Tidbits on September 30, 2020
Bob Jensen at Trinity University

Part 1 of our 2020 Foliage Season ---
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Foliage/Set23/FoliageSet14.htm    

 

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http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm

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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 --
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http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/MisleadWithStatistics.htm

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

Video:  Ted Talk on 5 things scientists now know about COVID-19 — and 5 they’re still figuring out ---
https://ideas.ted.com/5-things-that-scientists-now-know-about-covid-19-and-5-things-theyre-still-figuring-out/?utm_source=recommendation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=explore&utm_term=ideas-blog-2

Video:  Bing Crosby and Ingrid Bergman argue theory of education ---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MctafuXLho

The age-old question of when and how to assign low grades. Ingrid did not ask when to pass brain surgeons or bridge builders versus poets and artists. Today we might ask about what to do with police academy students who do not take learning about race relations content seriously? Ingrid also did not ask the question of whether grades motivate learners or whether a majority of students taking courses for pass-fail grades learn as much course content as learners getting grades A,B,C,D, or F. There's also a huge issue of how to deal with students who do not even try to learn in course content, an issue dealt with somewhat in the above video.

Aerial View of Sugar Hill, NH --- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ATDjsJUi7M

Foliage in Sugar Hill, NH --- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOPSUMWbclU

Foliage at the Sunset Hill House Hotel in Sugar Hill, NH --- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RowlAA9XIno

History of the Sunset Hill House Resort in Sugar Hill, NH 000 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3uqK8T1ZDc

Lupines in Sugar Hill, NH --- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7-1jCk4Ak0

Lupines in New Hampshire --- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOR1vTHZjPo

Four Seasons at 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 

Watch Rare Footage of Jimi Hendrix Performing “Voodoo Child” in Maui, Plus a Trailer for a New Documentary on Jimi Hendrix’s Legendary Maui Performances (1970) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2020/09/watch-rare-footage-of-jimi-hendrix-performing-voodoo-child-in-maui.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:+OpenCulture+(Open+Culture)

Apple Cider, Sirens, and Nostradamus ---
https://jborden.com/2020/09/21/music-monday-apple-cider-sirens-and-nostradamus/

The youngest person to have a number 1 hit ---
https://jborden.com/2020/09/28/music-monday-the-youngest-person-to-have-a-number-one-song/

Walk Off the Earth Goes A Capella ---
https://jborden.com/2020/09/14/music-monday-walk-off-the-earth-goes-a-capella/

Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Favorite Opera Recordings (and Her First Appearance in an Opera) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2020/09/ruth-bader-ginsburgs-favorite-opera-recordings-and-her-first-appearance-in-an-opera.html

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


Photographs and Art

Witness California's record blazes through the eyes of frontline firefighters ---
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/09/witness-californias-record-blazes-through-the-eyes-of-frontline-firefighters/

High-Resolution Walking Tours of Italy’s Most Historic Places: The Colosseum, Pompeii, St. Peter’s Basilica & More ---
http://www.openculture.com/2020/09/high-resolution-walking-tours-of-italys-most-historic-places.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:+OpenCulture+(Open+Culture)

The Curious Death of Vincent van Gogh ---
http://www.openculture.com/2020/09/the-curious-death-of-vincent-van-gogh.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:+OpenCulture+(Open+Culture)

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

21 books billionaire Warren Buffett thinks everyone should read ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/warren-buffett-favorite-books-2016-10?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_content=BIPrime_select&utm_campaign=BI Prime 2020-09-15&utm_term=BI Prime Select

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 September 30, 2020
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/2020/TidbitsQuotations093020.htm             




US News Rankings:  Trinity University Remains Number One in the West ---
https://www.trinity.edu/news/trinity-remains-number-one-west?utm_source=Our+Mailing+List&utm_campaign=57bae7951a-Tower_Sept20_employees&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_00cfaca66d-57bae7951a-160446777


How Loggers Helped Environmentalists Save a Spectacular Canadian Rainforest ---
https://wearenotdivided.reasonstobecheerful.world/how-loggers-helped-environmentalists-save-a-spectacular-canadian-rainforest/?utm_source=Reasons+to+be+Cheerful&utm_campaign=a6e482dc15-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_09_25_06_04&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_89fb038efe-a6e482dc15-389499692

Inside the Student-Led Movement to Depolarize College ---
https://wearenotdivided.reasonstobecheerful.world/student-led-movement-depolarize-politics-college-campus/

Coronavirus weakening? Viral loads carried by patients on the decline, along with death rate ---
https://www.studyfinds.org/coronavirus-viral-load-declining/

10 Diseases We've Nearly Controlled or Eradicated ---
https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1382-disease-eradication/

Giant Floating Balloons Will Provide Internet in Kenya ---
https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1413-floating-internet-balloons/

Cincinnati Tenants Are Building Equity With Each Rent Payment ---
https://reasonstobecheerful.world/cincinnati-renters-build-equity-with-each-payment/

How a conservative, oil-pumping state became one of the world’s biggest generators of wind power ---
https://reasonstobecheerful.world/texas-wind-power-renewable-energy/

