Tidbits on August 30, 2018
Bob Jensen at Trinity University

Part 1 of My Tribute to Barbara Serafini
Barbara succumbed to cancer on August 27, 2018
Barbara's grandparents on the Elm Farm were among the earliest pioneers of Sugar Hill
Part 1 of the History of the Homestead Inn Torn Down in 2015
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Hotels/Homestead/Set01/Set01.htm

 

Tidbits on August 30, 2018
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Bob Jensen's Tidbits ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm

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For earlier editions of New Bookmarks go to http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookurl.htm 
Bookmarks for the World's Library --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm 

Bob Jensen's past presentations and lectures --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/resume.htm#Presentations   

Bob Jensen's Threads --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/threads.htm

Bob Jensen's Home Page is at http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/

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

Updates from WebMD --- Click Here

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

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

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

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

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




Online Video, Slide Shows, and Audio

The Guardian's Audio Long Reads --- www.theguardian.com/news/series/the-audio-long-read

Google Arts & Culture: Space Exploration ---
https://artsandculture.google.com/project/space-exploration

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 

Top 365 Songs of the 20th Century ---
https://www.jborden.com/top-365-songs-of-the-20th-century/

Aretha’s Franklin’s Pitch-Perfect Performance in The Blues Brothers, the Film That Reinvigorated Her Career (1980) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/08/arethas-franklins-pitch-perfect-performance-blues-brothers-film-reinvigorated-career-1980.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

David Bowie’s “Heroes” Delightfully Performed by the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/08/hear-eight-ukulele-cover-david-bowies-heroes.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Sound Museum ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/08/conserve-the-sound.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

From the Scout Report on August 17, 2018

Music Icon Aretha Franklin Dies

 

Aretha Franklin, Queen of Soul, Dead at 76
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/aretha-franklin-queen-of-soul-dead-at-76-119453/

Aretha Franklin, music's 'Queen of Soul,' dies at 76
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/aretha-franklin-musics-queen-of-soul-dies-at-76/2018/08/16/c35de4b8-9e9f-11e8-83d2-70203b8d7b44_story.html?utm_term=.f0fe12f4693e

Soul Survivor: The revival and hidden treasure of Aretha Franklin
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/04/04/aretha-franklins-american-soul

How Aretha Franklin Created "Respect"
https://slate.com/culture/2018/08/aretha-franklin-dead-the-story-of-respect-the-greatest-cover-of-all-time.html

Jesse Jackson on Aretha Franklin's quiet but profound civil rights legacy
https://www.freep.com/story/news/columnists/rochelle-riley/2018/08/15/aretha-franklin-civil-rights-detroit/996436002/

Aretha Franklin: Soul Music and the New Femininity of the 1960s
http://teachrock.org/lesson/aretha-franklin-soul-music-and-the-new-femininity-of-the-1960s/

From the Scout Report on August 24, 2018

Sardanapalo, Liszt's "Lost" Italian Opera, Has Its World Premiere in Germany

 

Liszt's lost opera: 'beautiful' work finally brought to life after 170 years
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/aug/17/sardanapalo-lost-liszt-opera-premiere

German orchestra to premiere forgotten opera by Franz Liszt
https://www.dw.com/en/german-orchestra-to-premiere-forgotten-opera-by-franz-liszt/a-45118673

Review: Joyce El-Khoury brings a 'meaty dramatic approach' to long-lost Liszt opera Sardanapalo
http://operacanada.ca/sardanapalo/

The story behind Liszt's unheard opera
http://www.classical-music.com/blog/story-behind-liszts-unheard-opera

How Liszt's Lost Opera was Rescued
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEqRAdUEO2E

Liszt Ferenc Memorial Museum and Research Centre
http://www.lisztmuseum.hu/en/

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

The incredible life of John McCain in photos ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/john-mccain-biography-2017-12

Jim Borden and his family spent three months in Amsterdam ---
https://www.jborden.com/the-dutch-seem-to-do-things-the-right-way/

Ethnic America, mapped: Your county’s biggest ancestral populations ---
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/04/18/ethnic-america-mapped-your-countys-biggest-ancestral-populations/?utm_term=.f4d4d445a9b4

Underslos Museum: Tanum Rock Art Research Centre Arts www.rockartscandinavia.com

The Uffizi Digitization Project (art history) --- www.digitalsculpture-uffizi.org

Hundreds of Classical Sculptures from the Uffizi Gallery Now Digitized & Put Online: Explore a Collection of 3D Interactive Scans ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/08/hundreds-classical-sculptures-uffizi-gallery-now-digitized-put-online-explore-collection-3d-interactive-scans.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

ArtCurious Podcast --- www.artcuriouspodcast.com

Free: Download 70,000+ High-Resolution Images of Chinese Art from Taipei’s National Palace Museum ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/08/free-download-70000-high-resolution-images-chinese-art-taipeis-national-palace-museum.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

The History of Cartography, “the Most Ambitious Overview of Map Making Ever Undertaken,” Is Free Online ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/08/free-download-the-history-of-cartography.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

These 18 beautiful, vintage cars are worth millions and are up for auction at Pebble Beach ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/best-cars-for-auction-at-pebble-beach-2018-2018-8

The data behind the search for MH370 (oceanic visualization research) ---
https://geoscience-au.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/index.html?appid=038a72439bfa4d28b3dde81cc6ff3214

Islamic Calligraphy --- http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/islamic_calligraphy/

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

Centering Spenser: A Digital Resource for Kilcolman Castle ---
http://core.ecu.edu/umc/Munster/index.html

The Guardian's Audio Long Reads --- www.theguardian.com/news/series/the-audio-long-read

Library of Congress ---
https://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/new_logo_and_identity_for_library_of_congress_by_pentagram.php

LitCharts produces plot summaries for novels and plays with interactive tools such as searchable quotes, color-coded "theme wheels," and longitudinal study techniques such as "theme tracking." Our database includes study guides for newer and lesser-known works, coverage that CliffsNotes and SparkNotes do not offer ---
https://www.litcharts.com/

