Tidbits on October 15, 2020
Bob Jensen
at Trinity University
Part 2 of Our 2020 Foliage Season
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USA Debt Clock --- http://www.usdebtclock.org/ ubl
In September 2017 the USA National Debt exceeded $20 trillion for the first time
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http://www.statedatalab.org/news/detail/national-debt-surpasses-20-trillion-for-the-first-time-in-us-history
Human Population Over Time on Earth ---
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I created a page that summarizes those various links ---
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Watch Some of Eddie Van Halen’s (RIP) Greatest Performances:
“Shredding Was Eddie’s Very Essence” ---
http://www.openculture.com/2020/10/watch-some-of-eddie-van-halens-rip-greatest-performances.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:+OpenCulture+(Open+Culture)
Ella Fitzgerald Imitates Louis Armstrong’s Gravelly Voice While
Singing “I Can’t Give You Anything But Love, Baby” ---
http://www.openculture.com/2020/09/ella-fitzgerald-imitates-louis-armstrongs-gravelly-voice-while-singing-i-cant-give-you-anything-but-love-baby.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:+OpenCulture+(Open+Culture)
Richard and the revolutionaries: why did lefties love Wagner?
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/sep/17/why-did-lefties-love-wagner-alex-ross-wagnerism-revolution-hitler
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The tiniest "ship" in the US Navy ---
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/navy-ships/a33766522/tiny-boat-smallest-ship-us-navy/
New Hampshire's White Mountain Shared Photographs ---
https://whitemts100milechallenge.com/
Guardian's Pictures of the Week ---
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/oct/03/20-photographs-of-the-week
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Political Quotations on October 15, 2020
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/2020/TidbitsQuotations101520.htm
Book Reviews
Wishful Thinking The
tolerant and worryingly modern Vikings ---
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/review/wishful-thinking
Bowling Alone at Twenty ---
https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/bowling-alone-at-twenty
Peter Viereck's
philosophical history of Nazism, and his contrarian conservatism, may have
something to teach us about our politics today ---
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/forecasting-a-nightmare-viereck-and-the-nazis/
Emily Dickinson’s
Revolutionary and Reclusive Life, in a Lyrical Picture-Book from the Lacuna
Between Fact and Myth ---
https://www.brainpickings.org/2020/10/05/emily-dickinson-michael-bedard-barbara-cooney/
Alternatives to Google Scholar: The next generation discovery citation indexes — a review of the landscape in 2020 (I)
In terms of cross disciplinary citation indexes that are used for discovery, everyone knows of the two incumbants — Web of Science and Scopus(2004). Joined by the large web scale Google Scholar (2004), these three reigned as the “Big 3” of citation indexes for roughly a decade more or less unchallenged.
However 10 years later, around 2015 and in the years after, a new generation of citation indexes started to emerge to challenge the big 3 in a variety of ways .
As of time of writing in 2020, some of these new challengers have had a couple of years of development. How do things look now?
First off, using newer techniques and paradigms, we have for-profit companies like Digital Science launching Dimensions (2018) which strike me as challengers to Scopus and Web of Science in the arena of citation/bibliometric assessment, just as Scopus itself was a challenge to the older Web of Science back in 2004.
On the other end of the spectrum we have the rise of more “open” citation indexes . In particular, a very important player in this area is the relaunched Microsoft Academic(2016) which not only uses web crawling style technologies like Google Scholar to scour the web, applies the latest in Natural Language Processing (NLP) /“semantic” technologies and makes the dataset dubbed Microsoft Academic Graph (MAG) available with open licenses.
Semantic Scholar(2015) is yet another project with Microsoft ties ( funded by the Allen Institute for AI) that play in the same area and releases data with open licenses. One of the more “Semantic” features of this search engine is that it types citations into whether the cite is for citing of background, methods or results using machine learning.
While scite (2018) a new citation index by a startup does not provide open data, it’s selling point is the use of NLP to type citation relationships into “Supporting”, “Disputing” and “Neutral” cites which is yet another way of contextualizing research by describing citation relationships.
Besides the two above mentioned well funded think tanks projects, we also see more grassroot like movements like 2017's I4OC (Intiative for open Citations) — an amazingly successful push to get publishers to deposit and make references open in Crossref as well as efforts by OpenCitations.net (a founding member of I4OC) to extract citations from open access papers from PMC to produce the OpenCitations Corpus (OCC), which have served to further increase the pool of Scholarly meta-data and citations that are available in the public domain/CCO.