The Italian Fishermen Who Brought the Sea Back to Life ---
https://reasonstobecheerful.world/the-italian-fishermen-who-brought-the-sea-back-to-life/

European planemaker Airbus unveiled three designs it’s studying to build hydrogen-powered aircraft, as it races to bring a zero-carbon passenger plane into service by 2035 ---
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-21/airbus-unveils-hydrogen-powered-designs-for-zero-emission-flight?cmpid=BBD092120_BIZ&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=200921&utm_campaign=bloombergdaily

How the 1970s Changed the U.S. Economy (which tells us something about the future) ---
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-09-16/how-1970s-oil-prices-stagflation-changed-the-u-s-economy


70+ common online scams used by cyber criminals and fraudsters ---
https://www.comparitech.com/vpn/avoiding-common-scams-schemes/


A new report finds a majority of students feel they can't express their opinions on campus, especially when they are in the ideological minority (think conservative economics)  ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/09/29/fire-report-students-are-censoring-their-opinions?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=8ce914a468-DNU_2020_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-8ce914a468-197565045&mc_cid=8ce914a468&mc_eid=1e78f7c952
Report --- https://speech.collegepulse.com/

College Pulse, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), and RealClearEducation have released the first-ever College Free Speech Rankings, a comprehensive comparison of the student experience of free speech on their campuses. These rankings are based on the voices of 20,000 currently enrolled students at 55 colleges and are designed to help parents and prospective students choose the right college.

Jensen Comment
The most protective university for free speech is no surprise.


BLM Protesters Target Georgetown CVS Because Employees Called Police on Shoplifters ---
https://legalinsurrection.com/2020/09/blm-protesters-target-georgetown-cvs-because-employees-called-police-on-shoplifters/

Publisher retracts nearly two dozen articles, blocks nearly three dozen more, from alias-employing author who plagiarized ---
https://retractionwatch.com/2020/09/17/publisher-retracts-nearly-two-dozen-articles-blocks-nearly-three-dozen-more-from-alias-employing-author-who-plagiarized/

“A wholly frustrating and embarrassing process”: Authors retract paper on HPV vaccine and preterm birth ---
https://retractionwatch.com/2020/09/23/a-wholly-frustrating-and-embarrassing-process-authors-retract-paper-on-hpv-vaccine-and-preterm-birth/


How the Boston Red SoxWin With Data Analytics ---
https://blog.aicpa.org/2019/12/how-the-boston-red-sox-win-with-data-analytics.html#sthash.YaLhvhhB.dpbs
Bill McCarthy points out that the Red Sox are not winning very often these days.


The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle ---
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/09/the-murder-of-professor-schlick.html


The 10 Most Useless Phrases in Finance ---
https://ritholtz.com/2020/09/the-10-most-useless-phrases-in-finance/


New Zealand's National Library culls 600,000 books (some are not available "anywhere else")---
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/11/i-literally-weep-anguish-as-new-zealands-national-library-culls-600000-books

Sheltered in the bunkers beneath the National Library in New Zealand’s capital rests a treasure trove of books, including nearly 2,200 first editions that have been carefully looked after for decades. But not for much longer.

The “overseas collection” – which includes a first edition of Richard Neville’s Play Power, a 1912 edition of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility and multiple first editions of Graham Greene novels – is now headed out the door.

In total, the National Library in Wellington plans to get rid of more than 600,000 “foreign books” from their collection, saying they need to make space for more works on New Zealand, of which there are an additional 80,000 to 90,000 to store each year.

In a promotional video by public relations agency Double Denim (whose bill was paid by the Department of Internal Affairs) national librarian Bill Macnaught said the overseas collection would now “spark joy” in other places.

“No other library outside of New Zealand is going to collect all the stories of New Zealand, that’s our job at the National Library, we’re going to make more room for the New Zealand, Māori and Pacific collection,” Macnaught said, defending the cull.

Some 625,000 books are now in the process of being “rehomed”, as the library puts it, but the mass cull has caused despair among the country’s academics, historians, researchers and scholars, who say a literary crime is taking place in a year when many New Zealanders are distracted by the global pandemic.

“I weep, I literally weep, when I look at the lists of books that are going and I know are not available anywhere else,” says Michael Pringle, an independent scholar.

Hundreds of thousands of valuable and important books on religion, race, health, feminism and psychology will be removed in the cull, including works that are now out of print, and in some cases unable to be found anywhere else in the world, scholars say.

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Jensen Comment
Efforts should be made to digitally preserve those books not available anywhere else.


