closed Down)
CPAS-L provides a forum for discussions of all aspects of the practice of accounting. It provides an unmoderated environment where issues, questions, comments, ideas, etc. related to accounting can be freely discussed. Members are welcome to take an active role by posting to CPAS-L or an inactive role by just monitoring the list. You qualify for a free subscription if you are either a CPA or a professional accountant in public accounting, private industry, government or education. Others will be denied access.
Yahoo (Practitioners)  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xyztalk
This forum is for CPAs to discuss the activities of the AICPA. This can be anything  from the CPA2BIZ portal to the XYZ initiative or anything else that relates to the AICPA.
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.
Business Valuation Group BusValGroup-subscribe@topica.com 
This discussion group is headed by Randy Schostag [RSchostag@BUSVALGROUP.COM
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
FINANCIAL REPORTING PORTAL
www.financialexecutives.org/blog

Find news highlights from the SEC, FASB and the International Accounting Standards Board on this financial reporting blog from Financial Executives International. The site, updated daily, compiles regulatory news, rulings and statements, comment letters on standards, and hot topics from the Web’s largest business and accounting publications and organizations. Look for continuing coverage of SOX requirements, fair value reporting and the Alternative Minimum Tax, plus emerging issues such as the subprime mortgage crisis, international convergence, and rules for tax return preparers.
The CAlCPA Tax Listserv

September 4, 2008 message from Scott Bonacker [lister@bonackers.com]
Scott has been a long-time contributor to the AECM listserv (he's a techie as well as a practicing CPA)

I found another listserve that is exceptional -

CalCPA maintains http://groups.yahoo.com/taxtalk/  and they let almost anyone join it.
Jim Counts, CPA is moderator.

There are several highly capable people that make frequent answers to tax questions posted there, and the answers are often in depth.

Scott

Scott forwarded the following message from Jim Counts

Yes you may mention info on your listserve about TaxTalk. As part of what you say please say [... any CPA or attorney or a member of the Calif Society of CPAs may join. It is possible to join without having a free Yahoo account but then they will not have access to the files and other items posted.

Once signed in on their Yahoo account go to http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/TaxTalk/ and I believe in top right corner is Join Group. Click on it and answer the few questions and in the comment box say you are a CPA or attorney, whichever you are and I will get the request to join.

Be aware that we run on the average 30 or move emails per day. I encourage people to set up a folder for just the emails from this listserve and then via a rule or filter send them to that folder instead of having them be in your inbox. Thus you can read them when you want and it will not fill up the inbox when you are looking for client emails etc.

We currently have about 830 CPAs and attorneys nationwide but mainly in California.... ]

Please encourage your members to join our listserve.

If any questions let me know.

Jim Counts CPA.CITP CTFA
Hemet, CA
Moderator TaxTalk

 

 

 

 

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