Tidbits on June 27 2019
Bob Jensen at Trinity University

Bob Jensen's Set 7-2019 of Early (June) Springtime Flowers
http://cs.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/SummertimeFavorites/Set06/Set07-2019.htm 

 

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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 

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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

The Ruins of Chernobyl Captured in Three Haunting, Drone-Shot Videos ---
http://www.openculture.com/2019/06/the-ruins-of-chernobyl-captured-in-three-haunting-drone-shot-videos.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Scenes from HBO’s Chernobyl v. Real Footage Shot in 1986: A Side-By-Side Comparison ---
http://www.openculture.com/2019/06/scenes-from-hbos-chernobyl-v-real-footage-shot.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Scene from "Insignificance" (1985), the ‘actress’ explains the theory of relativity ---
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3759093/posts

Ted Talk Video:  How synthetic biology could wipe out humanity — and how we can stop it ---
https://www.ted.com/talks/rob_reid_how_synthetic_biology_could_wipe_out_humanity_and_how_we_can_stop_it?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2019-06-21&utm_campaign=newsletter_weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_content=top_left_button

Apollo 11 in Real Time: A New Web Site Lets You Take a Real-Time Journey Through First Landing on the Moon ---
http://www.openculture.com/2019/06/apollo-11-in-real-time.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Art History Video:  The Art Assignment Arts www.youtube.com/user/theartassignment

Video:  Abraham Lincoln Bible surfaces, offers clues to his religious beliefs ---
https://video.foxnews.com/v/6050447587001/#sp=show-clips
Also see
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/19/us/politics/abraham-lincoln-bible.html

Michel Foucault and Noam Chomsky Debate Human Nature & Power on Dutch TV (1971) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2019/06/michel-foucault-and-noam-chomsky-debate-human-nature-power-on-dutch-tv-1971.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29


The Sunset Hill House Hotel (near our cottage) ---
https://www.thesunsethillhouse.com/
Watch the video
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 

Chet Atkins:  I Still Can't Say Goodbye ---
https://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2019/06/a-bittersweet-fathers-day.html

The Recorder Played Like You’ve Never Heard it Before: Hear a Stunning Solo from Vivaldi’s Recorder Concerto in C Major ---
http://www.openculture.com/2019/06/the-recorder-played-like-youve-never-heard-it-before.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Musicmap (music history) --- www.musicmap.info

Early Music Sources --- www.earlymusicsources.com

Afropop Worldwide (African Music) --- https://afropop.org/

Tunefind --- www.tunefind.com

The Jane Austen Family Music Books --- https://archive.org/details/austenfamilymusicbooks&tab=about 

Carnegie Hall: Music Educators Toolbox --- www.carnegiehall.org/Education/Educators/Music-Educators-Toolbox/Resources

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


Photographs and Art

The Brilliant Colors of the Great Barrier Revealed in a Historic Illustrated Book from 1893 ---
http://www.openculture.com/2019/06/rediscover-the-great-barrier-reefs-colorful-past-in-an-historic-illustrated-book-from-1893.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Women Who Draw: Explore an Open Directory That Showcases the Work of 2,700 Female Illustrators ---
http://www.openculture.com/2019/06/women-who-draw.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Why Leonardo da Vinci continues to fascinate the modern world ---
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/02/leonardo-da-vinci-500-years-after-his-death-his-genius-shines-as-bright-as-ever/

The USA Army is 244 Years Old ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/us-army-242nd-birthday-photos-of-history-and-operations-2017-6

Check out these gorgeous photos of US Air Force F-15s putting on a show for the 75th anniversary of D-Day ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/us-air-force-f15-fighters-normandy-for-dday-75th-anniversary-2019-6

Art History Video:  The Art Assignment Arts www.youtube.com/user/theartassignment

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

An Interactive Map of Odysseus’ 10-Year Journey in Homer’s Odyssey ---
http://www.openculture.com/2019/06/interactive-map-of-odysseus-10-year-journey-in-homers-odyssey.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Alexander Chee’s Lovely Letter to Children About How Books Save Us ---
https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/06/11/alexander-chee-a-velocity-of-being-letter/?mc_cid=d201a1e393&mc_eid=4d2bd13843

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 27, 2019
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/2019/TidbitsQuotations062719.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




Open Textbook Library --- https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks

Example:  There are a surprising number of accounting textbooks available
 

Jensen Comment
The problem with open textbooks is the lack of incentive to invest in high quality end-of-chapter materials (cases and problems) along with the incentives for multimedia supplements that accompany the top commercial textbooks (yeah, I know that usually these aren't so great, but sometimes they're terrific). Much depends on the activism of faculty users of open textbooks to contribute new materials. Ideally open textbooks become a lot like Wikipedia. If they don't catch on with active wiki-like additions and corrections, quality probably varies alot by discipline. I suspect that math open textbooks are much more enduring than financial accounting textbooks because rules of financial accounting change so frequently (weekly) that even commercial textbooks are obsolete when each new edition is announced. Unless they are wiki-like it's hard to keep new open book editions rolling out annually.

The wonderful thing about free textbooks is that when their quality improves commercial publishers must invest more to stay ahead of the free textbooks available. This includes more frequent updated editions, higher quality supplementary materials (like cases and problems), and online services.

Wikibooks is a source of evolving free textbooks ---
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Subject:Books_by_subject

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


Disinvited Speakers Get a Platform to Talk About Being Denied One ---
https://www.chronicle.com/article/Disinvited-Speakers-Get-a/246518?utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&cid=at

Jensen Comment
Your academic life is doomed forever if sometime in your past (maybe when you were in middle school) you were pictured in black face or did not follow the liberal dogma on socialism, feminism, gay rights, transgender rights, abortion, minority intellectual equality, poverty, universal medical insurance, destroying Wall Street, animal rights, confiscation of guns, etc. As the article points you you may be invited to speak on a neutral topic (like cancer) but will be disinvited in if you're wearing a controversial red letter from your past mistakes of not being sufficiently liberal from date of birth.

In fact the universities are now denying admission as a first-year student if you were not sufficiently liberal in your childhood ---
https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/18/us/harvard-rescind-admission/index.html

Ironically, universities are now taking pride in admitting ex-convicts but not unless they were incarcerated on the assumption that incarceration washes away all sin.

Harvard considers applicants to be of "low moral character" if they favor gun rights such as gun rights activist Kyle Kashuv from Parkland High School ---
https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/18/us/harvard-rescind-admission/index.htm

Harvard told Kashuv in a May letter that it "reserves the right to withdraw an offer of admission under various conditions, including 'if you engage or have engaged in behavior that brings into question your honesty, maturity, or moral character.'"

