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Tidbits on February 12, 2020
Bob Jensen at Trinity University

Set 3 of Dorothy's Winter Wonderland Hikes ---
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Dorothy/Set02/Set03.htm

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Bob Jensen's Tidbits ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm

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

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

Excellent, Cross-Disciplinary Overview of Scientific Reproducibility in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy ---
https://replicationnetwork.com/2018/12/15/excellent-cross-disciplinary-overview-of-scientific-reproducibility-in-the-stanford-encyclopedia-of-philosophy/
[Researchers] are rewarded for being productive rather than being right, for building ever upward instead of checking the foundations.---
Decades of early research on the genetics of depression were built on nonexistent foundations. How did that happen?
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/05/waste-1000-studies/589684/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=atlantic-daily-newsletter&utm_content=20191022&silverid-ref=NTk4MzY1OTg0MzY5S0
Bob Jensen: My take on research validation or lack thereof is at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/TheoryTAR.htm

Tom Lehrer on Mathematical Models and Statistics ---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfZWyUXn3So
You must watch this to the ending to appreciate it.

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

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

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

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

Updates from WebMD --- Click Here

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

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

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

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

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

Take an Aerial Tour of Medieval Paris ---
http://www.openculture.com/2020/01/take-an-aerial-tour-of-medieval-paris.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Video: In Rural Russia the Days of Communism are Fading from Memory Like Fairytales ---
https://aeon.co/videos/in-rural-russia-the-days-of-communism-are-fading-from-memory-like-fairytales?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=AD_HTLGI_HAY_2020

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

The 25 Greatest Classical Pianists of All Time ---
https://www.udiscovermusic.com/classical-features/best-classical-pianists/

The Woman Who Invented Rock n’ Roll: An Introduction to Sister Rosetta Tharpe ---
http://www.openculture.com/2020/02/the-woman-who-invented-rock-n-roll.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Thai National Anthem ---
https://jborden.com/2020/02/10/music-monday-i-love-this-wonderful-thai-tradition/

Daphne Oram Created the BBC’s First-Ever Piece of Electronic Music (1957) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2020/02/daphne-oram-created-the-bbcs-first-ever-piece-of-electronic-music-1957.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

The Greatest Guitarists of All Time ---
https://www.directexpose.com/greatest-guitarists-ranked/?utm_source=geni&utm_campaign=35265712382&utm_term=NEWS_US&utm_gemini=news.yahoo.com&utm_content=newnext&utm_medium=Ya_YG_DE_US_D_ChrEdg_BestGuitarists_crsl_v1_2701
Bob Jensen's pick for Number 1 is Les Paul ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Paul

Deconstructing Bach’s Famous Cello Prelude–the One You’ve Heard in Hundreds of TV Shows & Films ---
http://www.openculture.com/2020/02/deconstructing-bachs-famous-cello-prelude.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Music Monday: Coding, Operating, and Performing – You Can Have it All ---
https://jborden.com/2020/02/03/music-monday-coding-operating-and-performing-you-can-have-it-all/

Midi 2.0 --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIDI#MIDI_2.0
Midi 2.0 sounds like an old electric organ (like my mom played in church and at a roller rink) --- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_7VpxIrWmk&list=RDQMpwAbM9jMmDk&start_radio=1
Video of Midi2.0 Keyboard Properties --- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTYIHO_wlTo
Video on Midi 2.0 --- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcqnBe6uzIo
Midi 2.0 Could Profoundly Change the Way Music Sounds (I certainly hope not) --- https://qz.com/1788828/how-will-midi-2-0-change-music/

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

Photographs and Art

100 Amazing World Maps ---
https://www.farandwide.com/s/amazing-world-maps-74d6186e6d0e414b?utm_campaign=amazingworldmaps-6d6a8343dd3643a9&utm_source=tab&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=myfox-myfoxdfw
Thank you Arnie Barkman for the heads up

Jules Verne’s Most Famous Books Were Part of a 54-Volume Masterpiece, Featuring 4,000 Illustrations: See Them Online ---
http://www.openculture.com/2020/02/jules-vernes-voyages-extraordinaires.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Imagination becomes reality in the winners of the 2019 Wiki Loves Earth photo contest ---
https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2019/12/02/imagination-becomes-reality-in-the-winners-of-the-2019-wiki-loves-earth-photo-contest/

Astronaut Christina Koch just broke the world record for the longest time spent in space by a woman ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/astronaut-christina-koch-earth-photos-from-space-world-record-2020-2

The Way I See It Arts (e Museum of Modern Art in New York features "leading creative thinker) --- www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0009bf6

The riveting true story of Lord Lucan's disappearance — where a British aristocrat killed his maid and disappeared forever ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/lord-lucan-bingham-murder-mystery-sightings-sandra-rivett

The Atlantic's Photos of the Week ---
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2020/01/photos-of-the-week-sealed-knot-holy-dip-night-monkey/605842/

San Francisco's Sea Cliff Neighborhood ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/what-its-like-san-francisco-sea-cliff-neighborhood-2020-2

Evelyn Waugh’s “Victorian Blood Book”: A Most Strange & Macabre Illustrated Book ---
http://www.openculture.com/2020/01/evelyn-waughs-victorian-blood-book.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Why the Soviets Doctored Their Most Iconic World War II Victory Photo, “Raising a Flag Over the Reichstag” ---
http://www.openculture.com/2020/01/why-the-soviets-doctored-their-most-iconic-world-war-ii-victory-photo.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Elizabeth Blackwell’s 18th-Century Encyclopedia of Medicinal Botany ---
https://www.brainpickings.org/2020/01/29/elizabeth-blackwell-curious-herbal/?mc_cid=8f54bc6cad&mc_eid=4d2bd13843

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

Free Electronic Literature --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm
Free Online Textbooks, Videos, and Tutorials --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm#Textbooks
Free Tutorials in Various Disciplines --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#Tutorials
Edutainment and Learning Games --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm#Edutainment
Open Sharing Courses --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI

Now in Another Tidbits Document
Political Quotations on February 12, 2020
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/2020/TidbitsQuotations021220.htm

Terrifying Liberal Bias in Academia: Wokeademia ---
https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2020/01/wokeademia.html

The game is no longer to advance candidates who are themselves "diverse." The game is to stock the faculty with people of a certified ideological stripe, who are committed to advancing this cause.

Yale University Gets a Zero on Political Diversity and a 100 on Hiring Bias
https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2019/12/06/faculty-call-for-ideological-diversity/

Despite Yale’s push for increased diversity among faculty members — specifically with regards to demographic categories such as race, gender and sexual orientation — several members of the University community voiced their concerns about the lack of political diversity.

According to data from the Office of Institutional Research, the faculty gender gap is shrinking. Since 2006, the percentage of female Faculty of Arts and Sciences members has grown from roughly one-quarter to one-third. Yale faculty have also grown racially diverse over the years.

