Tidbits on June 28, 2018
Bob Jensen
at Trinity University
Wes Lavin's 2018 June Part
1 --- Featuring an Old Split Tree in Our Wildflower Field
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Lavin/2018June/2018June.htm
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USA Debt Clock --- http://www.usdebtclock.org/ ubl
Online Video, Slide Shows, and Audio
TED Talk: Prosanta Chakrabarty --- Four billion years of evolution in
six minutes
https://www.ted.com/talks/prosanta_chakrabarty_four_billion_years_of_evolution_in_six_minutes?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2018-06-16&utm_campaign=newsletter_weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_content=talk_of_the_week_image
American Museum of Natural History: AMNH.tv (video modules) --- www.amnh.org/explore/amnh.tv
Indigenous Cinema (Canada) --- www.nfb.ca/indigenous-cinema
Bizarre deep-sea creature washes up on Texas beach, puzzles park rangers ---
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2018/06/19/bizarre-deep-sea-creature-washes-up-on-texas-beach-puzzles-park-rangers.html
MIT BLOSSOMS: Hanging by a Thread (Physics Helpers) --- http://blossoms.mit.edu/videos/lessons/hanging_thread
PBS: Congress passed a law that barred
Chinese immigration to the United States. In addition, the law prevented Chinese
nationals already living in the United States from becoming U.S. citizens. The
Act was not repealed until 1943, following the advent of World War II.---
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/chinese-exclusion-act/#part01
The 100 Greatest YouTube Videos of All Time, Ranked ---
https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/nation/best-youtube-videos-of-all-time
Jensen Comment
These probably say more about the YouTube viewing public than about the videos
in particular. These certainly aren't my favorites, although I've liked
The Evolution of Dance over the years. Susan Boyle's discovery is always a
thrill.
One of my favorites on YouTube is MSNBC using polls predicting a Clinton
landslide in the 2016. Yeah, so much for polling ---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zerWCVpXTr8
This is Rachel Maddow predicting a blowout for Clinton ---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm4_QGJGjPI
I did not vote for Trump and would regret it today if I had ever been a Trump
cheerleader, but I sometimes cheer when overconfidence fails in most any
setting. YouTube has a history of such entertaining videos.
The Inn on Sunset Hill (just down from our cottage) ---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5cqUX0LcbU&t=9s
Free music downloads ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/music.htm
In the past I've provided links to various types of music and video available
free on the Web.
I created a page that summarizes those various links ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/music.htm
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
How to spot a perfect fake: the world’s top art forgery
detective ---
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jun/15/how-to-spot-a-perfect-fake-the-worlds-top-art-forgery-detective
18 abandoned islands around the world and the stories behind
them ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/abandoned-islands-history-2018-6
NASA Solar System Exploration --- https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/
New Archive of Middle Eastern Photography Features 9,000
Digitized Images ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/06/new-archive-middle-eastern-photography-features-9000-digitized-images.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
This $30 million San Francisco mansion, once owned by Vanessa
Getty, is one of the city's most expensive homes ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/san-francisco-mansion-30-million-dollars-vanessa-getty-2018-6
RANKED: 5 Best (And 5 Worst) Fighter Planes In History ---
http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/ranked-5-best-5-worst-fighter-planes-planet-earth-26273
An Illustrated History of the Picnic Table ---
https://placesjournal.org/article/an-illustrated-history-of-the-picnic-table/
Quilt Alliance --- http://quiltalliance.org/
Bigelow-Wallis and Warren- Kaula Teaching Watercolors ---
http://collections.countway.harvard.edu/onview/exhibits/show/bigelow-and-warren-teaching-wa
State Library of Queensland: Discover The Queenslander ---
www.slq.qld.gov.au/showcase/discover-the-queenslander#/mosaic
Disappointing photos show what cruise ships actually look like
in real life ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/cruise-ship-reality-2018-3
A Meditative Look at a Japanese Artisan’s Quest to Save the
Brilliant, Forgotten Colors of Japan’s Past ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/06/meditative-look-japanese-artisans-quest-save-brilliant-forgotten-colors-japans-past.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Bizarre deep-sea creature washes up on Texas beach, puzzles park
rangers ---
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2018/06/19/bizarre-deep-sea-creature-washes-up-on-texas-beach-puzzles-park-rangers.html
5,000 year-old stone balls continue to baffle archaeologists ---
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2018/06/18/5000-year-old-stone-balls-continue-to-baffle-archaeologists.html
The 10 Most Intense Battles in US History ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/most-intense-battles-in-us-history-2018-5
NASA reveals stunning images of Jupiter taken by the Juno
spacecraft ---
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/nasa-reveals-stunning-images-of-jupiter-taken-by-the-juno-spacecraft-a3871271.html
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
James Joyce’s Crayon Covered Manuscript Pages for Ulysses and Finnegans Wake
---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/06/james-joyces-crayon-covered-manuscript-pages-ulysses-finnegans-wake.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Little House On The Controversy: Laura Ingalls
Wilder's Name Removed From Book Award ---
https://www.npr.org/2018/06/25/623184440/little-house-on-the-controversy-laura-ingalls-wilders-name-removed-from-book-awa
Bob Jensen's threads on banned books ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm#Banned
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
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Another Tidbits Document
Political Quotations on June 28, 2018
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/2018/TidbitsQuotations062818.htm
USA Debt Clock --- http://www.usdebtclock.org/ ubl
To Whom Does the USA Federal Government Owe Money (the booked
obligation of $19+ trillion) ---
http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/politicalcalculations/2016/05/25/spring-2016-to-whom-does-the-us-government-owe-money-n2168161?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl
The US Debt Clock in Real Time ---
http://www.usdebtclock.org/
Remember the Jane Fonda Movie called "Rollover" ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollover_(film)
To Whom Does the USA Federal Government Owe Money (the
unbooked obligation of $100 trillion and unknown more in contracted
entitlements) ---
http://money.cnn.com/2013/01/15/news/economy/entitlement-benefits/
The biggest worry of the entitlements obligations is enormous obligation for the
future under the Medicare and Medicaid programs that are now deemed totally
unsustainable ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Entitlements.htm
Entitlements are two-thirds of the federal budget.
