Tidbits on June 14 2019
Bob Jensen at Trinity University

A Revisit to My First Set of Photographs of Lupine in These Mountains
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Lupine/Set01/LupineSet01.htm

 

Tidbits on June 14, 2019
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http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm

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Bookmarks for the World's Library --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm 

My Latest Web Document
Over 400 Examples of Critical Thinking and Illustrations of How to Mislead With Statistics --
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http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/MisleadWithStatistics.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

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

Updates from WebMD --- Click Here

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

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

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

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

Animated  Visualization of the United States’ Exploding Population Growth Over 200 Years (1790 – 2010) ---
A Visualization of the United States’ Exploding Population Growth Over 200 Years (1790 – 2010)

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

In September 2017 the USA National Debt exceeded $20 trillion for the first time ---
http://www.statedatalab.org/news/detail/national-debt-surpasses-20-trillion-for-the-first-time-in-us-history

Human Population Over Time on Earth ---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUwmA3Q0_OE 




Online Video, Slide Shows, and Audio

Short Videos of D-Day Remembrances --- https://jborden.com/2019/06/06/sometimes-a-picture-says-it-all/

The Meaning of Life ---
http://www.openculture.com/2019/06/the-meaning-of-life.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Video Crash Course: Navigating Digital Information Educational Technology ---
www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtN07XYqqWSKpPrtNDiCHTzU  

Reading Marx's Capital with David Harvey (Video Lecture Series) --- http://davidharvey.org/reading-capital/

Video:  History of the Muppet Show ---
https://ritholtz.com/2019/06/history-of-the-muppet-show/

Fleabag and Killing Eve ---
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/06/fleabag-and-killing-eve.html

Internet Archive: Films from 1923 ---
https://archive.org/details/moviesandfilms?&and[]=year%3A%221923%22

Video Explaining Art from the 1500s ---
https://jborden.com/2019/06/07/if-only-all-works-of-art-could-be-explained-like-this/

TED Talk:  Juna Kollmeier: The most detailed map of galaxies, black holes and stars ever made ---
https://ted.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=07487d1456302a286cf9c4ccc&id=80d208af68&e=a3afadd827

TED Talk by David Brooks (NYT):  The Lies Our Culture Tells Us ---
https://www.ted.com/talks/david_brooks_the_lies_our_culture_tells_us_about_what_matters_and_a_better_way_to_live?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2019-06-07&utm_campaign=newsletter_weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_content=bottom_left_button

Watch 3,000 Films Free Online from the National Film Board of Canada, Including Portraits of Leonard Cohen, Margaret Atwood & Jack Kerouac ---
http://www.openculture.com/2019/06/watch-3000-films-free-online-from-the-national-film-board-of-canada.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

The Healing Power of Gardens ---
http://www.openculture.com/2019/06/oliver-sacks-promotes-the-healing-properties-of-gardens.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

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 

America's Top Talent:  A Blind and Autistic and Amazing Young Man ---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_168N96UA8

Best Non-religious Songs for a Funeral --- https://jborden.com/2019/06/10/music-monday-best-songs-for-a-funeral/
Jensen Comment
The deceased would've had to have a good sense of humor to request these for a funeral

Bob Jensen's Links to Free Music
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Music.htm


Photographs and Art

Take a Visual Journey Through 181 Years of Street Photography (1838-2019) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2019/05/181-years-of-street-photography.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29 

Last Seen (the world's greatest art theft) --- www.wbur.org/lastseen

How to Talk about Art History --- www.howtotalkaboutarthistory.com

Beinecke Library Pop-up Exhibit Celebrates Walt Whitman Bicentennial ---
https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/whitman200

30 photos from the Tiananmen Square protests that China has tried to erase from history ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/tiananmen-square-2015-6

What a $250,000 home looks like in 25 major US cities (including a "modest" home in San Antonio)---
https://www.businessinsider.com/what-250000-home-looks-like-in-25-big-us-cities-2019-5
Jensen Comment
This is a little misleading since housing prices vary so much among alternate school districts in virtually all USA major cities.
St. Louis has 500+ homes available for a buck each ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/st-louis-cheap-dollar-homes-2019-3 

24 gorgeous photos of Roger Federer playing tennis ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/roger-federer-tennis-gorgeous-photos-2019-6

136 Maps Reveal Where Tourists & Locals Take Photos in Major Cities Across the Globe ---
http://www.openculture.com/2019/06/136-maps-reveal-where-tourists-locals-take-photos-in-major-cities-across-the-globe.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Da Vinci's $450 Million Masterpiece Is Kept on Saudi Prince's Yacht: Artnet ---
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-10/da-vinci-s-450-million-masterpiece-kept-on-mbs-s-yacht-artnet?cmpid=BBD061019_BIZ&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=190610&utm_campaign=bloombergdaily

Video Explaining Art from the 1500s ---
https://jborden.com/2019/06/07/if-only-all-works-of-art-could-be-explained-like-this/

Twisting Glass Towers in NYC ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/the-xi-luxury-condos-new-york-city-jeff-bezos-billionaires-2019-6

Leonardo da Vinci’s Huge Notebook Collections, the Codex Forster, Now Digitized in High-Resolution: Explore Them Online ---
http://www.openculture.com/2019/06/leonardo-da-vincis-huge-notebook-collections-the-codex-forster-now-digitized-in-high-resolution.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Painting of an old maple tree in our wildflower field (thank you Wes Lavin for the heads up)

 

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

Beinecke Library Pop-up Exhibit Celebrates Walt Whitman Bicentennial ---
https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/whitman200

Albert Camus on the Three Antidotes to the Absurdity of Life ---
https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/07/24/albert-camus-interview-absurd/?mc_cid=c0efc24484&mc_eid=4d2bd13843

Reading Marx's Capital with David Harvey (Video Lecture Series) --- http://davidharvey.org/reading-capital/

DPLA: Open (free) Bookshelf ---
https://pro.dp.la/ebooks/open-bookshelf

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 June 14, 2019
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/2019/TidbitsQuotations061419.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




Chronicle of Higher Education
Graduation Rates Are Rising, but Is That Because Standards Are Slipping? ---
https://www.chronicle.com/article/Graduation-Rates-Are-Rising/246480?utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&cid=at

Jensen Comment
The biggest disgrace in higher education from community colleges to the Ivy League is grade inflation where median grade averages moved from C+ in the 1950s to A- in the 21st Century ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/assess.htm#RateMyProfessor

Reasons are complicated and varied, but a major causes are pressures to graduate everybody, rise in importance of grades for jobs and graduate studies, and  the increased power of student teaching evaluations on faculty tenure and promotion and retention decisions. Virtually all the top teachers on RateMyProfessors.com are easy graders. A few universities like Princeton and Cornell tried to bring down the majority of A and A- grades courses. These efforts became abandoned failures. Harvard never even tried to bring down grade inflation. A newly-hired professor who gives a median C+ grade in courses probably won't be rehired due to low teaching evaluations ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/assess.htm#RateMyProfessor

In K-12 grade inflation is even worse high school students getting diplomas who cannot functionally read, write, or compute the APR interest rate on a car loan (even with a calculator or computer). Those that go to college may never have to write a term paper, and the minority assigned to write a term paper can easily buy term papers online.