But conservative professors criticized what they saw as a lack of effort to recruit a faculty body that better represents the nation’s political makeup. Four professors interviewed by the News said that as is, Yale’s climate stifles political discourse. According to a 2017 survey, almost 75 percent of Yale professors said they were liberal. Still, according to University President Peter Salovey, Yale is actively seeking to recruit scholars from a range of backgrounds with different perspectives.

“I think diverse points of view, ideas that challenge the mainstream … represented in a University setting are critical to both providing a great educational environment and also to making headway in scholarship and research,” Salovey said in an interview with the News. “And that diversity of thinking includes, but is not limited to, a range of political opinions.”

The University’s reputation as a liberal school is not new. Conservative pundits often consider Yale to be a perfect atmosphere for “snowflakes” — a term used against students and faculty members who passionately advocate for ideas far to the left of the American political spectrum. And in a 2017 News survey, under 10 percent of Yale faculty respondents identified as conservative. This finding nearly matched nationwide data from a different faculty political opinion poll cited by Inside Higher Ed in 2007 nearly a decade prior.

According to another study conducted by a professor at Sarah Lawrence College and a researcher at Stanford University, academics in the Northeast are polarized even more. The ratio of liberals to conservatives is 28:1 according to this data from 2014.

To prominent history professor Carlos Eire GRD ’79, Yale’s liberal bent can choke productive discussion.

“Yale talks a lot of diversity, but basically all that diversity means here is skin color,” Eire said. “There’s definitely no diversity here when it comes to politics. The liberal point of view is taken to be objective — not an opinion, not a set of beliefs.”

When it comes to politics, Eire said that his views do not exactly align with one party. On some issues, he says, he is conservative. On others, he is “more liberal than people who call themselves liberal.” Still, he added that most of his colleagues would call him a conservative.

“There’s an assumption that goes unquestioned that if you’re not part of the herd groupthink there’s something wrong with you,” he said.

Eire, who escaped from Cuba as a child, said that having lived in a totalitarian regime he often has views that differ from his “coddled” American colleagues. While Eire advocated for human rights and for a change of regime in Cuba, he said, he mostly keeps quiet on political matters.

Even so, Eire said his political beliefs are the source of faculty whispers, which he said can prevent open dialogue and contribute to a culture of silence. In turn, this leads to alienation that Eire said also weeds out conservative graduate students, resulting in a faculty hiring pool filled with liberal-leaning professors.

“[It’s] not helpful if you want to have an open society with creative and productive political dialogue,” he said. “If everything you say is immediately invalid because you are not virtuous then there’s no dialogue.”

According to computer science professor David Gelernter ‘76, faculty political diversity at Yale is low: “0%,” he wrote in an email. He added that while there are a “few conservatives, including prominent ones,” their numbers are not high enough to have a significant impact on campus culture.

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Bob Jensen's threads on liberal bias in academia and the media ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/HigherEdControversies.htm#LiberalBias

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

MIT: Google says its new chatbot Meena is the best in the world ---
https://www.technologyreview.com/f/615118/google-says-its-new-chatbot-meena-is-the-best-in-the-world/

Bob Jensen's threads on chatterbots and chatbots ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm#Chatbots

Swift Programming Language --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swift_(programming_language)

Why Silicon Valley developers are betting on Apple's programming language Swift and calling it 'the future' of app development ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/swift-apple-ios-programming-language-uber-airbnb-square-2020-2?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_content=BIPrime_select&utm_campaign=BI Prime 2020-02-11&utm_term=BI Prime Select

Apple has always had big ambitions for Swift, the rapidly growing programming language it created for iPhone and iPad apps.

"My goal for Swift has always been, and still is, total world domination," Chris Lattner, the creator of Swift, said onstage at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in 2017. He said it was a "modest goal" and that the plan had a 10- to 20-year timeline.

In some ways, however, Swift is already making significant progress toward that goal.

Apple released Swift almost six years ago in 2014 and said it was a better, more intuitive way to build apps for iOS. Now Apple's App Store has over 500,000 apps at least partially written in the language, including Uber, Lyft, Airbnb, and Square, and developers say most new iOS apps are created using Swift.

Apple says Swift is used heavily across its ecosystem of apps, including in foundational parts of its operating systems. The MacOS Dock, which is used to launch and switch between applications, is now written in Swift, for example.

Developers are also flocking to the language: Swift programmers make a $120,000 annual salary on average, according to the Stack Overflow comprehensive developer survey, and it's the sixth most loved programming language.

"In the last three to four years, most companies I've worked and interacted with do new feature developments in Swift," Kaya Thomas, an iOS engineer for the meditation app Calm, said. "It's the future of iOS development. There's a huge investment in it not only from Apple but the iOS community."

Up until Swift's release, iOS developers used the 36-year-old programming language Objective-C. Fans say Objective-C is starting to show its age and that Swift is more modern, more concise, and comes with the full support of Apple and its resources. According to a report from the analyst firm RedMonk in June, Swift has surpassed Objective-C in usage.

"When it was first released, it was no-brainer to use it as an alternative to Objective-C," Tanner Nelson, the founder of the open-source Swift web framework Vapor. "That's why there was a huge boom at the beginning. Everyone loves Swift because it was replacing Objective-C."

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Jensen Comment
Life is tough for computer science curricula since there are so many programming languages with important, albeit differing, features and career opportunities ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measuring_programming_language_popularity
Yes there's even career opportunities for us not so "Swift" FORTRAN and COBOL old timers. Was it General Douglas MacArthur who said: "Old programmers don't even fade away"?

How Academic Science Gave Its Soul to the Publishing Industry ---
https://issues.org/how-academic-science-gave-its-soul-to-the-publishing-industry/

Trump pressed by Nobel laureates to make US-funded research publications available for free ---
https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/trump-pressed-by-nobel-laureates-to-make-us-funded-research-available-for-free/4011136.article

Bob Jensen's threads on libraries are at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#---Libraries

The price advantage of paying for medical care (and prescriptions) directly ---
https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/482164-the-advantage-of-paying-for-medical-care-directly

According to a PBS health report about a retiree on a Medicare Advantage plan, Z. Ming Ma was issued a prescription from her physician that cost $285 for a 90-day supply. “A month later,” the article says, “Ma and his wife were about to leave on another trip, and Ma needed to stock up on her medication.”

But her 90 days weren’t up, so Anthem wouldn’t cover it. “Ma asked the pharmacist how much it would cost if she got the prescription there and paid out of pocket,” the article says.

The total cash price was about $40.

This is not uncommon. In fact, a study from USC demonstrated that nearly 25 percent of all prescriptions filled at the pharmacy cost the insurer less than what the patient paid in a copay. Yes, that means paying cash is more affordable than using your insurance card.

Over the past several decades in the United States, the health care industry has become increasingly dominated by third-party payers. An individual’s health coverage, whether it is private, Medicare, or Medicaid, can significantly influence health care decision-making — through deciding what it will, and will not, cover.