Entitlement spending has grown 100-fold over the past 50 years. Half of all
American households now rely on government handouts. When we hear statistics
like that, most of us shake our heads and mutter some sort of expletive. That’s
because nobody thinks they’re the problem. Nobody ever wants to think they’re
the problem. But that’s not the truth. The truth is, as long as we continue to
think of the rising entitlement culture in America as someone else’s problem,
someone else’s fault, we’ll never truly understand it and we’ll have absolutely
zero chance...
Steve Tobak ---
http://www.foxbusiness.com/business-leaders/2013/02/07/truth-behind-our-entitlement-culture/?intcmp=sem_outloud
"These Slides Show Why We Have Such A Huge Budget Deficit And Why Taxes
Need To Go Up," by Rob Wile, Business Insider, April 27, 2013 ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/cbo-presentation-on-the-federal-budget-2013-4
This is a slide show based on a presentation by a Harvard Economics Professor.
Peter G. Peterson Website on Deficit/Debt Solutions ---
http://www.pgpf.org/
Bob Jensen's threads on entitlements --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Entitlements.htm
Bob Jensen's health care messaging updates --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Health.htm
Why Isn't Personal Finance Taught (Required) in the Public School System
(and college)?
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/06/why_isnt_personal_finance_taught_in_the_public_school_system.html
Jensen Comment
Ignorance of personal finance leads to many (most?) divorces, vulnerability to
scams, and inability to finance college for children and retirement for the
elderly.
Bob Jensen's personal finance helpers ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob1.htm#InvestmentHelpers
IBM's Project Debater --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Debater
NBC News: New IBM robot holds its own in a debate with a human ---
https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/tech/new-ibm-robot-holds-its-own-debate-human-ncna884536
Project Debater gets its knowledge from hundreds of millions of journal articles, but humans still have one key advantage.
The human brain may be the ultimate super computer, but artificial intelligence is catching up so fast that it can now hold a substantive debate with a human.
IBM’s Project Debater made its public debut in San Francisco Monday afternoon, where it squared off against Noa Ovadia, the 2016 Israeli debate champion, and in a second debate against Dan Zafrir, a nationally renowned debater in Israel. The new AI system is the latest grand challenge from IBM, which previously created Deep Blue, the program that beat chess champion Garry Kasparov, and Watson, which bested humans on the game show Jeopardy.
In its first public outing, Project Debater turned out to be a formidable opponent, scanning the hundreds of millions of newspaper and journal articles in its memory to quickly synthesize an argument on a topic and position it was assigned on the spot. The skinny, black, rectangular screen stands about five and a half feet tall, putting it around the same height as a human opponent.
“Project Debater could be the ultimate fact-based sounding board without the bias that often comes from humans,” said Arvind Krishna, director of IBM Research.
An audience survey taken before and after each debate found that Project Debater better enriched the audience’s knowledge as it argued in favor of subsidies for space exploration and in favor of telemedicine, but that the human debaters did a better job delivering their speeches.
This comes from Project Debater’s ability to “dive into a lot of data very quickly and gather information and numbers we don’t have access to quickly,” said Ranit Aharonov, manager of the Project Debater team in Haifa, Israel.
Project Debater looks for sentences and clauses in journals that are relevant to the topic and determines what the potential clashes could be around the topic, according to Aharonov. It then listens and thinks — an act illustrated by three dancing circles on its screen — before it prepares to deliver its counterpoints.
The AI isn’t trained on topics — it’s trained on the art of debate. For the most part, Project Debater spoke in natural language, choosing the same words and sentence structures as a native English speaker. It even dropped the odd joke, but with the expected robotic delivery.
When arguing in support of telemedicine, Project Debater said: “I can’t say it makes my blood boil because I have no blood,” and then launched into a passionate defense of technological advances.
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The Encyclopedia of Women Philosophers: A New Web Site Presents the
Contributions of Women Philosophers, from Ancient to Modern ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/06/the-encyclopedia-of-women-philosophers.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy --- https://plato.stanford.edu/contents.html
Epidemic ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidemic
The Atlantic: The epidemics of the early 21st century revealed a world
unprepared, even as the risks continue to multiply. Much worse is coming.---
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/07/when-the-next-plague-hits/561734/
The New York Review of Books: The Bugs Are Coming --- |
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/06/28/superbugs-are-winning-antibiotics/
Famine seems to be the last, the most dreadful
resource of nature. The power of population is so superior to the power of the
earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or
other visit the human race. The vices of mankind are active and able ministers
of depopulation. They are the precursors in the great army of destruction, and
often finish the dreadful work themselves. But should they fail in this war of
extermination, sickly seasons, epidemics, pestilence, and
plague advance in terrific
array, and sweep off their thousands and tens of thousands. Should success be
still incomplete, gigantic inevitable famine stalks in the rear, and with one
mighty blow levels the population with the food of the world. —
Thomas Malthus, 1798. An Essay on the Principle of Population.
Chapter VII, p. 61[
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malthusian_catastrophe#Thomas_Malthus
Jensen Comment
Famine, in turn, is heavily the result of draught such as the climate change
that turned much of lush North Africa into a desert. Now it's the turn of South
Africa as
Johannesburg runs out of water.
AICPA report: Seniors increasingly targeted for investment fraud ---
https://www.journalofaccountancy.com/news/2018/jun/aicpa-report-seniors-targeted-investment-fraud-201819138.html?utm_source=mnl:cpald&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=21Jun2018
Instagram --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instagram
Facebook Paid $1 billion for Instagram; Now it could be worth $100 Billion
---
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-25/value-of-facebook-s-instagram-estimated-to-top-100-billion?cmpid=BBD062618_BIZ&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=180626&utm_campaign=bloombergdaily
Chronicle of Higher Education: An
Ultra-Selective University Just Dropped the ACT/SAT Requirement. So What? ---
https://www.chronicle.com/article/An-Ultra-Selective-University/243678?cid=db&elqTrackId=f9d9811b0e8a4e53af57d6ffb303f168&elq=98ab6348bf8d4ee08299163900b8d5ef&elqaid=19458&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=8907
Jensen Comment
Dropping the requirement in some ways is worse. Applicants with soaring ACT/SAT
scores will still enhance their application forms just as minorities enhance
their application forms by revealing race/ethnicity. The
implication is that if race/ethnicity is not revealed the applicant is
either white or (worse) Asian. The implication is
that if an applicant does not reveal the ACT/SAT score the applicant would've
otherwise had to reveal a lousy score.
