Tidbits on June 27 2019
Bob Jensen
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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
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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/
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
Yale School of Management; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
There are 2 versions of this paper
Date Written: July 2018
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
· Bats Are Biggest Rabies Danger, CDC Says
· Obesity Can Make MS Symptoms Worse
· Expert Panel Backs PrEP for People at High HIV Risk
JJune 14, 2019
· Immune Therapy A Great Tool, But Limitations Exist
· Workouts: A Way to Ease Severe Chronic Anxiety?
· Laser-Based Test Hunts Stray Melanoma Cells
June 14, 2019
· New York Halts Religious Vaccine Exemption
· Type 1 Diabetes Might Hurt Young Kids' Brain Growth
· 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)
· Sprouts Recalls Frozen Spinach for Listeria Fears
· U.S. Youth Suicide Rate Reaches 20-Year High
· Frozen Raspberries Recalled for Norovirus Fears
June 20, 2019
· Vitamin D Supplements May Not Help Your Heart
· Study: More Pregnant Women Using Pot, Despite Risks
· Many Advanced Colon Cancers 'Born' Ready to Spread
June 22, 2019
· 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
· 'Unprofessional' Surgeons' Cases Have Worse Results
June 25, 2019
· 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
· High Arsenic Levels Found in 2 Bottled Water Brands
June 26, 2019
· Trump Seeks Health Care Cost Details For Consumers
· 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
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.
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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?
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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 ---
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Bob Jensen's Threads ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/threads.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called New
Bookmarks ---
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Updates ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm
Online Books, Poems, References,
and Other Literature
In the past I've provided links to various types electronic literature available
free on the Web.
I created a page that summarizes those various links ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm
Some of Bob Jensen's Tutorials
Accounting program news items for colleges are posted at
http://www.accountingweb.com/news/college_news.html
Sometimes the news items provide links to teaching resources for accounting
educators.
Any college may post a news item.
Accounting and Taxation News Sites ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/AccountingNews.htm
AECM
(Educators)
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Yahoo (Practitioners)
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AccountantsWorld
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Business Valuation Group
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FEI's Financial Reporting Blog
Smart Stops on the Web, Journal of Accountancy, March 2008 --- http://www.aicpa.org/pubs/jofa/mar2008/smart_stops.htm
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The CAlCPA Tax Listserv September 4, 2008 message from Scott Bonacker
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Scott forwarded the following message from Jim Counts
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Bob Jensen's Sort-of Blogs ---
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Bookmarks ---
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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
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