A health plan can determine which medical professional is seen, which prescription drugs are filled, and even whether a procedure can be done.

Because it increased the power of third-party payers, the Affordable Care Act was essentially a benefit to special interest groups such as insurance companies and other middlemen. The United States health care system hasn’t always been dominated by third-parties but has become distorted from many years of government regulations.

The policy makers forgot about the patients and the medical professionals who provide the care.

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Jensen Comment
When we lived in San Antonio our great (I mean really great) dermatologist would not accept any insurance payments. He said he kept prices down by accepting only cash. Of course we were free to submit the bills to the insurance company along with our cash receipts.

Tesla Stock Is Going Absolutely Bonkers — But Nobody’s Really Sure Why
https://time.com/5778356/tesla-stock-price-surge-shares/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the-brief&utm_content=20200206&xid=newsletter-brief

Jensen Comment
Tesla is an unintentional Ponzi scheme waiting for hydrogen or other technology or bigger automaker competition to implode Tesla's share prices. The larger automakers are better-prepared to shift to other vehicles like hydrogen vehicles.

The electric car market in North America is still miniscule compared to traditional automobiles --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_car_use_by_country
In North America there are only about 500,000 electric cars on the road compared to well over 300 million gasoline cars.

Even if lithium battery vehicles are the future of transportation, there's an enormous problem of both the supply of lithium and the supply of rare earth metals used in battery-operated cars today.

Moore's Law that made computers vastly more powerful does not seem to apply to lithium battery vehicles. But speculators are driving up Tesla share prices like there is a Moore's Law for lithium battery power ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law

Without Moore's Law I suspect Tesla stock really is a Ponzi Scheme even if Elon Musk did not intend it to become a Ponzi fraud ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponzi_scheme

Elon Musk made a $6 billion mistake when he bought SolarCity with Tesla stock ---
https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/elon-musk-made-6-billion-error-buying-solarcity-tesla-stock-2020-2-1028886284
This is a Monday Morning Quarterback article using hind sight criticisms. The jury is still out on SolarCity.

Librarian Rebecca Hastie with a crash course on the fraught task of “weeding”, the systematic removal of resources from a library collection ---
https://thespinoff.co.nz/books/04-02-2020/weed-in-the-dead-of-night-a-librarian-shares-the-secrets-of-book-culling/

Jensen Comment
The above article references why the weeding out process can be so controversial. People like me prefer hard copy to ebooks, although I often have both for my favorite books. Ebooks are better for searching (and quoting using Snagit) whereas hard copy is my preference when reading a book.

Checkout frequency, or lack thereof, alone is not a good weeding criterion. I once checked out Volume 1 of a classic mathematics book from the Stanford University library entitled Principia Mathematica by Whtehead and Russell. The date stamp in the back revealed this book had not been checked out for 40 years. That alone, however, should not be a criterion for removing the book from the stacks. That is especially so at the time when there was no Internet.

In these days hundreds of millions of books are available for free downloads on the Internet ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm
That combined with checkout infrequency becomes more of a case for weeding out, especially if the library provides linkages to free sources. But librarians do so at great risk of criticism.

I still have some prized books in my library that I bought cheap at used book sales at the Stanford University and other university libraries. They bear the shameful stamp "Discarded." I suspect that the Stanford Library still has the three volumes by Whitehead and Russell in the stacks. But they now may not have been checked out for over 100 years. I never found them very useful in my study of mathematics.

These days librarians must make decisions about discarding other media. For example, what 8-track tapes and 8-mm film should be discarded? We might argue that it's better to first store copies of those tapes and films in the clouds, but doing so may sometimes entail copyright infringements.

How 2 filmmakers got FBI agents to reveal the details of a $24 million McDonald's Monopoly game fraud scheme run by the Mafia ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-hbo-mcmillions-got-fbi-to-talk-mcdonalds-monopoly-fraud-2020-1

The McDonald's Monopoly game was hugely popular in the late 1980s and through the 1990s.

You would walk into a McDonald's and, with your purchase, there would come a Monopoly game piece stuck to your soda or meal that, if you got really lucky, would reveal you won prizes like a new car, $100,000, even $1 million.

And people actually won. McDonald's even did a commercial showing some of the winners back in 1995.

But it turns out many of the people who handed in the $1 million and other big cash pieces didn't get them from buying fries at their local McDonald's. For over a decade, $24 million was stolen from the company by people who fraudulently played the Monopoly game.

It turns out the mob had obtained possession of McDonald's Monopoly big game pieces unbeknownst to the fast-food chain. It was finally revealed when an anonymous tip sent to the FBI offices in Jacksonville, Florida was looked into in the early 2000s.

HBO's six-part documentary series, "McMillions" (debuting Monday), uncovers how it all went down with shocking (and often hilarious) details from FBI agents, McDonald's executives, and some of the people who were in on the scam that was concocted by someone only known as "Uncle Jerry."

It's a too-good-to-be-true story that even its filmmakers, James Lee Hernandez and Brian Lazarte, still can't believe really happened.

It all began with some late-night reading on Reddit

In 2012, Hernandez was randomly scrolling through Reddit before going to bed one night when he came across a "Today I Learned" he found surprising: "TIL: Nobody ever really won the McDonald's Monopoly game."

Clicking the link that accompanied the factoid didn't give him much satisfaction, as it was a brief story that didn't give many details as to what happened. And a further search around the internet also didn't bear any fruit.

"In this day and age, if you can't find out every single detail about something on the internet it's mind blowing," Hernandez told Business Insider over the phone alongside Lazarte from the Sundance Film Festival, where the first three episodes of their series got their world premiere.

For a documentary filmmaker, the lack of information out there on a topic like this just begs to be made into a movie. And it began Hernandez's obsession with the Monopoly scandal.

At the time, Hernandez was making a living working behind the camera on TV, commercials, and making branded content, so during any free time he would fall back into the rabbit hole and search for any kind of leads to how the Monopoly game was compromised. He even put in a Freedom of Information Act request to obtain court records of what was uncovered in the FBI's investigation. Hernandez said it took over three years to finally get that information. But when he did, he received a treasure trove of insight.

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Current and past editions of Bob Jensen's blog called Fraud Updates ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm

Equifax 2017 Data Breach --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equifax#May–July_2017_data_breach

China's military was behind the Equifax hack that exposed the personal information of 145 million Americans, according to the Justice Department ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/doj-china-pla-military-hackers-indicted-equifax-2017-breach-2020-2

How to Mislead With Statistics

MSNBC Contributor: 'The Iowa Caucus Is Essentially the Perfect Example of Systemic Racism'
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/juliorosas/2020/02/04/msnbc-contributor-the-iowa-caucus-is-essentially-the-perfect-example-of-systemic-racism-n2560703?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=&bcid=b16c6f948f297f77432f990d4411617f&recip=17935167

"Yes, but I think for a different reason than a lot of folks probably will think. Maybe I’ll be the only person to say this today. The Iowa caucus is essentially the perfect example of systemic racism. 91% of the voters in Iowa are white," Maxwell said.