Questions Raised About Purdue Global's Tax-Exempt Status ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2020/09/04/questions-raised-about-purdue-globals-tax-exempt-status


The Changing Law School Curriculum: More Courses, Less Rigor?
https://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2020/09/the-changing-law-school-curriculum-more-courses-less-rigor.html

Jensen Comment
Academe in general is having a controversial cocktail of less rigor mixed with grade inflation ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/assess.htm#RateMyProfessor


What is New in Behavioral Genetics ---
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/09/what-is-new-in-behavioral-genetics.html


The Devil and Karl Marx ---
https://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2020/09/16/the-devil-and-karl-marx-n2576177?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=09/16/2020&bcid=b16c6f948f297f77432f990d4411617f&recip=17935167


TOEFL Testing Fraud:  Two Defendants Plead Guilty to Conspiracy to Use Forged Passports and Identification Cards in Widespread English Proficiency Exam Scheme Benefiting Chinese Nationals Seeking Student Visas ---
https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/two-defendants-plead-guilty-conspiracy-use-forged-passports-and-identification-cards?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=campaign_1555735_nl_Daily-Briefing_date_20200925&cid=db&source=ams&sourceId=296279


Which economic methods are in practice statistically more honest than others?
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/09/which-economic-methods-are-in-practice-statistically-more-honest-than-others.html

… our results suggest that the [instrumental variables] and, to a lesser extent, [difference-in-difference] research bodies have substantially more p-hacking and/or selective publication than those based on [randomized controlled trials] and [regression-discontinuity]…

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.

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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.”

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Tim Harford:  How to Make the World Add Up
Ten Rules for Thinking Differently About Numbers
https://www.amazon.com/How-Make-World-Add-Up/dp/1408712237/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=how+to+make+the+world+add+up&qid=1600435042&sr=8-1/marginalrevol-20


Community colleges are seeing a bleak enrollment picture and undergraduate enrollments are down largely across the board, but not by as much as some had feared ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/09/24/undergraduate-enrollment-falls-25-percent-community-college-enrollment-75-percent?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=83da3f9035-WNU_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-83da3f9035-197565045&mc_cid=83da3f9035&mc_eid=1e78f7c952


Inside Higher Ed:  The Moment Is Primed for Asynchronous Learning ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/09/16/dont-dismiss-asynchronous-learning-experts-say-improve-it?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=74cd0208d3-DNU_2020_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-74cd0208d3-197565045&mc_cid=74cd0208d3&mc_eid=1e78f7c952

Jensen Comment
Courses that use textbooks and other assigned readings have asynchronous components even if they are traditional lecture-method or tutorial-method synchronous courses. Evidence from experiments such as the five-year SCALE experiments for 30 varied courses for resident students at the University of Illinois decades ago reveal that asynchronous learning that eliminates synchronous "classroom" meetings of students can improve learning for very good students highly motivated to learn on their own. Reasons include time savings that arising for more efficient logistics such as eliminating logistical time such as getting to and from classes and waiting for classes to begin. Time savings are even greater for off-campus commuting students.

But the evidence for weaker and/or less-motivated students is more clouded in totally asynchronous courses. Such students often depend upon more contact with teachers and other students. This, however, can be be accomplished in ways other than classroom meetings. For example, if teachers are available online with instant messaging weaker students may do better than they do in classroom settings. But teachers cannot be available for instant messaging if they are assigned large numbers of students. Also teachers online should not simply give out answers to students who are too lazy or otherwise unable to to learn the material on their own ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm#IM

There are just too many variables to to draw general conclusions regarding pedagogy.


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

Ransomware accounted for 41% of all cyber insurance claims in H1 2020 ---
https://www.zdnet.com/article/ransomware-accounts-to-41-of-all-cyber-insurance-claims/


21 books billionaire Warren Buffett thinks everyone should read ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/warren-buffett-favorite-books-2016-10?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_content=BIPrime_select&utm_campaign=BI Prime 2020-09-15&utm_term=BI Prime Select


Is Academe Awash in Liberal Bias? ---
https://www.chronicle.com/article/is-academe-awash-in-liberal-bias?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=campaign_1523870_nl_Academe-Today_date_20200915&cid=at&source=ams&sourceId=296279&cid2=gen_login_refresh

Political views vary by discipline. Gross and Simmons found the highest concentrations of conservative faculty in business and health sciences (25 percent and 21 percent respectively). Computer science and engineering have a high proportion of moderates (78 percent) with a symmetrical split of liberals and conservatives (11 percent each).

These disciplinary differences matter, because students are not uniformly distributed across the disciplines. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, the two most popular majors are business and health sciences — the same fields with the highest concentrations of conservative faculty members.

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Jensen Comment
The above article tries to make a case that academe is not awash in liberal bias. However when the most conservative faculty by discipline are 25% and 21% conservative it's pretty difficult to make a strong case that conservatives are not in a small minority in all of academe.