You cannot even imagine being granted tenure at Harvard if you're a conservative thinker ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/HigherEdControversies.htm

A third disgrace in the hiring bias of faculty in higher education. It's not at all uncommon for over 90+% of the faculty on campus to be members of the Democratic Party. Harvard's conservative political scientist Harvey Mansfield once warned a non-tenured Harvard professor who whispered to Harvey that he too was conservative. Harvey advised that non-tenured professor against "raising the jolly Roger" until after attaining tenure. Harvey was serious in this instance. Fifty years ago college campuses had conservative thought in the curriculum and focused on the writings of such conservative theorists as Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman. Now such writings are not politically correct. Bravo to the University of Colorado for creating a professorship for a conservative thinker so there could be at least one on campus.

Academic Freedom And The Catholic University  ---
https://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2019/06/academic-freedom-and-the-catholic-university.html

Bob Jensen's threads on political correctness ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/HigherEdControversies2.htm#PoliticalCorrectness


Michel Foucault --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault

Noam Chomsky --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky

Michel Foucault and Noam Chomsky Debate Human Nature & Power on Dutch TV (1971) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2019/06/michel-foucault-and-noam-chomsky-debate-human-nature-power-on-dutch-tv-1971.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Jensen Comment
This debate did not end well with Chomsky concluding Foucault was amoral and prone to dysfunctional exaggeration.


Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Ilhan Omar on Monday proposed legislation to cancel all federal and private student-loan debt, carried by about 45 million Americans ---
https://www.chronicle.com/article/No-Exceptions-No-Questions/246553?utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&cid=at

Wall Street lashes out at Bernie Sanders' plan to pay off student debt with a securities trading tax ---
https://www.investmentnews.com/article/20190624/FREE/190629961/wall-street-lashes-out-at-bernie-sanders-plan-to-pay-off-student
Jensen Comment
The problem is compounded by the fact that progressives want to spend tens of trillions more on things other than student debt forgiveness and free college in future years, including spending programs for green initiatives, free medical care, free medications, student loan forgiveness followed by free college for everybody, guaranteed annual income for 350+ USA residents, reparations for African and Native Americans, and billions for new subsidized housing on top of existing safety nets such as food stamps and welfare and housing.

The cost student debt forgiveness alone is nearly equal to all $1.7+ trillion Federal income tax revenue currently used to fund existing government spending ---
https://www.usdebtclock.org/
Vague references references are made to are made to taking the $1.6+ trillion from rich investors, but no mention is made of how the aggregated cost of this $1.6 trillion added to other new spending programs costing $100 trillion will crash the stock, bond, and real estate markets.

When combined with free college education for anybody who wants it this will make funding more difficult for $100 trillion in green initiatives, Medicare-for-All, free medications for all, free nursing homes, guaranteed annual income for 350+ million residents, reparations for black and native Americans, and so on down the 2020 socialist democratic wish list.

My guess is that Sanders would not have backed this in current legislation if it had a chance of getting the approval of the Senate and President Trump. If it passed it would greatly complicate his other spending plans, especially Medicare-for-All.

The ultimate cost of all this spending will be borne by USA pension fund holders (think CREF and CalPERS) since pension funds depend mostly upon stock, bond, and real estate markets that will crash if you take $100+ trillion from investors in any form whatsoever.

Progressive spenders never talk about how they will save USA's pension funds for teachers, municipal workers, business workers, etc.

The bottom line is that for most student borrowers the funding of the student-loan cancellation will wipe out the pension funds of their parents.


Say What?  $12 trillion of negative-yielding bonds are sending a clear message of distress (mostly in Europe and Japan) ---
https://qz.com/1647791/12-trillion-of-negative-yielding-bonds-are-a-distress-signal/
Have your students explain this one!


How to Use Microsoft Word’s Learning Tools ---
https://www.howtogeek.com/425577/how-to-use-words-learning-tools/
Jensen Comment
These can especially help when reading articles and books

Chatbots Explained ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/chatbots-explained-why-businesses-should-be-paying-attention-to-the-chatbot-revolution-2016-7

Bob Jensen's threads on technology tools and tricks of the trade ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm


The 11 best new tech gadgets of 2019 so far ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/best-new-tech-gadgets-samsung-galaxy-s10-airpods-2-2019-6
Yawn!

Bob Jensen's threads on gadgets ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob4.htm#Technology

40 Big Tech Predictions for 2019 ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/40-big-tech-predictions-2019


I did not anticipate the growth in popularity of master's degree, although it makes sense given the rising popularity of delayed career choice decisions (think MBA) ---
Stanford issued 1,792 bachelor’s degrees, 2,389 master’s degrees and 1,038 doctoral degrees at the 128th Commencement on June 16. ---
https://news.stanford.edu/2019/06/16/commencement-main/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWkdNd05qZ3hNMlV6WTJFMiIsInQiOiJoWDZmeDkxMGtuTzlWU2pzaHFMb2liWUNhMDFiZCswVGYxa01xNFZUd3dGZ0pZKzRNQ1JWeWY1TFNtUEhSUWFOTWlFc2U4YUoyaDM0NW9MNHNwT2h5QVhwd09ra3o1RzNHdWw5VTlRa0J4bHZqSk9uT3o3NHpnZWZqOExyOXBGMiJ9
Jensen Comment
Some careers are more cumbersome to delay than others. For example, accountancy and engineering career tracks are best started early on as undergraduates due to the number of specialty courses required. Business and law careers can be delayed longer.


The Behavioral Economics Guide 2019 ---
https://www.behavioraleconomics.com/the-be-guide/the-behavioral-economics-guide-2019/

Richard Thaler and the Rise of Behavioral Economics

The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Vol. 120, Issue 3, pp. 661-684, 2018

SSRN

 

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3210990

 

24 Pages Posted: 13 Jul 2018  

Nicholas Barberis

Yale School of Management; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Multiple version iconThere are 2 versions of this paper

Date Written: July 2018

Abstract

Richard Thaler was awarded the 2017 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for his contributions to behavioral economics. In this article, I review and discuss these contributions.

Keywords: Endowment effect, mental accounting, nudge, prospect theory


Robert J. Nash explains why he believes one can still be effective at age 80 as both a teacher and a scholar ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2019/06/12/professor-who-has-taught-more-half-century-explains-why-he-hasnt-been-willing?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=776ee2eb95-DNU_2019_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-776ee2eb95-197603613&mc_cid=776ee2eb95&mc_eid=495c6bd417
Jensen Comment
I know an accounting professor who is becoming more known for publishing journal articles after retirement. I know one who is purportedly fantastic in the classroom as he approaches 90 years of age. But I've also had some colleagues who carried on far longer then they should have in the classroom while they deprived students of fresh faculty blood because of clinging to tenure positions well past their prime. Being an "effective teacher and scholar" at age 80 doesn't necessarily mean you're better than younger competition, especially in terms of technical updates that you stop trying to comprehend.