Jensen Comment
That (91%) is about right without any racism since the population of Iowa is 90.7% with a "Black or African American" population of 4.0% ---
https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/IA/PST045218
Doesn't 90.7% round to 91%?

This article is essentially the perfect example of crying racism ad nauseam on MSNBC.

Snagit: I really like the Grab Text and the Panoramic Capture Options of Snagit 2020 ---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jq6LUxKD49Y

Snagit (screen shot or video capture) --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snagit
Also see the free trial offer at https://www.techsmith.com/screen-capture.html

Introductory Vidoe Tutorial ---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jq6LUxKD49Y

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_character_recognition

I've always liked Snagit from TechSmith for capturing all or part of what's on my computer screen as a picture file or capturing video. But there are times when you are capturing a picture of text that I would prefer to capture the screen image as text rather than as a picture such as when I want to quote from a book page or a PDF file that won't let you select that text and copy it to your clipboard directly. The Snagit 2020 software is a relatively cheap OCR capturing text on your computer screen test I find myself using it the Grab Text app over and over again when I want to quote only part of a text page as text rather than as a jpg or other image file. The OCR app in Snagit is relatively accurate, although you should carefully proof read any OCR captures for errs.

Video Tutorial: SnagIt Grab Text Capture --- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlsMybfOjx4

Another feature in Snagit that is useful is the scrolling capture feature that was available on versions even before Snagit 2020 but never would work on my computer. Many screen capture apps will only only capture what is currently on the screen. The Scrolling Capture option in Snagit (maybe) allows you to also capture parts of the image that are only visible if you scroll. There may be a way to get this to work on my computer, but I never found the way.

Video Tutorial: Snagit Scrolling Capture --- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jL2ULh3l6hY

For me the above tutorial Scrolling Capture app never worked on my computer. The arrows never appear for me. However, the following Panoramic Capture option in Snagit 2020 does work on my computer.

Video Tutorial: Snagit 2020 Panoramic Capture --- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRIlPokOefI

Video Tutorial: Snagit Video Capture --- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sVXP8R7bBE
You might have to contact Snagit Tech Support if your videos do not capture audio

Bob Jensen's threads on Tricks and Tools of the Trade ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm

Added Jensen Comment
I did not create hot keys to bring up the Snagit capture window. Instead I pinned the capture program to the Windows task bar --- that way I'm only one click away from capturing what I want on the screen.

College Endowment Returns Solid in 2019 ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/01/30/endowment-returns-10-year-average-rises-leaders-see-clouds-horizon?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=ff42ce3968-DNU_2019_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-ff42ce3968-197565045&mc_cid=ff42ce3968&mc_eid=1e78f7c952
The 2020 election could change all that dramatically if the capital markets crash afterwards

This is how a popular free antivirus program sells your data ---
https://www.technologyreview.com/f/615096/this-is-how-a-popular-free-antivirus-program-sells-your-data/

KFC's Meatless Fried Chicken ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/kfc-beyond-fried-chicken-review-2020-1
Jensen Comment
In these mountains there's no KFC --- I can only read about meals from KFC, Taco Bell, Wendy's, etc.
But we do have Polly's Pancake Parlor --- but that's not a chain

Burger King cuts the price of its Impossible Whopper as sales fade ---
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/burger-king-cuts-impossible-whopper-193113756.html
Customers willing to pay more for more flavorful real meat

Tim Hortons --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Hortons
Tim Hortons pulls Beyond Meat products from Ontario, British Columbia ---
https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN1ZS06I?feedType=RSS&feedName=businessNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: reuters/businessNews (Business News)&__twitter_impression=true

The fast-food restaurant chain had introduced the plant-based protein as a limited time offer, the spokeswoman said, adding that: "the product was not embraced by our guests as we thought it would be."

Fair Use --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use

Research Libraries: Do Transformative Agreements Violate Procurement Requirements?
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2020/01/28/transformative-agreements-violate-procurement-requirements/

Brexit --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brexit
The above article will soon be updated.

The Economist: Britain After Brexit on January 31, 2020 ---
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2020/01/30/britain-after-brexit?cid1=cust/ednew/n/bl/n/2020/01/30n/owned/n/n/nwl/n/n/na/391115/n
Jensen Comment
Prospects for Britain after Brexit differ widely depending upon who you ask. The Economist cited above is a respected, albeit quite liberal, magazine. The latest national referendum made it clear that opponents in the UK could not stop the Brexit train.

Impact on the european Union after Brexit ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_of_Brexit_on_the_european_Union
Jensen Comment
Some of the enormous problems of the EU before Brexit remain after Brexit ---
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/01/the-six-issues-that-will-shape-the-eu-in-2017
Probably the biggest problem will be in providing services (think health care, education, food, housing, jobs, etc.) to immigrant flows (floods?). Many of those immigrants, due to religion, race, poverty, and ethnicity will not integrate well into EU cultures. The EU has varying degrees of policy on nationalization of these immigrants such as in Denmark and Finland (where it's very hard to remain) to France that seems more welcoming to staying on. Nations that used to welcome immigrants like Sweden and Germany are closing the gates. Like it or not the rickety boats from Africa keep coming ashore.

Open immigration can’t exist with a strong social safety net; if you’re going to assure healthcare and a decent income to everyone, you can’t make that offer global (to billions of poor people) ---
Paul Krugman
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/724654-open-immigration-can-t-exist-with-a-strong-social-safety-net

Jensen Comment
Keep in mind that not all nations in the EU adopted the euro (the U.K. and Denmark were exempted from the beginning in 1992 and Sweden remained exempted after belatedly joining the EU in 1995). ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/euro

The euro is the sole currency of 19 EU member states: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Spain. These countries constitute the "eurozone", some 343 million people in total as of 2018.

With all but two of the remaining EU members obliged to join, together with future members of the EU, the enlargement of the eurozone is set to continue. Outside the EU, the euro is also the sole currency of Montenegro and Kosovo and several european microstates (Andorra, Monaco, San Marino and the Vatican City) as well as in five overseas territories of EU members that are not themselves part of the EU (Saint Barthélemy, Saint Martin, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, the French Southern and Antarctic Lands and Akrotiri and Dhekelia). Together this direct usage of the euro outside the EU affects nearly 3 million people.

The euro has been used as a trading currency in Cuba since 1998, Syria since 2006, and Venezuela since 2018.There are also various currencies pegged to the euro (see below). In 2009, Zimbabwe abandoned its local currency and used major currencies instead, including the euro and the United States dollar.

Jensen Comment
Use as a "trading currency" is not quite the same as adopting the currency. For example, Venezuela's also uses the Venezuelan bolívar as a currency after its own currency became worthless.

Also the EU is not obligated to bail out non-EU nations like its obligation to EU nations in the eurozone.