Pew Research Survey:  Political Bias and Anti-Americanism on College Campuses ---
by Walter E. Williams
https://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2020/02/19/political-bias-and-antiamericanism-on-college-campuses-n2561445?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=02/19/2020&bcid=b16c6f948f297f77432f990d4411617f&recip=17935167

Bob Jensen's threads on the liberal bias of academe are at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/HigherEdControversies.htm#LiberalBias


Ex-School Employee Admits She Aided Cheating on SAT, ACT ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2020/09/28/ex-school-employee-admits-she-aided-cheating-sat-act?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=f845ea7b54-DNU_2020_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-f845ea7b54-197565045&mc_cid=f845ea7b54&mc_eid=1e78f7c952

Facebook:  A precious metals dealer that sold overpriced coins to senior citizens was sued this week by the US federal government and 30 states for alleged large-scale fraud ---
https://qz.com/1749695/facebook-ads-targeted-fox-news-fans-for-shady-silver-coin-scheme/

Ex-DEA agent pleads guilty to 19 federal counts in jaw-dropping corruption case ---
https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/former-dea-agent-who-once-earned-praise-superiors-pleads-guilty-19

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


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

Regulators in Africa’s big economies are scrambling to get on top of a spike in cryptocurrency trade ---
https://qz.com/africa/1904921/are-cryptocurrencies-regulated-in-africa/


Video:  Bing Crosby and Ingrid Bergman argue theory of education ---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MctafuXLho

The age-old question of when and how to assign low grades. Ingrid did not ask when to pass brain surgeons or bridge designers versus poets and artists. Today we might ask about what to do with police academy students who do not take learning about race relations content seriously? Ingrid also did not ask the question of whether grades motivate learners or whether a majority of students taking courses for pass-fail grades learn as much course content as learners getting grades A,B,C,D, or F. There's also a huge issue of how to deal with students who do not even try to learn in course content, an issue dealt with somewhat in the above video.

UCLA Reinstates Prof Suspended for Refusing to Change Exam or Grades for Black Students ---
https://legalinsurrection.com/2020/09/ucla-reinstates-prof-suspended-for-refusing-to-change-exam-or-grades-for-black-students/

Eliminating the Grading System in College: The Pros and Cons
https://thebestschools.org/magazine/eliminating-grading-system-college-pros-cons/

The Disgrace of Grade Inflation in North America ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/assess.htm#RateMyProfessor


Stanford University business professors share comment briefly on six books they’re reading at home right now ---
Click Here


Different Shades of Green
New Scientist:  Rare plant may prevent the first lithium quarry in the US from opening ---

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2251905-rare-plant-may-prevent-the-first-lithium-quarry-in-the-us-from-opening/#ixzz6Y8NKXuTx


How to Mislead With Statistics

Robust Statistics --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robust_statistics

Slate:  The Sturgis Biker Rally Did Not Cause 266,796 Cases of COVID-19 ---
https://slate.com/technology/2020/09/sturgis-rally-covid19-explosion-paper.html

Jensen Comment
One of the common mistakes in statistical and analytical analysis is to draw conclusions that are not suitably stable under slight variations of underlying assumptions. These mistakes are aggravated by making assumptions that are themselves highly questionable. Such mistakes are especially common in hostile political settings. I might note that the Slate magazine is highly left leaning. This article supports its claims of credibility ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slate_(magazine)


Causal Analysis of the Determinants of (increased) life expectancy ---
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/09/determinants-of-life-expectancy.html


From a Chronicle of Higher Education Newsletter on September 17, 2020

An update on the Harvard case on race in admissions (of Asian Americans)

A federal appeals court in Boston heard arguments on Wednesday in a case that has challenged Harvard University’s consideration of race in admissions and that could have wide implications for affirmative action at selective colleges because it is expected to go to the U.S. Supreme Court. A recap: Harvard was accused by Students for Fair Admissions, or SFFA, of discriminating against Asian Americans in its admissions process. Last year a federal district judge in Boston ruled for Harvard, saying the university’s consideration of race in admissions was constitutional. But the judge also ruled that SFFA had not proved that Harvard admissions officers held any racial animus, nor did it present an Asian American applicant who should have or would have otherwise been admitted to Harvard. SFFA appealed that ruling, and made its case anew on Wednesday. Our Nell Gluckman has the highlights.


How to Mislead With Statistics

Children Who Attended Preschool Stay in Education Longer and Earn Higher Incomes ---
https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1345-head-start-works/

Jensen Comment
I suspect this is an illustration of spurious correlation suggesting causality. Children who attend preschool are more likely to have higher income working parents. Parental income and a myriad of other factors affect number of years a child stays in formal education. I suspect preschool is one of the least important causal factors in this regard except as it correlates with more important interacting causal factors, especially if we're referring to preschool for children who are not disabled by learning disabilities.

Preschool may make children better adapted for kindergarten, but even the disadvantages of never having attended kindergarten usually wash out by the time the child reaches third or fourth grade in an elementary schooling system. Much more depends on the impact of the home environment of children over all elementary school years.

And then there are the rankings of the Finland education system as the very best in the world. However, much of the credit goes to a factor outside the education system --- interaction of fathers with children
Finland is purportedly the only nation of the world where fathers spend more time with school-aged children than mothers ---
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/dec/04/finland-only-country-world-dad-more-time-kids-moms

Also see --- https://www.grin.com/document/322993


Can remote work lead to double taxation?
https://www.foxbusiness.com/personal-finance/remote-work-double-taxation


What Is Apple One, and How Much Does the Subscription Cost?
https://www.howtogeek.com/690298/what-is-apple-one/


Tax, Class, Women, and Elder Care ---
https://digitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2634&context=sulr