The New York Public Library Puts Classic Stories on Instagram ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/08/the-new-york-public-library-puts-classic-stories-on-instagram.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

New library website provides digital front door to Harvard resources ---
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/07/new-library-website-provides-digital-front-door-to-harvard-resources/

The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction: 17,500 Entries on All Things Sci-Fi Are Now Free Online ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/08/encyclopedia-science-fiction-17500-entries-things-sci-fi-now-free-online.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

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 August 30, 2018
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/2018/TidbitsQuotations083018.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




The Almanac of Higher Education 2018-19 ---
https://www.chronicle.com/specialreport/The-Almanac-of-Higher/214?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=5b949e163436414ea5c3f2f9d6049129&elq=4a508df39df74014998a842cbbff2926&elqaid=20250&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=9481

Numbers tell the story of the current state of higher education: the results of its diversity efforts, the decline in enrollment, and the growth in student debt. Among nearly 90 tables and charts are 30 that show which colleges have done the best on various measures, like increasing enrollment, graduating students on time, enrolling the most online students, and spending the most on research.

To purchase a copy of the Almanac in print or as a downloadable interactive PDF, visit the Chronicle Store.


Beloit College Mindset List of the Class of 2022 ---
http://themindsetlist.com/2018/08/beloit-college-mindset-list-class-2022/
This morning I feel a whole lot older.


The Science Behind Social Science Gets Shaken Up --- Again
https://www.wired.com/story/social-science-reproducibility/

Evaluating the (not-so-great)  replicability of social science experiments in Nature and Science between 2010 and 2015 ---
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-018-0399-z


Outrage and Confusion Over the $999 Price of an Introductory Accounting Textbook ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/digital-learning/article/2018/08/28/universitys-999-online-textbook-creates-confusion-and-outrage?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=55a2a7bcd3-DNU_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-55a2a7bcd3-197565045&mc_cid=55a2a7bcd3&mc_eid=1e78f7c952


How the Internet of Things will transform consumerism, enterprises, and governments over the next five years ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/iot-forecast-book-2018-7

The Internet of Things is fueling the data-based economy and bridging the divide between physical and digital worlds.

Consumers, companies, and governments will install more than 40 billion IoT devices worldwide through 2023.

The next five years will mark a pivotal transformation in how companies and jurisdictions operate, and how consumers live.

 Continued in article


Big Data Trends You Can Study ---
https://pureb2b.com/blog/big-data-trends-2018/


Who was John McCain? The best answer is in this 18-year-old David Foster Wallace essay ---
https://www.vox.com/2018/8/26/17783258/john-mccain-david-foster-wallace-essay

10 of John McCain's best quotes on courage, happiness, and character ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/john-mccain-best-quotes-2018-5

John McCain's Farewell Letter ---
Click Here


Harvey Mudd College (science and engineering) re-evaluates its tough curriculum ---
https://www.chronicle.com/article/How-a-Liberal-Arts-College-Is/244383/?cid=db&elqTrackId=a914105b22f349659a56605ce7350c80&elq=55bc9fc924c54662af98a8fbc889870a&elqaid=20311&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=9513
Jensen Comment
Let's hope the SEALS and Marines don't follow suit by going soft on us. I'm being a bit unfair here because, unlike the military, depending on each other for life or death in battle is not quite the same as higher education. However, a great college that built its reputation on being tough should not, in my opinion, go too soft on the curriculum.

A reputation for toughness is one way to compete against the grade-inflated Ivy League universities that now rely more on admission standards than toughness for reputation. Almost everybody graduates com laude or better from Harvard.


After Five Years, a Bold Set of K-12 Teacher-Prep Standards Still Faces Challenges ---
 https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2018/08/29/after-five-years-a-bold-set-of.html?cmp=eml-enl-eu-news1&M=58593364&U=2290378


Largest in School's History:  $50 Million Gift for Saint Louis University (includes funding for basic research, applied economics research, and a chess program) ---
https://www.slu.edu/news/2018/august/historic-gift.php

Foxconn, known for manufacturing Apple’s iPhones in China, is opening a factory in Wisconsin. Yesterday, it announced that it was investing $100 million in research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison ---
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/wisconsin/articles/2018-08-27/foxconn-uw-madison-leaders-to-make-announcement


A wind turbine was blown over by a typhoon in Japan ---
https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/wind-turbine-blown-over-by-wind/


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

Chronicle of Higher Education:  What Was Conservatism?
https://www.chronicle.com/article/What-Was-Conservatism-/238345?cid=cr&utm_source=cr&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=ad12bf5ef1ef492e9ebff19bdb2489b4&elq=a70b3a81f49f4bae94da4734a1f51227&elqaid=20280&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=9495

. . .

And so conservatism has been routed by Trumpism, a movement driven by all the resentments that the right has dredged up over the decades with none of the ideas that once animated it. As Nash put it, there is a "return of the repressed" at work in the rise of the alt-right, with all the ugliness that Buckley once purged now on full display at rallies and on the internet. Perhaps there is an intellectual core buried within the alt-right; if so, that world awaits its Nash.

 It took scholars decades to fully embrace the insight at the core of Nash’s classic work: that over the course of the 20th century, the intellectual and ideological energy that had driven the left to great heights and even greater depths had shifted, and it was conservatives who came to command the high country of the mind. Unless conservatism experiences a renaissance that restores its original spirit of intellectual vitality, the same will not be true of the 21st century.

Jensen Comment
In higher education around the globe conservatism was routed from campuses  and the media decades before Trump rose to power. It was uprooted heavily by barriers to entry in doctoral programs and faculty hiring in the latter part of the 20th Century.

