Tidbits on February 14 2019
Bob Jensen at Trinity University

Historic Photographs (Set 05) of the Sunset Hill House Resort Shared by Gunsmith Ron Resden from Vermont
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Resden/2019/05ResdenSSH.htm

Tidbits on February 14, 2019
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Bob Jensen's Tidbits ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm

For earlier editions of Fraud Updates go to http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm
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

Mathematical Association of America: On This Day --- www.maa.org/news/on-this-day

Online Video, Slide Shows, and Audio

A History of the Entire World in Less Than 20 Minutes ---
http://www.openculture.com/2019/02/a-history-of-the-entire-world-in-less-than-20-minutes.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

An Animated Reconstruction of Ancient Rome: Take A 30-Minute Stroll Through the City’s Virtually-Recreated Streets ---
http://www.openculture.com/2019/02/an-animated-reconstruction-of-ancient-rome.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Journeys in Film (Education) --- https://journeysinfilm.org/

TED Talk:  Did you know that almost 150 million people worldwide are born intersex -- with biology that doesn't fit the standard definition of male or female?
https://www.ted.com/talks/emily_quinn_the_way_we_think_about_biological_sex_is_wrong?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2019-02-02&utm_campaign=newsletter_weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_content=bottom_left_button
Arwen
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Arwen.htm

Watch The Journey, the New Ridley Scott Short Film Teased During the Super Bowl ---
http://www.openculture.com/2019/02/watch-the-journey-the-new-ridley-scott-short-film-teased-during-the-super-bowl.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Socratica Educational (science videos for kids) --- www.youtube.com/user/SocraticaStudios

Watch 66 Oscar-Nominated-and-Award-Winning Animated Shorts Online, Courtesy of the National Film Board of Canada ---
http://www.openculture.com/2019/02/watch-66-oscar-nominated-and-award-winning-animated-shorts-online.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

UN Audiovisual Library --- www.unmultimedia.org/avlibrary

To the Best of Our Knowledge (radio programs) --- www.ttbook.org

TeachEngineering: Riding the Radio Waves --- www.teachengineering.org/lessons/view/duk_amradio_tech_less

Big Picture Science (radio programs) --- http://radio.seti.org/

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 

How the Clavichord & Harpsichord Became the Modern Piano: The Evolution of Keyboard Instruments, Explained ---
http://www.openculture.com/2019/02/how-the-clavichord-harpsichord-became-the-modern-piano.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Watch a Towering Orchestral Tribute to Kate Bush: A 40th Anniversary Celebration of Her First Single, “Wuthering Heights”  ---
http://www.openculture.com/2019/02/watch-a-towering-orchestral-tribute-to-kate-bush.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

A Vintage Grand Piano Gets Reengineered to Play 20 Different Instruments with a Push of Its Keys ---
http://www.openculture.com/2019/02/a-vintage-grand-piano-gets-reengineered-to-play-20-different-instruments-with-a-push-of-its-keys.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Gods, Gurus, and the Search for the Holy Grail: Bach Recordings from 2018 ---
https://hudsonreview.com/2019/02/gods-gurus-and-the-search-for-the-holy-grail-bach-recordings-from-2018/#.XGHTMvZFycz

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

Chinese satellite captures moon and Earth like you've never seen them ---
Click Here

The Cleveland Museum of Art Digitizes Its Collection, Putting 30,000 Works Online and Into the Public Domain ---
http://www.openculture.com/2019/01/the-cleveland-museum-of-art-digitizes-its-collection.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Photos of Famous London Landmarks ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/london-expectation-vs-reality-crowded-tourist-attractions-buckingham-palace-big-ben-2019-1

Download Free Coloring Books from 113 Museums ---
http://www.openculture.com/2019/02/download-free-coloring-books-from-113-museums.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

As poppies bloom, Mexico seeks to halt heroin trade ---
https://news.yahoo.com/photos-as-poppies-bloom-mexico-seeks-to-halt-heroin-trade-163840115.html

Historic Manuscript Filled with Beautiful Illustrations of Cuban Flowers & Plants Is Now Online (1826 ) ---
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwBVglgSkXXXRhJDrpfTNHqNxNr

Wreck of the World War II aircraft carrier USS Hornet is discovered in the South Pacific 77 years after it was sunk by the Imperial Japanese Navy ---
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6695955/Wreck-carrier-USS-Hornet-discovered-South-Pacific.html

US Navy photographer tells the wild story of how she shot these stunning photos of F-35 stealth fighters ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/navy-camerawoman-tells-story-of-how-she-got-these-stunning-f-35-images-2019-2

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

Longreads: Stories to Read in 2019 ---
https://longreads.com/2019/01/10/stories-to-read-in-2019/

55 places you can download tens of thousands books, plays and other literary texts completely legally for free ---
https://nothingintherulebook.com/2017/01/10/55-places-you-can-download-tens-of-thousands-books-plays-and-other-literary-texts-completely-legally-for-free/?fbclid=IwAR27IEqi3PknUNnjqN7AoIC4dPaHbk68-lXLOnZmqnQiBEQjgoZXTSQWYI4

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 February 14, 2019
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/2019/TidbitsQuotations021419.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

Student Changes Grades and Downloads Exam in Computer Hack
Student Pleads Guilty to Computer Fraud, Trying to Preserve Scholarship:  Faces $250,000 Fine and Five Years in Prison ---
https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdtn/pr/student-pleads-guilty-computer-fraud-trying-preserve-scholarship?elqTrackId=d0957d954d5047eca189c5a11e7ecf79&elq=249282f623274018b6acc06e584beb54&elqaid=22237&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=10934

AICPA:  How to identify and prevent contract cheating in courses ---
https://www.journalofaccountancy.com/newsletters/extra-credit/contract-cheating.html?utm_source=mnl:extracredit&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=12Feb2019

Bob Jensen's threads on distance education cheating prevention ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Plagiarism.htm#OnlineCheating

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

Swiss e-voting trial offers $150,000 in bug bounties to hackers ---
https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/12/18221570/swiss-e-electronic-voting-public-intrusion-test-hacking-white-hack-bug-bounties?_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_3NhiDgQhqhjXlEjBbc_ayBho4qjyjHvJCgmww8pz7y97F8UKl4z_qo1H6MbPPMFzVstm-KtyBzFnaa7NgUFzXQALnTQ&_hsmi=69865985

Jensen Comment
The entire nation of Switzerland has less than nine million people which means that the entire nation has fewer people than the USA has undocumented immigrants. The USA has 300+ million people with many of them scattered over tens of thousands of smaller voting precincts. The vulnerability is in e-voting is still human in the precinct registration process. Switzerland can more tightly control the registration process than rural USA such that it's not so simple to control e-voting fraud in the USA as it is Switzerland.

Political parties in Switzerland not trying to make illegal voting as easy as political parties in the USA want to encourage illegal voting --- in Texas the dead vote year after year for decades.

Think of how many whistleblowers would love it if we placed a $150,000 bounty in the USA for every detected illegal vote. That might replace the entire USA welfare system.