For the first time in history, by combining some or all of the below
a) open citations made open in Crossref by publishers (about 50% of works with references in Crossref is now open thanks to I4OC)
b) citations and metadata from sources like OpenCitations.net ,Wikidata/Wikicite , Fatcat (Internet archive?)
c) data made available in Microsoft Academic Graph and other sources
it is now possible for new big and comprehensive, mostly free to use “hybrid/merged” citation indexes to arise from the aggregation of the above mentioned sources. Still even with the raw materials freely available, one must still not underestimate the effort needed to combine, normalize and clean the data as well as the effort to create compelling user interfaces that add value.
There are at least half a dozen such discovery citation indexes, a typical example is Cambia’s Lens.org (2017) that marries patent sources (their speciality) with Scholarly meta-data and citations from Microsoft Academic, Crossref, Unpaywall, PubMed, JISC CORE and more to create a powerful free discovery citation index with power user search and visualization features.
Others include Scinapse, NAVER academic, Scilit and more. But do these new alternatives add anything interesting or desired by users to the table?
Such hybrid type citation indexes, may also have question marks hanging over them in terms of speed of updates, cleanliness and consistency of data from merging so many varied sources and questions of sustainability as they rely on upstream projects and initatives to continue providing the raw materials required to construct the index.
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Good News Tidbits
Taiwan’s Crowdsourced Democracy Shows Us How to Fix Social Media ---
https://wearenotdivided.reasonstobecheerful.world/taiwan-g0v-hackers-technology-digital-democracy/
These people donate more than $1 billion every day ---
https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1422-donating-billions/
Middle Schooler Becomes Youngest Person to Achieve Nuclear Fusion ---
https://interestingengineering.com/middle-schooler-becomes-youngest-person-to-achieve-nuclear-fusion?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Article&utm_campaign=organic&utm_content=Oct08
Ten Diseases We've Eradicated or Nearly Controlled ---
https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1382-disease-eradication/
Cops and Community
Organizers Are Reimagining Atlanta’s Jail ---
https://wearenotdivided.reasonstobecheerful.world/community-reimagining-atlanta-jail-equity-center/
MBA Applications Surge At
Elite Business Schools During COVID-19 ---
https://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2020/10/mba-applications-surge-at-elite-business-schools-during-covid-19.html
Border patrol agent's hunch
pays off in second-largest methamphetamine bust ever ---
https://www.foxnews.com/us/suspicious-border-patrol-agents-hunch-pays-off-in-second-largest-methamphetamine-bust-ever
Good Things Going Up!
Up! Up! ---
https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1362-up-up-up/
Bad Things Going Down! Down!
Down! ---
https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1363-down-down-down/
SUCCESS INSIDER: Insiders at big consulting firms like PwC and KPMG reveal how they're adapting to the pandemic --- Click Here
Leading consultancies are uncertain about what the future of the industry will look like. Here's how business travel, remote work, and client relationships have changed at firms like KPMG, PwC, and Boston Consulting Group.
Bad News Tidbits
Increasing Adolescent Crime:
Norway Between 2015 and 2018
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32462474/
The U.S. Department of
Education fined Baylor University, a Baptist institution in Texas, $461,656 for
violations of the Clery Act, a federal statute that requires colleges to
publicly report crime statistics ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2020/10/12/baylor-fined-461656-clery-act-violations?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=52523ba817-DNU_2020_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-52523ba817-197565045&mc_cid=52523ba817&mc_eid=1e78f7c952
Kids who watch too much TV,
use computers often see significant drops in reading, math scores ---
https://www.studyfinds.org/kids-tv-computers-reading-math-scores/
Ebooks in academe are
becoming increasingly unaffordable, unsustainable and inaccessible for academic
libraries to purchase ---
https://academicebookinvestigation.org/
A botched green scheme is
paying U.K. wind turbine owners seven times the value of the electricity they
generate – and it is set to cost UK consumers an estimated £1.4billion ---
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8824707/Windfarm-farce-blew-1-4billion-taxpayers-money.html
A short history of
corruption in Illinois ---
https://www.data-z.org/news/detail/a-short-history-of-corruption-in-illinois
Robinhood Accounts Looted
and No Customer Service to Call ---
https://www.thestreet.com/mishtalk/economics/robinhood-accounts-looted-and-no-customer-service-to-call
A hacker published grades,