The Closing of the American Mind: What Allan Bloom Got Right ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/HigherEdControversies2.htm#PoliticalCorrectness
Scroll down to the Gitlin article


This is the year that hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles began to really show some momentum ---
https://spectrum.ieee.org/green-tech/fuel-cells/ups-to-deploy-fuel-cellbattery-hybrids-as-zeroemission-delivery-trucks
Jensen Comment
These fuel cells are becoming competitive in trucks such as UPS trucks in Austin.


Amazon:  15 fascinating facts you probably didn't know about Amazon ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bezos-amazon-history-facts-2017-4


Was Saturday's SAT Compromised?
https://www.insidehighered.com/admissions/article/2018/08/27/reports-circulate-saturdays-sat-included-questions-available-asia?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=086fff4ec0-DNU_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-086fff4ec0-197565045&mc_cid=086fff4ec0&mc_eid=1e78f7c952


Default Rates:  The Student Debt Problem Is Worse Than We Imagined on Over $1.5 Trillion in Outstanding Loans
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/25/opinion/sunday/student-debt-loan-default-college.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytopinion&elqTrackId=69b3ece56aa84a079632bb719e785b52&elq=b6d91dce159f4e9c8a9119a53a688685&elqaid=20274&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=9492
Jensen Comment
To put $1.5+ trillion into perspective the entire discretionary USA budget for everything is #1.2 trillion.


The University of Kentucky might give a green light for teachers to profit from selling their own assigned writings to their students ---
http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2018/08/university-of-kentucky-faculty-committee-recommends-that-tenured-professor-not-be-fired-for-assignin.html

Jensen Comment
This does not appear to yet be a done deal, but it's not what many (most?) universities condone due to moral hazard. There are alternatives such as giving the profits back to students or the university itself. \

Accounting scholars know that there's more to this debate than just profits. In very large courses (think multiple section courses with 2,000+ students each term) sales of textbooks at a single university can go a long way toward recover of fixed costs. The publishers still benefit from fixed cost recovery even if the teacher gives a share of the profits back to their (politically correct singular version) students. Fixed cost recovery could be a factor in getting the book published in the first place. This could especially be a factor in specialty books published by university presses where global sales are often very, very small --- the reason that major publishing houses won't publish the low-sales volume specialty books.


False Alarm:  The Democratic National Committee Was Not Hacked Once Again ---
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/cortneyobrien/2018/08/23/dnc-hacked-again-n2512352?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=&profileid=


Employees of San Francisco's "Poop Patrol" are set to earn $71,760 a year, plus an additional $112,918 in benefits (that's $184,678) ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/san-francisco-poop-patrol-employees-make-184000-a-year-2018-8
Jensen Question
So what's the incentive to borrow deep on student loans and go 8-10 years to college to become a professor or other advanced professional?
Union job protections are rock solid in this line of work.


Europe to ban halogen lightbulbs ---
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/aug/23/europe-to-ban-halogen-lightbulbs


Thomas Kuhn --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Kuhn

Errol Morris --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Errol_Morris

Thomas Kuhn Threw an Ashtray at Errol Morris ---
http://nautil.us/issue/63/horizons/thomas-kuhn-threw-an-ashtray-at-me

. . .

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is one of the most influential academic books ever written—not just in the history of science, but in how we talk about truth and knowledge and reality.

Yes, it became overwhelmingly popular, but as a friend of mine once said to me, “So did pet rocks.”

Kuhn’s popular because of his phrase, “the paradigm shift.” The idea, roughly, is that Einstein came along and displaced Newton. He superseded the old view about the universe and now Newtonians couldn’t talk with Einstein’s people because they had two fundamentally different versions of reality.

And this is nonsense because of course scientists talk to each other all the time. We are endlessly changing the nature of science without losing our ability to communicate with each other about it. It’s inconceivable to me that Newton and Einstein, if they had the opportunity to get together and carry on a conversation, would have stared at each other in kind of mute incomprehension. Yeah, they would have had to discuss this and that, they would have argued about various, sundry things. But to say that they could not communicate about science and about the nature of the physical world is nonsense.

Two hundred years ago, 99 percent of human idiocy went unrecorded. Now we have the Internet.

So Kuhn’s idea, correct me if I’m wrong, is that to some degree we’re always trapped inside of our own biases, our own theories. We can’t see beyond the paradigm. And this stays on until a new paradigm comes along and then our view becomes outdated.

Yep. That is such a concise statement. I applaud your concision.

And that idea, to you, is not just wrong, it’s morally wrong?

I would turn it around. It’s morally wrong and it’s also just wrong. There is the idea, “Do we have access to the world around us, or are we just trapped inside of our own heads?” You know, I have this ball of neurological protoplasm inside my skull, cerebrating, and what would make you think that this would give me access to the world around me? But there’s another, powerful intuition: As limited as we are, as confused as we are, we can still search for truth, and we can come to a deeper understanding of ourselves and the world around us.

Continued in article


Amazon Alexa --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Alexa

As more universities give students voice-controlled Alexa devices, observers and critics ask why ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/08/22/meet-new-kid-campus-alexa?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=d4383a1059-DNU_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-d4383a1059-197565045&mc_cid=d4383a1059&mc_eid=1e78f7c952


Inside Higher Ed:  Praise for Trump's Pick for Key Higher Ed Post ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/08/22/state-higher-ed-leaders-praise-pick-key-us-higher-ed-post?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=d4383a1059-DNU_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-d4383a1059-197565045&mc_cid=d4383a1059&mc_eid=1e78f7c952


MIT:  Improving Strategic Execution With Machine Learning ---
https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/improving-strategic-execution-with-machine-learning/


The Only Way for Academic Research Respect is Replication
The Guardian:  “Open science is now the only way forward for psychology”
---
https://replicationnetwork.com/2018/08/24/in-the-news-the-guardian-august-23-2018/

Accountancy:  Where Equations = Truth
Replication is a rare happening in academic accounting research journals where leading journals editors (thankfully not all)  protect their authors and referees by discouraging submissions of  commentaries and as well as replications ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/TheoryTAR.htm


Who Gets to Read the Research Taxpayers Pay For?
https://slate.com/technology/2018/08/who-gets-to-read-the-research-taxpayers-fund.html

Canada:  Freedom of information request for York University eresource costs denied ---
https://www.miskatonic.org/2018/08/22/york-eresource/

Harvard University says it can't afford journal publishers' prices (at least not from price rip off publishers)---
http://lisnews.org/node/43679/

Exasperated by rising subscription costs charged by academic publishers, Harvard University has encouraged its faculty members to make their research freely available through open access journals and to resign from publications that keep articles behind paywalls.