Elder care is a large and growing sector in the comprehensive health care system in the United States. It is an issue of particular importance to women because women live longer than men, have higher incidences of degenerative ailments, and are more likely to be institutionalized. Women also face greater financial challenges in funding their health care maintenance. Whereas wealthy individuals enjoy a multitude of elder care choices and can even self-insure to avoid the steep expense and risk of long-term care insurance, most women do not possess the resources to exercise such a wide degree of choice. Middle-income women increasingly feel the squeeze of concurrent rises in medical and housing costs and must often engage in contingency Medicaid planning. Low-income women, particularly those who are single, living in rural areas, or members of an ethnic minority, have few viable health care options and are the most likely to be herded into institutional care facilities. Nursing homes carry high costs and often do not offer high-level or personalized care. Current tax policy, however, is structured to favor institutional care. Conspicuously lacking are adequate subsidies to facilitate home-based options and meaningful support for caregiving labors, both key factors that contribute to the dearth of care options for our poorest citizens. The tax system is in dire need of modification to address this exploding elder care crisis, requiring explicit acknowledgment of the need to generate revenues dedicated to fulfilling our public commitment to the basic welfare of this rapidly growing cohort of the American population.


Claims about antibodies and T-cells and Sweden ---
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/09/claims-about-antibodies-and-t-cells-and-sweden.html

Video:  Ted Talk on 5 things scientists now know about COVID-19 — and 5 they’re still figuring out ---
https://ideas.ted.com/5-things-that-scientists-now-know-about-covid-19-and-5-things-theyre-still-figuring-out/?utm_source=recommendation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=explore&utm_term=ideas-blog-2


Monarch butterflies’ spectacular migration is at risk – an ambitious new plan aims to help save it ---
https://theconversation.com/monarch-butterflies-spectacular-migration-is-at-risk-an-ambitious-new-plan-aims-to-help-save-it-136479


What Was IBM’s OS/2, and Why Did It Lose to Windows?
https://www.howtogeek.com/688970/what-was-ibms-os2-and-why-did-it-matter/


$20.70: Cost of a three-minute call from New York to San Francisco in 1915. Adjusted for inflation, that’s $530 today.
   
Quartz Newsletter on September 21, 2020
The telegraph cost depended upon number or words rather than time. There can be a lot of words spoken in three minutes.

Other quotations from the above article

$850: Average cost of a fax machine for the home in 1991. That’s $1,600 today.

23 hours, 39 minutes: Standing record for world’s longest Zoom meeting

$20,000: Average cost of building a standard 12×12 ft home office in the US

85.02 mbps: Average download speed in Taiwan, the country with the fastest internet currently

3%: Increase in value for a single family home in the US with access to broadband internet prior to the pandemic

100 inches: Diameter of Hugh Hefner’s bed, which doubled as a desk

$24,000: Auction price of an Algeco 1969 pre-fab home office pod


Google may soon face an antitrust lawsuit from the US Department of Justice ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/google-antitrust-lawsuit-from-us-justice-department-approaches-2020-9?IR=T&utm_medium=email&utm_term=BII_Daily&utm_source=Triggermail&utm_campaign=BII Weekender 2020.9.25 - Marketing

The US Department of Justice began meeting with state attorneys general on Wednesday regarding its upcoming antitrust lawsuit against Google. 

Talks are scheduled to continue until today, with a lawsuit expected to be filed as soon as next week, per Politico. The lawsuit reportedly centers around Google's dominance in the search market: The company accounts for more than 91% of internet searches worldwide this year, per Statcounter, and the lawsuit will focus on how Google uses that dominance to preference its own products over those of its competitors.

While Google's advertising business has also been under investigation, it may not be included in the suit. Google's search and advertising businesses are connected, of course—ads on Google search alone account for $34.28 billion in revenues in the US, per our estimates. But for now, it looks like concerns about the anti-competitive nature of Google's wider ad tech stack—which includes products like its supply-side platform Google Ad Manager and measurement platform Google Analytics—could be left out of next week's lawsuit.

That investigation isn't as far along as search, so lawmakers may not include it so a viable case can be filed by the end of September, according to The New York Times. That's not an all-clear, though: The investigation is still ongoing, and it's been reported that there's still a possibility that states could soon file a separate, broader suit touching on these issues.

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What happened to the songs of sparrows after Covid-19 invaded our cities?
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/09/when-covid-19-silenced-cities-birdsong-recaptured-its-former-glory
Thank you Bob Blystone for the heads up.


U.S. Housing Boom is Being Threatened by a Short Supply
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-25/housing-boom-in-u-s-threatened-by-shortage-of-available-homes?cmpid=BBD092520_BIZ&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=200925&utm_campaign=bloombergdaily
Jensen Comment
I think home owners are anticipating high inflation decades ahead such that home ownership is beginning to look like a better investment than today's low-interest savings alternatives. Hence they are more reluctant to sell their homes after refinancing at record low mortgage rates. In the meantime, city dwellers anxious to move to the suburbs or further out are finding less housing available for their moves.