Why ‘A’ Students Struggle In Large Law Firms ---
https://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2019/06/why-a-students-struggle-in-biglaw.html

Jensen Comment
My anecdotal experience is somewhat similar for new hires of multinational accounting firms. Only it's more complicated in accountancy. Most of the new CPA firm hires are A students in this era where the median grade of all college graduates is A- due to grade inflation. When I look down the list of employees who became partners (usually after 10+ years) in the Big Four, it's no longer surprising to me that many of those new partners graduated from colleges that are not in the R1 set of top universities. I think it's because those graduates of of lower-tier universities are more willing to do the extra after-hours work that it takes to be a partner in a large or small auditing firm --- the name of the game is bringing in clients and keeping those clients respectful of the accountancy services.

New hires from top universities go to work for a large CPA firm for the training and experience, but they have their eyes set on moving on before they even have a chance to be admitted as partners. Where do they go? Often they go to work for high-paying clients offering 9-5 jobs with less travel and less stress. Some also go into Ph.D. programs in search of academic careers where there is more independence regarding working hours and job assignments. How many accounting professors have ever hustled to take charge of United Fund drives in their communities? It's quite common for those United Fund leaders to be partners in local CPA offices of multinational accounting firms. This is not the case for accounting professors who do not become executive officers in their universities. Their after-hours drudgery is spent writing journal articles.


Talking to Strangers*, the new Malcolm Gladwell book
https://marginalrevolution.com/
 


Robert Samuelson, the economics columnist, has written a column titled, It’s time we tear up our economics textbooks and start over. What he actually says is we should tear up Greg Mankiw’s Principles of Economics: ---
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/06/tearing-up-an-economics-textbook.html

 


Amazon sells substantially more than half of the books in the United States
NYT:  What Happens After Amazon’s Domination Is Complete?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/23/technology/amazon-domination-bookstore-books.html

 


Who are the highest paid government workers in Arizona?
https://www.azcentral.com/pages/interactives/news/local/arizona-data/arizona-government-salary-database/

Answer
Basketball coaches for the University of Arizona and Arizona State University (followed by physicians)

Jensen Comment
In New Hampshire I think the highest paid government employee is still the hockey coach at the University of New Hampshire


The storms have left millions of acres unseeded in the $51 billion U.S. corn market ---
https://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/illinois-farmers-have-given-up-on-planting_06182019
Hope these new veggie hamburgers are as good as their hype.

 


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


Fun Facts About Animals (perhaps "facts" should have quotation marks) ---
https://lefactsle.blogspot.com/2019/06/funanimals.html

Jensen Comment
Some "facts" above are probably more like averages and may not apply in all (or even most ) cases. For example, polar bear mothers do not always starve themselves after giving birth. And hummingbirds have some types of "intelligence" but crows, hawks, and other birds can be trained about some things you can't teach a hummingbird. Much depends upon how "intelligence" is defined and related to the mysteries of instinct (such as navigation mystery).

Tigers and lions usually have different habitats and rarely fight. If they fight much depends upon size and skill and health. And they rarely cross breed. 

Some names are given here are less general than other names. For example a "zebroid" is a more general name, whereas a "zorse" is that subset resulting from mating a zebra stallion with a horse mare ---
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebroid
In fairness the site states male zebra and female horse.  This leaves us wondering about the mating of a female zebra with a male horse.

In any case this is an informative fun site.

12 incredible "facts" about jellyfish ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/jellyfish-facts-things-you-didnt-know-2019-6


Travel guru Rick Steves shares 10 tips to save you money, time, and stress when you're on vacation ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/travel-advice-rick-steves-vacation-2019-6
Jensen Comment
The Rick Steves nightly (almost) show on PBS is addictive until you grow tired of the reruns.


Amazon's helping police build a surveillance network with Ring doorbells ---
https://www.cnet.com/features/amazons-helping-police-build-a-surveillance-network-with-ring-doorbells/


How Oakland Cops Gamed the System To Earn $30 Million in Overtime Pay ---
https://reason.com/2019/06/12/how-oakland-cops-gamed-the-system-to-earn-30-million-in-overtime-pay/


The Mother-In-Law From Hell In The Dan Markel Murder Case ---
https://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2019/06/the-mother-in-law-from-hell-in-the-dan-markel-murder.html


Top 19 Best Plagiarism Checkers 2019 For Bloggers ---
https://smartbuzzmedia.blogspot.com/2019/02/top-19-best-plagiarism-checkers-2019-for-blogger-updated-list.html

Bob Jensen's threads on plagiarism and cheating ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Plagiarism.htm


Scott McLemee reviews Glenn A. Albrecht's Earth Emotions: New Words for a New World ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2019/06/21/review-glenn-albrecht-earth-emotions-new-words-new-world?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=54e64bbcf9-WNU_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-54e64bbcf9-197565045&mc_cid=54e64bbcf9&mc_eid=1e78f7c952


Walmart to pay more than $282 million to settle bribery investigations --- 
https://www.businessinsider.com/walmart-to-pay-282-million-settle-sec-justice-department-charges-2019-6 

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


“Just Because You Can Doesn’t Mean You Should”: Practitioner Perceptions of Learning Analytics Ethics ---
https://preprint.press.jhu.edu/portal/sites/ajm/files/19.3jones.pdf


Professor sues Wesleyan U, saying it failed to act against students who falsely called him a "sexual predator" for two years ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/06/20/professor-sues-wesleyan-u-saying-it-failed-act-against-students-who-falsely-called?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=f184f9b83a-DNU_2019_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-f184f9b83a-197565045&mc_cid=f184f9b83a&mc_eid=1e78f7c952


JP Koning on Ill-Considered Government Policies Standing in the Way of the Emergence of the Digital Cash that Can Eliminate Any Lower Bound on Interest Rates ---
https://blog.supplysideliberal.com/post/2019/6/26/jp-koning-on-government-policies-standing-in-the-way-of-the-emergence-of-the-digital-cash-that-can-eliminate-any-lower-bound-on-interest-rates


P-Value Nonsense
Statisticians clamor for retraction of paper by Harvard researchers they say uses a “nonsense statistic” ---

https://retractionwatch.com/2019/06/19/statisticians-clamor-for-retraction-of-paper-by-harvard-researchers-they-say-uses-a-nonsense-statistic/#more-100498

**How to Mislead With P-Values and Statistical Inference

From David Giles on March 26, 2019

A World Beyond p < 0.05

The American Statistical Association has just published a special supplementary issue of The American Statistician, titled Statistical Inference in the 21st. Century: A World Beyond p < 0.05.