Welcome the USA's higher education colleges and universities on Lake Wobegon ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Wobegon


Chronicle of Higher Education
Cal State’s Retreat From Remediation Stokes Debate on College Readiness ---
https://www.chronicle.com/article/Cal-State-s-Retreat-From/241227?utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&cid=at
The problem with remedial courses is that you had to pass them to move upward

California State University’s (system-wide) decision to eliminate all noncredit remedial classes next fall will either remove roadblocks to success for struggling students or set more of them up for failure, depending on whom you ask.

The shift at the nation’s largest public-university system comes at a time of intense national scrutiny into how colleges should decide who is ready for college-level classes and how best to bring those who aren’t ready up to speed.

Four in 10 entering freshmen at Cal State must complete at least one remedial course before they can start earning college credit. The system’s chancellor, Timothy P. White, thinks that’s one reason for Cal State’s dismal 19-percent four-year graduation rate. The system has committed to doubling that, to 40 percent, by 2025, and hopes that jettisoning remedial classes will help.

Across the country, colleges with similarly high dropout rates are questioning whether the classes do more harm than good. Advocates say that as part of a broader umbrella of developmental education, which also includes tutoring and counseling, the courses are crucial for students who start out far behind their peers.

Continued in article

Welcome to Lake Wobegon's system of tutors and counselors who pass everybody upward without assigning low grades to anybody ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Wobegon
Besides reading reading, writing, and arithmetic are obsolete skills that increasingly are being passed on to robots.

Your lousy SAT score will be adjusted upward if you graduated from a high school with rock-bottom academic standards ---
https://www.chronicle.com/article/Cal-State-s-Retreat-From/241227?utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&cid=at
And you will graduate from college as long as you attend classes and look like you're trying.


Reading Marx's Capital with David Harvey (Video Lecture Series) --- http://davidharvey.org/reading-capital/

Karl Marx was a vehement racist and anti-Semite (yes, even though both his grandfathers were rabbis!) This particular quote is not an aberration but very typical of both his and Engel's thoughts.
Free Republic, June 14, 2009 ---
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/news-forum/index?more=2271681 
Marx-Engels Correspondence, 1862 --- http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1862/letters/62_07_30a.htm


Ocean Literacy Courses --- http://literacy.ocean.org/

NOAA Ocean Explorer: Windows to the Deep 2019 ---
https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/okeanos/explorations/ex1903/welcome.html

New England Aquarium: Climate Change and the Oceans --- www.neaq.org/learn/climate-change-education-resources/climate-change-ocean

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: K-12 Resources Science ---
www.whoi.edu/what-we-do/educate/k-12-students-and-teachers

Bob Jensen's threads on water and oceans ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2-Part2.htm#Oceans


David Brooks (one of my heroes) --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Brooks_(commentator)
TED Talk by David Brooks (NYT):  The Lies Our Culture Tells Us ---
https://www.ted.com/talks/david_brooks_the_lies_our_culture_tells_us_about_what_matters_and_a_better_way_to_live?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2019-06-07&utm_campaign=newsletter_weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_content=bottom_left_button


Last Seen (the world's greatest art theft) --- www.wbur.org/lastseen

How to Talk about Art History --- www.howtotalkaboutarthistory.com


Options for Funding Long-Term Health Care (of a Democratic Party candidate does not win the 2020 Presidency) ---
https://www.apnews.com/11ee1bb83bc7409f8ef49ac0faa7425a
Jensen Comment
If the Democrats win in 2020 long-term health care will be free. Of course to pay for it plus all the other reforms the stock and bond markets will be wiped out along with pension savings that are built upon those markets since nothing will be left for investors once their money is taken for  the $100 trillion green-initiative plan costs combined with free medical insurance, free nursing homes, free medications, free college, guaranteed annual income for 350+ million residents of the USA, interest on $22+ trillion of national debt, combined with existing free food stamps, housing subsidized, Social Security benefits, pensions, and other safety nets.

I hope you vote for somebody like Kamala Harris since I have my eye on a lovely long-term care apartment (with 20 free meals per week) overlooking Lake Winnipesaukee.---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Winnipesaukee
 I might even buy a big boat and a prepaid 20-year maintenance contract before Kamala destroys my pension savings. I like Kamala's promised lifetime guaranteed tax-free income plus free long-term care after she confiscates my pension savings. How about a ride around the lake? My worry is fuel for the boat after she shuts down oil refineries tomorrow.
 

Finland’s government collapses over failed health care reform ---
https://www.politico.eu/article/finlands-government-collapses-over-failed-health-care-reform/?fbclid=IwAR3ZUM2rsGzcoIVMFVHwwTfE15MAxpo_9poClu2d7pjzFdrz84WORKZTSX0

Bernie Sanders: "You’re Damn Right We’re Going to Destroy Private Health Insurance" ---
Click Here


50 last-minute gifts your dad actually wants this Father's Day — for every budget ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/gifts-for-dad


Somewhat from a leftist perspective
What Would the Great Economists Do?: How Twelve Brilliant Minds Would Solve Today's Biggest Problems ---
https://www.amazon.com/What-Would-Great-Economists-Brilliant/dp/1250180546/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=linda+yueh&qid=1559895503&s=gateway&sr=8-1/marginalrevol-20


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

Home-Flipping Trend Weakens as High-Interest Lenders Jump 40% ---
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-12/high-interest-lenders-up-40-even-as-home-flipping-trend-weakens?cmpid=BBD061219_BIZ&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=190612&utm_campaign=bloombergdaily

Jensen Comment
I think there will always be "flipping" in terms of buying an asset in bad shape (house, car, boat, etc.) with the intent of fixing it up and reselling it. But when flippers have to borrow to obtain the asset, financing becomes an expense issue that can in some cases discourage flippers.  In real estate flipping is more and more popular in bubbles where real estate prices in a market just seem to keep going up and up and up. At some point, most bubbles burst forcing some buyers into bankruptcy. The real estate bubble that burst in 2006 was especially problematic because over a trillion dollars of real estate was financed by subprime loans that have very low mortgage rates for a few early years that that eventually jump to very high rates.