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


Education Tutorials

SCIENCE PICKLE (for middle school learners) --- https://sciencepickle.com/

Bob Jensen's threads on education links ---
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Engineering, Science, and Medicine Tutorials

Meteors that brushed Earth's atmosphere may have brought life to Venus, study says ---
https://www.foxnews.com/science/meteors-brush-earth-may-have-brought-life-to-venus-study-says

What is New in Behavioral Genetics? ---
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/09/what-is-new-in-behavioral-genetics.html

10 Diseases We've Nearly Controlled or Eradicated ---
https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1382-disease-eradication/

Video:  Ted Talk on 5 things scientists now know about COVID-19 — and 5 they’re still figuring out ---
https://ideas.ted.com/5-things-that-scientists-now-know-about-covid-19-and-5-things-theyre-still-figuring-out/?utm_source=recommendation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=explore&utm_term=ideas-blog-2

Claims about antibodies and T-cells and Sweden ---
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/09/claims-about-antibodies-and-t-cells-and-sweden.html

Ecologists sound alarm on plastic pollution ---
https://phys.org/news/2020-09-ecologists-alarm-plastic-pollution.html

Horticulture and Botany:  THE NATIVE PLANT PODCAST --- www.nativeplantpodcast.com

Horticulture and Botany:  PLANTS AND PIPETTES PODCAST --- https://plantsandpipettes.com/category/pod/

Horticulture and Botany:  GET STARTED WITH ON THE LEDGE PODCAST ---
https://www.janeperrone.com/on-the-ledge/get-started-with-on-the-ledge-podcast

Horticulture and Botany:  FINDING YOUR ROOTS IN STEM CAREERS ---
https://www.mortonarb.org/learn-experience/educators/planted-finding-your-roots-stem-careers

Horticulture and Botany: IN DEFENSE OF PLANTS --- www.indefenseofplants.com

Horticulture and Botany:  BLACK IN THE GARDEN PODCASTS ---
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/black-in-the-garden/id1488463073

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Social Science and Economics Tutorials

PEW REPORT: PARENTING CHILDREN IN THE AGE OF SCREENS SOCIAL STUDIES ---
www.pewresearch.org/internet/2020/07/28/parenting-children-in-the-age-of-screens
Parenting in harder in the era of technology

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ATLAS --- https://ejatlas.org/

The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle ---
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/09/the-murder-of-professor-schlick.html

Trump:  “I go to my guys, ‘What about doing a little movement on the dollar?’” he said, but they countered that was not possible. “‘Sir, we can’t do that. It has to float naturally.’”

Bob Jensen's threads on Economics, Anthropology, Social Sciences, and Philosophy tutorials are at
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Law and Legal Studies

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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

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History Tutorials

Martha, the last passenger pigeon to ever live on Earth, died on September 1st, 1914.
What does this have to do with the study of history today?
https://petapixel.com/2020/09/14/passenger-pigeon-manifesto/

The Curious Death of Vincent van Gogh ---
http://www.openculture.com/2020/09/the-curious-death-of-vincent-van-gogh.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:+OpenCulture+(Open+Culture)

Himalaya:  A Human History (Hardcover) ---
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Himalaya-Human-History-Ed-Douglas/dp/1847924131/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=ed+douglas&qid=1600374086&sr=8-1/marginalrevol-20

What Was IBM’s OS/2, and Why Did It Lose to Windows?
https://www.howtogeek.com/688970/what-was-ibms-os2-and-why-did-it-matter/

Discovered: The User Manual for the Oldest Surviving Computer in the World ---
http://www.openculture.com/2020/09/discovered-the-user-manual-for-the-oldest-surviving-computer-in-the-world.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:+OpenCulture+(Open+Culture)

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

A HIP-HOP BOOKLIST ---
www.slj.com/?detailStory=A-Hip-Hop-Booklist-rap-libraries-literacy-books&utm_source=editorial&utm_medium=SLJTW&utm_term=&utm_content=&utm_campaign=articles

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

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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/

September 16, 2020

·        New Apple Watch 6 Can Monitor Blood Oxygen Levels

·        Frequent Worship Attendance Can Raise COVID Risk

·        PA’s COVID-19 Restrictions Ruled Unconstitutional

·        Lack of Antigen Tests Has U.S. ‘Blind to Pandemic’

·        Coronavirus and Apartments: What’s the Risk?

·        Can a Parkinson's Drug Treat Macular Degeneration?

·        Many MS Patients Struggle With Finances, Forgo Treatments

·        COVID Safety During the Upcoming Holidays

·        COVID Drives Macy’s to Scrap Parade Crowds

September 17, 2020

·        New Apple Watch 6 Can Monitor Blood Oxygen Levels

·        Frequent Worship Attendance Can Raise COVID Risk

·        PA’s COVID-19 Restrictions Ruled Unconstitutional

·        Lack of Antigen Tests Has U.S. ‘Blind to Pandemic’

·        Big Ten Reverses Decision, Will Have 2020 Season

·        Do Eyeglasses Offer Protection Against COVID-19?

·        ‘Self-Care’ Urged for Women Caregivers Amid Pandemic

·        Black Children at Higher Odds for ADHD

·        Coronavirus and Apartments: What’s the Risk?