Social Security numbers and financial information after a Las Vegas-area school
district refused to pay ransom ---
https://www.wsj.com/articles/hacker-releases-information-on-las-vegas-area-students-after-officials-dont-pay-ransom-11601297930?mod=djm_dailydiscvrtst
The Doctor Who Fooled The
World: An excerpt from Brian Deer’s new book about Andrew Wakefield ---
https://retractionwatch.com/2020/09/29/the-doctor-who-fooled-the-world-an-excerpt-from-brian-deers-new-book-about-andrew-wakefield/
Physical Therapist Sentenced
To 2 Years In Prison For Participating In $30 Million Scheme To Defraud Medicare
And Medicaid ---
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/physical-therapist-sentenced-2-years-prison-participating-30-million-scheme-defraud
https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/former-federal-government-contract-officer-sentenced-prison-accepting-bribes
A 63-year-old woman
shoplifted items throughout the United States for 19 years and sold them on eBay
---
https://www.businessinsider.com/texas-woman-doj-federal-prison-stolen-items-ebay-2020-10
City auditors in Austin,
Texas, say a former public library employee fraudulently bought $1.5 million in
printer toner, stole at least $1.3 million worth and then sold it online ---
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/06/us/austin-library-toner-trnd/index.html
Egypt’s population increases
by 1 million in 8 months to reach 101 million ---
https://www.arabnews.com/node/1744096/middle-east
The Covid-19 pandemic will
exact a $16 trillion toll on the U.S., which is four times the cost of the Great
Recession, according to former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers and
fellow Harvard University economist David Cutler ---
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-12/summers-says-covid-19-will-end-up-costing-u-s-16-trillion?cmpid=BBD101220_BIZ&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=201012&utm_campaign=bloombergdaily
US economists Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson won the Nobel
Economics Prize on Monday for work on commercial auctions: The rise of
applied game theory ---
https://afinetheorem.wordpress.com/2020/10/12/operations-research-and-the-rise-of-applied-game-theory-a-nobel-for-milgrom-and-wilson/
NY Times Columnist Exposes The Deep Deception Of The NY Times’ 1619 Project
---
https://legalinsurrection.com/2020/10/ny-times-columnist-exposes-the-deep-deception-of-the-ny-times-1619-project/
Scholars Call on Pulitzer Board to Revoke Prize Given to 1619 Project Author
Nikole Hannah-Jones ---
https://legalinsurrection.com/2020/10/scholars-call-on-pulitzer-board-to-revoke-prize-given-to-1619-project-author-nikole-hannah-jones/
The federal Education Department is investigating the University of
Pittsburgh for free-speech violations and false statements, after the University
took action against Professor Norman Wang for publishing an academic paper
critical of race-based affirmative action ---
https://legalinsurrection.com/2020/10/university-of-pittsburgh-under-investigation-for-removing-critic-of-affirmative-action/
In which a researcher named "Das" plagiarizes from another researcher named "Das,"
one with 20 retractions ---
https://retractionwatch.com/2020/10/13/in-which-a-researcher-named-das-plagiarizes-from-another-researcher-named-das-one-with-20-retractions/
Cambridge Analytica Scandal ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%E2%80%93Cambridge_Analytica_data_scandal
The Real Problem Wasn’t Cambridge Analytica, But The Data Brokers That
Outlived It ---
https://www.forbes.com/sites/robpegoraro/2020/10/08/the-real-problem-wasnt-cambridge-analytica-but-the-data-brokers-that-outlived-it/#502914d326a4
To Save Jobs, U. of Florida Must Increase
In-Person Classes, President Says ---
https://www.chronicle.com/article/live-coronavirus-updates-heres-the-latest?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=campaign_1601739_nl_Academe-Today_date_20201012&cid=at&source=ams&sourceId=296279&cid2=gen_login_refresh
In an update of its campus coronavirus tracker,
The New York Times reports that there have been more than 178,000 cases of the
virus at colleges since the pandemic began. That total, which is almost
certainly an undercount.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/live-coronavirus-updates-heres-the-latest?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=campaign_1601739_nl_Academe-Today_date_20201012&cid=at&source=ams&sourceId=296279&cid2=gen_login_refresh
Bookstores Need More than Hope. They Need Sales. And Soon ---
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/bookselling/article/84468-bookstores-need-more-than-hope-they-need-sales-and-soon.html
Jensen Comment
Campus bookstores are being hit especially hard. Online students many miles from
campus are more likely to buy books online. Book sales on campus have thin
profit margins because on online pricing competition. Profits are in non-book
sales of things like sweat shirts, tennis shoes, mugs, toiletries, etc. However,
with fewer students on campus sales of such items are down.
Are Nobel Prizes worth less these days?
