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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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
---
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-portraitsDavid Hockney's Fascinating Portrait Subjects Relive the Experience of Sitting for a Legend
http://www.lamag.com/culturefiles/david-hockney-82-portraitsDavid 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-lifeDavid Hockney's "The Road"
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cover-story/cover-story-2018-04-23David 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.htmlDavid 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/
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 ---
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-portraitsDavid Hockney's Fascinating Portrait Subjects Relive the Experience of Sitting for a Legend
http://www.lamag.com/culturefiles/david-hockney-82-portraitsDavid 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-lifeDavid Hockney's "The Road"
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cover-story/cover-story-2018-04-23David 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.htmlDavid 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-turkishSwedish Meatballs Are Turkish? 'My Whole Life Has Been a Lie'
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/02/world/europe/swedish-meatballs-turkey.htmlThe Turkish Roots of Swedish Meatballs
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/swedish-meatballs-turkeyNPR: Food History
https://www.npr.org/tags/141521435/food-historyThe Feast
http://www.thefeastpodcast.orgGastropod
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
· 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
May 12, 2018
May 14, 2018
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
AECM
(Educators)
http://listserv.aaahq.org/cgi- AECM is an email Listserv list which provides a forum for discussions of all hardware and software which can be useful in any way for accounting education at the college/university level. Hardware includes all platforms and peripherals. Software includes spreadsheets, practice sets, multimedia authoring and presentation packages, data base programs, tax packages, World Wide Web applications, etc.
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Yahoo (Practitioners)
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AccountantsWorld
http://accountantsworld.com/forums/default.asp?scope=1 This site hosts various discussion groups on such topics as accounting software, consulting, financial planning, fixed assets, payroll, human resources, profit on the Internet, and taxation. |
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Business Valuation Group
BusValGroup-subscribe@topica.com This discussion group is headed by Randy Schostag [RSchostag@BUSVALGROUP.COM] |
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FEI's Financial Reporting Blog
Smart Stops on the Web, Journal of Accountancy, March 2008 --- http://www.aicpa.org/pubs/jofa/mar2008/smart_stops.htm
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The CAlCPA Tax Listserv September 4, 2008 message from Scott Bonacker
[lister@bonackers.com]
Scott forwarded the following message from Jim Counts
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Many useful accounting sites (scroll down) --- http://www.iasplus.com/links/links.htm
Bob Jensen's Sort-of Blogs ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/JensenBlogs.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called New
Bookmarks ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookurl.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called
Tidbits ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called Fraud
Updates ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm
Some Accounting History Sites
Bob Jensen's
Accounting History in a Nutshell and Links ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm#AccountingHistory
Accounting
History Libraries at the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) ---
http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/accountancy/libraries.html
The above libraries include international accounting history.
The above libraries include film and video historical collections.
MAAW Knowledge Portal for Management and Accounting ---
http://maaw.info/
Academy of Accounting Historians and the Accounting Historians Journal ---
http://www.accounting.rutgers.edu/raw/aah/
Sage Accounting History ---
http://ach.sagepub.com/cgi/pdf_extract/11/3/269
A nice timeline on the development of U.S. standards and the evolution of
thinking about the income statement versus the balance sheet is provided at:
"The Evolution of U.S. GAAP: The Political Forces Behind Professional
Standards (1930-1973)," by Stephen A. Zeff, CPA Journal, January 2005
---
http://www.nysscpa.org/cpajournal/2005/105/infocus/p18.htm
Part II covering years 1974-2003 published in February 2005 ---
http://www.nysscpa.org/cpajournal/2005/205/index.htm
A nice timeline of accounting history --- http://www.docstoc.com/docs/2187711/A-HISTORY-OF-ACCOUNTING
From Texas
A&M University
Accounting History Outline ---
http://acct.tamu.edu/giroux/history.html
Bob
Jensen's timeline of derivative financial instruments and hedge accounting ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudRotten.htm#DerivativesFrauds
History of
Fraud in America ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/415wp/AmericanHistoryOfFraud.htm
Also see
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Fraud.htm
Bob Jensen's
Threads ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/threads.htm
More of Bob Jensen's Pictures and
Stories
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Pictures.htm
All my online pictures --- http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/PictureHistory/
Professor Robert E. Jensen (Bob)
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen
190 Sunset Hill Road
Sugar Hill, NH 03586
Phone: 603-823-8482
Email:
rjensen@trinity.edu