A memo from Harvard Library to the university's 2,100 teaching and research staff called for action after warning it could no longer afford the price hikes imposed by many large journal publishers, which bill the library around $3.5m a year.

From Harvard University says it can't afford journal publishers' prices | Science | The Guardian

Bob Jensen's threads on how for-profit journals are ripping off research libraries ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudReporting.htm#ScholarlyJournals


Chronicle of Higher Ed:  Why Learning Chinese Makes So Much Sense ---
https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/2018/08/21/chinese-among-high-school-seniors-and-in-the-movies/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=91be1a45faff41e3a9abe7ad74d09449&elq=bbd3481e14194902881c739c740907ea&elqaid=20219&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=9460

Jensen Comment
The article surprised me by stating that until now German is the most popular second language in the U.K. high schools. Without doing any research on the matter, my guess is that Spanish is the most popular second language in the USA. In Canada perhaps it's French, although there may be a difference between eastern Canada and western Canada.


The investing app comes with an interesting promise: make money in the stock market without paying a single cent in commissions (Stay Away) ---
Click Here

MoneySmart: Teaching Resources From the Australian Government ---  www.moneysmart.gov.au/teaching/teaching-resources

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


New library website provides digital front door to Harvard resources ---
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/07/new-library-website-provides-digital-front-door-to-harvard-resources/ 


When you need to look up data in a spreadsheet and HLOOKUP and VLOOKUP won’t work, another approach (INDEX MATCH) might do the job ---
https://www.fm-magazine.com/news/2018/aug/microsoft-excel-index-match-201819265.html?utm_source=mnl:globalcpa&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=22Aug2018


Tennessee's tuition-free community college program is proving popular with adults (expected 8,000 and got 30,000+ initially) ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/08/24/tennessee-sees-thousands-apply-tuition-free-adult-plan?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=5cb126ef99-DNU_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-5cb126ef99-197565045&mc_cid=5cb126ef99&mc_eid=1e78f7c952

Jensen Comment
What is not clear is whether the most expensive programs have the capacity to serve a surge in applicants. The most expensive courses include science courses like biology with lab components)


How to mislead with statistics
It's cheaper to enroll people in Medicaid than to subsidize their private insurance ---
Scroll down at http://ritholtz.com/2018/08/10-sunday-reads-126/
Jensen Comment
This graph is misleading because it only looks at the short-term annual expense. Subsidizing private insurance only covers short-term medical expense annually and does not cover long-term nursing care. The two-ton guerilla is the excluded Medicaid coverage of long-term nursing care that even Medicare won't cover. This also is misleading in that private insurance might cover treatments by doctors and hospitals that will not treat Medicaid patients.


The U.K. Is About To Regulate Online Porn, and Free Speech Advocates Are Terrified ---
Click Here

The EU wants to use the threat of fines to force the tech giants to eliminate terrorist content from their platforms ---
https://www.ft.com/content/a4068e88-a22a-11e8-85da-eeb7a9ce36e4
 

Jensen Comment
The wonderful Wikipedia for a was time blacked out Europe due to prior regulations on copyrights. This new round of EU regulations may force giant search engines (think Google) and other tech giants out Europe. The EU seems to be trying to regulate Europeans back to the Dark Ages by demanding perfections that are probably just not feasible in the networking age. Apple is seeking to conform with China's censorship demands. Maybe Apple, Google, Facebook, and others can conform to the EU's censorship demands For now Wikipedia ended its blackout across Euorple. Not far down the road will be the burning of books in European libraries.


A Third of Teenagers Don't Read Books (at all) for Pleasure Anymore ---
Click Here

Jensen Comment
I suspect the real fraction is much less than a third. When I'm waiting in hospitals and doctors offices, the difference between me and most of the younger people around me is that I will have my nose in a book. The folks around me are mostly playing video games or texting on mobile devices. Admittedly, however, I read less for pleasure at home than was the case in my earlier life. Erika and I now watch one movie per day --- much more movie watching than before we retired. I've not read War and Peace for decades, but today I ordered the NetFlix series (staring Anthony Hopkins). It's so much more time saving to watch the movie than to read War and Peace when the time left in life grows more precious.

I spend much more time on the Internet now than when I still received paychecks for my time. On the Internet I rarely read books cover-to-cover, although I do usually have at least one book that I chip away at sporadically on my PC's Kindle software. I always keep a poetry book beside my keyboard. The current book sitting there is The Breath of Parted Lips:  Voices from the Frost Place that was written by multiple visiting poets about two miles down the road from our cottage. I read and re-read 2-3 poems a day.

I do scan lots and lots of books and poems and reviews while on the Internet
Bob Jensen's pointers to tens of millions of free book and poem downloads ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm
Teenagers just don't know what they're missing.