For the most troubled nations (think Italy) in the eurozone, the biggest problem is that they can no longer solve their chronic debt crises by devaluing their own currencies. Their currency is now the euro, and they can't dictate the euro's devaluation. This was evidenced by the recent crisis in Greece that entailed having to beg for a bailout from more prosperous EU nations like Germany that also put conditions on the bailout, austerity conditions hated by the Greeks. Before joining the eurozone some nations like Italy made an annual event out of currency devaluation.

How to Mislead With Statistics

Study: Grades Are 5 Times Stronger Than ACT Scores ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2020/01/29/study-grades-are-5-times-stronger-act-scores?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=663a7e06a4-DNU_2019_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-663a7e06a4-197565045&mc_cid=663a7e06a4&mc_eid=1e78f7c952

Jensen Comment
I question how much this can be extrapolated beyond Chicagopublic schools. The sample is based only on Chicago public schools. It's doubtful whether most any study of one school system can be extrapolated to other schools systems without serious risks.

There is also a criterion problem here. The performance criterion of college grade gpa is itself gradually becoming more and more meaningless as the median college graduate gpa has become A- and is being lifted for other students from C to B, D to C, etc. ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/assess.htm#RateMyProfessor

The Atlantic: Has College Gotten Too Easy? Time spent studying is down, but GPAs are up ---
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/07/has-college-gotten-easier/594550/

Grades are perhaps better than standardized test scores in measuring motivation. However, grades are gradually becoming less reliable due to grade inflation in both colleges and K-12 schools across the USA. A C grade is no longer an average grade. The median grade among students who graduate is more apt to be A- or B+. If half the graduating students have A or A- grades, how do you differentiate between them. Put another way, if virtually all applicants to a flagship state university have B or higher grade averages and more than half have A averages how do admissions officials differentiate between such high grade average applicants?

Grades are probably the least predictive among students who do not even apply for college. There's a trend for high schools to give diplomas to some students who can barely read and cannot do simple arithmetic. ACT and SAT scores will in most instances be very predictive of the college performance of those students (especially those who do poorly in remedial programs)

And remember that Albert Einstein had poor grades. High SAT/ACT test scores sometimes give second chances to students with poor grades. In particular boys mature on average much slower than girls. Bad grade averages often reflect lateness in maturing. This is why colleges that no longer require ACT or SAT scores still allow them to be submitted on application forms.

Grades become more predictive among students who apply to flagship state universities or Ivy League schools. But those universities may be flooded with more A-average applicants than they can possibly admits. There are no simple answers when comparing grades and the ACT/SAT. The analysis is complicated especially along the spectrum of ability, motivation, and grade inflation. The analysis is also complicated by subject matter, For example, grades in mathematics and science may be less predictive than grades in other subjects ---
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-12-22/grades-vs-sat-scores-which-is-a-better-predictor-of-college-success

. . .

If UC drops the SAT and ACT in favor of giving grades greater weight, systemwide graduation rates are likely to drop. But the benefits will be substantial to students who otherwise might not have qualified for UC admission because of low test scores, said Zachary Bleemer, a research associate at UC Berkeley’s Center for Studies in Higher Education.

His analysis last year looked at the academic records of about 8,000 UC students who enrolled under a program that guaranteed admission to the top 4% of each high school’s graduating class between 2001 and 2011, but whose average SAT scores were nearly 300 points below their peers at the UC campuses they attended.

Their five-year graduation rate was 77% compared with an average 83% among UC peers. But it was substantially higher than it would have been if they had attended a Cal State or community college campus, his analysis found. The UC students also earned nearly $15,000 more annually six to eight years after enrolling.

The findings suggest that students with high grades but lower test scores can thrive at UC schools and counter the “mismatch hypothesis” that less competitive students are better off at less selective universities, Bleemer said.

For university officials who must weigh the complexities of the criteria in their admissions decisions, there are no easy answers.

Emily Engelschall, UC Riverside director of undergraduate admissions, says she sees the shortcomings of standardized testing but that the scores do help evaluate grades across vastly different high schools. She also worries that dropping the testing requirement could exacerbate grade inflation.

“If you don’t have some sort of standardized tests to balance out grade inflation,” she said, “then that does take one piece of the puzzle away from an admissions professional to help make a decision about a student.”

Jessica Howell, the College Board’s vice president of research, has said that a greater reliance on high school grades in the name of equity would be “misguided” because grade inflation is associated with wealth.

The College Board points to a 2018 study of North Carolina public school students in grades eight through 10 between 2005 and 2016. The study found that median GPAs rose across the board over time, but did so more in affluent schools than in low-income ones.

The study also raised questions about the reliability of grades in measuring mastery of content. It found that only 21% of students who received A’s in algebra I achieved the highest proficiency level in end-of-course exams and 57% of those who received Bs failed to score marks indicating college and career readiness.

“The latest research is resoundingly clear,” Howell said in a statement. “Grade inflation is a serious problem, particularly in high schools that serve more affluent communities.”

Jensen Comment
Since Chicago public schools tend not to "serve more affluent communities" and are mostly minority students studies on only Chicago's high school graduates are difficult to extrapolate to the USA in general.

It's important to realize that the SAT and ACT probably would've been dropped years ago if they'd not had some value as predictors above and beyond other predictors, although even SAT and ACT authorities tell us that standardized test scores are best used in combination with other predictors like grades.

Comparing SAT and ACT Scores—Official New Concordance
https://www.compassprep.com/concordance-and-conversion-sat-and-act-scores/

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

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

A Crypto Ponzi Scheme Took Baseball Players for Millions ---
https://qz.com/1797589/crypto-ponzi-scheme-took-mlb-players-for-millions/

MIT: Millions of people fell for crypto-Ponzi schemes in 2019 ---
https://www.technologyreview.com/f/615120/cryptocurrency-ponzi-scams-chainalysis/

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

How the North Korean hackers behind WannaCry got away with a stunning crypto-heist ---
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/615093/lazarus-group-dragonex-chainalysis/

Are you loading your dishwasher all wrong?
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/how-to-load-dishwasher_l_5e20a9eac5b63211760ff9a3

New England Journal of Medicine Paper on Ambulatory BP Measurement Retracted ---
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/924553
Reasons included “inaccuracies in the analytic database and data analyses”

Jensen Comment
Disciplines like academic accounting that rarely check on the validity of purchased databases (think Audit Analytics, CRSP, and CompuStat) and almost never reeplicate research accordingly “inaccuracies in the analytic database and data analyses” ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/TheoryTAR.htm

Michigan State committee finds misconduct by museum head in celebrated mummy case ---
https://retractionwatch.com/2020/02/05/michigan-state-committee-finds-misconduct-by-museum-head-in-celebrated-mummy-case/

In the 1970s, a Stanford psychologist, David Rosenhan, published ‘findings’ deeply critical of American psychiatric methods. The problem was they were almost entirely fictional ---
https://www.spectator.co.uk/2020/01/how-david-rosenhans-fraudulent-thud-experiment-set-back-psychiatry-for-decades/

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

When officials at the Texas A&M University System sought to determine how much Chinese government funding its faculty members were receiving, they were astounded at the results—more than 100 ---
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/01/china-texas-fact-of-the-day.html

Here are all the Super Bowl commercials that will run this year ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/super-bowl-2020-all-the-commercials-that-will-run-in-2020-1

The share of women in top incomes ---
https://voxeu.org/article/share-women-top-incomes

. . .