 

This entire issue is open-access. In addition to an excellent editorial, Moving to a World Beyond "p < 0.05" (by Ronald Wasserstein, Allen Schirm, and Nicole Lazar) it comprises 43 articles with such titles as:

·                     The p-Value Requires Context, Not a Threshold (by Rebecca Betensky)

·                     The False Positive Risk: A Proposal Concerning What to do About p-Values (by David Colquhoun)

·                     What Have we (Not) Learnt From Millions of Scientific Papers With P Values? (by John Ioannidis)

·                     Three Recommendations for Improving the Use of p-Values (by Daniel Benjamin and James Berger)

I'm sure that you get the idea of what this supplementary issue is largely about.

 

But look back at its title - Statistical Inference in the 21st. Century: A World Beyond p < 0.05. It's not simply full of criticisms. There's a heap of excellent, positive, and constructive material in there.

 

Highly recommended reading!

 

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/

 

Time to say goodbye to “statistically significant” and embrace uncertainty, say statisticians ---
https://retractionwatch.com/2019/03/21/time-to-say-goodbye-to-statistically-significant-and-embrace-uncertainty-say-statisticians/

Three years ago, the American Statistical Association (ASA) expressed hope that the world would move to a “post-p-value era.” The statement in which they made that recommendation has been cited more than 1,700 times, and apparently, the organization has decided that era’s time has come. (At least one journal had already banned p values by 2016.) In an editorial in a special issue of The American Statistician out today, “Statistical Inference in the 21st Century: A World Beyond P<0.05,” the executive director of the ASA, Ron Wasserstein, along with two co-authors, recommends that when it comes to the term “statistically significant,” “don’t say it and don’t use it.” (More than 800 researchers signed onto a piece published in Nature yesterday calling for the same thing.) We asked Wasserstein’s co-author, Nicole Lazar of the University of Georgia, to answer a few questions about the move.

So the ASA wants to say goodbye to “statistically significant.” Why, and why now?

In the past few years there has been a growing recognition in the scientific and statistical communities that the standard ways of performing inference are not serving us well.  This manifests itself in, for instance, the perceived crisis in science (of reproducibility, of credibility); increased publicity surrounding bad practices such as p-hacking (manipulating the data until statistical significance can be achieved); and perverse incentives especially in the academy that encourage “sexy” headline-grabbing results that may not have much substance in the long run.  None of this is necessarily new, and indeed there are conversations in the statistics (and other) literature going back decades calling to abandon the  language of statistical significance.  The tone now is different, perhaps because of the more pervasive sense that what we’ve always done isn’t working, and so the time seemed opportune to renew the call.

Much of the editorial is an impassioned plea to embrace uncertainty. Can you explain?

The world is inherently an uncertain place.   Our models of how it works — whether formal or informal, explicit or implicit — are often only crude approximations of reality. Likewise, our data about the world are subject to both random and systematic errors, even when collected with great care. So, our estimates are often highly uncertain; indeed, the p-value itself is uncertain. The bright-line thinking that is emblematic of declaring some results “statistically significant” (p<0.05) and others “not statistically significant” (p>0.05) obscures that uncertainty, and leads us to believe that our findings are on more solid ground than they actually are. We think that the time has come to fully acknowledge these facts and to adjust our statistical thinking accordingly.

Continued in article

Bob Jensen's threads on the decline of p-values from favor in statistical analysis ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm#WhatWentWrong

To p-Value or Not to p-Value? An Answer From Signal Detection Theory ---
https://open.lnu.se/index.php/metapsychology/article/view/871

“In statistics, Type I errors (false alarms) and Type II errors (misses) are sometimes considered separately, with Type I errors being a function of the alpha level and Type II errors being a function of power. An advantage of signal detection theory is that it combines Type I and Type II errors into a single analysis of discriminability…”

“…p values were effective, though not perfect, at discriminating between real and null effects.”

“Bayes factor incurs no advantage over p values at detecting a real effect versus a null effect … This is because Bayes factors are redundant with p values for a given sample size.”

“When power is high, researchers using p values to determine statistical significance should use a lower criterion.”

“… a change to be more conservative will decrease false alarm rates at the expense of increasing miss rates. False alarm rates should not be considered in isolation without also considering miss rates. Rather, researchers should consider the relative importance for each in deciding the criterion to adopt.”

“…given that true null results can be theoretically interesting and practically important, a conservative criterion can produce critically misleading interpretations by labeling real effects as if they were null effects.”

“Moving forward, the recommendation is to acknowledge the relationship between false alarms and misses, rather than implement standards based solely on false alarm rates.”

Continued in article

 

Illustrations of How to Mislead With Statistics --
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/MisleadWithStatistics.htm


Trading a Greener USA for a Browner Chile
Saving the Planet With Electric Cars Means Strangling This Desert: Mining lithium and copper to supply the battery boom and fight climate change is wrecking a fragile ecosystem in Chile ---
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-06-11/saving-the-planet-with-electric-cars-means-strangling-this-desert


Resource Allocations:  The Math That Could Bring the World to a Halt ---
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190606-the-maths-problem-that-modern-life-depends-on


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

Facebook just announced its own cryptocurrency ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/libra-facebook-announces-digital-currency-blockchain-2019-6

Facebook’s New Cryptocurrency, Libra, Gets Big Backers ---
https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebooks-new-cryptocurrency-gets-big-backers-11560463312?utm_campaign=the_download.unpaid.engagement&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=73685941&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9naoUR4uWhQq1o9YNNWsBDupuk2-QzWHk-3huA2RCri8YWIy34JXRMp4QgnXCrQSOI1sa5eUUXfGgiR-h3-5ga9uExDg&_hsmi=73685941

MIT:  A group of big banks plans to launch its own digital currency within a year ---
https://www.technologyreview.com/f/613616/14-of-the-worlds-big-banks-may-have-a-digital-currency-within-a-year/?utm_campaign=the_download.unpaid.engagement&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=73326445&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8g6HuZncYr1Oifw19Lc7OsEErQsxLuZQniKN09dz2tgVwpVGPuQ_SUphouimB7WxffMDG090JVY3xY9WFxMZBkd4jjPw&_hsmi=73326445

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

Beyond Bitcoin: Here are some of the new use cases for distributed ledger technology ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/beyond-bitcoin-report-2018-3


Grand Jury Probes Harvard Coach's Home Sale ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2019/06/19/grand-jury-probes-harvard-coachs-home-sale?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=00a247e00f-DNU_2019_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-00a247e00f-197565045&mc_cid=00a247e00f&mc_eid=1e78f7c952

A federal grand jury is investigating the sale of the home of the Harvard University fencing coach, The Boston Globe reported. The sale, first reported by the Globe, attracted attention because a wealthy man bought the fencing coach's house, apparently overpaying significantly. Then the man's son was admitted to Harvard and joined the team. Harvard has said that it is also conducting an investigation. Those involved have denied wrongdoing.