There are lots of ways to admit applicants from poor families, and I view this is a lousy way of getting the job done in an era where virtually all applicants had A-grade averages in high school.
Chicago, Stanford, and the Ivy League universities years ago gave up largely on high school grades and ACT/SAT test scores unless those scores were outliers (high or low). Those elitist universities rely on evidence of outstanding extracurricular achievements in music, sports, theatre, and public service in addition to having family philanthropic donors as alumni of the university. It helps to have celebrity parents which probably played a big role when admitting Chelsea Clinton to Stanford.
Chicago, Stanford, the Ivy League, and most other wealthy universities now offer free tuition, room, and board to all low income and even lower middle class income (from families earning less than $125,000 annually) students who are admitted. The problem is that there are far more lower income applicants than those universities can afford assuming that admitting a poor student for free means baring a qualified applicant who can pay $100,000 per year for tuition, room, and board.
The Psychology of Money --- http://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/the-psychology-of-money/
The Biggest Digital Heist in History: Isn’t Over Yet Carbanak’s
suspected ringleader is under arrest, but $1.2 billion remains missing, and his
malware attacks live on ---
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-06-25/the-biggest-digital-heist-in-history-isn-t-over-yet?cmpid=BBD062518_BIZ&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=180625&utm_campaign=bloombergdaily
Bob Jensen's Fraud Updates ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm
What did Max Weber mean by the "spirit of capitalism?"
https://aeon.co/ideas/what-did-max-weber-mean-by-the-spirit-of-capitalism?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=9fe66d9984-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_06_14_12_53&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-9fe66d9984-68951505
Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes Charged With Wire Fraud ---
Click Here
Theranos Inc. founder Elizabeth Holmes, who reigned briefly as the world’s youngest female self-made billionaire over her promise to revolutionize blood testing, was criminally charged with defrauding investors along with the company’s former president.
The indictment announced Friday by the U.S. Attorney in San Francisco alleging wire fraud follows claims by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that Theranos, Holmes and the company’s ex-president, Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, lied about their technology while raising more than $700 million to build the medical-testing startup.
The indictment came out moments after Theranos said Holmes would be stepping down from the blood-testing company that has unraveled amid revelations that her main product was a fraud.
After the testing device that Holmes claimed would be able run hundreds of medical tests on a single drop of blood was shown not to work, Holmes was barred from running a clinical company by U.S. regulators and was sued by investors, and the company let go many of its employees.
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June 16, 2018 reply from Denny Beresford
Bob,
The recent book, “Bad Blood,” details the Theranos story and is a fascinating read. Based solely on that book, the charges against Holmes and her colleague/lover Sunny seem well deserved. I highly recommend the book.
Denny
Bob Jensen's Fraud Updates --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm
Blockchain --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockchain
Cryptocurrency --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptocurrency
Inside the Crypto World's Biggest Scandal --- https://www.wired.com/story/tezos-blockchain-love-story-horror-story/
No Plan is Truly Unlimited: Here's how the
'unlimited' plans from Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile compared ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/unlimited-plans-comparison-verizon-att-sprint-tmobile-2018-2
My Hero Jimmy Wales --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Wales
Meme --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme
Europe hates memes: Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and other critics say EU
copyright reform laws will do more harm than good ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/eu-copyright-vote-reformed-rules-online-platforms-wednesday-2018-6
Big Tech Predictions for 2018 ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/35-big-tech-predictions-for-2018-2018-1
Argentina has shanghaied the IMF once again ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/argentina-has-shanghaied-the-imf-once-again-2018-6
Bob Jensen's Fraud Updates --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm
The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics Pioneer Norbert Wiener on
Communication, Control, and the Morality of Our Machines ---
https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/06/15/the-human-use-of-human-beings-norbert-wiener/?mc_cid=73df211c80&mc_eid=4d2bd13843
Harvard: The Death of Supply Chain Management ---
https://hbr.org/2018/06/the-death-of-supply-chain-management?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter_weekly&utm_campaign=weeklyhotlist_not_activesubs&referral=00202&deliveryName=DM7738
Jensen Comment
Darn --- just when Walmart commenced to pay for college majors in this
discipline
Walmart’s too-good-to-be-true “$1 a day” college tuition
plan, explained ---
https://www.vox.com/2018/6/1/17413326/walmart-college-tuition-worker-pay-unemployment
If headlines this week like “Walmart’s perk for workers: Go to college for $1 a day” (CNN) or “Walmart to offer employees a college education for $1 a day” (Washington Post) sound too good to be true, that’s because they largely are. The benefit is real, but it is much more restrictive than those headlines suggest. It’s essentially a bulk purchasing discount for a narrow range of online college courses.
It’s also a telling benefit on a number of levels. The labor market is getting stronger, and employers are needing to think harder about how to invest in recruiting and retaining employees. But the old-fashioned strategy of paying more continues to be something corporate America resists, in part out of habit and in part because offering higher wages is a little more complicated than it looks. Companies like Walmart are, in essence, trying to get creative with their compensation packages in hopes of narrowly targeting the money they expend on the core goal of recruiting and retaining desirable workers.
The question is whether policymakers will keep unemployment low long enough to break through the wall of resistance to across-the-board pay hikes and force big companies to finally just raise pay.
Walmart’s actual tuition plan, explained
The Walmart program is limited to online degree programs offered by three schools — the University of Florida, Brandman University, and Bellevue University — and specifically focused on bachelor’s or associate degrees in either business or supply chain management.
You won’t, in other words, be able to do part-time shifts at Walmart to “pay your way through college” in the traditional sense.
But qualifying Walmart employees (including both full-time and part-time workers who’ve been with the company for 90 days) will get discounted tuition, books, and access to a coach who will help them decide on an appropriate program and shepherd them through the application processIt’s a nice opportunity for Walmart employees to gain a chance at upward mobility off the retail floor, and that’s likely the point. Unlike higher cash wages (which of course can be used for online college tuition as well as rent, gasoline, movie tickets, medical expenses, etc.), the tuition benefit is likely to be disproportionately appealing to people who are on the more ambitious end of the distribution. It’s an effort, in other words, to make Walmart more attractive specifically to the most appealing set of potential workers, a strategy other companies have pursued in recent years.