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/10/are-nobel-prizes-worth-less-these-days.html
Bloomberg: High-paying jobs for people who don't like stress ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/33-high-paying-jobs-for-people-who-dont-like-stress-2019-3
01 Mathematicians (least stressed)
02 Geographers
03 Farm and Ranch managers
04 Political Scientists
05 Chemical Engineers
06 Software Developers
07 Operations Research Analysts
08 Physicists
09 Materials Scientists
10 Hydrologists
Jensen Comment
I think the article fails to emphasize that job stress can be situational and
quite variable over time. For example, new assistant professors in virtually
every academic discipline (including mathematics, geography, political science,
etc.) can be extremely stressed until they obtain the job security of tenure in
a publish or perish job. Academics can be quite comfortable with becoming
scholars of existing knowledge. Being
forced into research that contributes new knowledge is usually more stressful,
and new knowledge discovery is usually a necessary condition to obtain
publication in respectable academic journals.
There are many types of stress. Teachers who were not especially stressed after years of experience in live classrooms became heavily stressed when forced to teach online during the 2020 pandemic. And if forced to teach in live classrooms many became even more stressed about their health during this pandemic.
Stress varies a lot between different projects. A software developer may have a rather comfortable routine on most projects, but on occasion a difficult project is assigned such as plugging a an unexpected system vulnerability leak causing unexpected nightmares. A firefighter's days may routinely and mildly stressful until that five-alarm fire occurs with children trapped in a top floor.
Often the most difficult tasks are the least stressful if evaluators patiently have little expectation that the most difficult problems will not likely be solved for decades. This sometimes makes science less stressful than engineering where expectations are greater for short-term solutions.
I think the above ranking is mostly garbage, because within each discipline the jobs and workers vary so much in terms of stress. A tenured full professor of calculus year after year in a university probably has a whole lot less job stress than a mathematician employed by a casualty insurance company wanting answers to pricing issues under climate change.
And job stress is often more internal than external. Tenured mathematicians teaching calculus year after year universities vary a great deal in terms of their personal expectations for for research discovery. The easily-managed external job stress my vary a great deal with internal expectations of building their own international reputations in research. Some willingly enter stressful debates on blogs and listservs while others are mere lurkers who never stick their necks out of their turtle shells.
The Free Speech Climate on Campus Remains Chilly ---
https://www.commentarymagazine.com/jonathan-marks/the-free-speech-climate-on-campus-remains-chilly/
Since 1999, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) has fought for freedom of speech at our colleges and universities. This week, FIRE released the results of a survey, which it commissioned with the education news and opinion site, RealClearEducation. The survey is notable for its large sample, nearly 20,000 students at 55 four-year universities. In comparison, a Gallup/Knight survey released this spring sampled only 3,319.
Yet the survey contains some familiar bad news. Here it is in brief.
First, majorities of students oppose their schools allowing outside speakers to promote certain ideas. These range from the idea that Black Lives Matter is a hate group—75 percent of students oppose opening campus to a speaker who says that—to the idea that all white people are racist—74 percent oppose admitting a speaker who carries that message. This result is reminiscent of a 2017 Cato Institute survey, in which surprisingly high percentages of students supported laws against saying offensive things in public about white people and the police. Then and now, Republicans express more support for free speech than their Democratic counterparts, but both the would-be suppressors of speech and the viewpoints targeted for suppression cross ideological boundaries.
Second, and in agreement with other findings, too many students, more Republicans than Democrats, report censoring themselves or feeling pressure to censor themselves. I don’t worry that 60 percent of students report ever—as in, at least once—having felt they could not express their opinion because of “how students, a professor, or the administration would respond.” I’d expect the figure to be higher. Who, student or non-student, has never felt that way? But it’s troubling that more than 20 percent of students and nearly 30 percent of Republican students feel “very uncomfortable” about disagreeing in public with their professors. It’s natural to worry about offending an authority figure who gives you a grade at the end of the semester. But it’s the job of professors, who often teach controversial material, to draw students out. More encouraging, however, only 8 percent of students report feeling “very uncomfortable” talking politics with their classmates.