Flippers intended to buy properties at subprime rates hoping to sell at higher prices before their mortgage rates kicked up to new levels. When the real estate bubble burst in 2006 mortgage investors like Fannie Mae, Freddie Mack, Lehman Bros., Merrill Lynch, and others got stuck holding defaulted mortgages on properties with collapsed values less than mortgage balances due (those so-called "poisoned" mortgages ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/2008bailout.htm


Video Crash Course: Navigating Digital Information Educational Technology ---
www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtN07XYqqWSKpPrtNDiCHTzU 

Bob Jensen's threads on education technology ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/0000start.htm

Bob Jensen's threads on computing and networking ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#---ComputerNetworking-IncludingInternet 


Color-Coded Map of the USA:  Winners and Losers in Terms of Distance Education (heavily adult education) ---
https://www.chronicle.com/img/photos/biz/Screen Shot 2019-06-10 at 11.20.52 AM.png?cid=wc

Bob Jensen's links to distance education and training alternatives ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Crossborder.htm

Onside Education and Training in "Microcampus" Retail Stores ---
https://www.chronicle.com/interactives/20150503-campusspaces-03-microcampus?cid=wc

Not every college campus features a full-fledged library, a student union, or residence halls. But when a campus has no classrooms, is it really a campus? 

For some, the answer is yes. 

As education moves online and colleges seek new ways of interacting with students, alumni, local communities, and other constituencies, institutions as diverse as the University of Phoenix, the University of Washington, and the Georgia Institute of Technology are responding with experimental, storefront-sized “microcampuses.” They’re also looking at unexpected models — such as Amazon’s bricks-and-mortar stores — for ideas to improve students’ experience.

The spaces, some located on the ground floors of apartment buildings or commercial high-rises, give the institutions public visibility while providing stylish drop-in spaces for students. They can also be focal points for colleges’ educational and outreach activities with local employers and community groups. 

Microcampuses are typically under 2,500 square feet, with interiors designed for maximum flexibility to accommodate one-on-one tutoring sessions, casual student meetups, employer presentations, and the occasional formal lecture. What they usually don’t have is a set spot designated as a full-time classroom. 

The University of Washington’s Othello Commons, which opened in southeast Seattle in January, is a prime example. The 2,300-square-foot space is on the ground floor of a new eight-story apartment building and currently plays host to a “Foundations of Databases” course that meets one night a week to help local residents develop basic IT skills.

Continued in article


How to Mislead With Statistics
CNN:  College grads earn $30,000 a year more than people with just a high school degree ---
https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/06/success/college-worth-it/index.html

Jensen Comment
This study has the common misleading conclusions due to comparing averages without also looking at variances and skewness. When Warren Buffett walks into a restaurant having 50 diners the average customer becomes a billionaire for a few moments.

The study is misleading because it lumps "college graduates" into one sampling population. There are college graduates with four-year degrees, five-year-degrees, and all the way up to brain surgeons who did not become fully licensed until 12 years after graduating from high school. And among non-college graduates there are those who had drive taxi cabs versus those who became skilled airliner mechanics.

Incomes of both college graduates and non- college graduates are highly skewed below means and medians. Think of all the parents where one parent mostly stays at home to care for children, thereby having zero or very low part-time wages.  Since more than half of the high school graduates do not earn have a college degree this makes the parental skewness more pronounced in the non-college population.

There are huge measurement problems. Think of all the partners raising children full time earn virtually zero in wages while sharing in the income of their partners who have college degrees. My point is that these measuring one parent's earnings as zero is misleading in terms of family income.

And think of the many farm couples who really are partners in the earnings of the farm. How do you partition the farm income between one spouse who has a college degree from the other spouse who did not complete college?

Then there's the mistake of comparing "earnings" without comparing living costs. College graduates more often are going to take jobs in urban areas where both wages and living costs are higher then in rural areas  Teachers make more in Manhattan than in a small town because it costs outrageously more to live in Manhattan. A carpenter in Swea City, Iowa can live a lot better on $48,000 per year than many carpenters in Des Moines making higher wages. And a college graduate cannot find a chemical engineering job in Swea City and is forced to move to Des Moines or an more costly larger city.

And there's a huge problem of comparing workers in terms of lifetime benefits. The high school graduate who elects to join the low-wage Air Force rather than go to college does not end up so bad at Age 38 with a pension, free medical care, and free medications for the remainder of her life while her best friend became a third-grade teacher and cannot retire at Age 38 with any lifetime benefits until reaching Social Security and Medicare age.

Why does the media persist in comparing apples and oranges using misleading statistical comparisons?

Over 400 Examples of Critical Thinking and Illustrations of How to Mislead With Statistics --
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/MisleadWithStatistics.htm


NPR's Book Concierge: Our Guide to 2018's Great Reads ---
https://apps.npr.org/best-books-2018/

DPLA: Open (free) Bookshelf ---
https://pro.dp.la/ebooks/open-bookshelf

Bob Jensen's links to free electronic literature ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm


JSTOR --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSTOR
JSTOR is perhaps the most widely used archival service paid for by campus libraries

JSTOR Text Analyzer provides students with an additional resource for finding scholarly material.---
https://daily.jstor.org/how-to-teach-with-jstor-text-analyzer/


Martin Feldstein --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Feldstein

RIP, Martin Feldstein --- https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/06/rip-martin-feldstein.html


Stop Feeding College Bureaucratic Bloat: Congress Should Tie Student Loans To Ratio Of Administrators To Faculty ---
https://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2019/06/stop-feeding-college-bureaucratic-bloat-congress-should-tie-student-loans-to-ratio-of-administrators.html#more 

Wall Street Journal op-ed:  Stop Feeding College Bureaucratic Bloat, by Philip Hamburger (Columbia):

American higher education faces many difficulties, not least soaring costs and the decline of academic freedom. Administrative bloat, subsidized by the federal government, makes both these problems worse.

A 2014 analysis by the New England Center for Investigative Reporting found that from 1987 to 2012, the higher-education sector added more than half a million administrators. Their numbers have doubled relative to academic faculty. Financed in large part with federally subsidized tuition, this rise of administrators siphons money from the core functions of academic institutions. Colleges and universities have shifted teaching duties from full-time professors to part-time nontenured adjuncts who earn paltry wages.

Congress can combat this transformation of the university by reforming student-loan programs. The U.S. government offers student loans without regard to the ratio of administrators to full-time tenured faculty at the school receiving the funds. Congressional largess to students has thus changed the nature of the higher-education system. It has enabled colleges and universities to expand and entrench a class of employees whose interests often conflict with a serious education.

Administrators serve many valuable functions. They can help students and save time for faculty. But their growth in numbers has coincided with some disturbing trends. Governance of academic institutions traditionally rested with the faculty, especially full-time tenured faculty. But the relative decline of faculty has shifted the balance of power toward administrators, who increasingly control academic policy.

It’s no accident that as they have hired more administrators, these institutions have veered toward indoctrination and censorious intrusions into speech, opinion and personal life. These heavy-handed policies are often incompatible with traditional educational ideals, such as academic freedom, freedom of speech, open-mindedness and dispassionate judgment. To be sure, many faculty support such policies, but the most consistent pressure for them typically comes from the administrative bureaucracy. Congress should recognize that its funding helped create this threat to education.