Many large employers are trying tuition benefits
Modest tuition programs have long been a staple of large employer benefits packages largely because of favorable tax treatment. The IRS allows employers to give employees several thousand dollars’ worth of tuition benefits tax-free, which makes establishing a program something of a no-brainer for most companies big enough to be employing a large back-office staff anyway.
But four years ago, Starbucks blazed the trail of offering a much more ambitious reimbursement program that essentially offered taxable tuition subsidies rather than taxable wage increases.
The reason: Academic research shows that workers who are interested in tuition subsidies are different from workers who are not. While everyone likes money, Peter Cappelli’s 2002 research indicates that the workers who like tuition subsidies are more productive than those who don’t, and Colleen Manchester’s 2012 research shows that subsidy-using employees have longer time horizons and are less likely to switch jobs.
In March of this year, a consortium of big US hotels launched a generous tuition discount program, and later that month, McDonald’s substantially enhanced its tuition benefits. Kroger — another top five US employer — rolled out a new tuition program in April, and Chick-fil-A expanded its program in May.
These initiatives differ in detail, but the broad story is the same. The unemployment rate is now low, so recruiting new staff is getting harder. Companies are looking to enhance their compensation but would like to do so in targeted ways.
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Spurious Correlation ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spurious_relationship
Jensen Coimment
Confounding variables in
spurious correlations
have varying
degrees of ambiguity. For example, Yates' discovery of correlation of Danish
birthrates with the number of stork nests in Denmark probably has some
confounding factors, but the confounding relationships are quite ambiguous. On
the other hand, correlations of ice cream sales and swimming pool drowning
deaths are more directly related to increased number of people (especially young
children) swimming on hotter days.
We know how newborns are delivered, and this does not entail delivery by storks. However, there can be confounding variables that lead to Yates' classic example of spurious correlation. For example, Danish birth rates may be more closely related to the prosperity that comes with increased weekly rainfall. Likewise, the number of stork nests in Denmark may also be related to increased food supply resulting from increased weekly rainfall.
Causal inference can become quite complicated.
Causal Inference --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causal_inference
Causal Inference With Observational Data:
Econometrics Blog Post by David Giles ---
http://davegiles.blogspot.com/2018/06/shout-out-for-marc-bellemare.html
Shout-Out for Marc Bellemare
If you don't follow Marc Bellemare's blog (shame on you - you should!), then you may not have caught up with his recent posts relating to his series of lectures on "Advanced Econometrics - Causal Inference With Observational Data" at the University of Copenhagen in May of this year.
Marc is keeping us all on tenterhooks by "releasing" the slides for these lectures progressively - smart move!
So far, the first four of the eight lectures in the series are available for downloading:
· Lecture 1: Introduction
· Lecture 2: Causality
· Lecture 3: Instrumental Variables
· Lecture 4: Panel Data & Differences-in-Differences
I'm looking forward to seeing the rest of these terrific lectures.
Scientific American: Web Searches Reveal (in Aggregate) What We’re
Really Thinking ---
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/web-searches-reveal-in-aggregate-what-were-really-thinking/
Jensen Comment
The "in aggregate" qualifier is important since anecdotal data for particular
individuals can be especially misleading. And even "in aggregate" search
outcomes may also be misleading. For example, what does it really tell us to
learn (hypothetically speaking today) that nearly half the clergy (including
priests) do a huge amount of searching of the Dark Web? This does not in and of
itself tell us what they're "really thinking." Conversely, if we discover that
over half the male bureaucrats versus female bureaucrats on the job spend over
half of every working week at porn sites it may tell us more about that these
addicts are "really thinking."
For my three blogs I spend hours each day searching all over the Web. Since the thousands of sites visited often are so many and varied I doubt that anybody can learn what I'm "really thinking" other than that I must be search for a variety of really interesting links to share with my readers..
An author might spend thousands of hours at literature sites. That author may be studying the crafts of other authors to help his or her own writing. Then again that author might simply be looking for passages that can be cleverly plagiarized.
How to Mislead With Statistics
College Majors With the Highest and Lowest Unemployment ---
https://247wallst.com/special-report/2018/06/14/college-majors-with-the-highest-unemployment/?utm_source=247WallStDailyNewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=JUN152018A&utm_campaign=DailyNewsletter
Jensen Comment
These types of rankings can be misleading for various reasons. For example,
majors in zoology have relatively high employment percentages. But this is
misleading because there are so few majors in zoology, giving rise to a small
denominator. In comparison psychology majors have relatively low employment
percentages, but this is in part to having such a large denominator.
Many of the majors with high employment percentages are often employed in dead end jobs in the sense that there are few advancement opportunities. For example, physical therapists and computer programmers can usually find work but chances are that they will be doing the same thing in year 20 that they did in year 1 without much change in compensation other than inflation adjustments.
Some jobs currently with high employment rates (think nuclear engineering) have poor long-term prospects such as the bleak future of nuclear energy plants.
Beware of the highest paying jobs right after graduation. These often entail living on sales commissions such as selling stocks and bonds on Wall Street. This is not so great year after year.
Some jobs with high employment rates also have high burn out rates such as special needs teachers. This is a tough career year after year in spite of the wonderful services provided. Many such teachers long to return to general education.
Choosing a major should be taken much more seriously than many students do take such a decision in the first two years of college. For example, one of the things to consider is how the job differs early on versus years later. Sometimes no change is a great thing. For instance, I loved the fact that I was doing pretty much the same thing in the last ten years of my college faculty career than I did in the first ten years as a professor. It was a tremendous career choice for me. On the other hand, if I was a tax accountant doing the same things at the end of my career as I did early on I might not have been so happy with all the intervening years of "same old same old."
I've mentioned before that the great ophthalmologist who gave me implants to correct my cataracts admitted to me that he's awfully bored with his life doing pretty much the same thing year in and year out. He's now in an online MBA program and is considering a career change. The general surgeon who performed both wife's gall bladder surgery burned out before 50 years of age, stopped performing surgeries, and went into drug counseling. He says he mainly grew bored and exhausted from doing stressful surgeries week in and week out.
We have a close friend at church who retired early from teaching the third grade for 32 years. He says he just wore out living this routine and was too old to track into something else like school administration. He was, by the way, a very popular teacher all those 32 years and often encountered parents who were his former students.