Five emerging cyber-threats to worry about in 2019 ---
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612713/five-emerging-cyber-threats-2019/?utm_campaign=the_download.unpaid.engagement&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=69687561&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_nUVWkz2RFdAc-epy5zlO7pMWM0B-ZMsjHVQu3-G4wPXjjmWe6dewIBQRkq-LsHddXcNJJqnKDWb8Tdb19RCTQXvX8Qg&_hsmi=69687561

Last year was full of cybersecurity disasters, from the revelation of security flaws in billions of microchips to massive data breaches and attacks using malicious software that locks down computer systems until a ransom is paid, usually in the form of an untraceable digital currency.

We’re going to see more mega-breaches and ransomware attacks in 2019. Planning to deal with these and other established risks, like threats to web-connected consumer devices and critical infrastructure such as electrical grids and transport systems, will be a top priority for security teams. But cyber-defenders should be paying attention to new threats, too. Here are some that should be on watch lists:

. . .

Businesses that host other companies’ data on their servers—or manage clients’ IT systems remotely—make super-tempting targets for hackers. By breaching these companies’ systems, they can get access to those of clients, too. Big cloud companies like Amazon and Google can afford to invest heavily in cybersecurity defenses and pay salaries that attract some of the best talent in the field. That doesn’t make them immune to a breach, but it’s more likely that hackers will target smaller firms.

This has already started to happen. The US government recently accused Chinese hackers of sneaking into the systems of a company that managed IT for other firms. Using this access, the hackers were allegedly able to gain access to the computers of 45 companies around the world, in industries from aviation to oil and gas exploration.

Dubbed “Cloudhopper” by security experts, the attack is just the tip of what’s going to be a fast-growing iceberg. “You’re going to see [hackers] move from focusing on desktop malware to data-center malware” that offers significant economies of scale, says Chenxi Wang, the founder of Rain Capital, a venture capital firm that specializes in cybersecurity.

Some of the other risks we’ve listed may seem less pressing than this one. But when it comes to cybersecurity, the companies best prepared to tackle tomorrow’s threats will be the ones most willing to exercise their imaginations today.

Jensen Comment
It seems an impossible dream to get the Chinese and Russians to play fair in the world. This is World War III.

Example
A Norwegian cloud computing firm has been hit by a Chinese cyberattack ---
Click Here

The Best Video Doorbell With Facial Recognition ---
https://www.reviewgeek.com/12743/the-best-video-doorbell-with-facial-recognition/

Jensen Comment
isn't facial recognition illegal now in some sanctuary cities like San Francisco?

What is Doxing, and Why is it Considered Bad?
https://www.howtogeek.com/402764/what-is-doxxing-and-why-is-it-bad/

Jensen Comment
Makes you wonder about telephone number reverse lookups on Google and other Web crawlers.

Seems like humans can't visit anywhere without trashing up the place

U.S. NASA NASA's Opportunity Rover Declared Dead After Record-Breaking 15 Years on Mars NASA's Opportunity Rover Declared Dead After Record-Breaking 15 Years on Mars ---
Click Here
 

This is a rather lengthy computer file (with video clips) off the 2019 Super Bowl ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/super-bowl-liii-biggest-moments-plays-patriots-rams-2019-2#the-roof-was-opened-before-the-game-but-was-closed-for-the-actual-game-3

Some of you may not get the "Goat" meaning of the last sentence of the article:
"And after one final kneel down, it was another ring for the GOAT."

My take on this that it comes from a Bible verse ---
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/bibleandculture/2019/02/03/the-prophecy-of-daniel-about-the-super-bowl-has-come-true/

Google has launched two new apps for deaf people ---
Click Here

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

How to Mislead With Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Law_School

Jensen Comment
I've mentioned before how Wikipedia entries are often (certainly not always) purged of negativism, especially in biographies, corporate modules, and other organization modules. Exhibit A is the New York Law School (not to be confused with the New York University Law School). The above module does not contain negative issues that are troublesome about the New York Law School.

Moody's Continues New York Law School's Negative Financial Outlook, Citing Its 26% Operating Deficit ---
https://www.law.com/newyorklawjournal/2019/02/08/new-york-law-school-still-faces-financial-challenges-moodys-finds/

I have not tracked the Wikipedia module over time for the NYLS. But I have tracked some other Wikipedia modules over time. For example, at one time the Wikipedia module for Paul Krugman cited articles that questioned his occasional integrity lapses in using data. However, today all of these negative citations have been removed from
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Krugman

My point is that negativism is not always removed from Wikipedia modules. But you cannot trust them to always be balanced for research purposes. They often are biased toward the positive side, much like the bias that arises in reviews of products on Amazon. Negative reviews often appear for products listed in Amazon, but you can't trust them to be unbiased. Many of the positive reviews are biased investors, employees, friends, and paid reviewers. Many of the negative reviews are sponsored by competitors.

I don't think the Wikipedia modules suffer heavily from "fake news." However, they do suffer hugely from cherry picking when it comes to biographies ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_picking
It's possible in wikis to enter more balanced items, but don't count on those newer entries to remain if they are bad news items.

As a test, investigate how often Wikipedia modules fail to mention detected plagiarizing in their Wikipedia entries ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Plagiarism.htm#Celebrities
It's surprising how often mention of plagiarism remains in their Wikipedia modules, including those of Martine Luther King, Jr. and Jane Goodall.
Wikipedia is not entirely biased.

How to Create Animated Pie Charts in PowerPoint ---
https://www.howtogeek.com/402392/how-to-create-animated-pie-charts-in-powerpoint/

Bob Jensen's threads on PowerPoint ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm#PowerPointHelpers

MOOCs:   2,400 Massive Open Online Courses Hosted Free by from Prestigious Universities --- Getting Started in February ---
http://www.openculture.com/2019/01/2400-moocs-massive-open-online-courses-getting-started-in-february.html
Certificates and transcript credits cost extra, but the learning is free for those who just want to learn new things
Learning anything worthwhile takes time, sweat, and maybe even tears ---  a friend once said that taking a MOOC is like trying to drink from a high-pressured fire hose

Why Can't They Write?
Think poor teaching and low expectations
https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/title/why-they-cant-write?elqTrackId=f4c15e046f6a4f1fbf7e615735eb36c8&elq=417ca4b68f2041d2a8b43aea7e38b694&elqaid=22118&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=10841
Grade inflation takes its toll

Jensen Comment
I have to admit that I'm often guilty of grammar mistakes. My excuse is that I write volumes every day and don't take the time to proof read. There are really different venues for writing with email taking on a life all of its own. In my case I would get a whole lot less accomplished if I took the time to carefully draft and proofread email messages before hitting the Send button. Of course many might say that would be a good thing. But to the extent I cover the waterfront each day in my tidbits it would be tedious and boring to have to worry about grammar mistakes all the time.

Yeah I know the rule between to and too, Your and You're, and how to spell exacerbate. Yeah I know I sometimes spell phonetically

But while I was still teaching I terrorized my students by being knit picky when grading their essays (not their emails). They were forewarned that learning how to write better was a goal of my teaching even if I had a double standard for email.

Internal Control --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_control

NCAA Punishes Missouri in Blatant Academic Fraud Case (why ignorance should be no defense in law or in academic integrity)  ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/02/01/ncaa-punishes-missouri-blatant-case-academic-fraud?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=cc6f4c3a81-DNU_2019_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-cc6f4c3a81-197565045&mc_cid=cc6f4c3a81&mc_eid=1e78f7c952

Association finds former tutor completed classwork -- and full online courses -- for 12 athletes, but without university's encouragement or detection. Missouri vows to appeal "harsh and inconsistent" decision.