Immigration Since 1840  ---
https://dp.la/browse-by-topic/immigration-since-1840


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

A member of Congress dipped her toes into crypto — and likely took a big hit ---
https://markets.businessinsider.com/currencies/news/ethereum-litecoin-crypto-purchases-by-representative-tulsi-gabbard-2018-8-1027478098

Basis in Accounting --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basis_of_accounting

Cryptocurrency investors are considered to have a capital asset for tax purposes, meaning a key component of correctly determining the tax treatment of the investment is establishing its basis ---
https://www.thetaxadviser.com/issues/2018/aug/basis-issues-cryptocurrency.html?utm_source=mnl:cpald&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=22Aug2018


MIT:  How to tell if you’re arguing with a Bob (er make that Bot) ---
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611831/how-to-tell-if-youre-arguing-with-a-bot/


Y Combinator Startup Course for Entrepeneurs is different from Y Combinator's core accelerator programme, which has helped famous startups such as Airbnb, Reddit, and Stripe
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y_Combinator

Y Combinator, a startup course that's harder to get into than Harvard, accepts all 15,000 applicants into Startup School after a major screwup ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/y-combinator-accepted-15000-startups-into-startup-school-2018-8


Journals That Publish Any Article Submitted with the Required Fee
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/aug/10/predatory-publishers-the-journals-who-churn-out-fake-science

Academics seeking to advance their careers have had hundreds of thousands of their articles published for a fee in journals that either deserve suspicion or are outright phony.---
https://vancouversun.com/opinion/columnists/b-c-economist-locked-in-grim-battle-against-deceptive-scholarship

Jensen Comment
Then there's the questionable very high-fee "conference" in an exotic tourist locale sponsored by a phony outfit that publishes the delivered papers in a proceedings book. This begs the question of why every proposal is accepted for the conference. And when a session at the conference  has four speakers those four speakers comprise the entire audience for that session. Sometimes the last speaker ends up with no audience, but he or she does not mind because it's a publication on a resume and a great family vacation paid for by each speaker's university.


How to Mislead With Statistics
Students in a new Rutgers study indicate pay doesn't matter in selecting a major
---
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/08/17/rutgers-study-pay-doesnt-affect-students-major-choice?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=e04f10c3ed-DNU_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-e04f10c3ed-197565045&mc_cid=e04f10c3ed&mc_eid=1e78f7c952

Jensen Comment
I did not investigate details of this survey. Hence I can only speculate based upon my 40 years of experience in teaching mostly accountancy. There are two types of pay. One is starting salary. The other is long run opportunity salary.

Students now pay a price for majoring in accountancy. It's not possible to take the uniform (nationwide) CPA examination without getting 150 credits which, in nearly all instances, entails getting a masters degree in accountancy. Secondly, there are a lot of accounting, tax, ethics, law, computer, auditing, and other courses that must be taken before being allowed to sit for the CPA examination, although the numbers of such courses vary among the 50 states. And on top of that starting accounting salaries are not notably high when compared with average starting salaries for students with degrees in engineering, pharmacy, etc.

This begs the question of why do students major in accounting?
The answer is somewhat complicated. Firstly, accounting graduates are almost (not entirely) assured of getting multiple job offers before they even graduate. Secondly, accounting majors are attracted to internships that are usually offered in the senior year, internships that usually lead to job offers during the internships. Thirdly, and probably most importantly, accounting firms tend to offer tremendous training programs and on-the-job exposure to multiple clients, clients that in turn often end up offering jobs to younger graduates still in training by public accounting firms.

My point is that high starting salaries do not attract most accounting majors. What attracts them are lots of job openings at graduation date combined with long-run opportunity trails, some of which lead to the executive suites.
 What attracts accounting majors is the virtual assurance of getting a job after earning their masters degrees and the tremendous and varied career choices that those starting jobs lead to further down the road. Being an accounting graduate can be a great track to becoming a highly paid executive. Plus there's the possible choice of going on for a Ph.D. after some years of professional experience where accounting Ph.D.s are the highest paid graduates going into academe (there's a tremendous shortage among colleges for tenure-track candidates in accountancy).

I might also add that "pay" is somewhat relative. For example, why do so many students major in KI-12 education. Some just want to serve the world as teachers. But others think ahead to to earning salaries and still having 2-3 months each summer for raising a family, writing books, farming, or teaching summer school to earn added "pay" not measured in the salary data not shown in to students in the above Rutgers survey.

Lastly, I might mention that students are sometimes attracted to majors where they're more likely to graduate with high grade averages. What limits the number of accounting graduates is that accounting is usually a tougher major other majors in the business school. In a top engineering school students who do poorly the first year often track into other majors including business degrees. Weaker business schools sometimes are in universities that have very tough engineering schools.

Also the some majors are so popular that universities limit the number of those majors by setting minimum grade averages for those majors. It's not uncommon for universities to require a 3.0 gpa or higher to major in accounting as an undergraduate. And students who want to sit for the CPA exam must qualify for admission to a masters program that usually entails having a high grade average plus a respectable score on the GMAT or GRE.


University of Akron phases out 10 Ph.D. programs, 33 master’s programs, 20 bachelor’s programs, and 17 associate-degree programs ---
https://www.chronicle.com/article/U-of-Akron-Will-Phase-Out-80/244293?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=5b623e7d3ea64f0b948a51f01beee615&elq=02014c7c90d84f85b87db2ff8a1ed80d&elqaid=20157&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=9416


St. Louis University Is Installing Amazon Alexa-Enabled Echo Dots Campus-Wide ---
http://fortune.com/2018/08/15/amazon-alexa-echo-back-to-school-dorm-room/


Dartmouth College:  Star researcher in health policy plagiarized a colleague, probe says ---
https://retractionwatch.com/2018/08/20/star-researcher-in-health-policy-plagiarized-a-colleague-probe-says/

Bob Jensen's threads on professors who cheat ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Plagiarism.htm#ProfessorsWhoPlagiarize


SciRev is a resource for academic researchers of all disciplines that allows researchers to share their experiences of submitting articles to peer-reviewed journals ---
https://scirev.org/
The site lists a huge amount of journals, but many of the journal editors failed to submit data, especially in accountancy accountancy.