Military is often a better career than young people think when they are making career choices. Not far from where I live is a retired Coast Guard search and rescue helicopter pilot. He says this was a great, albeit stressful, career for 24 years. But he said he was growing tired of this life, and the military retirement deal (lifetime pension and family medical insurance) made it extremely opportunistic to change careers in the middle of his life. He and his family moved into Sugar Hill from Oregon. He's now got the freedom to try writing fiction while his wife has a good income at home as an online editor for the Booz Allen consulting firm. There aren't too many careers other than military that let you fully retire half way in life with a lifetime pension and full medical coverage (including long-term nursing care) for the remainder of your life.
The stunningly lopsided growth of US wind power,
in 4 maps ---
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/5/2/17290880/wind-power-renewable-energy-maps
Jensen Question
While some European nations are now heavily dotted with coastal wind turbines
(think Denmark and Holland) why is the West Coast of the USA so reluctant
to utilize wind power?
None of Us Understands Probability ---
https://www.rcmalternatives.com/2018/06/none-of-us-understand-probability/
Jensen threads on mathematics, probability, and statistics
---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#050421Mathematics
The Bats Help Preserve Old Books But They Drive Librarians, Well, Batty
--- |
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-bats-help-preserve-old-books-but-they-drive-librarians-well-batty-1529251660
Jensen Comment
During my 24 years at Trinity University my office was on the third floor of
Chapman Hall. Some years back roofers did some repairs that that trapped bats in
the building. I don't think anybody in Chapman even knew we had bats living
somewhere in the top of the building. Suddenly we had bats flying up and down
the halls on all floors of the building. I don't want to make this seem like
there were lots of bats, but there were a few bats --- enough to frighten most
of us in the building. This was summer when there's daylight in the early
morning. I always arrived for work very early in the morning to beat the traffic
and to get treasured parking in a parking garage (to keep the hot sun off the
car). One morning there was a strange lump on a bulletin board outside my
office. It was a bat sleeping upside down on that bulletin board. It seemed to
be comatose while hanging upside down. It was totally oblivious to my presence
even with my curious hand within inches of where it slept. Two campus police
officers later arrived with a small net. The bat did not awaken until brushed
from the bulletin board to the net.
I was told that San Antonio has more nearby bats than all the other states in the USA combined. Some people would go into the countryside to watch millions of bats coming out of caves clouding the sky.
San Antonio also has small critters like skunks, opossums, raccoons, snakes, and armadillos in all neighborhoods. One day I returned from class to find that the campus police had blocked off some of the Chapman hallways in an attempt to herd a skunk outdoors.
One summer I found a beautiful snake skin in our back yard. To get a rise out of Erika I left the skin on top of some shoes in her closet. It worked!
Some neighborhoods like mine also have occasional deer and ducks up from the banks of a creek. One of our neighbor's cats named Lucky spent most of his life in our yard --- possibly because he wanted more individualized attention. One night Lucky was beside me on our patio when a skunk literally walked across my feet to get to the cat's dish. Both lucky and I sat very still. The cat seemed to know it's best not to go after a skunk.
The funniest sights on occasion were the big Mexican ducks that would sit in
our live-oak trees. In most parts of the USA people don't see web-footed ducks
roosting in trees. Once we had a mother and her ducklings who wanted to live in
our swimming pool. She would waddle up to the back door with her biddies and beg
for handouts ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_duck
A Bill Gates-backed edible coating makes avocados last twice as long — and
it's coming to Costco ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/costco-bill-gates-apeel-sciences-avocado-2018-6
How a down-and-out broker (barred the SEC) got University
of Michigan to invest $95M ---
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2018/06/22/university-michigan-donor-endowment-broker/656708002/?elqTrackId=b7543be756424b44bf5cb3e5cdb901bf&elq=76805e13f022453e8eab87909764d463&elqaid=19566&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=8986
A former pension manager barred by the Securities and Exchange Commission helped convince his former colleague — the man who oversees the University of Michigan's endowment — to pour nearly $100 million into funds he represented.
U-M's entanglement with the unregistered broker, which has not previously been reported, is seen by some critics as an example of what has long worried the university's watchdogs: a lack of sufficient oversight and robust due diligence to avoid conflicts of interest at one of the nation's largest college endowments.
Among the broker's problems: a high-profile, federal criminal trial in which he was acquitted and a banishment by the SEC on accusations of associating with a kickback scheme.
"This goes beyond the pale," said Richard Vedder, an economics professor emeritus at Ohio University who has studied the management of college endowments. "Why would a university even think of dealing with someone like that?"
Timothy Keating, the head of a Colorado-based investment firm who also writes about endowment performance, said the due diligence requirement for U-M "is absolute and complete, meaning they have total responsibility for completing due diligence on the fund or anyone representing the fund.”
“This is a tawdry area that has been ripe for misdeeds,” especially for kickbacks and quid pro quo arrangements, Keating added.
In this case, the SEC did not suggest those types of misdeeds happened at U-M and no criminal charges were brought. Instead, the civil case involved two former colleagues who had known each other for more than two decades.
More: University of Michigan pours billions into funds run by contributors’ firms
More: Auditors probed U-M's endowment years ago. Then delay, delay, delay.
More: How Stephen M. Ross' gift to the University of Michigan ended up in tax court
Longtime industry veteran William M. Stephens, who oversaw more than $20 billion in employee pension holdings at the telecommunications giant Ameritech Corp., was in the midst of trying to restore his reputation in the investment industry. One of Stephens' former employees, L. Erik Lundberg, had moved on to run his own office at U-M and its now-$11-billion endowment. Stephens in a recent interview claimed credit for getting Lundberg his U-M position.
Starting in March 2008, Stephens was seeking investors on behalf of a real estate fund and reached out to Lundberg and his staff at the university, SEC documents show. U-M officially signed on to the private equity fund in June of that year, according to records. Another U-M investment shepherded by Stephens followed two years later with a related fund. In total, the university invested $95 million and, as a result, Stephens earned nearly $1 million in commissions.
Federal regulators, however, uncovered a substantial problem.
SEC investigators concluded that Stephens had been acting improperly as an unregistered broker. In addition, he had already been banished in 2002 by the SEC from working for any registered investment adviser on accusations of engaging — at least on the periphery — in a union kickback scheme.