Jensen Comment
In audits of business firms one of the most important responsibilities (after the Sarbanes-Oxlley Act) is to discover internal control weaknesses. Internal controls are the now the primary responsibilities of top management and auditors. When fraud happens you can expect lawsuits over undetected weaknesses in internal controls.

The fact that University leaders do not "encourage or detect" academic fraud should not be an excuse before the NCAA or in court. University leaders are responsible to design and maintain internal controls to prevent academic fraud of all types. Without such controls grading integrity becomes a sham.

In general, the best way to prevent and detect of fraud is to have a great internal whistleblowing rewards system. In this case there most certainly other students who (and maybe coaches) who knew about this academic fraud. With a sufficient whistleblower rewards system it probably never would've happened in the first place.

The New Yorker:  Are Equality and Freedom Mutually Independent?
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/01/07/the-philosopher-redefining-equality

The Status of the ‘Marriage Penalty’: An Update from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act ---
https://www.cpajournal.com/2019/02/04/the-status-of-the-marriage-penalty-an-update-from-the-tax-cuts-and-jobs-act/

Philosophy --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy

Three philosophers set up a booth on a street corner – here’s what people asked ---
https://theconversation.com/3-philosophers-set-up-a-booth-on-a-street-corner-heres-what-people-asked-110866

Jensen Comment
I found the answers disappointing. They were too general and vague. For example, consider the answer that "research shows what makes us happy is achieving small goals." So go on and give us examples of goals that might make us happy. Actually what makes some of us happy is to be appreciated (not necessarily loved). What keeps me going on my blogs, Websites, and listservs is to be appreciated by users, although some of the most active users don't necessarily "love me," especially if a provide an answer they hate but cannot refute. Others might want to be appreciated more hands on such as my neighbor is a "holder of babies." He's a retired physician who volunteers to hold babies of drug addicted mothers. The appreciation of the babies themselves is quite subtle, and when they grow older they probably won't even know who held them.

This philosophy booth idea seems too superficial and gimmicky to me. Life is too complicated to resolve issues on a street corner. Therapy usually takes months at best and years at normal.

If three accountants set up shop on a street corner what would you ask them? Most questions would probably focus on tax, but even here the law is too complicated for for simple solutions in most cases. Unlike philosophy, however, there are a few simple tax questions.

"Scientists and Philosophers Answer Kids’ Most Pressing Questions About How the World Works"" by Maria Popova, Brain Pickings, November 5, 2015 ---
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/11/05/big-questions-from-little-people/

Big Questions from Little People ---
http://www.amazon.com/Big-Questions-Little-People-Answers/dp/0062223224/ref=sr_1_3?tag=braipick-20
I enjoyed this book and was glad I did not have to answer most of the questions.

University of Washington Center for Philosophy for Children: Lesson Plans --- http://depts.washington.edu/nwcenter/resources/lesson-plans
Example:  Ethics of Self-Driving Cars --- http://depts.washington.edu/nwcenter/lessonplans/ethical-dilemma-self-driving-cars/

Logical Fallacies --- https://www.logicalfallacies.org/

Philosophy for Beginners --- https://mariannetalbot.co.uk/about/podcasts/philosophy-for-beginners

For Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle, much of philosophy was mere nonsense. Then came Frank Ramsey’s pragmatic alternative ---
https://aeon.co/essays/what-is-truth-on-ramsey-wittgenstein-and-the-vienna-circle?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=b067354109-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_01_23_04_31&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-b067354109-68951505

Bob Jensen's many links to philosophy gems ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#Social

Cities Reading List (how urbanization works) --- https://devonzuegel.com/post/cities-reading-list

John Locke on the Supremacy of the People, the Supremacy of the Legislature over the Executive, and the Power of the Executive to Deal with Rotten Boroughs ---
https://blog.supplysideliberal.com/post/2019/2/10/john-locke-on-the-supremacy-of-the-people-the-supremacy-of-the-legislature-over-the-executive-and-the-power-of-the-executive-to-deal-with-rotten-boroughs

How to Mislead With Statistics ---
A simple technology could secure the border for a fraction of the cost of a wall — but no one's talking about it
https://www.businessinsider.com/fiber-optic-sensing-technology-vs-border-wall-2019-2

Jensen Comment
The problem with buried fiber optic cables is that they really don't prevent intruders from getting across the border. There was a recent enmass race amidst tear gas canisters by caravan marchers for the border in San Diego. They knew they would almost certainly get caught, but they were relying on the liberal Ninth Circuit Court to eventually let them stay in the USA while, in the meantime, the USA government by law is required to them shelter, food, medical care, and safety. Or as is sometimes the case the Border Patrol simply turns them loose in the USA. Of course is was still a gamble that both detained intruders and released intruders will eventually be deported. But over 11 million known intruders are living in the USA.

Many of these racing marchers were instead turned back by fencing and tear gas.

Hence all the favorable statistics for catching intruders once they have crossed the border misses the point. Once across the border they get to stay for weeks and months and maybe years and maybe forever. If stopped by a fence or wall they are still in the Mexico ---  which is where they don't want to stay ---
https://www.breitbart.com/border/2019/02/05/video-caravan-migrants-make-a-dash-for-unfenced-texas-border/

How to Mislead With Statistics
How Much Accountants And Tax Preparers Earn In Every State ---
https://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2019/02/how-much-accountants-and-tax-preparers-earn-in-every-state.html

Jensen Comment
I could make my usual criticisms such as cost of living differences and state taxation differences that overwhelm the supposed earning differences by state.
I could also criticize the BLS mean statistics as not being accompanied with data on variances and skewness.
Averages get distorted by wages of newly-hired college graduates mixed in with employees having years of experience.
In tax season a whole lot of overtime gets paid to accountants who are tax preparers where not so much overtime gets paid to accountants who don't work in tax.

But mostly I will focus on the vagueness of what is a "an accountant and tax preparer." Some are entrepreneurs and partnerships (including LLC corporations), those equity owners of accounting firms. And accounting  firms vary in size from no employees to thousands of employees. And those firms most likely mix revenues from tax preparation to systems consulting to auditing to whatever. It would be misleading merge what partners make with the salaries they pay their employee "accountants and tax preparers." And those salaries paid to employees probably have a lot of benefits not picked up in the BLS data such as profit sharing and bonuses and fringe benefits such as expensive training and day care subsidies.

My basic point is that "owners" of accounting firms are still doing a lot of the accounting, auditing, consulting, and tax work alongside their employees. Public accounting (and law)  firms are not like NFL teams where owners are in the luxury boxes and not getting knocked around on the playing fields. What is paid to an employee in "salary" is typically only paid for the first 5-10 years until employees either become part owners of the firm or are moved out of public accounting into business firms or government (think FBI).

You just cannot compare what public accountants make in "salaries" with what accountants make in business firms and government where accountants spend their entire careers living on "salaries."  Most public accountants are only on "salaries" for the first 5-10 years of their careers. After that they're working owners and no longer "public accountants working for owners."

And now we get to the most important reason the salaries in the above article are so low. The problem is definitional. CPAs having masters degrees are mixed in with "accountants and tax preparers" who might've never graduated from high school. The non-CPAs' low salaries drag down the BLS mean averages. Most candidates for the CPA exam have masters degrees since they have to have 150 or more college credits to even sit for the CPA exam.