When authorizing student loans, Congress should take into account the ratio of administrators to full-time tenured faculty. ...

One might still protest that Congress should not be in the business of reshaping education. But that is precisely what Congress has been doing for decades. Its loans have facilitated the growth of the

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The Rise of Junk Science:   Fake publications are corrupting the world of research—and influencing real news ---
https://thewalrus.ca/the-rise-of-junk-science/

Jensen Comment
In between junk journals and long-standing prestigious journals are all those gray-zone journals that popped up when journal article publishing became more and more important to tenure and promotion decisions. Yes, there are  gray-zone journal referees, and yes an occasional submission is rejected (rarely). But these gray-zone journals are last hope for articles that were rejected earlier submission train. I once received the same journal article three times to referee. The last time I photocopied my two previous reviews and sent them to the third-time editor. That editor accepted the manuscript in spite of my previous criticisms.

The really scam publication is the distribution of a "proceedings" of papers "delivered" at phony academic conferences is some exotic locales (think Europe) where a professor takes his family more for a vacation than conference attendance. Suppose there are four "speakers" at a given session of this conference. Chances are that the only registrants attending the session are the four assigned speakers, and even then many speakers just fail to show up after submitting their papers in advance. Chances are these are the same papers with different titles presented at earlier conferences.

What keeps these fraudulent conferences going is a university's willingness to reimburse travel expenses (maybe only partially) for their professors. The conference organizers are only in it for the registration fees. The professors are in it only for a partially-reimbursed vacation to Europe.

Bon Voyage.


Florida State University is privatizing its athletic department, in a move that will shield it from the state's public-records laws and give it the privileges of a private corporation ---
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/florida-state-seminoles/os-sp-fsu-athletics-0608-20190609-osc2hupcmfhvhdoeb32rquvw7m-story.html?cid=db
Jensen Question
This raises all sorts of controversial issues such as taxation, regulation, and control.
Could the school of business also be privatized?


Mobile Phones Lowered Murder Rates ---
https://www.nber.org/papers/w25883#fromrss
Jensen Comment
They also increased crime conviction rates (including murder convictions). Of course you learned this long ago on television. Remember that criminals are not usually the sharpest tacks in the box.


Stanford University Cold Cases:  Another Stanford murder solved? Suspect charged in grisly 1974 cold case ---
https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/05/16/another-stanford-murder-solved-suspect-charged-in-grisly-1974-cold-case/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTW1GbE9HWTFZV1E0T0RZeSIsInQiOiJPdUVWZENiXC9UYTkzbERQTXpMMFwvYkxSbWJPb2ZpTkdGOERZYXRIWStEVjNPcXQyd1NuQzVrZU5DTm5oXC94N2RLYmZDU2MrVGVEYkZldVJRbEFkZjMyTjR6andKTDM2eTRyY1VxN2g0QzU3U1p3dHBiUk1EbVRMcjRyRE9nR2VoNSJ9


MIT:  Making Big Tech companies share data could do more good than breaking them up ---
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613629/making-big-tech-companies-share-data-could-do-more-good-than-breaking-them-up/?utm_campaign=the_download.unpaid.engagement&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=73419330&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8q6VPgQydNIZhSkbSu_wDItjo9VjPoJjKDo9-VjvfulVS1rVXT5t98tvklQnfDbDyix3YEOWjJQpZ4tN9gJTddYCM0kw&_hsmi=73419330

Jensen Comment
I sure would miss my free Google email accounts and my free Google search engine.


Suspension problems have dogged Tesla Model S and X vehicles for years, to the point that observers on the internet have started referring to them as "whompy wheels" ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/aladdin-stars-problem-with-tesla-known-as-whompy-wheels-2019-6

Jensen Comment
The Model 3 is generally so unreliable that Consumer Reports refuses to rate it. This may account for a lot of the fall in demand for Model 3.


McDonald’s Opens a Tiny Restaurant — and It’s Only for Bees
http://www.openculture.com/2019/05/mcdonalds-opens-a-tiny-restaurant-and-its-only-for-bees.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29


Cancer researcher contributed “false data” to 11 studies ---
http://retractionwatch.com/2015/12/09/cancer-researcher-contributed-false-data-to-11-studies/


Imports do not influence Gross Domestic Product, at least not in the mechanical way suggested by The Economist ---
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/05/gross-domestic-error.html
Read the comments, especially about the accounting


Walmart Expands Employee Tuition Benefits ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2019/06/06/walmart-expands-employee-tuition-benefits?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=a85a7e2795-DNU_2019_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-a85a7e2795-197565045&mc_cid=a85a7e2795&mc_eid=1e78f7c952

Walmart this week announced that it is expanding a debt-free college tuition benefit for the retail giant's roughly 1.4 million U.S. employees. The company is adding 14 degrees and certificates in technology fields such as cybersecurity, computer science and network security to the Live Better U program, which had featured degrees in business and supply chain management. The company said it would add more credentials in coming months.

Walmart employees are expected to pay $365 a year to participate, the equivalent of $1 per day. Walmart also offers high school completion to its employees, as well as discounts on master's degrees and other higher education programs.

The company works with Guild Education to administer the program. Guild, an intermediary and technology platform, has partnered with several nonprofit, regionally accredited universities to offer online credentials to employees of participating companies. Walmart's university partners, operating through Guild, include Southern New Hampshire University, Purdue University Global, the University of Florida and Brandman University.

Jensen Comment
Many companies not have employee tuition benefits. Most are online programs, but some like McDonalds also support onsite study ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/HigherEdControversies.htm#Partnerships


Why does Facebook recommend friends I've never even met?
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/facebook-people-you-may-know-friend-suggestions?utm_campaign=the_download.unpaid.engagement&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=73187520&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-815q_KxKW7c9KIgyeM0_3SxtbPVcjfSY_WDRqvyXRLp9eM9tgGtxh5wmDRM-nvmjD7waurF3Z5NPWk59fGRZ4NotpfsA&_hsmi=73187520


After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay (illegal file sharing) Still Can’t Be Killed ---
https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/after-15-years-the-pirate-bay-still-cant-be-killed


Our Students Can’t Write. We Have Ourselves to Blame ---
https://www.chronicle.com/article/Our-Students-Can-t-Write-We/246385?utm_source=wb&utm_medium=en&cid=wb

For the past two years, word salads have been the plat du jour at the White House. A staple of our national conversation, our president’s bursts of words, as dissimilar and disconnected from one another as the items on a Denny’s salad and dessert bar, have been a source of debate for linguists, ridicule for comedians, concern for psychologists, and despair for translators.