After the U-M investments, in 2013, the commission sanctioned Stephens again, barring him from a much broader swath of the investment industry. Federal regulators also fined the firm Stephens represented hundreds of thousands of dollars, as well as the firm's partner, who oversaw Stephens.
U-M's involvement may have been preventable because Stephens' checkered past could have been easily discovered, according to a person familiar with operations of the U-M investment office. "Erik had been meeting privately with Bill Stephens," said this person, who spoke anonymously for fear of professional repercussions. "It was as simple as doing a Google search. Other people in the office knew, but Erik didn’t want all the normal due diligence done. The regents were never told about Stephens.”
U-M officials said in a statement they acted appropriately and the SEC took no action against the university. Officials did not answer questions from the Free Press about whether Lundberg had disclosed to top U-M officials and the regents his prior relationship with Stephens and Stephens' history with the SEC.
Stephens, in an interview, maintained he did nothing improper in soliciting the U-M investments. He settled his case with the SEC, but in the agreement, he did not admit guilt.
Inside Higher Ed: Intellectual Affairs Reviews ---
http://www.insidehighered.com/views/intellectual-affairs?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=c257c4569f-WNU_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-c257c4569f-197565045&mc_cid=c257c4569f&mc_eid=1e78f7c952
Recently added to the list:
Review of Alex de Waal, 'Mass Starvation: The History and Future of Famine'
June 22, 2018
Scott McLemee reviews Alex de Waal's Mass Starvation: The History and Future of Famine.
Review of Michael Ohl, "The Art of Naming"
June 15, 2018
Scott McLemee reviews Michael Ohl’s The Art of Naming, which explores some of the one million animal species that have been identified.
Review of Leo R. Chavez, 'Anchor Babies and Birthright Citizenship'
June 8, 2018
Scott McLemee considers Leo R. Chavez's Anchor Babies and The Challenge of Birthright Citizenship, which makes clear how little has been added to the stock of anti-immigrant rhetoric over the past century.
Essay on 'Theses on Theory and History'
June 1, 2018
Reading "Theses on Theory and History" -- a manifesto decrying the state of history as a discipline -- left Scott McLemee feeling, in Yogi Berra's haunting words, "déjà vu all over again."
Review (continued) of Amy Werbel, "Lust on Trial: Censorship and the Rise of American Obscenity in the Age of Anthony Comstock"
May 25, 2018
Scott McLemee on a surprising aspect of Amy Werbel's Lust on Trial: Censorship and the Rise of American Obscenity in the Age of Anthony Comstock.
May 18, 2018
The struggle between piety and libido in the age of mechanical reproduction is at the core of Amy Werbel's Lust on Trial: Censorship and the Rise of American Obscenity in the Age of Anthony Comstock, writes Scott McLemee.
Cornell University Press and pay-what-you-want pricing (opinion)
May 11, 2018
Scott McLemee explores a few -- perhaps somewhat surprising -- new pricing models for books and journals.
May 4, 2018
Scott McLemee explores the connections between various books forthcoming from scholarly presses.
Review of Alasdair Roberts, 'Can Government Do Anything Right?'
April 20, 2018
Scott McLemee reviews Can Government Do Anything Right? by Alasdair Roberts.
Review of Robert Irwin’s ‘Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography’
April 13, 2018
Scott McLemee considers Robert Irwin’s Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography.
Continued at Website
From the Scout Report on June 8, 2018
Tropy Arts (photograph management) --- https://tropy.org/
Tropy is a photo library management tool designed with researchers in mind. It provides features for group photos in documents (e.g., for scanned images of multi-page works), to annotate or transcribe photos, add custom tags to photos, and more. Users can then use annotations, tags, and transcriptions to search their photo library and quickly find items of interest. In addition, Tropy can export data in JSON-LD format, or even into the Omeka S digital exhibition software. The Tropy website promises that users will be able to "spend more time using your research photos, and less time searching for them." The documentation section on the Tropy website provides a getting started guide and a number of suggested workflows for utilizing the software. Tropy is available for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Tropy is free software, licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License, with source code available on GitHub.
q - Text as Data Science --- http://harelba.github.io/q/
q is a command-line utility that allows users to execute SQL queries in tabular format text files (CSV, TSV, and other such formats). Users wanting to accomplish this task without a tool like q would typically need to load the CSV data into database software of some kind. The examples section on the q website provides an analysis of website click-count data and an analysis of file sizes to determine the owner using the most disk space. Users less familiar with SQL syntax may find the more detailed tutorial section useful. q requires Python 2.5 or higher and can run on any platform where Python runs. Python 3 is not yet supported. Installers are available for Windows and Linux. q is free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License v3, with source code available on GitHub
New Study Reveals Hurricanes Have Slowed Down Over the Past 70 Years
Hurricanes Are Lingering Longer. The Makes Them More Dangerous
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/06/climate/slow-hurricanes.htmlHurricanes Are Moving More Slowly, Which Means More Damage
https://www.npr.org/2018/06/06/616814022/hurricanes-are-moving-more-slowly-which-means-more-damageHurricanes Are Moving Slower-And That's a Huge Problem
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/06/hurricanes-cyclones-move-slower-drop-more-rain-climate-change-science/?beta=trueA global slowdown of tropical-cyclone translation speed
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0158-3How do hurricanes form?
https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/hurricanes/enHurricane and Tropical Cyclones: Hurricane Archive
https://www.wunderground.com/hurricane/hurrarchive.asp
From the Scout Report on June 22, 2018
ANKI --- https://apps.ankiweb.net/
Anki is an intelligent flashcard system designed to help users quickly learn new information. Cards can contain nearly anything, including audio, video, images, text, and LaTeX formatted scientific markup. Anki schedules cards for review using the SuperMemo spaced repetition algorithm, which is based on academic research on learning and retention. The Anki website suggests a few sample uses, from learning new languages to practicing guitar chords. Roger Craig used Anki to prepare for his 2010 appearance on the quiz show Jeopardy! in which he set the record for highest single-day winnings. By using the AnkiWeb service, users can synchronize sets of flashcards and their learning statistics across all their devices. Anki can be downloaded for Windows, macOS, Linux, iPhone, and Android. Anki is distributed under the GNU Affero General Public License version 3, with source code available via GitHub.