Longreads: Stories to Read in 2019 ---
https://longreads.com/2019/01/10/stories-to-read-in-2019/
Note Ira Glass’s Commencement Speech at the Columbia Journalism School Graduation
Also note the unexpected use of Japan's prisons --- they're not just for criminals

Neil Gaiman Teaches the Art of Storytelling in His New Online Course ---
http://www.openculture.com/2019/01/neil-gaiman-teaches-the-art-of-storytelling-in-his-new-online-course.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Bestselling author of The Woman in the Window 'lied about having cancer' ---
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/feb/05/bestselling-author-of-the-woman-at-the-window-lied-about-having-cancer

Jill Abramson (former NYT Editor) is accused of plagiarism in the latest scandal surrounding her book release ---
https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/2/7/18215477/jill-abramson-plagiarism-controversy-merchants-of-truth

Journalists say multiple passages from Abramson’s Merchants of Truth were lifted from other sources.

Jill Abramson, former executive editor of the New York Times, says she wants to celebrate and protect journalistic standards in her new book Merchants of Truth. But last month, she was accused of making factual errors in the book. And this week, she was accused of plagiarizing multiple passages.

In a lengthy Twitter thread, Vice correspondent Michael C. Moynihan compared multiple passages from Abramson’s finished book — which officially came out on Tuesday, February 5 — to passages from articles by other writers. The compared passages all contain the same information organized in the same way, often contain similar sentence structure, and sometimes contain echoes of exact phrasing.

In Merchants of Truth, Abramson writes of Vice co-founder Gavin McInnes, “He wrote a column in The American Conservative, a magazine run by Pat Buchanan, calling young people a bunch of knee-jerk liberals (a phrase McInnes and his ilk often used) who would believe anyone with dark skin over anyone with light skin. He lamented the views of his magazine’s readers, saying they were ‘brainwashed by communist propaganda.’”

Moynihan matches that paragraph with a similar passage from the Ryerson Review of Journalism: “In August 2003, McInnes wrote a column in The American Conservative, a magazine run by Pat Buchanan. In the magazine, he called young people a bunch of knee-jerk liberals (a phrase McInnes and his cronies use often) who’ll believe anyone with dark skin over anyone with light skin. He laments the liberal views of most of the people who pick up his magazine, saying they’re ‘brainwashed by communist propaganda.’”

While the Abramson passage contains minor tweaks — like changes to the tense and swapping out “cronies” for “ilk” — it’s still by and large extremely similar to the Ryerson passage. It contains the same information, mostly phrased in the same way.

“There’s plenty more — enormous factual errors, other cribbed passages, single or unsourced claims — but this should give a sense,” Moynihan wrote on Twitter.

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Bob Jensen's threads about authors who plagiarize or otherwise cheat ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Plagiarism.htm

Where was Mom when I needed her the most?
The police at Towson University warned people on the campus to be on the lookout for a woman who was looking for a date for her son ---
Click Here
Jensen Comment
It would've been even more understandable if her son was a tenured and very introverted professor of accounting. There's an old saying that an extroverted accountant is one who looks at your shoes when you're having a conversation.

Jerry, Marge, and the Rolldown Lottery ---
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/lottery-code-state-name-of-couple-michigan-win-movie-a8751046.html

Jensen Comment
This article still does not put Jerry's legal strategy into Jerry's algebraic equations, but it does give one of the best summaries of how his strategy works. It depends heavily on not having more Jerrys in the game.

Jerry formed a corporation to use this strategy in Michigan and Massachusetts. Only his closest local friends were shareholders.

Note that although the corporation's winnings were $26 million, the expense was $18 million in tons of lottery tickets such that the profits were under $8 million. It was also a lot of work buying and sorting through all those tickets. Jerry also worried that other Jerrys would enter the game. Sometimes you can get too much of a good thing in life.

On the AECM a claim was made that the some vendors of the tickets violated the law when selling Jerry and Marge so many tickets. I've not seen any support for that claim.

For an even longer and more detailed article see my original posting:
The link I originally posted was at
The Lottery Hackers: Jerry and Marge Go Large ---
https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/lotto-winners/

“A Fundamentally Illegitimate Choice”: Shoshana Zuboff on the Age of Surveillance Capitalism ---
https://theintercept.com/2019/02/02/shoshana-zuboff-age-of-surveillance-capitalism

Shoshana Zuboff’s “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism” is already drawing comparisons to seminal socioeconomic investigations like Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” and Karl Marx’s “Capital.” Zuboff’s book deserves these comparisons and more: Like the former, it’s an alarming exposé about how business interests have poisoned our world, and like the latter, it provides a framework to understand and combat that poison. But “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism,” named for the now-popular term Zuboff herself coined five years ago, is also a masterwork of horror. It’s hard to recall a book that left me as haunted as Zuboff’s, with its descriptions of the gothic algorithmic daemons that follow us at nearly every instant of every hour of every day to suck us dry of metadata. Even those who’ve made an effort to track the technology that tracks us over the last decade or so will be chilled to their core by Zuboff, unable to look at their surroundings the same way.

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Film:  The Creepy Line --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Creepy_Line
Thank you Marc Dupree for the heads up

Congratulations:  Michigan Sets Record ($5.28 billion)  for Public University Campaign ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2019/02/07/michigan-sets-record-public-university-campaign?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=187cd2c7ea-DNU_2019_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-187cd2c7ea-197565045&mc_cid=187cd2c7ea&mc_eid=1e78f7c952

Which Colleges Have the Largest Endowments?
https://www.chronicle.com/article/Which-Colleges-Have-the/245587?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=c4241e7b88324c8b92a2370336e6ab42&elq=8fcddd0ccaa7484e87f8a7f97e9a6530&elqaid=22112&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=10837
Professors and students who do not have Chronicle subscriptions can usually obtain access via campus library database services.

Jensen Comment
Note first of all that the data are in thousands such that you should add three zeros to the reported endowment values.
Also note that you can work your way down by advancing pages at this site.
The average change in endowment value was 8.2%, but there is considerable variation in value changes.

What I found most interesting is how the annual value changes varied so greatly from Purdue's anemic 4.1% to Ohio State and Vanderbilt each having 22+%. There are even higher and lower returns. Usually higher returns reflect higher investment risks, but there can be exceptions for universities that had remarkable fund raising successes last year. Berea College had a low 3.6%. This could either be due to safe investing or to spending of some endowment income. I know nothing about Berea's endowment policies. McAlester College had an even lower 2.6%. McAlester admits that it spends more of its endowment income for annual operations and financial aid than most universities ---
https://themacweekly.com/2013/04/an-explanation-of-macalesters-endowment-from-the-serc/
At one time  McAlester's endowment was mostly Readers Digest stock obtained in a 1981 gift. McAlester fortunately had sold off all of this Readers Digest stock before the 2009 Readers Digest bankruptcy. When it comes to endowments a college does not usually want all its eggs in one basket.

Some colleges and universities had negative endowment value changes. These could be due to high risk investing, but I suspect in most instances the reason is spending of endowment income and/or capital on current operations. Sometimes gifts of stock or land are put into the endowment at current values and then sold in later years at capital losses.