The Luxembourg data also allow us to look at partners and family circumstances. Even though there are a limited number of countries where samples are large enough to look at questions like these for the very top groups, we find a consistent pattern of asymmetries among top-income men and women when it comes to family. Having a partner and having children are positively associated with being in top-income groups for men but negatively associated for women, although time interactions suggest that these differences have decreased over time. Also, top-income men are likely to have partners who are not in the top of the income distribution, while this is not the case for top-income women.

Understanding patterns like these is likely to be important for understanding the remaining differences in top-income shares between men and women.

Bob Jensen's threads on women ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#Women

Will the 2020s be the decade that the robots finally come for our jobs?
http://timharford.com/2020/01/will-the-2020s-finally-be-the-decade-that-the-robots-come-for-our-jobs/

Jensen Comment
I'm ready for one that will plant my flower gardens, weed those gardens, mow my lawn, ploy my driveway, and fetch my snack while I watch my daily movie. Better yet Fetch will also take over my three blogs.
Yeah, I really do have a lot of jobs around here for a robot. Erika wants Fedch fo do the shopping, premare our meals, wash the dishes, and clean the house.

Around our place Fetch will be pretty busy.

Most of you probably can get the Fox network for the 2020 Super Bowl ---
https://sports.nbcsports.com/2020/01/31/super-bowl-liv-time-date-tv-channel/

Otherwise: Best Ways to Watch the Super Bowl Since Roku and Fox are Jerks ---
https://www.reviewgeek.com/34410/the-best-ways-to-watch-the-super-bowl-since-roku-and-fox-are-jerks/

How to Enable Microsoft Edge’s New Crapware Blocker ---
https://www.howtogeek.com/549577/how-to-enable-microsoft-edges-new-crapware-blocker/

World-famous groundhog Punxsutawney Phil lives at the library when he’s waiting for his special day (February 2) ---
https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2020/01/31/punxsutawney-phil-groundhog-in-the-library/

Jensen Comment
A groundhog is also known more romantically as a woodchuck ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groundhog

I've had a pair of woodchucks for years. The female lives closer to the house under my studio (that's now used mostly for storage of books, papers, etc.. The much larger male lives further out under my barn. I've never seen either of them come out of hybernation on February 2.

Interestingly, may female woodchuck seems to live compatibly under the studio with my female gray fox. Each spring both deliver a brood of their respective puppies. When the puppies reach a a certain age they just disappear to parts unknown. Fox puppies are very playful in the yard, but I can only observe this playfulness from inside our cottage. Groundhog puppies are much more shy about being seen.

Because it's against the law I don't feed any wild animals except our crows. However, in the winter I throw out extra dog food for the fox, because she most likely would find it very hard to live through our artic-like winters when the moles in our yard live safely beneath the frozen ground.

There are many tracks in our snow from animals that roam about at night, including the fox, many deer, and an occasional moose. The bears will wonder about in springtime but not while they're hibernating in the wintertime.

Photographs Our Animals, Including a Bear Pulling Down Our Hummingbird Feeder
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Animals/Set02/Set02.htm

Bob Jensen's Fox Puppies and Wes Lavin's 2019 Peacham Parade Pictures
http://cs.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Lavin/PeachamAutumn/Set02.htm

The riveting true story of Lord Lucan's disappearance — where a British aristocrat killed his maid and disappeared forever ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/lord-lucan-bingham-murder-mystery-sightings-sandra-rivett

Wild pigs are a menace, causing over $1 billion in damages each year in the US alone. Here are 5 facts you probably didn't know about them ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/wild-pigs-in-america-facts-damages-helicopters-si-report-2020-1

Why do Greenland and Guyana have such high suicide rates?
https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/02/05/suicide-hotspots-of-the-world/

Finally, Netflix is offering a way to turn off auto-play previews — here's how to do it ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-turn-of-autoplay-on-netflix-2020-2

1. First, get yourself to Netflix on a web browser and click the profile icon in the upper right corner.

2. Then, click that profile icon and choose "Manage Profiles."

3. Then, click through to your profile.

4. Once you've clicked through, you'll see a small set of options. There are two boxes you'll want to uncheck to turn off autoplay.

5. Of note: You have to uncheck both boxes in order to turn off all forms of autoplay — the one where shows roll into each other, and the one where show and movie previews automatically start playing. Then hit "Save" and you're done!

Three ways to defeat ransomware: Plan, prevent, not pay ---
https://www.journalofaccountancy.com/newsletters/2020/feb/defeat-ransomware.html?utm_source=mnl:cpald&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=10Feb2020

From the Scout Report on January 31, 2020

csvkit (science) --- https://csvkit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
csvkit is a toolbox of command-line utilities for manipulating data in CSV format, which the csvkit authors describe as "the king of tabular data." It includes tools to ingest data from a variety of sources in several formats and generate well-formatted CSVs, tools to filter and subset data stored in CSV files, tools to produce summary statistics of a CSV file, and tools to export CSV data into other common formats. In the Tutorial section of the csvkit site users will find a series of example analyses based on widely cited public datasets. Detailed usage documentation for each csvkit tool can be located in the Reference section of the site. Csvkit is free software, distributed under the MIT license, with source code available on GitHub. Csvkit is written in Python and runs on Windows, macOS, and UNIX-like systems. Users can install csvkit either using their OS package manager or using Python's pip

Love (Science) --- https://love2d.org/
Love is an engine for creating two dimensional video games using the Lua programming language. It is permissively licensed, meaning that it can be used free of charge for any purpose (including developing commercial applications). The Examples section on the front page of the website gives a flavor of Love development by presenting snippets to display text, show an image, and play a sound. On the Love Wiki, users can find comprehensive reference documentation and links to several tutorials that walk step-by-step through the process of creating a game. The Games section at the bottom of the project homepage links to several published games that were built with Love. Installers are available on the Love site for Windows, macOS, and Linux systems. In addition to those platforms, games developed using Love can also run on Android and iOS devices as well

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

Education Tutorials

The Pathogen Tracker Game --- http://game.pathogentracker.net/Intro/introduction/EducatorsResources.htm

Engineering, Science, and Medicine Tutorials

The Guardian: BBC's Seven Worlds, One Planet review – breathtaking, moving, harrowing
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/oct/27/seven-worlds-one-planet-review-david-attenborough-breathtaking-moving-harrowing