Open Live Writer --- http://openlivewriter.org/
Open Live Writer is a Windows application for creating and editing blog posts. It provides What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) content editing and photo uploading that can be configured to work with WordPress, Blogger, TypePad, Movable Type, and several other blogging platforms. Their website describes it as being "like Word for your blog." Open Live Writer is an open source continuation of Microsoft's popular but now discontinued Windows Live Writer. When Windows Live Writer was first released, ZDNet described it as "Microsoft's first live killer app" and suggested that it could become "the default editor of choice for people who write blogs." Open Live Writer is distributed under the MIT License, with source code available on GitHub.
Free Online Tutorials, Videos, Course Materials, and Learning Centers
Education Tutorials
Tropics of Meta: Historiography for the Masses (study of history) ---
https://tropicsofmeta.com/
Wisc-Online (Vocational Computer Skills) --- www.wisc-online.com
NYC School Library System: Information Literacy --- http://nycdoe.libguides.com/InformationLiteracy
MIT BLOSSOMS: Hanging by a Thread (Physics Helpers) --- http://blossoms.mit.edu/videos/lessons/hanging_thread
Boise State ScholarWorks --- https://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/
Bigelow-Wallis and Warren- Kaula Teaching Watercolors ---
http://collections.countway.harvard.edu/onview/exhibits/show/bigelow-and-warren-teaching-wa
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
NASA Solar System Exploration --- https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/
NASA reveals stunning images of Jupiter taken by the Juno spacecraft ---
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/nasa-reveals-stunning-images-of-jupiter-taken-by-the-juno-spacecraft-a3871271.html
MIT BLOSSOMS: Hanging by a Thread (Physics Helpers) --- http://blossoms.mit.edu/videos/lessons/hanging_thread
Physics: Going Nowhere Fast
https://aeon.co/essays/has-the-quest-for-top-down-unification-of-physics-stalled?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=5e680fd4b6-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_06_21_03_57&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-5e680fd4b6-68951505
Epidemic ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidemic
The Atlantic: The epidemics of the early 21st century revealed a world
unprepared, even as the risks continue to multiply. Much worse is coming.---
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/07/when-the-next-plague-hits/561734/
The New York Review of Books: The Bugs Are Coming --- |
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/06/28/superbugs-are-winning-antibiotics/
Epidemic ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidemic
The Atlantic: The epidemics of the early 21st century revealed a world
unprepared, even as the risks continue to multiply. Much worse is coming.---
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/07/when-the-next-plague-hits/561734/
From the Scout Report on June 22, 2018
New Studies Challenge Popular Conceptions about Pterosaurs
No, these pterosaurs were not Jurassic puffins
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/jun/20/no-these-pterosaurs-were-not-jurassic-puffinsWe Have Probably Been Imagining Pterosaurs All Wrong
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-did-pterosaurs-do-with-their-legsStudy casts doubt on traditional view of pterosaur flight
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/05/180522225549.htmPterosaurs: Flight in the Age of Dinosaurs
https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/pterosaurs-flight-in-the-age-of-dinosaurs/What Doomed Pterosaurs?
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/what-doomed-pterosaurs-180968462Hundreds of Fossilized Pterosaur Eggs Uncovered in China
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/30/science/pterosaur-eggs.html
Bob Jensen's threads on free online science, engineering, and medicine tutorials are at --http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Bob Jensen's links to free course, s and tutorials --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
Social Science and Economics Tutorials
Tropics of Meta: Historiography for the Masses (study of history) ---
https://tropicsofmeta.com/
Coursera: The Science of Well-Being --- www.coursera.org/learn/the-science-of-well-being
The Psychology of Money --- http://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/the-psychology-of-money/
Europeana: Migration --- www.europeana.eu/portal/en/collections/migration
Black New Yorkers --- https://blacknewyorkers-nypl.org/
PBS: Congress passed a law that barred
Chinese immigration to the United States. In addition, the law prevented Chinese
nationals already living in the United States from becoming U.S. citizens. The
Act was not repealed until 1943, following the advent of World War II.---
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/chinese-exclusion-act/#part01
Bob Jensen's threads on Economics, Anthropology, Social Sciences, and
Philosophy tutorials are at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Bob Jensen's links to free courses and tutorials --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
Law and Legal Studies
Bob Jensen's threads on law and legal studies are at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Scroll down to Law
Math Tutorials
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
Reading: Harvard Views of Readers, Readership, and Reading History ---
http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/reading.1.html
Pew Research Center: The Age Gap in Religions Around the World --
www.pewforum.org/2018/06/13/the-age-gap-in-religion-around-the-world
National Study of Youth and Religion --- http://youthandreligion.nd.edu
PBS: Congress passed a law that barred
Chinese immigration to the United States. In addition, the law prevented Chinese
nationals already living in the United States from becoming U.S. citizens. The
Act was not repealed until 1943, following the advent of World War II.---
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/chinese-exclusion-act/#part01
Tropics of Meta: Historiography for the Masses (study of history) ---
https://tropicsofmeta.com/
A New Massive Helen Keller Archive Gets Launched: Take a Digital Look at Her
Photos, Letters, Speeches, Political Writings & More ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/06/a-new-massive-helen-keller-archive-gets-launched.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
What did Max Weber mean by the "spirit of capitalism?"