Harvard's 6.3% appears relatively conservative after some prior years of really controversial high risk gains followed by high risk losses.

It's a tough time for fund managers seeking very safe investments since interest rates are still uncommonly low for really safe investments.

It would've helped if a column were added to this article by dividing current endowment values by numbers of students to give per-student relative comparisons of endowment funds. For example, Ohio State University and the University of Texas system endowments are huge, but so are the student enrollments. Ivy League schools rise to the top on a per-student basis. So do some very small wealthy universities.

When Truth is Stranger Than Fiction
South-east Asia has three countries in the top five in terms of time spent in Internet connections (Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia), while Japan comes in last ---
TheGuardianArticle

Tesla Model 3 Owners Vent About Polar Vortex Affecting Cars:  Seems to Be a Bit More Than Batteries Not Performing Well in the Cold
https://www.msn.com/en-us/finance/companies/tesla-model-3-owners-vent-about-polar-vortex-affecting-cars/ar-BBT5ybG

Model 3 owners have taken to social media and online forums to air issues they’ve had with their sedans due to the frigid weather of the last week. Cold conditions are a drain on battery range, no matter the car brand. But other predicaments are particular to Tesla. Ronak Patel, a CPA auditor in New Jersey, bought a Model 3 last August. He’s driven about 150 miles in the cold over the last few days. “My biggest concern is the cold weather drained my battery 20 to 25 miles overnight and an extra five to ten miles on my drive to work,” he said. “I paid $60,000 to not drain my battery so quickly.”

. . .

“What’s specific to Tesla is the quality of manufacturing," Morsy said.

Tesla made a door design decision that is coming back to bite some buyers. The Model 3’s handles are flush with the exterior of the car and require customers to push on one side, then pull on the other to open them. Ice is making that maneuver difficult for drivers who’ve posted pictures online of their frozen handles.

Some are just venting, and others are writing to Tesla or Musk himself, asking for a fix.

Andrea Falcone, a software engineer in Boston, tweeted a picture of her frozen handle, commenting, “I can’t wait all day for this silly car.” Less than two months earlier, she had purchased the Model 3 and posted a smiley emoji and a picture of herself posing with the new car.

The cold temperatures came even earlier for customers in Canada, prompting instructional videos suggesting ways to overcome frozen handles. One almost 7-minute YouTube video shows how an owner had taped dental adhesive film over his door handles to protect them from freezing.

Another owner in New Brunswick tweeted out a video in December. He was more blunt.

Musk tweeted on Jan. 25 that Tesla was preparing over-the-air software updates that would improve how its cars were holding up in cold weather.

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

Memes, Fair Use, and Privacy --- https://www.oif.ala.org/oif/?p=16873

. . .

Memes and Privacy

Meme creators and posters have been sued for using people’s images without permission, especially those who were not already public figures. In 2003, the parents of the unwilling star of the “Star Wars Kid” video sued their son’s classmates for posting the video online. Though the suit was settled, the video did not disappear, and the Star Wars Kid learned to deal with his fame.

In 2016, the parents of another unwilling subject sued the image’s creator, a news organization for publishing the image in a story about it, and a dancer on the show “Dancing With the Stars,” who the suit contended contributed to the image’s spread and the subject’s emotional distress by reposting the image with negative comments on social media. The photographer and news organization settled, but the dancer’s motion to dismiss was denied. Lantagne notes that if memes are considered a form of communication, they are also subject to the limits placed on speech including the rights of others to privacy.

Memes and You

Image-based memes are easy to create and easy to spread, though whether they will go viral is never a given. If you create or post one, remember to pay attention to the source of the image. Your best bet is to start with an image or clip that is already labeled for reuse or is in the public domain, meaning out of copyright protection altogether. Google Images search tools provides such a filter, or try the Creative Commons search for work licensed for reuse via Creative Commons licenses. When you see a meme going around, give a thought to the subject of that meme image, whose life may forever be changed.

Jensen Comment
Nothing I post ever goes viral, but that could be a false sense of security if you've pushed the edge. My Websites are so enormous that they get a lot of hits from search crawlers like Google and Bing. Hence care must be taken for postings on a Website. Also your posting to friends or a listserv may end up on somebody else's Website.

I posted a lot of my own photographs and photographs sent to me by others on my Websites ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Pictures.htm

What amazes me is how many images from my Website appear in the image search crawlers. For example, enter the phrase "Sunset Hill House Hotel" at
https://www.google.com/advanced_image_search
If you post an image on a Website chances are the crawlers will find it.
If I don't have permission to post an image the copyright has expired in most instances. Section 107 of the DMCA generally allows you to quote portions of text without permission. Images are another matter ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/theworry.htm#Copyright

P-value --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-value

How to Mislead With Statistics
P-values can be misleading when hypotheses are incorrect

February 6, 2019 Message from Tom Dyckman (now retired from Cornell University)

Bob: Here is a new paper you might want to alert your readers too along with Dave's blog today.

Greenland, S., S. J. Senn, K. R. Rothman, J. B. Carlin, C. Poole, S. N. Goodman, & D. G. Altman, 2016. Statistical tests, p values, confidence intervals, and power: A guide to misinterpretations. European Journal of Epidemiology, 31, 337-350. 
https://fermatslibrary.com/s/statistical-tests-p-values-confidence-intervals-and-power-a-guide-to-misinterpretations

Abstract
Misinterpretation and abuse of statistical tests, confidence intervals, and statistical power have been decried for decades, yet remain rampant. A key problem is that there are no interpretations of these concepts that are at once simple, intuitive, correct, and foolproof. Instead, correct use and interpretation of these statistics requires an attention to detail which seems to tax the patience of working scientists. This high cognitive demand has led to an epidemic of shortcut definitions and interpretations that are simply wrong, sometimes disastrously so—and yet these misinterpretations dominate much of the scientific literature. In light of this problem, we provide definitions and a discussion of basic statistics that are more general and critical than typically found in traditional introductory expositions. Our goal is to provide a resource for instructors, researchers, and consumers of statistics whose knowledge of statistical theory and technique may be limited but who wish to avoid and spot misinterpretations. We emphasize how violation of often unstated analysis protocols (such as selecting analyses for presentation based on the P values they produce) can lead to small P values even if the declared test hypothesis is correct, and can lead to large P values even if that hypothesis is incorrect. We then provide an explanatory list of 25 misinterpretations of P values, confidence intervals, and power. We conclude with guidelines for improving statistical interpretation and reporting.

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How Many Ways Can You Misinterpret p-Values, Confidence Intervals, Statistical Tests, and Power? 25  
https://replicationnetwork.com/2019/02/09/how-many-ways-can-you-misinterpret-p-values-confidence-intervals-statistical-tests-and-power-25/

Jensen Comment
The sad thing is that journal editors of leading accounting research journals seem to not care --- they're addicted to P-values

Review of “The Unappreciated Heterogeneity of Effect Sizes:Implications for Power, Precision, Planning of Research, and Replication” by David Kenny and Charles Judd, posted at Open Science Framework (OSF)] ---
https://replicationnetwork.com/2019/01/29/what-if-there-isnt-a-single-effect-size-implications-for-power-calculations-hypothesis-testing-confidence-intervals-and-replications/

“The goal of this article is to examine the implications of effect size heterogeneity for power analysis, the precision of effect estimation, and the planning of both original and replication research.”