September 19, 2020

·        Many Need Follow-Up Colonoscopy and Don't Know it

·        Moderna: We'll Know Soon if COVID Vaccine Works

·        Experts: Crackdowns on COVID Rule Breakers Harmful

·        Sore Jaws, Cracked Teeth COVID Collateral Damage

·        CDC Posted Test Guideline Without Scientific Review

·        NYC Diners May get 10% 'COVID-19 Recovery Charge'

·        Feds Release Plan to Distribute COVID-19 Vaccine

·        COVID Adds Risk for People With Addiction Disorders

·        90,000 Young U.S. Adults May Get Cancer This Year

September 21, 2020

·        Many Need Follow-Up Colonoscopy and Don't Know it

·        Moderna: We'll Know Soon if COVID Vaccine Works

·        Experts: Crackdowns on COVID Rule Breakers Harmful

·        Sore Jaws, Cracked Teeth COVID Collateral Damage

·        CDC Posted Test Guideline Without Scientific Review

·        NYC Diners May get 10% 'COVID-19 Recovery Charge'

·        Feds Release Plan to Distribute COVID-19 Vaccine

·        COVID Adds Risk for People With Addiction Disorders

·        90,000 Young U.S. Adults May Get Cancer This Year

September 22, 2020

·        Too Much or Too Little Sleep Bad for Your Brain

·        COVID Triggers Premature Births in Infected Moms

·        Global Life Expectancy Likely to Drop Due to COVID

·        Potential COVID Drug May Raise Heart Risk: Study

·        Holidays Can Be a Fright for Kids With Food Allergies

·        Glass-Topped Tables Injure Thousands Each Year

·        ‘Very Serious Situation Unfolding’ in Europe

·        Early Voting Starts in States with COVID-19 Surges

·        COVID Outbreak Among U of Wisconsin Football Team

 September 28. 2020

·        Could Wildfires Have Long-Term Health Effects?

·        Low Vitamin D Levels Tied to Odds for Severe COVID

·        Severe COVID Clues: Autoantibodies, Gene Mutations

·        Dad Dances Outside Hospital to Cheer Son in Chemo

·        U.S. Still in First Wave of COVID-19, Fauci Says

·        Is Key Safety Data at Risk in Race for COVID Vaccine?

·        Trump Picks Amy Coney Barrett for Supreme Court Justice

·        Finland Uses Coronavirus-Sniffing Dogs at Airport

·        FDA Authorizes Point-of-Care COVID Antibody Test

September 29, 2020

·        33% of Parents Won't Get Flu Shots for Their Kids

·        Privacy Concerns Hindering Digital Contact Tracing

·        Doctors Wary of Rushed COVID Vaccine

·        Sign Language Interpreters Required at WH Briefings

·        New York Plans Its Own Review of COVID Vaccines

·        Florida Lifts COVID-19 Restaurant Restrictions

·        Less Than 10% of Americans Have COVID Antibodies

·        China Vaccinates Thousands with Unproven Doses

·        Virginia Governor and Wife Test Positive for COVID

VIEW ALL HEALTH NEWS

 


New Measures of Health Care Productivity ---
https://www.nber.org/papers/w27848

Estimating medical care productivity is a central economic challenge. This paper develops a satellite account for the US health sector that appropriately measures health care productivity and applies that to the elderly population between 1999 and 2012. The central output of the satellite account is health. The primary input is medical care; we also examine the impact of behavioral risk factors. Our empirical work measures the change in medical spending and health outcomes for a comprehensive set of 80 conditions. We estimate that medical care has positive productivity as a whole, with aggregate productivity growth of 9% over the time period. However, there is significant heterogeneity in productivity by condition. At the upper end, care for cardiovascular disease has been extremely productive. In contrast, care for people with mental illness and musculoskeletal conditions has been costly but not productive.


10 Diseases We've Nearly Controlled or Eradicated ---
https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1382-disease-eradication/


Breadfruit emerges as protein-rich ‘superfood,’ healthy alternative to flour ---
https://www.studyfinds.org/breadfruit-superfood-healthy-flour-alternative/

September 20, 2020 reply from Jagdish Gangolly

Whoever wrote this article hasn't seen a breadfruit tree or eaten the "fruit" (actually Breadfruit is more a vegetable than a fruit). What is shown in the article is a Jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus) and NOT a breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis). You can tell by the shape of the leaves and the shape/rind of the fruit. Compare the fruit and leaves below. Breadfruit is always eaten raw, and usually not allowed to ripen. Jackfruit can be eaten raw (cooked) or ripe. Breadfruit has a smoother surface relative to Jackfruit which is almost thorny. Jackfruit has a lot of latex in the fruit, but Breadfruit has none. Breadfruit rarely grows over a pound or two, Jackfruit can be as heavy as 120 pounds.