Bob Jensen's fraud updates ---
 http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm


Here's How 10,000-Plus MBA Students Grade Their Schools (Bloomberg Survey) ---
https://www.bloomberg.com/business-schools/2018/insights/students-scores/


Nearly 50% of Top MBA Grads Owe Six-Figure Debt ---
https://www.bloomberg.com/business-schools/2018/insights/students-loans/


The Babbage Engine (computer history) --- www.computerhistory.org/babbage

1822:  Charles Babbage introduced the "Difference engine," the forerunner of our modern computers. ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Difference_engine

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


How to Mislead With Statistics
Beware of persistence studies in regression analysis ---
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/06/beware-of-persistence-studies.html


Public more likely to return wallet containing larger sum of money, global study finds ---
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/jun/20/honesty-is-majority-policy-in-lost-wallet-experiment?utm_campaign=the_download.unpaid.engagement&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=73916311&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_5W5UwWwqVxk7HPc8OUmAV6JwH3dzCGVE2WyXUs0UWLM-FijWRJhouqilEawU9PoMRDbIi4f6Wi0cTECSs8t1k8XXNYg&_hsmi=73916311
I recommend you take a look (especially Figure 1) at
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2019/06/19/science.aau8712
What's the role of religion in civic honesty? (think India, Israel, Turkey, and Indonesia)
Note that the most honest nations are also high on captialism (think Switzerland, Norway, Denmark, Poland)

One purpose of capitalism is to turn greed into good ---
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=milton+friedman+greed

Jensen Comment
This wallet experiment begs a question regarding context. Will the people who return cash in a lost wallet do the same for cash caught in the wind such as cash blown 10 miles down wind by a tornado (and yes objects much heavier than cash have been known to be carried over 10 miles by a tornado)?

Do finders distinguish between being able to identify the owner of cash from anonymous cash carried by the wind?

What's the reason some people will return cash to a stranger and later shoplift tools from Walmart?

Returning cash is usually more complicated in varying circumstances. When children witness a parent finding wallet the parent may be more inclined to return the wallet than when there are no witnesses whatsoever.

When the original owner is known to be wealthy celebrity there may be more opportunity ultimately arising from returning a cash-stuffed wallet. The celebrity might reward honesty with great opportunities in life.

Suppose that deep in the woods you stumble upon hidden cash amidst narcotics. Would you be more or less inclined to keep discovered cash owned by a suspected criminal?

Can there be politically incorrect findings that will never be respectfully published such as cash returning differences based upon race, creed, color, age, and gender?


Data on what universities mean when they talk about diversity.---
https://twitter.com/DavidRozado/status/1140063678345011200


Knowledge Isn’t Neutral: On Radical Librarianship ---
https://teachersandwritersmagazine.org/knowledge-isnt-neutral-on-radical-librarianship-6020.htm


A California Bill Would Let College Athletes Sign Endorsement Deals, in Spite of the NCAA ---
https://psmag.com/education/a-california-bill-would-let-college-athletes-sign-endorsement-deals-in-spite-of-the-ncaa?utm_source=Pacific+Standard&utm_campaign=12ce2ea6a6-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_06_14_06_34&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_a4fd1bcb7e-12ce2ea6a6-80656397

Jensen Comment
Why stop here? Local firms should pay K-12 athletes and other talent (think musicians and scholars) for endorsements. After all, America's got talent at all ages. Valedictorians can plug their sponsors in graduation speeches. This can be come a competition to see who gets the largest endorsements at each grade level. What's bound to follow are the lawsuits regarding inequality of endorsements by gender, race, religion, etc. But this will help feed some starving lawyers on a more localized level.

It used to be an honor to get noticed in the news. Now the news will have to pay you to put your name and picture in the media.


Solar Panels Installation: 6 Unexpected Factors to Consider ---
https://readwrite.com/2019/06/07/solar-panels-installation/


Ford invested $500M into an electric vehicle startup. Here's how Rivian is doing exactly what Tesla isn't.---
https://www.businessinsider.com/electric-vehicle-startup-rivian-versus-tesla-ford-amazon-2019-6

China's Father of Electric Cars Says Hydrogen Is the Future ---
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-12/china-s-father-of-electric-cars-thinks-hydrogen-is-the-future?cmpid=BBD061419_WKND&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=190614&utm_campaign=weekendreading


The war to free science (from rip-off publishing companies) ---
https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/6/3/18271538/open-access-elsevier-california-sci-hub-academic-paywalls

Bob Jensen's threads on oligopoly academic publishing ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudReporting.htm#ScholarlyJournals


The multibillion-dollar sales of Tableau and Looker are a coming of age for data visualization ---
https://qz.com/1640415/acquisitions-of-tableau-and-looker-show-coming-of-age-for-dataviz/

Bob Jensen's threads on Visualization of Multivariate Data (including faces) --- 
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/352wpvisual/000datavisualization.htm 


David Giles:  Econometrics Reading Suggestions for June 2019

Here are my reading suggestions:

·                     Abadie, A., S. Athey, G. Imbens, & J. Wooldridge, 2017. When should you adjust standard errors for clustering? Mimeo.

·                     Berk, R., A. Buja, L. Brown, E. George, A. K. Kuchibhotla, W. Su, & L, Shazo, 2019. Assumption lean regression. American Statistician, in press.

·                     Ghosh, T., M. Ghosh, & T. Kubokawa, 2019. On the loss robustness of least-square estimators, American Statistician, in press.

·                     Gustafsson, O. & P. Stockhammar, 2019. Variance stabilizing filters. Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, in press.

·                     Kocherlakota, N. R., 2019. A near-exact finite sample theory for an instrumental variable estimator. Mimeo. (Hat-tip to Frank Diebold.)

·                     Panagiotelis, A., G. Anathasopoulos, R. J. Hyndman, B. Jiang, & F. Vahid, 2019. Macroeconomic forecasting for Australia using a large number of predictors. International Journal of Forecasting, 35, 613-633.

The recently published Volume 10, No. 1 issue of the European Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics takes the form of a memorial issue for Clive Granger ---
https://www.ejpam.com/index.php/ejpam/issue/view/39/showToc

 


What Aladdin — And Napoleon — Teach Us About Copyright
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/06/11/731447632/what-aladdin-and-napoleon-teach-us-about-copyright


The incredible life of Sally Ride, who became the first American woman in space after answering an ad in her school paper ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/sally-ride-first-american-woman-in-space-life-legacy-2019-6


PG&E Corp. has agreed to pay $1 billion to compensate more than a dozen California cities, counties and agencies for losses resulting from deadly wildfires sparked by its equipment ---
https://www.wsj.com/articles/pg-e-settles-with-some-california-communities-on-wildfire-claims-11560894354?mod=djemCFO
Jensen Comment
Who really pays the $1 billion? Not the bankrupt PG&E, The custormers of PG&E pay the $1 billion.