Ethnic America, mapped: Your county’s biggest ancestral populations ---
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/04/18/ethnic-america-mapped-your-countys-biggest-ancestral-populations/?utm_term=.f4d4d445a9b4


The 30-Year Manhunt for China’s Most Elusive Serial Killer ---
https://newrepublic.com/article/150576/30-year-manhunt-chinas-elusive-serial-killer


Hume the Humane ---
https://aeon.co/essays/hume-is-the-amiable-modest-generous-philosopher-we-need-today?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=116979c112-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_08_15_04_07&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-116979c112-68951505

Bob Jensen's threads on philosophy and related topics ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#Social


New York U.’s School of Medicine Goes Tuition-Free (irrespective of need or merit) ---
https://www.chronicle.com/article/New-York-U-s-School-of/244292?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=9e4111ed38114b98be7f9b7845bdb7e9&elq=02014c7c90d84f85b87db2ff8a1ed80d&elqaid=20157&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=9416
Jensen Comment
This begs the question of how a medical school that is not funded by taxpayers can afford such an enormous expense. Firstly there's endowment money. Secondly, there are "profits" to tap from medical services performed by the medical school. The question is how long before other top medical schools will follow suit.




From the Scout Report on August 17, 2018

ProtonVPN --- https://protonvpn.com/
ProtonVPN is a virtual private network service produced by the company that runs the ProtonMail high-security email service. ProtonVPN is similarly designed to be a high-security VPN suitable for journalists and political activists. The service exclusively uses ciphers designed for Perfect Forward Secrecy, which means that a compromised encryption key cannot be used to decrypt past sessions. ProtonVPN's parent company is based in Switzerland, a country with famously strict privacy laws. Switzerland is not a member of either the five eyes or the fourteen eyes global surveillance networks. ProtonVPN also includes a kill switch feature that will disable internet service entirely when the VPN connection unexpectedly drops. Many other VPN systems react to a connection drop as if it were a deliberate shutdown of the VPN and begin sending traffic over the regular internet. ProtonVPN's free tier allows access from a single device from up to 3 countries. Paid plans offer more devices and higher speeds. Client software is available for Windows, macOS, and Linux computers as well as Android and iOS mobile devices.


Global Math Department --- http://globalmathdepartment.org/
The Global Math Department is an informal network of mathematics instructors who met online (many blog about their instructional techniques and are active on Twitter) and decided to create a series of free, open webinars designed for use by other instructors. These webinars cover topics such as coding in math class and teaching students to make mathematical connects. Instructors can participate in live webinars each Tuesday evening at 9:00 PM EST; alternatively, anyone may view recordings of all past webinars on this website. To learn about upcoming webinars, one can check out the website's calendar. The Global Math Department also publishes a weekly online newsletter that highlights articles related to math instruction and features digital tools that can be used in the classroom. In addition to curriculum and instruction ideas, there are also many tips about blogging and using Twitter on this website.


From the Scout Report on August 24, 2018

Quassel Science --- https://quassel-irc.org/
Quassel is a cross-platform, graphical Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client. Users can opt to run the core of the application as a standalone server on an always-on machine, which they then connect to with the Quassel client. In this client/server mode, Quassel functions similarly to Irssi or WeeChat inside GNU Screen or tmux; users maintain a persistent connection to their IRC networks that they can splice into from any of their computers. Quassel can also run in a monolithic mode, where the client and server are all wrapped up in a single application. In this mode, Quassel is similar to more traditional chat programs. Quassel executables can be downloaded from the website for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Many free operating systems also include Quassel in their package repositories. Quassel is free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License, with source code available on GitHub.


Chrono Download Manager --- www.chronodownloader.net 
Chrono Download Manager is a Chrome extension that enhances Chrome's built-in download features. For example, Chrono provides a "detect all images/audio/video on this page" button that will generate a list of resources it could download. Users may then narrow this list by file type or regular expression filtering on file names. Download rules can also be configured to sort files into different folders based on file type, file name, and other attributes. The FAQ section on the Chrono website provides detailed documentation on the rule system along with examples. Chrono Download Manager is available for Google Chrome via the Chrome Web Store


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


Education Tutorials

MoneySmart: Teaching Resources From the Australian Government ---  www.moneysmart.gov.au/teaching/teaching-resources

Google Arts & Culture: Space Exploration ---
https://artsandculture.google.com/project/space-exploration

Nature's Notebook --- www.usanpn.org/natures_notebook

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology: BirdSleuth K-12: Free Webinars for Educators --- www.birdsleuth.org/free-webinars

New library website provides digital front door to Harvard resources ---
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/07/new-library-website-provides-digital-front-door-to-harvard-resources/ 

Native (American) Report: Resources for Teachers ---
https://native.wdse.org/teachers

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

Google Arts & Culture: Space Exploration ---
https://artsandculture.google.com/project/space-exploration

Aquatic Invasions --- www.aquaticinvasions.net

The data behind the search for MH370 (oceanic visualization research) ---
https://geoscience-au.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/index.html?appid=038a72439bfa4d28b3dde81cc6ff3214

Tracking Cuckoos to Africa... and Back Again --- www.bto.org/science/migration/tracking-studies/cuckoo-tracking

Nature's Notebook --- www.usanpn.org/natures_notebook

The Super Bowl of Beekeeping Science --- www.nytimes.com/2018/08/15/magazine/the-super-bowl-of-beekeeping.html

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology: BirdSleuth K-12: Free Webinars for Educators --- www.birdsleuth.org/free-webinars

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

Immigration Since 1840 Social studies dp.la/browse-by-topic/immigration-since-1840 ---
https://dp.la/browse-by-topic/immigration-since-1840

Naonaiyaotit Traditional Knowledge Project Atlas (Canada Native Americans) --- www.ntkp.ca

Library of Congress ---
https://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/new_logo_and_identity_for_library_of_congress_by_pentagram.php

USA Wildfires --- https://storymaps.esri.com/stories/usa-wildfires/

MediaNOLA (New Orleans History) --- http://medianola.org/

The Caribbean Memory Project --- www.caribbeanmemoryproject.com

Native (American) Report: Resources for Teachers ---
https://native.wdse.org/teachers

Rainbow History Project (LGBT) --- www.rainbowhistory.org

Bob Jensen's threads on Economics, Anthropology, Social Sciences, and Philosophy tutorials are at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm

Bob Jensen's links to free courses and tutorials --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI


Law and Legal Studies

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

From the Scout Report on August 17, 2018

Global Math Department --- http://globalmathdepartment.org/
The Global Math Department is an informal network of mathematics instructors who met online (many blog about their instructional techniques and are active on Twitter) and decided to create a series of free, open webinars designed for use by other instructors. These webinars cover topics such as coding in math class and teaching students to make mathematical connects. Instructors can participate in live webinars each Tuesday evening at 9:00 PM EST; alternatively, anyone may view recordings of all past webinars on this website. To learn about upcoming webinars, one can check out the website's calendar. The Global Math Department also publishes a weekly online newsletter that highlights articles related to math instruction and features digital tools that can be used in the classroom. In addition to curriculum and instruction ideas, there are also many tips about blogging and using Twitter on this website.