Jackfruit has been advanced sometimes as a solution to the world hunger problem, since it grows in abundance with virtually no care. It even grows wild in forests and supports an ecosystem of its own. Online, I have been an evangelist for bringing jackfruit and breadfruit into the horticultural economy, but not many are listening. The same way five decades ago I argued strenuously with the company I worked for to develop bamboo, Casuarina, Eucalyptus, and Moringa plantations to support paper-making; they did not listen. But then some years after I left the company, bamboo flowered and died, and the company in a panic mode started plantations. Disasters provide wonderful opportunities for innovations because human nature is to do the same things and expect different results (apologies to Einstein). In this case, maybe an old British colonial style famine will do the trick for many poor countries.

When I was growing up, we had a tree in our backyard that kept my whole family fed for weeks. There were times when we had it for breakfast, lunch, and dinner without getting tired of it.

Regards,

Jagdish

 


Digital health startup GoodRx is going public

The startup, which provides telehealth and discount prescription services, filed paperwork for an initial public offering in August. It would trade on the NASDAQ under the ticker "GDRX."

In an updated filing on Monday, GoodRx noted that it is looking to price its public offering between $24 and $28 per share. At $26, the midpoint of that range, GoodRx and its investors stand to make $900 million. 

The updated filing also noted that private equity firm Silver Lake has agreed to purchase $100 million in stock coinciding with the IPO. 

GoodRx now joins the growing parade of companies in healthcare and technology that have filed to go public in 2020, marking a banner year for public offerings as markets continue to surpass all-time highs.

Digital health and telehealth companies, in particular, have seen a surge in public market activity as the coronavirus pandemic has ushered in what some are calling a new era for the healthcare industry. Coronavirus-induced shutdowns have driven wary patients from doctor's offices and waiting rooms in favor of at-home care, spurring growth in an industry that had been previously considered niche.

GoodRx's filing came just days after telehealth giant and Teladoc competitor American Well filed to go public with $100 million in funding from Google, an unusual deal that spoke to the tech giant's optimistic outlook on telehealth even once the pandemic subsides.

GoodRx is best known for pulling together cash prices for medications at different pharmacies as a price-comparison tool for people paying out-of-pocket, but recently added virtual visits and other elements of telehealth to its services. It has also been adding direct-to-consumer prescription services, like Lemonaid and Hims, to its comparisons. 

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Humor for September  2020

Forwarded by Auntie Bev

Some people write lockdown because they can't spell kwarinteen

Does the jelly in a donut count as a serving of fruit
Asking for a friend

If your underwear and jeans can't stop a fart, how is a mask going to stop a virus?

The importance of punctuation
"I'm giving up drinking until it's over."
"I'm giving up; drinking until it's over."

 




Humor September 2020 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book20q3.htm#Humor0920.htm 

Humor August 2020 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book20q3.htm#Humor0820.htm 

Humor July 2020 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book20q3.htm#Humor0720.htm 

Humor June 2020 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book20q2.htm#Humor0620.htm

Humor May 2020 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book20q2.htm#Humor0520.htm

Humor April 2020 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book20q2.htm#Humor0420.htm   

Humor March 2020 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book20q1.htm#Humor0320.htm  

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   




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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

World Clock --- http://www.peterussell.com/Odds/WorldClock.php
Facts about the earth in real time --- http://www.worldometers.info/

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

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

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

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

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

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

Online Books, Poems, References, and Other Literature
In the past I've provided links to various types electronic literature available free on the Web. 
I created a page that summarizes those various links --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm

Some of Bob Jensen's Tutorials

Many useful accounting sites (scroll down) --- http://www.iasplus.com/links/links.htm

 

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

Some Accounting History Sites

Bob Jensen's Accounting History in a Nutshell and Links --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm#AccountingHistory
 

Accounting History Libraries at the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) --- http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/accountancy/libraries.html
The above libraries include international accounting history.
The above libraries include film and video historical collections.

MAAW Knowledge Portal for Management and Accounting --- http://maaw.info/

Academy of Accounting Historians and the Accounting Historians Journal ---
http://www.accounting.rutgers.edu/raw/aah/

Sage Accounting History --- http://ach.sagepub.com/cgi/pdf_extract/11/3/269

A nice timeline on the development of U.S. standards and the evolution of thinking about the income statement versus the balance sheet is provided at:
"The Evolution of U.S. GAAP: The Political Forces Behind Professional Standards (1930-1973)," by Stephen A. Zeff, CPA Journal, January 2005 --- http://www.nysscpa.org/cpajournal/2005/105/infocus/p18.htm
Part II covering years 1974-2003 published in February 2005 --- http://www.nysscpa.org/cpajournal/2005/205/index.htm 

A nice timeline of accounting history --- http://www.docstoc.com/docs/2187711/A-HISTORY-OF-ACCOUNTING

From Texas A&M University
Accounting History Outline --- http://acct.tamu.edu/giroux/history.html

Bob Jensen's timeline of derivative financial instruments and hedge accounting ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudRotten.htm#DerivativesFrauds

History of Fraud in America --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/415wp/AmericanHistoryOfFraud.htm
Also see http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Fraud.htm

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

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

All my online pictures --- http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/PictureHistory/

 

Professor Robert E. Jensen (Bob) http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen
190 Sunset Hill Road
Sugar Hill, NH 03586
Phone:  603-823-8482 
Email:  rjensen@trinity.edu