Scheherazade Speaks Science --- www.shespeaksscience.com

De-Jargonizer (Science) --- http://scienceandpublic.com/

Scum (storytelling with science journalism) --- https://data.postandcourier.com/saga/algae-sunday/

SciLine Language (connects science journalists with experts) --- www.sciline.org

Diverse Voices in Science Journalism --- www.theopennotebook.com/diverse-voices-in-science-journalism-a-ton-collection

JCOM: Journal of Science Communication --- https://jcom.sissa.it/

The Size of Space --- https://neal.fun/size-of-space/

The Pathogen Tracker Game --- http://game.pathogentracker.net/Intro/introduction/EducatorsResources.htm

Elizabeth Blackwell’s 18th-Century Encyclopedia of Medicinal Botany ---
https://www.brainpickings.org/2020/01/29/elizabeth-blackwell-curious-herbal/?mc_cid=8f54bc6cad&mc_eid=4d2bd13843

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

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

Social Science and Economics Tutorials

The History and Economics of Mexican Drug Cartels ---
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/02/the-history-and-economics-of-mexican-drug-cartels.html

The Pew Report: Mobile Divides in Emerging Economies --- https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2019/11/20/mobile-divides-in-emerging-economies/

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

This professor has a trick to make quadratic equations easier. Here it is. ---
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/05/science/quadratic-equations-algebra.html?cid=db&source=ams&sourceId=296279
Jensen Comment
My trick is to use Wolfram Alpha to both graph and solve almost any equation ---
https://www.wolframalpha.com/
For example see ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/theorylearningcurves.htm

Leonhard Euler: Mathematical Genius of the Enlightenment ---
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/02/leonhard-euler-mathematical-genius-of-the-enlightenment.html

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

The History and Economics of Mexican Drug Cartels ---
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/02/the-history-and-economics-of-mexican-drug-cartels.html

Why the U.S. Sent Librarians Undercover to Gather Intelligence During World War II ---
https://time.com/5752115/world-war-ii-librarians/

The Way I See It (e Museum of Modern Art in New York features "leading creative thinker) --- www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0009bf6

A Street Near You (WW 1 Historical Records) --- https://astreetnearyou.org/#=undefined&lat=10&lon=0&zoom=2

How Mount Rushmore Came to Be ---
https://www.foxnews.com/us/mount-rushmore-south-dakota-national-park

Mary, Queen of Scots, was beheaded after Sir Francis Walsingham did a frequency count on Mary's cipher, read her message, and uncovered her plot to assassinate Elizabeth I, Queen of England ---
https://englishhistory.net/tudor/relative/mary-queen-of-scots/

A Curious History of Sex by Kate Lister review ---
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jan/29/a-curious-history-of-sex-by-kate-lister-review

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

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings ---
https://folkways.si.edu/

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

Music Tutorials

The 25 Greatest Classical Pianists of All Time ---
https://www.udiscovermusic.com/classical-features/best-classical-pianists/

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/

January 30, 2020

· Mom on Son’s Flu: ‘Scariest Time of My Life’

· FDA Tells Purell Maker to Stop Making False Claims

· Eating Out: A Recipe for Poor Nutrition, Study Finds

· Can the New Coronavirus Be Stopped?

· Why Vaping Emergencies May Be Missed

· Schizophrenia Meds Safe Long-Term, Study Finds

· Psychedelic Drug Eases Cancer Patients' Distress Long Term

· Scientists Hope New Tech Aids Coronavirus Vaccine

· Americans Toss Out Nearly a Third of Food at Home

January 31, 2020

· First Spread of Coronavirus in U.S. Confirmed

· Suffocation Risk Spurs Major Infant Sleeper Recall

· Could Strep Throat Become Untreatable?

· Life Expectancy in U.S. Increases for First Time in 4 Years

· Recall: Ground Beef May Contain Plastic Bits

· Mom on Son’s Flu: ‘Scariest Time of My Life’

· FDA Tells Purell Maker to Stop Making False Claims

· Eating Out: A Recipe for Poor Nutrition, Study Finds

· Can the New Coronavirus Be Stopped?

February 1, 2020

· U.S. Maternal Death Rate Holds Steady

· Spring Time Change Tied to More Fatal Car Crashes

· First Spread of Coronavirus in U.S. Confirmed

· Suffocation Risk Spurs Major Infant Sleeper Recall

· Could Strep Throat Become Untreatable?

· Life Expectancy in U.S. Increases for First Time in 4 Years

· Recall: Ground Beef May Contain Plastic Bits

· Mom on Son’s Flu: ‘Scariest Time of My Life’

· FDA Tells Purell Maker to Stop Making False Claims

February 3, 2020

· Untreated Sleep Apnea Puts Your Heart at High Risk

· Cervical Cancer Could All But Disappear in North America by 2040

· Meat Still Isn't Healthy, Study Confirms

· Rush Limbaugh Says He Has Advanced Lung Cancer

· Pregnancy, Breastfeeding May Guard Against Early Menopause

· One Egg Per Day Is Heart-Healthy, After All

· First Treatment for Peanut Allergy Approved by FDA

· New Study Supports Lowering Age of First Colonoscopy

· U.S. Maternal Death Rate Holds Steady

February 4, 2020

· Siri and Alexa Probably Can't Help Beat Addiction

· Employers Should Help Breastfeeding Moms: Survey

· Negotiating Insulin Costs Could Save U.S. Billions

· Shannen Doherty Says She Has Stage 4 Breast Cancer

· HIV Vaccine Ineffective, Clinical Trial Halted

· Dentists Among Top Prescribers of Opioids

· HIV Drug Costs Soaring, Jeopardizing Effort to End Epidemic

· Strong Support Network Is Key to Women's Cancer Recovery: Study

· Untreated Sleep Apnea Puts Your Heart at High Risk

February 5, 2020

· What to Do About Gas Caused by High-Fiber Diets

· Heart Medications Can Make Healthy Habits Slide

· Coronavirus Rumor Mill Rampant With Bogus News

· Beyond Baby Talk: Helping Early Language

· Man Fights to Get Family Out of China Amid Outbreak

· Siri and Alexa Probably Can't Help Beat Addiction

· Employers Should Help Breastfeeding Moms: Survey

· Negotiating Insulin Costs Could Save U.S. Billions

· Shannen Doherty Says She Has Stage 4 Breast Cancer

February 6, 2020

· Impact of Flavored E-Cigarette Ban Doubted

· Medical 'Yarn' Is Made From Human Skin

· Kirk Douglas Dies at Age 103

· Variations Found in 'Normal' Resting Heart Rate

· What to Do About Gas Caused by High-Fiber Diets

· Heart Medications Can Make Healthy Habits Slide

· Coronavirus Rumor Mill Rampant With Bogus News

· Beyond Baby Talk: Helping Early Language

· Man Fights to Get Family Out of China Amid Outbreak

February 7, 2020

· Flu Season Sees A Second Peak

· Baby Carriers Recalled Over Fall Risk

· Blood Thinners, Bleeding Tied to Colon Cancer Risk

· No Reason for 45% of Antibiotic Prescriptions

· FDA Not Recommending Recalls of Diabetes Drug

· 2 Million Lost Health Coverage, Access to Care

· More Patients Turning to 'Direct Primary Care'

· Impact of Flavored E-Cigarette Ban Doubted

· Medical 'Yarn' Is Made From Human Skin

February 10, 2020

· Meds May Not Prevent Migraines in Kids

· Puberty in Girls Starting Earlier and Earlier

· Measles Returns to California for 2020

· Testosterone Has Different Effect in Men and Women

· Virtual Reality Brings New Vision to Health Care

· Baby in Your Room? Yes. Baby in Your Bed? No.