Bob Jensen's links to free courses and tutorials --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI


History Tutorials

Hume the Humane ---
https://aeon.co/essays/hume-is-the-amiable-modest-generous-philosopher-we-need-today?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=116979c112-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_08_15_04_07&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-116979c112-68951505

The Uffizi Digitization Project (art history) --- www.digitalsculpture-uffizi.org

The New York Public Library Puts Classic Stories on Instagram ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/08/the-new-york-public-library-puts-classic-stories-on-instagram.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Ethnic America, mapped: Your county’s biggest ancestral populations ---
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/04/18/ethnic-america-mapped-your-countys-biggest-ancestral-populations/?utm_term=.f4d4d445a9b4

Native (American) Report: Resources for Teachers ---
https://native.wdse.org/teachers

Hundreds of Classical Sculptures from the Uffizi Gallery Now Digitized & Put Online: Explore a Collection of 3D Interactive Scans ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/08/hundreds-classical-sculptures-uffizi-gallery-now-digitized-put-online-explore-collection-3d-interactive-scans.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

ArtCurious Podcast --- www.artcuriouspodcast.com

The History of Cartography, “the Most Ambitious Overview of Map Making Ever Undertaken,” Is Free Online ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/08/free-download-the-history-of-cartography.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Centering Spenser: A Digital Resource for Kilcolman Castle ---
http://core.ecu.edu/umc/Munster/index.html

Immigration Since 1840 Social studies dp.la/browse-by-topic/immigration-since-1840 ---
https://dp.la/browse-by-topic/immigration-since-1840

The Brilliant Line (engraving history) --- http://mantis.risdmuseum.org/Brilliant-Line/

Historical Collections of the Great Lakes ---  www.bgsu.edu/library/cac/collections/hcgl.html

MediaNOLA (New Orleans History) --- http://medianola.org/

A Liberian Journey --- http://liberianhistory.org/

Library of Congress ---
https://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/new_logo_and_identity_for_library_of_congress_by_pentagram.php

LitCharts produces plot summaries for novels and plays with interactive tools such as searchable quotes, color-coded "theme wheels," and longitudinal study techniques such as "theme tracking." Our database includes study guides for newer and lesser-known works, coverage that CliffsNotes and SparkNotes do not offer ---
https://www.litcharts.com/

USA Wildfires --- https://storymaps.esri.com/stories/usa-wildfires/

New library website provides digital front door to Harvard resources ---
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/07/new-library-website-provides-digital-front-door-to-harvard-resources/ 

The Caribbean Memory Project --- www.caribbeanmemoryproject.com

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  

Rainbow History Project (LGBT) --- www.rainbowhistory.org

Islamic Calligraphy --- http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/islamic_calligraphy/

Underslos Museum: Tanum Rock Art Research Centre Arts www.rockartscandinavia.com

Bob Jensen's links to free courses and tutorials --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI


Language Tutorials

The Legendary Language of the Appalachian “Holler” ---
https://daily.jstor.org/the-legendary-language-of-the-appalachian-holler/

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


Music Tutorials

From the Scout Report on August 24, 2018

Sardanapalo, Liszt's "Lost" Italian Opera, Has Its World Premiere in Germany

 

Liszt's lost opera: 'beautiful' work finally brought to life after 170 years
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/aug/17/sardanapalo-lost-liszt-opera-premiere

German orchestra to premiere forgotten opera by Franz Liszt
https://www.dw.com/en/german-orchestra-to-premiere-forgotten-opera-by-franz-liszt/a-45118673

Review: Joyce El-Khoury brings a 'meaty dramatic approach' to long-lost Liszt opera Sardanapalo
http://operacanada.ca/sardanapalo/

The story behind Liszt's unheard opera
http://www.classical-music.com/blog/story-behind-liszts-unheard-opera

How Liszt's Lost Opera was Rescued
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEqRAdUEO2E

Liszt Ferenc Memorial Museum and Research Centre
http://www.lisztmuseum.hu/en/

Bob Jensen's threads on free mu, sic 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

V.S. Naipaul Creates a List of 7 Rules for Beginning Writers ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/08/v-s-naipaul-creates-list-7-rules-beginning-writers.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Bob Jensen's helpers for writers are at http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob3.htm#Dictionaries



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

CDC Blogs --- http://blogs.cdc.gov/

Shots: NPR Health News --- http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots

Updates from WebMD --- http://www.webmd.com/

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Humor for August 2018

How Comedians Are Turning #MeToo Into Laughs ---
Click Here

College Humor --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CollegeHumor

College Humor ---
http://www.collegehumor.com/

his video forwarded by Paula is not only funny it shows how most of really don't have the video-making skills of the true, and very patient, pros in making videos ---
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/164d430b30f86dbd?projector=1&messagePartId=0.1 

CBS News:  Zoo accused of painting donkeys to look like zebras
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/zoo-accused-of-painting-donkeys-to-look-like-zebras/

Amazon facial recognition 'wrongly' matches 28 members of Congress with criminal mugshots ---
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/technology/amazon-facial-recognition-wrongly-matches-28-members-of-congress-with-criminal-mugshots
Mark Twain said members of Congress are the most criminal class in America

21 jokes Obama made in office that had his daughters cringing ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/dad-jokes-obama-2018-8

Man busted on moped with $100+ worth of Walmart steaks in pants, Nash deputies say ---
https://www.cbs17.com/news/local-news/man-busted-on-moped-with-100-worth-of-walmart-steaks-in-pants-nash-deputies-say/1335279363
Jensen Comment
Gives a whole new meaning to rump roasts.