More than half of the 100 million Bibles printed every year have been printed in China ---
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/06/china-bible-fact-of-the-day.html


7,000 Dogs Are Registered to Come to 'Work' at Amazon's Headquarters ---
http://fortune.com/2019/06/21/amazon-dogs-at-work-perks/
Jensen Comment
When I first read the headline I thought this was going to be about bomb and contraband sniffing like the beagle that sniffed my luggage for food in the Christchurch airport. But this is really about how to retain and keep employees.

There are probably some businesses where this is a bad policy (think hospitals and restaurants and zoos). But it may be a good policy as long as pooper-scooper rules are strictly enforced.

The policy complicates crowded public transportation --- I can't imagine the Japanese will allow all thousands of dogs on crowded standing-room-only trains.

 




From the Scout Report on June 21, 2019

spaCy --- https://spacy.io/
spaCy is a python library for natural language processing. It comes with pre-trained statistical models that allow it to perform detailed semantic analysis for English, German, Greek, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, and Portuguese. In these languages, spaCy is able to break sentences into parts of speech, identify syntactic relationships (subject, object, etc), and generate sentence diagrams. In addition, it is able to identify root words (a process called Lemmatization by linguists) for the above languages, recognizing both suffixed roots (e.g., "color," "colors," "coloring") and different verb tenses (e.g., "is," "was," "be"). spaCy can also perform Named Entity Recognition (NER), to recognize "named 'real-world' objects like persons, companies, or locations." For around 40 other languages that lack a statistical model, spaCy is still able to accomplish simpler tasks like text tokenization and similarity testing. On spaCy's Usage page, readers can find installation instructions for windows, macOS, and Unix/Linux systems. The Usage page also provides a number of guides for getting started and a series of in-depth code examples. spaCy is free software distributed under the MIT license with source code available on GitHub.


Crossref --- https://github.com/CrossRef/rest-api-doc
CrossRef/rest-api-doc Crossref is a publisher-run not for profit organization that maintains a database of information about publications that have a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), which includes most publications in peer-reviewed journals, many academic books, conference proceedings, and more. The Crossref API provides a number of ways to query this database. Works can be queried directly by DOI, or by title, publication, editor, and other attributes. Results for an individual publication typically include license information, publication dates, and a detailed bibliography of all cited works. Depending on the publisher, additional data such as funding information may also be present. As is typical for REST APIs, queries are performed by fetching a specially constructed URL and results are returned in JSON format. Alternately, users may access the API using one of the libraries listed on the Libraries section of the Crossref API website.

 




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


Education Tutorials

Open Textbook Library --- https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks

Example:  There are a surprising number of accounting textbooks available
 

Jensen Comment
The problem with open textbooks is the lack of incentive to invest in high quality end-of-chapter materials (cases and problems) along with the incentives for multimedia supplements that accompany the top commercial textbooks (yeah, I know that usually these aren't so great, but sometimes they're terrific). Much depends on the activism of faculty users of open textbooks to contribute new materials. Ideally open textbooks become a lot like Wikipedia. If they don't catch on with active wiki-like additions and corrections, quality probably varies alot by discipline. I suspect that math open textbooks are much more enduring than financial accounting textbooks because rules of financial accounting change so frequently (weekly) that even commercial textbooks are obsolete when each new edition is announced. Unless they are wiki-like it's hard to keep new open book editions rolling out annually.The wonderful thing about free textbooks is that when their quality improves commercial publishers must invest more to stay ahead of the free textbooks available. This includes more frequent updated editions, higher quality supplementary materials (like cases and problems), and online services. Bob Jensen's threads on free electronic literature ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm

Wikibooks is a source of evolving free textbooks ---
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Subject:Books_by_subject

Open Textbook Library --- https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks
Example:  There are a surprising number of accounting textbooks available
Jensen Comment
The problem with open textbooks is the lack of incentive to invest in high quality end-of-chapter materials (cases and problems) along with the incentives for multimedia supplements that accompany the top commercial textbooks (yeah, I know that usually these aren't so great, but sometimes they're terrific). Much depends on the activism of faculty users of open textbooks to contribute new materials. Ideally open textbooks become a lot like Wikipedia. If they don't catch on with active wiki-like additions and corrections, quality probably varies alot by discipline. I suspect that math open textbooks are much more enduring than financial accounting textbooks because rules of financial accounting change so frequently (weekly) that even commercial textbooks are obsolete when each new edition is announced. Unless they are wiki-like it's hard to keep new open book editions rolling out annually.

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

Ted Talk Video:  How synthetic biology could wipe out humanity — and how we can stop it ---
https://www.ted.com/talks/rob_reid_how_synthetic_biology_could_wipe_out_humanity_and_how_we_can_stop_it?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2019-06-21&utm_campaign=newsletter_weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_content=top_left_button

Scene from "Insignificance" (1985), the ‘actress’ explains the theory of relativity ---
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3759093/posts

t's Okay To Be Smart (Science videos) --- www.youtube.com/user/itsokaytobesmart

NPR: Hidden Brain Social (unconscious pattenns of behavior) --- www.npr.org/series/423302056/hidden-brain

Canada's Changing Climate Report --- https://changingclimate.ca/CCCR2019/

Apollo 11 in Real Time: A New Web Site Lets You Take a Real-Time Journey Through First Landing on the Moon ---
http://www.openculture.com/2019/06/apollo-11-in-real-time.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Saturn’s Largest Moon Would Make an Unbelievable Vacation Spot ---
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/06/titan-saturn-lakes-vacation/591709/

Frontiers for Young Minds (STEM education) --- https://kids.frontiersin.org/

NASA: Scientist for a Day --- https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/scientist-for-a-day/home/

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

12 incredible facts about jellyfish ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/jellyfish-facts-things-you-didnt-know-2019-6

The Anthropocene epoch:  Have we entered a new phase of planetary history?---
www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/30/anthropocene-epoch-have-we-entered-a-new-phase-of-planetary-history

The Meandering Mississippi River and How It Evolved Over Thousands of Years Visualized in Brilliant Maps from 1944 ---
http://www.openculture.com/2019/06/the-meandering-mississippi-river.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

NASA: Visions of the Future --- www.jpl.nasa.gov/visions-of-the-future

Some things you may not know about crows ---
https://twitter.com/CT_Bergstrom/status/1141543265440636928