But professors in the humanities know Donald Trump does not have exclusive dibs on all-you-can-read word salads. I, for one, spend my semesters picking through the salads tossed and served up as papers by my students. Consider the opening paragraph from a paper I received this semester. The student, who chose to write on Ivan Turgenev’s novel Fathers and Sons, begins: "Bazarov’s story is the tragic existence of a man who could not exist. That statement is not finite. It only applies to Bazarov in the time period he exists and to his maturity because Bazarov’s nihilism is intermingled with passions."

This particular paper — written by a senior majoring in English and journalism — is a tad less coherent than others. Yet most of the papers are bedeviled by a host of grammatical and analytical problems, as if they were composed from word-salad bars that overflow with diced sentences and sliced syntax, stale phrases and failed analogies, and dressings that cover the full range of opinions (yet not a single serving of textual analysis). As for the staples of paper writing, including the basic punctuation of sentences and the clear organization of ideas, they are almost nowhere to be found.

Of course, this is hardly news. A few years ago, The Chronicle published a widely commented essay by Joseph R. Teller, a professor of English at the College of the Sequoias. Despite the different pedagogical approaches he had tried over the years, Teller found that students in his composition courses still couldn’t write a "clear sentence to save their lives." He concluded that the only way to help them save their lives, or at least write a clear sentence, was to focus on form, not content. Though he would like "to teach my students to love justice, be passionate about politics, and think deeply about the future of humanity," he announced, "they are not legitimate outcomes of a writing course."

While I share Teller’s experiences and exasperation, I am in a rather different situation. Like Teller, I am not in the business of teaching my students to love justice or think deeply about the future of humanity. Instead, my job as a historian is to teach students to trace the changing nature of justice and think deeply about humanity’s past.

Unlike Teller, though, I am not in the business of teaching composition. Or, at least, that is what I long told myself. When I was a graduate student in European history, I was not trained to teach this subject. (In fact, I was not trained to teach at all, but that is another story.) As a tenure-track professor, I was not encouraged to learn to teach writing skills. How would I have been? My tenure, after all, depended not on editing student papers, but on finding a publisher who would edit my manuscript for publication. Now that I am a tenured professor, my professional status and salary are based on … well, need I finish this sentence?

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Bob Jensen's writing helpers (with a lot of help from the pros) ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob3.htm#Dictionaries


Introducing InStride, Arizona State's For-Profit, Preferred Provider Strategy for Growing Online Enrollments ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/digital-tweed/introducing-instride-asu%E2%80%99s-profit-preferred-provider-strategy-growing-online

ASU's InStride is latest entrant to the $20 billion tuition benefits market, a potential growth area as employers mull alternatives to the traditional college degree and whether to pay for customized online credentials for their workers.---
https://www.insidehighered.com/digital-learning/article/2019/05/30/asu-spin-latest-arrival-20-billion-corporate-tuition-benefits?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=021639dbd8-DNU_2019_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-021639dbd8-197565045&mc_cid=021639dbd8&mc_eid=1e78f7c952

ASU Online ---
https://go.asuonline.asu.edu/lpppc-brand/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=BRAND-S-ASU-NAT&utm_term=+arizona +state +university&utm_content=ArizonaStateUniv-Brand-MBM&utm_initiative=GoogleBrand&gclid=EAIaIQobChMInpe3297G4gIVCYnICh0_XQSKEAAYASAAEgLtI_D_BwE

Bob Jensen's threads on universities partnering with the private sector ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/HigherEdControversies.htm#Partnerships


Here's Every Word That Stumped Spellers During the 2019 Scripps National Spelling Bee ---
http://time.com/5598691/scripps-national-spelling-bee-2019-losing-words/?utm_source=time.com&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the-brief-pm&utm_content=2019053120pm&xid=newsletter-brief


An Author Learned of a Mortifying Research Mistake Live on the Radio. Here’s How Twitter Reacted  ---
https://www.chronicle.com/article/An-Author-Learned-of-a/246370

Jensen Comment
The publisher must bear part of the blame for not having the manuscript properly reviewed by experts ---
https://www.chronicle.com/article/An-Author-Learned-of-a/246370

Rewriting History:  Facts in the Fiction's Way ---
https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/119519/9/09_chapter 3.pdf

NYT:  ‘Hamilton’ and History: Are They in Sync?
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/11/theater/hamilton-and-history-are-they-in-sync.html
Jensen Comment
One difference between theatre/cinema and academics is that there is such a vast body of historical fiction in the entertainment industry that we no longer expect plays and films to be sources of historical fact unless there are claims of fact such as in documentaries.

The Absolute Best Historically Accurate Westerns When Hollywood got It right. ---
https://truewestmagazine.com/historically-accurate-westerns/

14 GIANT Mistakes You Never Noticed in Major Motion Pictures ---
https://www.famefocus.com/movies/14-giant-mistakes-never-noticed-major-motion-pictures/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=adwords&utm_content=Movie+Mistakes&utm_campaign=ADW007-FME-movies-us&mma=kwd-295174755030&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIxpXA_tPK4gIVS77ACh3spAXuEAMYASAAEgJ3MPD_BwE

Added Jensen Comment
One of the joys of historical archives (including entertainment archives) is the fun of finding mistakes. Historians can make careers out of discovering mistakes in the archives. Probably the most common mistakes are found by the unearthing of new evidence in attics, digs, and technological discoveries such as carbon dating and, more recently, DNA evidence. Other common mistakes lie in errors of translation reliance upon second handed "facts." The most inexcusable mistakes are those arising from lazy academics or biased (think politically correct) academics.

The most sickening falsehoods are those currently being thrown out by politicians and highly biased cable network "news" sources like Fox News and MSNBC news.

The most important attribute of an academic is an obsession with critical thinking that puts claims of fact to the test.

Over 400 Examples of Critical Thinking and Illustrations of How to Mislead With Statistics --
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/MisleadWithStatistics.htm


Five Reasons Why Chicago Has (Almost) Everything Startup Founders Need ---
https://www.inc.com/emily-canal/chicago-startup-city-talent-funding-inc-fast-growth-tour.html

Jensen Comment
The article fails to expand upon the word "almost" in the title.

What could possibly be meant by "almost?"

The most obvious one is quality and safety in the gang-ridden K-12 public schools. But then virtually all large cities in the USA have similar problems with public schools with the possible exception of San Francisco where lousy public schools were pushed to Oakland.

All big USA cities have histories of corruption in city hall, but Chicago and Detroit and New Orleans set the gold standard for corruption. And the corruption extends to the state level where three recent governors of Illinois went to prison.

And there's an issue of labor union militancy and union corruption. Once again Chicago sets a gold standard for labor union militancy and corruption that led, among other things, to the worst public-worker pension crisis in the USA.

And then there are taxes. No mention is made in the article about the number of businesses fleeing Illinois for more tax-friendly climates in places like Indiana.

And I guess I won't elaborate on things like murder rate, fleeing population, climate, traffic, racial strife, and the other negatives.