The case for puns as the most elevated display of wit ---
https://qz.com/1344927/the-case-for-puns-as-the-most-elevated-display-of-wit/

Here are a few things that are effectively legal in San Francisco: drugs, public defecation and shoplifting. And here are some of the things that are banned or will be banned in the City by the Bay. Straws. Fur coats. Bottled water. Eating at work. Vaping liquids. Upholstered furniture. Plastic bags. Pet stores. Electric scooters. Coffee cups and packing peanuts. Tropical fish. The McDonald’s Happy Meal ---
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/270883/san-francisco-bans-everything-daniel-greenfield
Jensen Comment
I think banned "eating at work" means eating free meals provided by the employer (a move to support restaurants). You can still bring your lunch box and a thermos. I don't understand banning bottled water, but it's probably the plastic bottles that are banned. You can bring your own water and coffee in a thermos and drink out of the lid. It's best to place store merchandise behind unbreakable glass walls. It would also be best to wear plastic baggies over your shoes when walking on the streets, but plastic baggies are banned. Jumping is the new craze on SF streets --- that and sliding. Scooters became a popular means of pushing through the poop until the scooters were banned. Changing a bike tire can be hazardous to your health

From the CFO Journal's Morning Ledger on July 30, 2018

Walmart Inc. is exploring a subscription video-streaming service that would seek to challenge Netflix Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. by offering programming that targets Middle America, according to people familiar with the plans.

Jensen Comment
Aside from using the F-word less than 1,000 times per movie, I'm not sure what Middle America programming entails. If Walmart decides to produce movies it has an advantage in producing both comedies and erotica. All it has to do is use it's own security camera footage of how people are dressed in Walmart stores ---
https://www.providr.com/now/worst-walmart-customers/




Humor August 2018--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book18q3.htm#Humor0818.htm 

Humor July 2018--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book18q3.htm#Humor0718.htm

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

 

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

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

 

CPAS-L (Practitioners) http://pacioli.loyola.edu/cpas-l/  (Closed Down)
CPAS-L provides a forum for discussions of all aspects of the practice of accounting. It provides an unmoderated environment where issues, questions, comments, ideas, etc. related to accounting can be freely discussed. Members are welcome to take an active role by posting to CPAS-L or an inactive role by just monitoring the list. You qualify for a free subscription if you are either a CPA or a professional accountant in public accounting, private industry, government or education. Others will be denied access.
Yahoo (Practitioners)  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xyztalk
This forum is for CPAs to discuss the activities of the AICPA. This can be anything  from the CPA2BIZ portal to the XYZ initiative or anything else that relates to the AICPA.
AccountantsWorld  http://accountantsworld.com/forums/default.asp?scope=1 
This site hosts various discussion groups on such topics as accounting software, consulting, financial planning, fixed assets, payroll, human resources, profit on the Internet, and taxation.
Business Valuation Group BusValGroup-subscribe@topica.com 
This discussion group is headed by Randy Schostag [RSchostag@BUSVALGROUP.COM
FEI's Financial Reporting Blog
Smart Stops on the Web, Journal of Accountancy, March 2008 --- http://www.aicpa.org/pubs/jofa/mar2008/smart_stops.htm
FINANCIAL REPORTING PORTAL
www.financialexecutives.org/blog

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

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

I found another listserve that is exceptional -

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

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

Scott

Scott forwarded the following message from Jim Counts

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

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

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

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

Please encourage your members to join our listserve.

If any questions let me know.

Jim Counts CPA.CITP CTFA
Hemet, CA
Moderator TaxTalk

 

 

 

 

Many useful accounting sites (scroll down) --- http://www.iasplus.com/links/links.htm

 

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

Some Accounting History Sites

Bob Jensen's Accounting History in a Nutshell and Links --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm#AccountingHistory
 

Accounting History Libraries at the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) --- http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/accountancy/libraries.html
The above libraries include international accounting history.
The above libraries include film and video historical collections.

MAAW Knowledge Portal for Management and Accounting --- http://maaw.info/

Academy of Accounting Historians and the Accounting Historians Journal ---
http://www.accounting.rutgers.edu/raw/aah/

Sage Accounting History --- http://ach.sagepub.com/cgi/pdf_extract/11/3/269

A nice timeline on the development of U.S. standards and the evolution of thinking about the income statement versus the balance sheet is provided at:
"The Evolution of U.S. GAAP: The Political Forces Behind Professional Standards (1930-1973)," by Stephen A. Zeff, CPA Journal, January 2005 --- http://www.nysscpa.org/cpajournal/2005/105/infocus/p18.htm
Part II covering years 1974-2003 published in February 2005 --- http://www.nysscpa.org/cpajournal/2005/205/index.htm 

A nice timeline of accounting history --- http://www.docstoc.com/docs/2187711/A-HISTORY-OF-ACCOUNTING

From Texas A&M University
Accounting History Outline --- http://acct.tamu.edu/giroux/history.html

Bob Jensen's timeline of derivative financial instruments and hedge accounting ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudRotten.htm#DerivativesFrauds

History of Fraud in America --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/415wp/AmericanHistoryOfFraud.htm
Also see http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Fraud.htm

Bob Jensen's Threads ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/threads.htm

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

All my online pictures --- http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/PictureHistory/

 

Professor Robert E. Jensen (Bob) http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen
190 Sunset Hill Road
Sugar Hill, NH 03586
Phone:  603-823-8482 
Email:  rjensen@trinity.edu