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

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

It's Okay To Be Smart (Science videos) --- www.youtube.com/user/itsokaytobesmart

NPR: Hidden Brain Social (unconscious patterns of behavior) --- www.npr.org/series/423302056/hidden-brain

The Sound of Pride: Stonewall at 50 (LGBTQ) --- www.wnyc.org/shows/stonewall-fifty/home

Where Love Is Illegal (LGBTQ) --- https://whereloveisillegal.com/

LGBT Materials in the New York Public Library --- https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/lgbt-materials-in-the-new-york-public-library#/?tab=navigation

LGBTQ Video Game Archive --- https://lgbtqgamearchive.com/

LGBTQ Religious Archives Network (LGBTQ-RAN) --- https://lgbtqreligiousarchives.org/

The History Project: Documenting LGBTQ Boston --- www.historyproject.org

The Trevor Project (LGBTQ suicide prevention) --- www.thetrevorproject.org

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

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


Law and Legal Studies

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


Math Tutorials

 

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

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


History Tutorials

Video:  Abraham Lincoln Bible surfaces, offers clues to his religious beliefs ---
https://video.foxnews.com/v/6050447587001/#sp=show-clips

An Interactive Map of Odysseus’ 10-Year Journey in Homer’s Odyssey ---
http://www.openculture.com/2019/06/interactive-map-of-odysseus-10-year-journey-in-homers-odyssey.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Why Leonardo da Vinci continues to fascinate the modern world ---
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/02/leonardo-da-vinci-500-years-after-his-death-his-genius-shines-as-bright-as-ever/

The last Confederate troops to surrender in the Civil War were Native American — here’s how they ended up fighting for the South
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-native-americans-ended-up-fighting-for-the-confederacy-2019-6

The Babbage Engine (computer history) --- www.computerhistory.org/babbage
1822:  Charles Babbage introduced the "Difference engine," the forerunner of our modern computers. ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Difference_engine
Bob Jensen's threads on computing and networking history ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#---ComputerNetworking-IncludingInternet

The incredible life of Sally Ride, who became the first American woman in space after answering an ad in her school paper ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/sally-ride-first-american-woman-in-space-life-legacy-2019-6

Michel Foucault and Noam Chomsky Debate Human Nature & Power on Dutch TV (1971) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2019/06/michel-foucault-and-noam-chomsky-debate-human-nature-power-on-dutch-tv-1971.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

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

Why Chinese is So Difficult ---
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/06/why-chinese-is-so-difficult.html

U.K Military Glossary --- https://www.buyrope.co.uk/military-terms-glossary/ 

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


Music Tutorials

Pink Floyd Drummer Nick Mason Presents the History of Music & Technology in a Nine-Part BBC Podcast ---
http://www.openculture.com/2019/06/pink-floyd-drummer-nick-mason-presents-the-history-of-music-technology.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

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/

June 13, 2019

·         Immune Therapy A Great Tool, But Limitations Exist

·         Laser-Based Test Hunts Stray Melanoma Cells

·         Bats Are Biggest Rabies Danger, CDC Says

·         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

 JJune 14, 2019

C       CDC: Exercise Rates Up for Urban, Rural Americans

·         Costco Frozen Berries Recalled For Hep A Fears

·         Immune Therapy A Great Tool, But Limitations Exist

·         Epilepsy Drug Linked to Suicide Risk in Young

·         Report: Drug ODs, Suicides Soar Among Millennials

·         Workouts: A Way to Ease Severe Chronic Anxiety?

·         Eating More Red Meat May Shorten Your Life

·         Bats Are Biggest Rabies Danger, CDC Says

·         Laser-Based Test Hunts Stray Melanoma Cells

June 14, 2019

·         Weedkillers in Cereals: What to Know

·         FDA: Infections, 1 Death After Fecal Transplants

·         New York Halts Religious Vaccine Exemption

·         When Healthy Eating Becomes a Dangerous Obsession

·         DDT Still In Lakes 50 Years After Ban

·         Type 1 Diabetes Might Hurt Young Kids' Brain Growth

·         CDC: Exercise Rates Up for Urban, Rural Americans

·         Costco Frozen Berries Recalled For Hep A Fears

·         Immune Therapy A Great Tool, But Limitations Exist

June 19, 2019

·             San Francisco May Ban Sales of E-Cigarettes (Yeah right! The City that does virtually nothing to ban the sale of hard drugs)

·         Study: More Pregnant Women Using Pot, Despite Risks

·         Sprouts Recalls Frozen Spinach for Listeria Fears

·         U.S. News: Boston Children's Hospital Still the Best

·         Many Advanced Colon Cancers 'Born' Ready to Spread

·         U.S. Youth Suicide Rate Reaches 20-Year High

·         'Flesh-Eating' Bacteria On Rise With Climate Change

·         Mom Plays Role in Your Age at Menopause, Longevity

·         Frozen Raspberries Recalled for Norovirus Fears

June 20, 2019

·         Another Carcinogen Found in Popular BP Meds

·         How Much Work Brings Happiness? Not Much, Study Shows

·         Vitamin D Supplements May Not Help Your Heart

·         San Francisco May Ban Sales of E-Cigarettes

·         Study: Many LGB Teens' Parents Acknowledge Struggle

·         Study: More Pregnant Women Using Pot, Despite Risks

·         Sprouts Recalls Frozen Spinach for Listeria Fears

·         U.S. News: Boston Children's Hospital Still the Best

·         Many Advanced Colon Cancers 'Born' Ready to Spread

June 22, 2019

·         Flying Insects in Hospitals Carry 'Superbug' Germs

·         Few Pregnant Women Get Right Amount of Nutrients

·         Cancer Survivors May Have Lower Odds for Dementia

·         Norovirus Fears Stir Recall of Frozen Blackberries

·         Still Too Much Processed Meat, Too Little Fish in U.S. Diet

·         U.S. Teens' Pot Use Has Jumped 10-fold Since 1990s

·         More Than 5 Million Cancer Survivors Are In Pain

·         Drug, Alcohol Deaths Soar After Weight-Loss Surgery

·         'Unprofessional' Surgeons' Cases Have Worse Results

June 25, 2019

·         Trump Seeks Health Care Cost Details For Consumers

·         CBD as a Superbug Antibiotic?

·         Commonly Prescribed Meds Could Raise Dementia Risk

·         Could 3-D Mammograms Soon Be the Standard?

·         'Secret Shopper' Study Shows How Easily Teens Can Buy E-Cigs

·         Baby Formula Sold at Walmart Recalled

·         9/11 Dust, First Responders’ Prostate Cancers Linked?

·         FDA Approves Second Drug For Women With Low Libido

·         High Arsenic Levels Found in 2 Bottled Water Brands

June 26, 2019

·         Could Coffee Be A Help in Weight Loss?