“…given effect heterogeneity, the power in testing an effect in any particular study is different from what conventional power analyses suggest, and the extent to which this is true depends on the magnitude of the heterogeneity. Whenever a conventional power analyses yields a power value less than .50, an estimate that allows for heterogeneity is greater; and when a conventional analysis yields a power value greater than .50, the estimate given heterogeneity is less.”

“…given some heterogeneity and a small to moderate average effect size, there is a non-trivial chance of finding a significant effect in the opposite direction from the average effect size reported in the literature. …This probability increases as N increases.”

“Many analysts recommend what might be called a one-basket strategy.  They put all their eggs in the one basket of a very large N study.  … such a strategy is misguided … given the same total N and heterogeneity, multiple studies are better than a single study.”

“In the presence of heterogeneity, our results show that power is not nearly as high as it would seem and that even large N studies may have a non-trivial chance of finding a result in the opposite direction from the original study.  This makes us question the wisdom of placing a great deal of faith in a single replication study.  The presence of heterogeneity implies that there are a variety of true effects that could be produced.”

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Malone University ends football ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2019/02/06/malone-university-ends-football?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=5baf5a9cb0-DNU_2019_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-5baf5a9cb0-197565045&mc_cid=5baf5a9cb0&mc_eid=1e78f7c952

Researcher banned from federal Canadian funding after misconduct loses medical license ---
https://retractionwatch.com/2019/01/29/researcher-banned-from-federal-canadian-funding-after-misconduct-loses-her-medical-license/#more-85604

Jensen Comment
The hammer really fell in this case.

Collegiate Fibbing to US News Can Be Expensive ---
Federal Judge Approves $5.5 Million Settlement In Temple U.S. News Rankings Scandal ---
https://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2019/01/federal-judge-approves-55-million-settlement-in-temple-us-news-rankings-scandal-.html

Jensen Comment
Remember that old saying:  The three marks of a great college President are that she/he (they) provide:

From the Scout Report on February 1, 2019

PhotoRec --- www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec 
PhotoRec is a data recovery tool for severely damaged digital media. It was originally designed to recover pictures from dying digital camera memory but has since been extended to work with over 480 different types of files on nearly any kind of digital media. PhotoRec works by scanning the entire disk from beginning to end looking for files. This approach, referred to as file carving, is why PhotoRec can work even when the underlying media is severely damaged, when the filesystem metadata has been corrupted, or even when the media has been reformatted. The How PhotoRec works section on PhotoRec's website goes into more technical detail on this process. The PhotoRec step by step section gives a detailed walkthrough of the recovery process with screenshots and explanations of each step. The PhotoRec site provides executables for Windows, macOS, and Linux. PhotoRec is free software, distributed under the GNU General Public License, with source code available alongside the executable downloads.

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Booktype --- https://booktype.pro/
Booktype is a web-based publishing platform that can produce books, reports, and manuals in both digital and print formats. Booktype's authoring environment is designed to be clean and intuitive, using a drag-and-drop approach for formatting and images. Multiple authors and editors can be simultaneously working on a publication, supporting a rapid pace of revisions. Booktype was originally created to support FLOSS Manuals. Currently, it is used by Amnesty International, the German publisher Mikrotext, the Research Hive at the University of Sussex, among others. A larger list of current users can be found under the Who's using it? section of the Booktype website. A public demo is also available for users who want to practice with Booktype before installing it. Booktype's web interface works in Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. Instructions for installing Booktype on one's own server can be located in the Installation section of the Booktype documentation. Instructions are provided for Linux and macOS. A hosted version of Booktype can also be purchased for a monthly fee. Booktype is free software, distributed under the GNU Affero General Public License, with source code available on GitHub.

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

Education Tutorials

Why Can't They Write?
Think poor teaching and low expectations
https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/title/why-they-cant-write?elqTrackId=f4c15e046f6a4f1fbf7e615735eb36c8&elq=417ca4b68f2041d2a8b43aea7e38b694&elqaid=22118&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=10841
Grade inflation takes its toll

Journeys in Film (Education) --- https://journeysinfilm.org/

Jane Goodall’s Lovely Letter to Children About How Reading Shaped Her Life ---
https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/01/31/jane-goodalls-reading-a-velocity-of-being/?mc_cid=b4afba6c33&mc_eid=4d2bd13843

Socratica Educational (science videos for kids) --- www.youtube.com/user/SocraticaStudios

International Journal of STEM Education --- https://stemeducationjournal.springeropen.com/

NASA: Climate Kids (tutorials) --- https://climatekids.nasa.gov/

To the Best of Our Knowledge (radio programs) --- www.ttbook.org

TeachEngineering: Riding the Radio Waves --- www.teachengineering.org/lessons/view/duk_amradio_tech_less

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

February 9, 2019 weather on Mt Washington while I watch it at sunrise (from my warm desk)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Washington_(New_Hampshire)

MORNING CONDITIONS REPORTED FROM THE WEATHER STATION ATOP MT. WASHINGTON

• Temperature: -11 °F
• Wind: 280°(W) 115 mph
   The average wind speed is only 75 mph

• Weather: Fog, Blowing Snow
• Visibility: 1/16 mile

• Relative Humidity: 100%
• Station Pressure: 23.40 inHg and rising

• Ground Conditions: 9 inches ice covered snow w/ deeper patches

It's very windy down at our cottage as well, but not 115 mph

Big Picture Science (radio programs) --- http://radio.seti.org/

MIT finally figures out how to get planes and submarines to communicate ---
https://www.cnet.com/news/mit-finally-figures-out-how-to-get-planes-and-submarines-to-communicate/

Socratica Educational (science videos for kids) --- www.youtube.com/user/SocraticaStudios

International Journal of STEM Education --- https://stemeducationjournal.springeropen.com/

It's not that cold. Truly frigid temps are a thing of the past ---
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-31/dangerous-cold-snaps-feel-even-worse-because-they-re-now-so-rare?cmpid=BBD013119_BIZ&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=190131&utm_campaign=bloombergdaily

Explore an Interactive Version of The Wall of Birds, a 2,500 Square-Foot Mural That Documents the Evolution of Birds Over 375 Million Years ---
http://www.openculture.com/2019/02/explore-an-interactive-version-of-the-wall-of-birds.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

APLU: 2018 Status Report on Engineering Education --- 
www.aplu.org/projects-and-initiatives/access-and-diversity/2018-status-report-on-engineering-education

TeachEngineering: Riding the Radio Waves --- www.teachengineering.org/lessons/view/duk_amradio_tech_less

Teach Engineering: Physics --- http://www.teachengineering.org/search_results.php?simple=physics

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

The Power of Propaganda in World War II ---
https://nhpbs.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/imwwii-soc-propaganda/the-power-of-propaganda-in-world-war-ii/
Fake and biased news was a big thing in history --- only it was called propaganda and did not have the reach of today's social and electronic media

Pope Francis Publicly Acknowledges Nuns Are Also Victims of Sexual Abuse by Priests ---
Click Here

Black History Mini Docs --- http://blackhistoryminidocs.com/

Goin' North: Stories from the First Great Migration to Philadelphia --- www.goinnorth.org

Making a Change: The First Amendment and the Civil Rights Movement ---
https://newseumed.org/edcollection/making-change-first-amendment-and-civil-rights-movement

Views of African American Life in Maryland ---
http://collections.digitalmaryland.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/mdaa

Freedom Narratives --- http://freedomnarratives.org/

“A Fundamentally Illegitimate Choice”: Shoshana Zuboff on the Age of Surveillance Capitalism ---
https://theintercept.com/2019/02/02/shoshana-zuboff-age-of-surveillance-capitalism/

UN Audiovisual Library --- www.unmultimedia.org/avlibrary

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

Bees ‘get’ addition and subtraction, new study suggests ---
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/02/bees-get-addition-and-subtraction-new-study-suggests?r3f_986=http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/*/index
Jensen Comment
Big deal. I will be more impressed when they learn how to take square roots.