What I like about the article is that there are some positives about Chicago as well --- positives summarized in the article. One added positive is the plus side of corruption. Corruption in city hall means that companies can negotiate pretty good deals under the table.


The New Yorker:  While Rui Pinto sits in jail, his revelations are bringing down European soccer's most famous teams and players ---
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/06/03/how-football-leaks-is-exposing-corruption-in-european-soccer

Bob Jensen's threads on fraud over the years ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm


Tesla has made hundreds of millions of dollars selling tax credits to other automakers. Now we know who bought them ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-sold-carbon-emissions-credits-to-general-motors-fiat-chryser-2019-6


The Couple Who Feds Say Scammed Berkshire Hathaway (think Warren Buffett) for Millions (in a solar energy Ponzi scheme) ---
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-04/the-couple-who-feds-say-scammed-buffett-s-berkshire-hathaway?cmpid=BBD060419_BIZ&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=190604&utm_campaign=bloombergdaily

Bob Jensen's threads on fraud over the years ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm


How to Mislead With Statistics
Nobody Could Beat the ‘Jeopardy!’ Champion. Then a University Librarian Stepped Up ---
https://www.chronicle.com/article/Nobody-Could-Beat-the/246433

Jensen Comment
Both Boettcher,and Holzhauer have proven themselves to be very good, and some of the contestants that Holzhauer beat along the way were very, very good. What the above article fails to realize is the role of chance in each game --- those (usually) three Daily Double opportunities that Holzhauer used so effectively with huge bets over the past few weeks.

My point here is that winners on Jeopardy are impossible to rank because of the chance factor in those daily double occurrences. Holzhauer lost on the night he failed to get a chance at the two biggest Daily Doubles. That's likely to happen to any Jeopardy champion playing night-after-night.

Holzhauer was unlike other Jeopardy heroes in terms of the size of his Daily Double wagers followed by consistently having the correct answers. He lost to Boettcher largely because she got the two big Daily Doubles (by chance) on the night she won, and she correctly answered both Daily Doubles. She;s been winning this week but her Daily Double wagers are not as reckless as those of Holzhauer. She's like him, however, in her consistency in pulling out correct answers.


How to convert PDFs into Word files and edit them on a Mac computer ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-convert-pdf-to-word-on-mac
Unless the original authors of the PDF files chose options not to allow editing


MIT:  Forget drones, Amazon’s real robot innovation is in the warehouse ---
https://www.technologyreview.com/f/613649/forget-drones-amazons-real-robot-innovation-is-in-the-warehouse/


Sans Forgetica (memory aids) --- https://sansforgetica.rmit/

 




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


Education Tutorials

National Center on Accessible Educational Materials --- --- http://aem.cast.org/

Video Crash Course: Navigating Digital Information Educational Technology ---
www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtN07XYqqWSKpPrtNDiCHTzU 

Sans Forgetica (memory aids) --- https://sansforgetica.rmit/

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

Encountering Science in America Science --- www.amacad.org/publication/encountering-science

What to do about CO2? Try stuffing it into the Gulf of Mexico ---
https://www.wired.com/story/what-to-do-about-co2-try-stuffing-it-into-the-gulf-of-mexico/?utm_campaign=the_download.unpaid.engagement&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=73461552&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--YFXUNGOtkUF2edc9AdgFDec6EHJh6UorBh8PLCduojus1jZjVTqA4fejjhjCSC1cfRw3Nu5GgDoDvfArJWrSFLcXCLA&_hsmi=73461552

TED Talk:  Juna Kollmeier: The most detailed map of galaxies, black holes and stars ever made ---
https://ted.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=07487d1456302a286cf9c4ccc&id=80d208af68&e=a3afadd827

Marie Curie Became the First Woman to Win a Nobel Prize, the First Person to Win Twice, and the Only Person in History to Win in Two Different Sciences ---
http://www.openculture.com/2019/06/marie-curie-became-the-first-woman-to-win-a-nobel-prize.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Architectural Histories --- https://journal.eahn.org/

Plants of the World Online --- www.plantsoftheworldonline.org

Ocean Literacy Courses --- http://literacy.ocean.org/
Bob Jensen's threads on water and oceans ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2-Part2.htm#Oceans

NOAA Ocean Explorer: Windows to the Deep 2019 ---
https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/okeanos/explorations/ex1903/welcome.html

Bob Jensen's threads on free online science, engineering, and medicine tutorials are at --http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm

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


Social Science and Economics Tutorials

David Brooks (one of my heroes) --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Brooks_(commentator)
TED Talk by David Brooks (NYT):  The Lies Our Culture Tells Us ---
https://www.ted.com/talks/david_brooks_the_lies_our_culture_tells_us_about_what_matters_and_a_better_way_to_live?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2019-06-07&utm_campaign=newsletter_weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_content=bottom_left_button

The Opportunity Atlas (influence of neighborhood where you grew up and economic success) --- www.opportunityatlas.org

Reading Marx's Capital with David Harvey (Video Lecture Series) --- http://davidharvey.org/reading-capital/

Karl Marx was a vehement racist and anti-Semite (yes, even though both his grandfathers were rabbis!) This particular quote is not an aberration but very typical of both his and Engel's thoughts.
Free Republic, June 14, 2009 ---
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/news-forum/index?more=2271681 
Marx-Engels Correspondence, 1862 --- http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1862/letters/62_07_30a.htm

Native Land --- https://native-land.ca

The Real Rainbow Row: Charleston's Queer History ---
https://speccoll.cofc.edu/the-real-rainbow-row/

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

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


Law and Legal Studies

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


Math Tutorials

 

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

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


History Tutorials

Nature:  Predicting History --- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-019-0620-8

Leonardo da Vinci’s Huge Notebook Collections, the Codex Forster, Now Digitized in High-Resolution: Explore Them Online ---
http://www.openculture.com/2019/06/leonardo-da-vincis-huge-notebook-collections-the-codex-forster-now-digitized-in-high-resolution.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Video Explaining Art from the 1500s ---
https://jborden.com/2019/06/07/if-only-all-works-of-art-could-be-explained-like-this/

Last Seen (the world's greatest art theft) --- www.wbur.org/lastseen

Reading Marx's Capital with David Harvey (Video Lecture Series) --- http://davidharvey.org/reading-capital/

Karl Marx was a vehement racist and anti-Semite (yes, even though both his grandfathers were rabbis!) This particular quote is not an aberration but very typical of both his and Engel's thoughts.
Free Republic, June 14, 2009 ---
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/news-forum/index?more=2271681 
Marx-Engels Correspondence, 1862 --- http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1862/letters/62_07_30a.htm

1859 Harper;s Weekly Archives ---
https://archive.org/details/harpersweekly00bonn/page/n6
Jensen Comment
To put 1859 into perspective, the USA Civil War was 1861-1865. These were still years of slavery.