https://aeon.co/ideas/what-did-max-weber-mean-by-the-spirit-of-capitalism?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=9fe66d9984-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_06_14_12_53&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-9fe66d9984-68951505
The Encyclopedia of Women Philosophers: A New Web Site Presents the
Contributions of Women Philosophers, from Ancient to Modern ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/06/the-encyclopedia-of-women-philosophers.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy --- https://plato.stanford.edu/contents.html
Quilt Alliance --- http://quiltalliance.org/
TED Talk: Prosanta Chakrabarty --- Four billion years of evolution in
six minutes
https://www.ted.com/talks/prosanta_chakrabarty_four_billion_years_of_evolution_in_six_minutes?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2018-06-16&utm_campaign=newsletter_weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_content=talk_of_the_week_image
Watch a 4000-Year Old Babylonian Recipe for Stew, Found on a Cuneiform
Tablet, Get Cooked by Researchers from Yale & Harvard ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/06/a-4000-year-old-babylonian-recipe-for-stew-found-on-a-cuneiform-tablet-gets-cooked.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
The Making of Charlemagne's Europe --- www.charlemagneseurope.ac.uk
Scott Polar Research Institute: Edward Adrian Wilson (art history) --- www.spri.cam.ac.uk/museum/catalogue/edwardwilson/browse
EVOLS (Hawaii History) --- https://evols.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/
American Museum of Natural History: AMNH.tv (video modules) --- www.amnh.org/explore/amnh.tv
Auckland Museum: Activities and Resources (natural history of New Zealand) --- www.aucklandmuseum.com/discover/education/activities-and-resources
Europeana: Migration --- www.europeana.eu/portal/en/collections/migration
Indigenous Cinema (Canada) --- www.nfb.ca/indigenous-cinema
Black New Yorkers --- https://blacknewyorkers-nypl.org/
Food in the West: A Timeline, 1700-2001 ---
https://cdn.knightlab.com/libs/timeline3/latest/embed/index.html?source=1VZf9cgi9meL-EUVT8v2lvT4p6PUazAtnJSb9clO0ZpQ&font=Default&lang=en&initial_zoom=2&height=650
The 10 Most Intense Battles in US History ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/most-intense-battles-in-us-history-2018-5
An Illustrated History of the Picnic Table ---
https://placesjournal.org/article/an-illustrated-history-of-the-picnic-table/
State Library of Queensland: Discover The Queenslander ---
www.slq.qld.gov.au/showcase/discover-the-queenslander#/mosaic
Bob Jensen's threads on history tutorials are at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Scroll down to History
Also see
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm
Bob Jensen's links to free courses and tutorials --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
Language Tutorials
Bob Jensen's links to language tutorials are at http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2-Part2.htm#Languages
Music Tutorials
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
NYC School Library System: Information Literacy --- http://nycdoe.libguides.com/InformationLiteracy
Bob Jensen's helpers for writers are at http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob3.htm#Dictionaries
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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/
June 16, 2018
June 18, 2018
June 19, 2018
June 20, 2018
June 23, 2018
June 27, 2018
The French Village Designed to Promote the Well-Being of Alzheimer’s
Patients: A Visual Introduction to the Pioneering Experiment ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/06/the-french-village-designed-to-promote-the-well-being-of-alzheimers-patients.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
A Bill Gates-backed edible coating makes avocados last twice as long — and
it's coming to Costco ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/costco-bill-gates-apeel-sciences-avocado-2018-6
Opioids don’t have to be addictive – the new versions will treat pain
without triggering pleasure ---
https://theconversation.com/opioids-dont-have-to-be-addictive-the-new-versions-will-treat-pain-without-triggering-pleasure-97593
Jensen Comment
Effective pain relief drugs can be addictive to people in pain, especially heavy
doses for severe chronic pain.
Epidemic ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidemic
The Atlantic: The epidemics of the early 21st century revealed a world
unprepared, even as the risks continue to multiply. Much worse is coming.---
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/07/when-the-next-plague-hits/561734/
The New York Review of Books: The Bugs Are Coming --- |
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/06/28/superbugs-are-winning-antibiotics/
Famine seems to be the last, the most dreadful
resource of nature. The power of population is so superior to the power of the
earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or
other visit the human race. The vices of mankind are active and able ministers
of depopulation. They are the precursors in the great army of destruction, and
often finish the dreadful work themselves. But should they fail in this war of
extermination, sickly seasons, epidemics, pestilence, and
plague advance in terrific
array, and sweep off their thousands and tens of thousands. Should success be
still incomplete, gigantic inevitable famine stalks in the rear, and with one
mighty blow levels the population with the food of the world. —
Thomas Malthus, 1798. An Essay on the Principle of Population.
Chapter VII, p. 61[
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malthusian_catastrophe#Thomas_Malthus
Drinking baking soda could be an inexpensive, safe way to combat
autoimmune disease ---
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/04/180425093745.htm
How to Donate Hair for a Good Cause
Hair We Share
Hair We Share makes wigs for kids 18 and under who’ve lost their hair due to medical reasons. They require at least 8 inches of hair that is not highlighted. The hair must be bound in small ponytails with 1 inch of hair above the rubber bands.
Wigs for Kids
Wigs for Kids makes wigs for kids under 18 who’ve lost their hair due to medical reasons. They require at least 12 inches of hair that is not dyed, bleached, or highlighted. To donate your hair, the hair must be bound in a ponytail.
Locks of Love
Locks of Love makes wigs for kids under age 21 who suffer from long-term medical hair loss. They require at least 10 inches of hair that is not bleached or highlighted. The hair must be bound in a braid or ponytail.
Pantene Beautiful Lengths
Pantene Beautiful Lengths makes wigs for women who’ve lost their hair due to cancer. They require at least 8 inches of hair that is not bleached, permanently dyed, permed, or chemically straightened. The hair must be bound in a ponytail.
Children With Hair Loss
Children With Hair Loss makes customized hair replacements for children under 21 with medically-related hair loss. Their guidelines include at least 8 inches of hair in length, preferably not chemically treated. The hair must be bound in a ponytail or braided.
Childhood Leukemia Foundation
Childhood Leukemia Foundation offers a variety of services to children with cancer and their families, including providing custom-made 100% human hair wigs. They require at least 10 inches of hair that has not been colored or chemically treated. The hair must be bundled in a braid or ponytail
Humor for June 2018
Accountant Goalie Scott Foster Attends NHL Awards Show, Is Funnier Than
Jim Belushi ---
https://goingconcern.com/accountant-goalie-funnier-jim-belushi/?mod=article_inline
Thank you Barbara Scofield for the heads up
Police say at least one rat slipped through a hole in the back of an ATM
in northeastern India and ate more than $19,000 in currency ---
https://www.snopes.com/ap/2018/06/22/india-rats-19000-meal/
The New Red Hen Menu ---
https://iamjessekelly.com/2018/06/24/the-new-red-hen-menu/
Watch a gutsy squirrel steal a doughnut from cop ---
https://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2018/06/watch_a_gutsy_squirrel_steal_a.html
Forwarded by Paula
How
to pour 15 jagermeister shots at once.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gd0adk53iuc
Humor June 2018--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book18q2.htm#Humor0618.htm
Humor May 2018--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book18q2.htm#Humor0518.htm
Humor April 2018--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book18q2.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