Mathematical Association of America: On This Day --- www.maa.org/news/on-this-day

Pi --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi
February 11, 1897:  Indiana bill to fix the value of Pi was defeated in the state senate ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill

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

A History of the Entire World in Less Than 20 Minutes ---
http://www.openculture.com/2019/02/a-history-of-the-entire-world-in-less-than-20-minutes.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

An Animated Reconstruction of Ancient Rome: Take A 30-Minute Stroll Through the City’s Virtually-Recreated Streets ---
http://www.openculture.com/2019/02/an-animated-reconstruction-of-ancient-rome.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

The Story of Greece and Rome ---
https://www.amazon.com/Story-Greece-Rome-Tony-Spawforth/dp/0300217110/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1548544553&sr=1-1&keywords=tony+spawforth/marginalrevol-20

Michel Foucault Offers a Clear Introduction to His Philosophical Project (1966) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2019/02/michel-foucault-offers-a-clear-introduction-to-his-philosophical-project-1966.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

The New Yorker:  Are Equality and Freedom Mutually Independent?
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/01/07/the-philosopher-redefining-equality

Black History Mini Docs --- http://blackhistoryminidocs.com/

Goin' North: Stories from the First Great Migration to Philadelphia Social --- www.goinnorth.org

How the Clavichord & Harpsichord Became the Modern Piano: The Evolution of Keyboard Instruments, Explained ---
http://www.openculture.com/2019/02/how-the-clavichord-harpsichord-became-the-modern-piano.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

The Cleveland Museum of Art Digitizes Its Collection, Putting 30,000 Works Online and Into the Public Domain ---
http://www.openculture.com/2019/01/the-cleveland-museum-of-art-digitizes-its-collection.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

The Evolution of the Alphabet: A Colorful Flowchart, Covering 3,800 Years, Takes You From Ancient Egypt to Today ---
http://www.openculture.com/2019/01/the-evolution-of-the-alphabet.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Are You Ready for the Country: Elvis, Dylan, Parsons and the Roots of Country Rock ---
https://www.amazon.com/Are-You-Ready-Country-Parsons/dp/0142000167/ref=sr_1_5?keywords=peter+doggett&qid=1548021041&sr=8-5/marginalrevol-20

The Complete History of the NFL --- https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/complete-history-of-the-nfl/

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

The internet’s “Grammar Girl” on the last decade’s most dramatic change in language ---
https://qz.com/1527755/grammar-girl-mignon-fogarty-on-the-biggest-changes-in-language/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=qz-organic

The Evolution of the Alphabet: A Colorful Flowchart, Covering 3,800 Years, Takes You From Ancient Egypt to Today ---
http://www.openculture.com/2019/01/the-evolution-of-the-alphabet.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

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

Music Tutorials

How the Clavichord & Harpsichord Became the Modern Piano: The Evolution of Keyboard Instruments, Explained ---
http://www.openculture.com/2019/02/how-the-clavichord-harpsichord-became-the-modern-piano.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

A Vintage Grand Piano Gets Reengineered to Play 20 Different Instruments with a Push of Its Keys ---
http://www.openculture.com/2019/02/a-vintage-grand-piano-gets-reengineered-to-play-20-different-instruments-with-a-push-of-its-keys.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Are You Ready for the Country: Elvis, Dylan, Parsons and the Roots of Country Rock ---
https://www.amazon.com/Are-You-Ready-Country-Parsons/dp/0142000167/ref=sr_1_5?keywords=peter+doggett&qid=1548021041&sr=8-5/marginalrevol-20

Bob Jensen's threads on free music tutorials are at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Scroll down to Music

Bob Jensen's threads on music performances ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/music.htm

Writing Tutorials

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

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

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

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

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

February 2, 2019

• Primatene Mist Coming Back; Some Docs Concerned
• 9-11 Responders Report More Head, Neck Cancers
• Study: Vaping Lures Even 'Low Risk' Kids to Smoke
• Are Forests Now Playing a Role in Pollution?
• Statins Help the Heart, No Matter Your Age
• Study: Breakfast Not Key to Weight Loss After All
• Could Gut Bacteria Be Linked to Dementia Risk?
• Generic for Popular Asthma Inhaler Gets FDA OK
• Almost Half of U.S. Adults Have Heart Issues

February 4, 2019

• IVF Tied to Heightened Odds for Pregnancy Complications
• Study: Prisons Need More Stop-Smoking Programs
• Too Many Kids Using Too Much Toothpaste, CDC Says
• Could Germs in Your Gut Send You Into Depression?
• Obesity-Linked Cancers On the Rise in Young Adults
• Having a Primary Doc Boosts All Your Healthcare
• Study: Many Paramedics Ignore Hand Hygiene Rules
• Primatene Mist Coming Back; Some Docs Concerned
• 9-11 Responders Report More Head, Neck Cancers

February 5, 2019

• Fish Oil Supplements: A Fish Tale or a Good Catch?
• Why Are More Americans Using Medical Marijuana?
• Psoriasis Meds Might Help Fight Heart Trouble, Too
• Women's Brains May Age More Slowly Than Men's
• Long-Term Birth Control Surged After 2016 Vote
• IVF Tied to Heightened Odds for Pregnancy Complications
• Study: Prisons Need More Stop-Smoking Programs
• Too Many Kids Using Too Much Toothpaste, CDC Says
• Could Germs in Your Gut Send You Into Depression?

February 6, 2019

• Cancer Linked to Surface of Breast Implants
• Dangerous Bacteria May Lurk in Hospital Sinks
• New Antibiotic Treats Pneumonia, Skin Infections
• Education No Match Against Alzheimer's
• Exploding E-Cigarette Kills Texas Man
• Patient Tested for Ebola at Philadelphia Hospital
• Self-Controlled Mammograms: Less Pain, Same Image
• After Opioids, Benzodiazepine Use Raises Concern
• Could HPV Be Tied to Heart Trouble in Women, Too?

February 7, 2019

• 'We are Going to Have More:' Measles Threat Grows
• Could HPV Be Tied to Heart Trouble in Women, Too?
• Gastric Bypass Means Diabetes Remission For Many
• Cancer Linked to Surface of Breast Implants
• Dangerous Bacteria May Lurk in Hospital Sinks
• Global Rate of Suicide Deaths Is on the Decline
• New Antibiotic Treats Pneumonia, Skin Infections
• Education No Match Against Alzheimer's
• Exploding E-Cigarette Kills Texas Man

• Amid Measles Outbreak, Docs Hope Facts Top Myths
• Flu Season Far From Over, CDC Says
• Fluoroquinolones Overprescribed Despite Dangers
• Study: Social Media Not A Teen Depression Trigger
• U.S. Rep. John Dingell, Health Policy Titan, Dies
• Drug May Be Safer Option Against Repeat Stroke
• 'We are Going to Have More:' Measles Threat Grows
• Gastric Bypass Means Diabetes Remission For Many
• Could HPV Be Tied to Heart Trouble in Women, Too?