Native Land --- https://native-land.ca

The Real Rainbow Row: Charleston's Queer History ---
https://speccoll.cofc.edu/the-real-rainbow-row/

Take a Visual Journey Through 181 Years of Street Photography (1838-2019) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2019/05/181-years-of-street-photography.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29 

Video:  History of the Muppet Show ---
https://ritholtz.com/2019/06/history-of-the-muppet-show/

Beinecke Library Pop-up Exhibit Celebrates Walt Whitman Bicentennial ---
https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/whitman200

The 117-year rise and fall of JCPenney, one of America's largest department stores ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/jcpenney-dramatic-decline-history-photos-2019-5
The company has not yet fallen completely --- it's still frequently alive among the dead in big shopping malls

NPR's Book Concierge: Our Guide to 2018's Great Reads ---
https://apps.npr.org/best-books-2018/

Architectural Histories --- https://journal.eahn.org/

Internet Archive: Films from 1923 ---
https://archive.org/details/moviesandfilms?&and[]=year%3A%221923%22

Bob Jensen's threads on history tutorials are at http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Scroll down to History
Also see http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm  

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


Language Tutorials

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


Music Tutorials

 

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

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


Writing Tutorials

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/

May 30, 2019

·                 CDC: Fewer Adults Getting Diagnosed With Diabetes

·         Do You Really Need 10,000 Steps a Day?

·         Being Transgender Not a Mental Disorder, WHO Says

·         Breaking the Ultrasound Barrier to Fight Disease

·         First Trial of Opioid Maker Begins

·         FDA OKs Wearable Device for Migraine Pain

·         New Brain Cells Grow Later In Life Than We Think

·         Exercise Apps Help Boost Women's Activity Levels

·         'Bad' Cholesterol, Rare Alzheimer's May Be Linked

 

June 1, 2019

·                 Impossible? New Veggie Burgers Make a Run at Beef

·         Violent Video Games, Unlocked Guns a Dangerous Combo

·         Patients Who Read Docs' Notes Take Meds Better

·         How Much Coffee Is Too Much?

·         Can People in Heart Failure Safely Reduce Diuretics?

·         Teasing Kids About Weight Linked to Gaining More

·         Trial: Gains Seen on Inoperable Pancreatic Cancer

·         Ariana Grande Postpones Shows Due to Tomato Allergy

·         TSA OKs Some CBD Oils, Pot-Derived Drug on Flights

June 4, 2019

·             FDA Makes New Cancer Treatments Easier to Get

·         Recall: Johnsonville Sausage May Contain Plastic

·         1 Dies in Ohio Outbreak of Legionnaires Disease

·         Your Gut Bacteria Could Affect How Your Meds Work

·         Younger Gout Patients Have Higher Blood Clot Risk

·         ASCO Conference Highlights 2019

·         Perdue Recalls Almost 32,000 Pounds of Chicken

·         Study: Less Sleep For Teens = More Unsafe Sex

·         Kids Still Being Poisoned by Detergent Pods

June 5, 2019

·         LabCorp Latest Testing Company to Be Hacked

·         We Eat, Drink, Breathe 70,000 Plastic Bits a Year

·         Chicken No Better Than Beef for Your Cholesterol?

·         Falls Are Increasingly Lethal for Older Americans

·         Beta Blockers Might Fight A-Fib Too

·         Should Breast Cancer Survivors Get MRI Screening?

·         Addiction Treatment Denied For Many, Study Finds

·         FDA: Common Supplement Ingredient Could Hurt Fetus

·         Could Seeing Self-Harm On Instagram Spur Copycats?

June 6, 2019

·             Researchers Identify Maximum Human Exertion

·         Ex-CDC Chief Pleads Guilty to Disorderly Conduct

·         LabCorp Latest Testing Company to Be Hacked

·         Few Getting Needed Checkups After Prostate Cancer

·         FDA Tests Find Toxic Chemicals in Food

·         We Eat, Drink, Breathe 70,000 Plastic Bits a Year

·         Many Dietary Supplements Dangerous for Teens

·         Study: Dentists Prescribe Antibiotics Far Too Often

·         Chicken No Better Than Beef for Your Cholesterol?

June 7, 2019

·         Texas Couple's Death in Fiji Under Investigation

·         Feeling Stressed? Then Your Dog Probably Feels Stressed, Too

·         More Young Adults Getting Colorectal Cancer, Dying From It

·         Report: Hundreds of Kids Drown in Pools Each Year

·         Having an Extra Finger Might Be A Good Thing

·         Could You Afford Home Health Care? Maybe Not

·         Midlife Diabetes Can Raise Your Stroke Chances Later

·         TV Star Marcia Cross Raises Anal Cancer Awareness

·         Antibiotics Pollute Rivers Worldwide, Study Finds

June 11, 2019

·         Kroger Recalls Berries Tainted With Hepatitis A

·         Bedroom Light at Night Might Boost Women's Weight

·         Doctors Expected a Brain Tumor. It Was a Tapeworm

·         Study: Whooping Cough Vaccine Power Fades With Time

·         Study: Vitamin D Won’t Help Prevent Type 2 Diabetes

·         Race Affects Life Expectancy in Major U.S. Cities

·         Chickenpox Vaccine Shields Against Shingles Too

·         Whole Foods Recalling Two Pesto Products

·         Texas Couple's Death in Fiji Under Investigation

 June 12, 2019

·         Study: Leafy Greens OK For People on Warfarin

·         Cancer Survivors Predicted to Top 22 Million by 2030

·         Recall: Asbestos in Claire's Makeup

·         Forest Bathing, Nature Time Are Hot Health Advice

·         Gene Test Might Someday Gauge Your Heart Risk

·         High Blood Pressure at Doctor's Could Signal Danger

·         Formula + Nursing OK to Help Newborns Gain Weight

·         Switch From Beef to Chicken Could Help the Planet

·         Tyson Recalls 190,000 Pounds of Chicken Fritters

June 13, 2019

·         Laser-Based Test Hunts Stray Melanoma Cells

·         Report: Cancer-Causing Nitrates in Water Supply

·         1 In 5 People In Conflict Zones Is Mentally Ill

·         Obesity Can Make MS Symptoms Worse

·         'Dad Shaming' Is Real, Survey Shows

·         Bones Help Black People Keep Facial Aging at Bay

·         Expert Panel Backs PrEP for People at High HIV Risk

·         Recall: Asbestos in Claire's Makeup

·         Study: Leafy Greens OK For People on Warfarin

VIEW ALL HEALTH NEWS

 


Here’s what marijuana actually does to your body and brain ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/marijuana-weed-mental-physical-effects-2017-1

Jensen Comment
My wife had 17 spine surgeries and lives with chronic pain. Medical marijuana did zero for her pain relief, as did an electronic pain stimulator installed along her spine ---
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/ErikaBob/ErikaPain/Set01/Set01.htm  (when we were more optimistic about the electronic device)
The electronic device was surgically replaced by a morphine pump. This does more good, but it's no magic bullet.  It did help her eliminate addictive pain pills.