· LGBT Teens Still Plagued by Suicidal Thoughts

· Flu Season Sees A Second Peak

· Baby Carriers Recalled Over Fall Risk

Diabetes: Do-It-Yourself (DIY) artificial pancreas systems: here to stay?
https://www.practicaldiabetes.com/article/diy-artificial-pancreas-systems-here-to-stay/

Abbott received expanded FDA clearance for its Deep Brain Stimulation system for Parkinson's ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/abbott-receives-expanded-fda-clearance-for-parkinsons-treatment-2020-1?IR=T&utm_medium=email&utm_term=BII_Daily&utm_source=Triggermail&utm_campaign=BII Weekender 2020.1.31 - Marketing

Humor for February 2020

Forwarded by Reverend Hahn

In the program “Laugh In” a man dressed like a minister said. “The Bible days the Lord lovest a cheerful giver; but He will be willing to take from an old grouch, too”.

The three ministers told how they handled the offering.
The first said he drew a line down the middle of the aisle and threw the offering on the floor. He said, “All that landed on the right belongs to the Lord; all on the left goes to me. God is good; I receive half the collection”.
The second said, “I draw a circle and all that falls in the circle is the Lord’s, that outside the circle is mine. God is good; I have been getting three-fourths of the oggering”.
The third minister said, “I pray about it. I toss the money in the air and say, “Lord, grab what you want and throw the rest back to me. God is very good. He has given 100% of the offering”.

Mother: Son, here is your allowance. Remember to put some of it in the offering next Sunday
Son:`` Why can’t I buy Ice Cream and the Ice Cream man put the money in the offering?

Monty Python Pays Tribute to Terry Jones: Watch Their Montage of Jones’ Beloved Characters in Action ---
http://www.openculture.com/2020/01/monty-python-pays-tribute-to-terry-jones.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Rescued owl found to be too obese to fly [UK] ---
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2020/01/29/Rescued-owl-found-to-be-too-obese-to-fly/9281580330158/?sl=3
Jensen Comment
When I lived in Tallahassee a huge rattlesnake crawled under my neighbor's fence, swallowed the pet rabbit, and then had such a big hump it could not back it back under the fence.

Fattest Squirrel in the U.K. ---
https://www.foxnews.com/science/pictures-fattest-squirrel-in-uk-cant-stop-eating

CollegeHumor Helped Shape Online Comedy. What Went Wrong?
https://www.wired.com/story/collegehumor/

Humor January 2020 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book20q1.htm#Humor0120.htm

Humor December 2019--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book19q4.htm#Humor1219.htm

Humor November 2019--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book19q4.htm#Humor1119.htm

Humor October 2019--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book19q4.htm#Humor1019.htm

Humor September 2019--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book19q3.htm#Humor0919.htm

Humor August 2019--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book19q3.htm#Humor0819.htm

Humor July 2019--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book19q3.htm#Humor0719.htm

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

Tidbits Archives --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm

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

Click here to search Bob Jensen's web site if you have key words to enter --- Search Site.
For example if you want to know what Jensen documents have the term "Enron" enter the phrase Jensen AND Enron. Another search engine that covers Trinity and other universities is at http://www.searchedu.com/

Online Distance Education Training and Education --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Crossborder.htm
For-Profit Universities Operating in the Gray Zone of Fraud (College, Inc.) --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/HigherEdControversies.htm#ForProfitFraud

Shielding Against Validity Challenges in Plato's Cave ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/TheoryTAR.htm

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

The Cult of Statistical Significance: How Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives ---
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/DeirdreMcCloskey/StatisticalSignificance01.htm

How Accountics Scientists Should Change:
"Frankly, Scarlett, after I get a hit for my resume in The Accounting Review I just don't give a damn"
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/AccounticsDamn.htm
One more mission in what's left of my life will be to try to change this
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/AccounticsDamn.htm

What went wrong in accounting/accountics research? ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm#WhatWentWrong

The Sad State of Accountancy Doctoral Programs That Do Not Appeal to Most Accountants ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm#DoctoralPrograms

AN ANALYSIS OF THE EVOLUTION OF RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS BY THE ACCOUNTING REVIEW: 1926-2005 ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/395wpTAR/Web/TAR395wp.htm#_msocom_1

Bob Jensen's threads on accounting theory ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm

Tom Lehrer on Mathematical Models and Statistics ---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfZWyUXn3So

Systemic problems of accountancy (especially the vegetable nutrition paradox) that probably will never be solved ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudConclusion.htm#BadNews

World Clock --- http://www.peterussell.com/Odds/WorldClock.php
Facts about the earth in real time --- http://www.worldometers.info/
Interesting Online Clock and Calendar --- http://home.tiscali.nl/annejan/swf/timeline.swf
Time by Time Zones --- http://timeticker.com/
Projected Population Growth (it's out of control) --- http://geography.about.com/od/obtainpopulationdata/a/worldpopulation.htm
Also see http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/P/Populations.html
Facts about population growth (video) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMcfrLYDm2U
Projected U.S. Population Growth --- http://www.carryingcapacity.org/projections75.html
Real time meter of the U.S. cost of the war in Iraq --- http://www.costofwar.com/
Enter you zip code to get Census Bureau comparisons --- http://zipskinny.com/
Sure wish there'd be a little good news today.

Free (updated) Basic Accounting Textbook --- search for Hoyle at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm#Textbooks

CPA Examination --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cpa_examination
Free CPA Examination Review Course Courtesy of Joe Hoyle --- http://cpareviewforfree.com/

Rick Lillie's education, learning, and technology blog is at http://iaed.wordpress.com/

Accounting News, Blogs, Listservs, and Social Networking ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/AccountingNews.htm

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

Some of Bob Jensen's Tutorials

Bob Jensen's Video Tutorials and Other Helpers --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/HelpersVideosSummary.htm
(Includes video tutorials on Camtasia, MS Access, MS Excel, Managerial Accounting, and Accounting Theory)
Accounting for Derivative Financial Instruments --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/caseans/000index.htm
Accounting for Fraud --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/fraud.htm
Accounting Theory --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory.htm
Electronic Commerce and Computing Security --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/ecommerce.htm
XBRL and OLAP --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/XBRLandOLAP.htm

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
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