February 12, 2019

• FDA to Tighten Oversight of Supplements
• Mammograms Helped Save 600,000 Lives Since '89
• Poor Sleep Plagues Many Kids With Autism
• Facility Where Injured Patient Gave Birth To Close
• Amid Measles Outbreak, Docs Hope Facts Top Myths
• Flu Season Far From Over, CDC Says
• Fluoroquinolones Overprescribed Despite Dangers
• Study: Social Media Not A Teen Depression Trigger
• U.S. Rep. John Dingell, Health Policy Titan, Dies

February 13, 2019

• Teen Defies Mother, Gets Vaccinations
• Hep C Meds Are Safe for People With Liver Cancer
• More Men Holding Off on Prostate Cancer Surgery
• HPV Might Be Behind Vocal Cord Cancers in Young
• Study: New Hepatitis Meds Are Saving Lives
• Aspirin Can Help Prevent Colon Cancer, But Many at Risk Don't Take It
• Nearly 8 million US Kids Have Mental Issues
• Regulations Are On Hold as Kratom Debate Rages
• Vaping Is Erasing Gains Made Against Teen Smoking

View All Health News

Just because it's legal, doesn't mean it's safe. Exposure to cannabis – and, specifically, to THC – while in utero leads to heart defects and metabolic limitations likely to result in heart disease and diabetes later in life, according to a Western-led study ---
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-02-ties-heart-disease-diabetes-cannabis.html

Bud Light Took a Stance (in its Super Bowl slot) Against Corn Syrup. But Experts Say That Doesn’t Make Beer Better or Healthier ---
Click Here
Jensen Comment
What Budweiser did not anticipate is how angry its Super Bowl advertisement made corn growers in the Midwest who are now shifting to Coors Light.

Harvard:  Common e-cigarette chemical flavorings may impair lung function ---
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/common-e-cigarette-chemical-flavorings-may-impair-lung-function/

Health Craze? What health craze?
Americans Eat More Than a Billion Chicken Wings on Super Bowl Weekend. There's a Surprising Past Behind That Number ---
Click Here
Jensen Comment
I wonder how about the growth of other types of finger foods on Super Bowl weekend like the growth in eating chips, dips, and celery sticks?
My point is that it may not be so much an exploding love of buffalo wings as it is the 100+ million fans at Super Bowl parties trying to eat with a drink in one hand and most any finger-food piece in the other hand.
 

The really staggering statistic is the year-around statistic that KFC rakes in $5 billion from fried chicken sales in China.
I once saw an enormous line waiting outside a McDonald's restaurant in Hong Kong. Then I looked beyond at the many towers where so many people live in bee-hive like tiny apartments. It dawned on me that fast food restaurants are probably so popular in Hong Kong because, in the sweltering heat, people just don't want to cook in their tiny apartments. I doubt that KFC and McDonalds are so popular in cold Mongolia.

Humor for February 2019

Songs and Jokes for a Friday

Monty Python’s Best Philosophy Sketches: “The Philosophers’ Football Match,” “Philosopher’s Drinking Song” & More ---
http://www.openculture.com/2019/02/monty-pythons-best-philosophy-sketches-the-philosophers-football-match-philosophers-drinking-song-more.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Boot Stompin':  Discovering a Great Irish Band – We Banjo 3 – Thanks to Twitter ---
https://www.jborden.com/music-monday-discovering-a-great-irish-band-we-banjo-3-thanks-to-twitter/
There are multiple videos to click on in this page!

Video:  Funny Pun Signs --- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3A9wc2ZKtg

Dialing a Rotary Phone ---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OADXNGnJok&feature=youtu.be  

Recent Tweet from Abby Carr courtesy of Robert Harris
Dear CVS: I bought dental floss, a birthday card and a small chocolate bar. My receipt is 4 feet 8 inches long.
https://twitter.com/RobertRHarris (January 28)

Is dying at your desk your only retirement plan?

Man said he’d ‘kill em with kindness’ — that’s the name of his machete, Fla. cops say ---
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3726472/posts

Forwarded by Paula

 

TO THOSE OF US BORN FROM 1925 TO 1955
 
NO MATTER WHAT OUR KIDS AND THE NEW GENERATION THINK ABOUT US, WE ARE AWESOME AND OUR LIVES ARE THE LIVING PROOF!
~~~~~~~~~   
TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED THE  1930’s, 40’s, AND 50’s!

   
First, we survived being born to mothers who may have smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.  

Then, after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-based paints.   

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, locks on doors or cabinets, and, when we rode our bikes, we had baseball caps, not  helmets, on our heads.  

As infants and children, we rode in cars with no car seats, no booster seats, no seat belts, no air bags, bald tires and sometimes no brakes.  

Riding in the back of a pick- up truck on a warm day was always a special treat.  
We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle.  
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle, and no one actually died from this.  
We ate cupcakes, white bread, real butter, and bacon. We drank Kool-Aid made with real white sugar. And we weren't overweight.  WHY?  
Because we were always outside playing, that's why!  
We left home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.   
No one was able to reach us all day and, we were OKAY.  
We spent hours building our go-carts out of  scraps and then ride them down the hill, only to find out that we forgot about brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.  
 We did not have Play Stations, Nintendo and X-boxes. There were   
No video games, No 150 channels on cable (no cable!), No video movies or DVDs, 

No surround-sound or CDs, No cell phones, No personal computers, 

No Internet and No chat rooms.   

We had friends and we went outside and found them!   
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and lost teeth and there were no lawsuits from those accidents. 
We got spankings with wooden spoons, switches, ping-pong paddles, or just a bare hand and no one  called child services to report abuse.  
We ate worms, and mud pies made from dirt and the worms did not live in us forever.   
We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays,  22 rifles for our 12th, rode horses, made up games with sticks and tennis balls, and, although we were told it would happen,  we did not put out very many eyes.  
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them.
 Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment.   Imagine that!  
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of;  
They actually sided with the law!     
These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers,    
problem solvers, and inventors ever.   
The past 60 to 85 years have seen an explosion of innovation and new ideas.   
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility and we learned 
how to deal with it all.   
If you are one of those born between 1925-1955, Congratulations!  
You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids before the lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives for our own good.  
While you are at it, forward it to your kids, so they will know how brave and lucky their parents were.  
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it ?

 

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

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

• With a Rejoinder from the 2010 Senior Editor of The Accounting Review (TAR), Steven J. Kachelmeier
• With Replies in Appendix 4 to Professor Kachemeier by Professors Jagdish Gangolly and Paul Williams
• With Added Conjectures in Appendix 1 as to Why the Profession of Accountancy Ignores TAR
• With Suggestions in Appendix 2 for Incorporating Accounting Research into Undergraduate Accounting Courses

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

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.

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/

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Phone:  603-823-8482 
Email:  rjensen@trinity.edu