What makes mānuka honey 100 times more expensive than regular honey?
https://www.businessinsider.com/manuka-honey-new-zealand-why-so-expensive-2019-6


We need to talk about the orgasm gap — and how to fix it ---
|https://ideas.ted.com/we-need-to-talk-about-the-orgasm-gap-and-how-to-fix-it/


The Healing Power of Gardens ---
http://www.openculture.com/2019/06/oliver-sacks-promotes-the-healing-properties-of-gardens.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

 




Humor for June 2019

20 lessons from TV.--- https://twitter.com/JohnDonoghue64/status/1136233779750756352

Dad's Casual 'Conversation' With Infant Son ---
https://time.com/5602253/dj-pryor-and-son/?utm_source=time.com&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the-brief-pm&utm_content=2019060618pm&xid=newsletter-brief


Facts to Make you Smile forwarded by Jay

 

1... WHY

 

 Why do men's clothes have buttons on the right while women's clothes have buttons on the left?  

 

BECAUSE

 

When buttons were invented, they were very expensive and worn primarily by the rich. Since most people are right-handed, it is easier to push buttons on the right through holes on the left.  Because wealthy women were dressed by maids, dressmakers put the buttons on the maid's right!   And that's where women's buttons have remained since.

 

2 ... WHY?

 

Why do ships and aircraft use 'mayday' as their call for help?

 

 BECAUSE

 
 

This comes from the French word m'aidez - meaning 'help me' - and is pronounced, approximately, 'mayday.'

 

3 ... WHY?

 

Why are zero scores in tennis called 'love'?

 

 BECAUSE

 
 

In France , where tennis became popular, the round zero on the scoreboard looked like an egg and was called 'l'oeuf,' which is French for 'the egg.'  When tennis was introduced in the US, Americans (naturally), mispronounced it 'love.'

 

4 ... WHY?

 

Why do X's at the end of a letter signify kisses?

 

 BECAUSE

 
 

In the Middle Ages, when many people were unable to read or write, documents were often signed using an X. Kissing the X represented an oath to fulfill obligations specified in the document. The X and the kiss eventually became synonymous.

 

5 ... WHY?

 

Why is shifting responsibility to someone else called passing the buck'?

 

 BECAUSE

 
 

In card games, it was once customary to pass an item, called a buck,

 

from player to player to indicate whose turn it was to deal.  If a player did not wish to assume the responsibility of dealing, he would 'pass the buck' to the next player.

 

6 ... WHY?

 

Why do people clink their glasses before drinking a toast?

 

 BECAUSE

 
 

In earlier times it used to be common for someone to try to kill an enemy by offering him a poisoned drink.  To prove to a guest that a drink was safe, it became customary for a guest to pour a small amount of his drink into the glass of the host. Both men would drink it simultaneously. When a guest trusted his host, he would only touch or clink the host's glass with his own.

 

7. WHY?

 

Why are people in the public eye said to be 'in the limelight'?

 

 BECAUSE

 
 

Invented in 1825, limelight was used in lighthouses and theaters by burning a cylinder of lime which produced a brilliant light. In the theater, a performer 'in the limelight' was the Center of attention.

 

8 ... WHY?

 

Why is someone who is feeling great 'on cloud nine'?

 

 BECAUSE

 
 

Types of clouds are numbered according to the altitudes they attain, with nine being the highest cloud. If someone is said to be on cloud nine, that person is floating well above worldly cares.

 

9 ... WHY?

 

In golf, where did the term 'Caddie' come from?

 

 BECAUSE

 
 

When Mary Queen of Scots went to France as a young girl, Louis, King of France, learned that she loved the Scots game 'golf.' He had the first course outside of Scotland built for her enjoyment.  To make sure she was properly chaperoned (and guarded) while she played, Louis hired cadets from a military school to accompany her.

 

Mary liked this a lot and when she returned to Scotland (not a very good idea in the long run), she took the practice with her.  In French, the word cadet is pronounced 'ca-day' and the Scots changed it into caddie.

 

 

 

10 ... WHY?

 

Why are many coin collection jar banks shaped like pigs?

 

BECAUSE

 

Long ago, dishes and cookware in Europe were made of dense orange clay called 'pygg'. When people saved coins in jars made of this clay, the jars became known as 'pygg banks.'  When an English potter misunderstood the word, he made a container that resembled a pig.  And it caught on

 

 
BIG CHEEKS  
  Bet you don't know "Big cheeks"

 

Big cheeks. A grandson of slaves, a boy was born in a poor neighborhood of New Orleans known as the "Back of Town."  His father abandoned the family when the child was an infant. His mother became a prostitute and the boy and his sister had to live with their grandmother.

 

Early in life he proved to be gifted for music and with three other kids he sang in the streets of New Orleans  His first gains were coins that were thrown to them.

 

A Jewish family, Karnofsky, who had emigrated from Lithuania to the USA, had pity for the 7-year-old boy and brought him into their home. Initially giving 'work' in the house, to feed this hungry child. There he remained and slept in this Jewish family's home where, for the first time in his life, he was treated with kindness and tenderness.

 

When he went to bed, Mrs. Karnovsky sang him a Russian lullaby that he would sing with her. Later, he learned to sing and play several Russian and Jewish songs.

 

Over time, this boy became the adopted son of this family. The Karnofskys gave him money to buy his first musical instrument; as was the custom in the Jewish families.

 

They sincerely admired his musical talent. Later, when he became a professional musician and composer, he used these Jewish melodies in compositions, such as St James Infirmary and Go Down Moses.

 

The little black boy grew up and wrote a book about this Jewish family who had   adopted him in 1907.   In memory of this family and until the end of his life, he wore a Star of David and said that in this family, he had learned "how to live real life and determination."

 

You might recognize his name.  This little boy was called: Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong.

 

Louis Armstrong proudly spoke fluent Yiddish!  And "Satchmo" is Yiddish for "Big Cheeks"!

 

Now, don't you feel better educated?   You're welcome!

 




Humor May 2019--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book19q2.htm#Humor0519.htm

Humor April 2019--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book19q2.htm#Humor0419.htm 

Humor March 2019--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book19q1.htm#Humor0319.htm

Humor February 2019--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book19q1.htm#Humor0219.htm 

Humor January 2019--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book19q1.htm#Humor0119.htm   

Humor December 2018--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book18q4.htm#Humor1218.htm  

Humor November 2018--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book18q4.htm#Humor1118.htm 

Humor October 2018--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book18q4.htm#Humor1118.htm

Humor October 2018--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book18q4.htm#Humor1018.htm   

Humor September 2018--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book18q3.htm#Humor0918.htm 

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 




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