·         Could Antibacterial Triclosan Weaken Women's Bones?

·         Trump Seeks Health Care Cost Details For Consumers

·         CBD as a Superbug Antibiotic?

·         Young Female Smokers at Especially High Heart Risk

·         Commonly Prescribed Meds Could Raise Dementia Risk

·         Could 3-D Mammograms Soon Be the Standard?

·         'Secret Shopper' Study Shows How Easily Teens Can Buy E-Cigs

·         Baby Formula Sold at Walmart Recalled

VIEW ALL HEALTH NEWS

 


Stanford’s Robert Sapolsky Demystifies Depression, Which, Like Diabetes, Is Rooted in Biology ---
http://www.openculture.com/2019/06/stanfords-robert-sapolsky-demystifies-depression-which-like-diabetes-is-rooted-in-biology.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29


Scientists think they finally know what happens in your skin when you have eczema ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/scientists-finally-know-what-happens-when-you-have-eczema-2019-6



Humor for June 2019

A Four-Year Old Killer ---
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/worst-advice-column-ever-written/ 

Bob Hope - priceless political one-liner  ---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJTfJz0gVBQ


Forwarded by Paula

Sometimes we must turn to other languages to find le mot juste. Here are a whole bunch of foreign words with no direct English equivalent.

1. Kummerspeck (German)

Excess weight gained from emotional overeating. Literally, grief bacon.

2. Shemomedjamo (Georgian)
You know when you’re really full, but your meal is just so delicious, you can’t stop eating it? The Georgians feel your pain. This word means, “I accidentally ate the whole thing."

3. Tartle (Scots)
The nearly onomatopoeic word for that panicky hesitation just before you have to introduce someone whose name you can't quite remember.

4. Mamihlapinatapai (Yaghan language of Tierra del Fuego)
This word captures that special look shared between two people, when both are wishing that the other would do something that they both want, but neither want to do.

5. Backpfeifengesicht (German)
A face badly in need of a fist.

6. Iktsuarpok (Inuit)
You know that feeling of anticipation when you’re waiting for someone to show up at your house and you keep going outside to see if they’re there yet? This is the word for it.

7. Pelinti (Buli, Ghana)
Your friend bites into a piece of piping hot pizza, then opens his mouth and sort of tilts his head around while making an “aaaarrrahh” noise. The Ghanaians have a word for that. More specifically, it means “to move hot food around in your mouth.”

8. Greng-jai (Thai)
That feeling you get when you don't want someone to do something for you because it would be a pain for them.

9. Mencolek (Indonesian)
You know that old trick where you tap someone lightly on the opposite shoulder from behind to fool them? The Indonesians have a word for it.

10. Faamiti (Samoan)
To make a squeaking sound by sucking air past the lips in order to gain the attention of a dog or child.

11. Gigil (Filipino)
The urge to pinch or squeeze something that is irresistibly cute.

12. Yuputka (Ulwa)
A word made for walking in the woods at night, it’s the phantom sensation of something crawling on your skin.

13. Zhaghzhagh (Persian)
The chattering of teeth from the cold or from rage.

14. Vybafnout (Czech)
A word tailor-made for annoying older brothers—it means to jump out and say boo.

15. Fremdschämen (German); Myötähäpeä (Finnish)
The kinder, gentler cousins of Schadenfreude, both these words mean something akin to "vicarious embarrassment.”

16. Lagom (Swedish)
Maybe Goldilocks was Swedish? This slippery little word is hard to define, but means something like, “Not too much, and not too little, but juuuuust right.”

17. Pålegg (Norwegian)
Sandwich Artists unite! The Norwegians have a non-specific descriptor for anything – ham, cheese, jam, Nutella, mustard, herring, pickles, Doritos, you name it – you might consider putting into a sandwich.

18. Layogenic (Tagalog)
Remember in Clueless when Cher describes someone as “a full-on Monet … from far away, it’s OK, but up close it’s a big old mess”? That’s exactly what this word means.

19. Bakku-shan (Japanese)
Or there's this Japanese slang term, which describes the experience of seeing a woman who appears pretty from behind but not from the front.

20. Seigneur-terraces (French)
Coffee shop dwellers who sit at tables a long time but spend little money.

21. Ya’arburnee (Arabic)
This word is the hopeful declaration that you will die before someone you love deeply, because you cannot stand to live without them. Literally, may you bury me.

22. Pana Po’o (Hawaiian)
“Hmm, now where did I leave those keys?” he said, pana po’oing. It means to scratch your head in order to help you remember something you’ve forgotten.

23. Slampadato (Italian)
Addicted to the UV glow of tanning salons? This word describes you.

24. Zeg (Georgian)
It means “the day after tomorrow.” OK, we do have "overmorrow" in English, but when was the last time someone used that?

25. Cafune (Brazilian Portuguese)
Leave it to the Brazilians to come up with a word for “tenderly running your fingers through your lover’s hair.”

26. Koi No Yokan (Japanese)
The sense upon first meeting a person that the two of you are going to fall in love.

27. Kaelling (Danish)
You know that woman who stands on her doorstep (or in line at the supermarket, or at the park, or in a restaurant) cursing at her children? The Danes know her, too.

28. Boketto (Japanese)
It’s nice to know that the Japanese think enough of the act of gazing vacantly into the distance without thinking to give it a name.

29. L’esprit de l’escalier (French)
Literally, stairwell wit—a too-late retort thought of only after departure.

30. Cotisuelto (Caribbean Spanish)
A word that would aptly describe the prevailing fashion trend among American men under 40, it means one who wears the shirt tail outside of his trousers.

31. Packesel (German)
The packesel is the person who’s stuck carrying everyone else’s bags on a trip. Literally, a burro.

32. Hygge (Danish)
Denmark’s mantra, hygge is the pleasant, genial, and intimate feeling associated with sitting around a fire in the winter with close friends.

33. Cavoli Riscaldati (Italian)
The result of attempting to revive an unworkable relationship. Translates to "reheated cabbage."

34. Bilita Mpash (Bantu)
An amazing dream. Not just a "good" dream; the opposite of a nightmare.

35. Litost (Czech)
Milan Kundera described the emotion as “a state of torment created by the sudden sight of one’s own misery.”

36. Luftmensch (Yiddish)
There are several Yiddish words to describe social misfits. This one is for an impractical dreamer with no business sense.

37 & 38. Schlemiel and schlimazel (Yiddish)
Someone prone to bad luck. Yiddish distinguishes between the schlemiel and schlimazel, whose fates would probably be grouped under those of the klutz in other languages. The schlemiel is the traditional maladroit, who spills his coffee; the schlimazel is the one on whom it's spilled.

 




Humor June 2019--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book19q2.htm#Humor0619.htm

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