Not everything in the FIRE survey supports the conventional notion that our problem is ideologically monolithic campuses in which left-wing activists and their administrative enablers silence conservatives. South Carolina’s Clemson University is one of just three campuses in the mix that has a small majority of Trump-approving students. But respondents there are a little more likely than those at Harvard or Chicago, which have relatively few conservative students, to want to bar speakers who maintain that “some racial groups are less intelligent than others.” And they are much more likely to want to bar speakers who maintain that “Christianity has a negative influence on society
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Bob Jensen's threads on freedom of speech on college campuses ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/HigherEdControversies2.htm#PoliticalCorrectness
COGNITIVE CLASS (free data science and cognitive computing courses) --- https://cognitiveclass.ai/
Texas A&M: CybersecurityCircus (cybersecurity learning games) --- https://it.tamu.edu/cybercircus/map/
Bob Jensen's threads on computing and networking ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#---ComputerNetworking-IncludingInternet
The case against economic values in the brain ---
https://psyarxiv.com/7hgup/
Researchers interested in prior research in accounting and brain attributes
should search for the early works of John Dickhaut, Sudipta Basu,
Kevin McCabe, and Greg Waymire ---
https://meridian.allenpress.com/accounting-horizons/article-abstract/24/2/221/68378
The social function of Harvard and other elite universities ---
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/10/the-social-function-of-harvard-and-other-elites-universities.html
Jensen Comment
The social function of a university is often confounded with other variables
making it very difficult to measure the impact of the "social function" of a
college on "social success." Those other confounding variables among elite
universities include very high admission standards and parental factors that
that are important interactive variables with "social success." For example,
these days admission to an elite university often is impacted by high levels of
socialization prior to admission to an Ivy League college such as volunteer
missions and social interactions in poverty-stricken nations, experiences that
can greatly affect "social success" later in life.
Bob Jensen's threads on higher education issues ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/HigherEdControversies.htm
Answering 7 Questions About Remote Work ---
https://www.journalofaccountancy.com/issues/2020/oct/optimize-remote-work.html?utm_source=mnl:cpald&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=06Oct2020
How to Mislead With Statistics
Report: First-Year Earnings Vary by Degree Program ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2020/10/14/report-first-year-earnings-vary-degree-program?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=e8cad2e825-DNU_2020_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-e8cad2e825-197565045&mc_cid=e8cad2e825&mc_eid=1e78f7c952
Jensen Comment
Time and time again I warn students and others that starting salary is a poor
criterion to choosing a first-time
employer. Often employers paying lower first-year salaries offer the best
opportunities for both professional development and career satisfaction. My
favorite example is the U.S. Military where starting salaries are low, but the
opportunities are often great for professional development and eventual career
satisfaction combined with great job benefits. My other example is for
accounting majors joining CPA firms. Firstly, they may get less starting
salaries because they chose accounting rather than chemical engineering.
Secondly, accounting majors may get lower salaries than some marketing and
finance majors who are willing to work for sales commissions. But accounting is
a often a great track toward the executive suite in small and large
corporations. And working as an auditor or tax accountant with a CPA firm
usually entails both great training experience and well as exposure to great
clients who often hire auditors and tax accountants they discover in CPA firms.
There are many variables to consider when choosing a college major and when choosing that first job. Starting salary is probably one of the least important considerations.
Bob Jensen's threads on careers ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob1.htm#careers
How to Mislead With Statistics
Canadian researchers gave $7,500 to people without a home — and the results show
the power of universal basic income ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/canadian-basic-income-experiment-gives-homeless-people-cash-2020-10
. . .
The Foundation for Social Change, a Vancouver-based charity, partnered with the University of British Columbia to identify 50 people between 19 and 64 years old who had recently become homeless. The recipients were identified as not having significant substance abuse or mental health issues.
Researchers studied their spending habits over 12 months and compared their outcomes to a control group who did not receive the cash payment.
Those who were given the cash largely spent the money on food, rent, and transportation and moved into stable housing faster over the course of the year, according to the findings. Spending on "temptation goods," such as drugs, cigarettes, and alcohol declined by 39%, on average. And recipients were able to keep an average of $1,000 in savings, according to Canadian news outlet CBC.
The cash payment saved the shelter system $8,100 per person over the course of the year, a total savings of $405,000.
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Jensen Comment
In fairness the findings report of this study emphasizes that the stipends were
given to only people who recently became homeless (during the Covid-19
pandemic). Without saying so, I think that it's
implied that the findings do not extrapolate well the people who are chronically
homeless due to addictions, mental illness, depression, or lack of motivation to
better themselves.
A recent homeless person could be a hard worker (think a waiter or waitress) unable to pay rent because of restaurant closures during the pandemic. People motivated to work are more apt to use the money to find work compared to hard-core alcoholics unable to think beyond where to get the next bottle of booze.
The main point is that statistical findings are often difficult to extrapolate to different people and different circumstances.
How to Mislead With Cherry Picking
Cherry Picking Bias (think Snopes, ABC, NBC, CBS,
CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, etc.) is a Far Worse Problem Than Fake News ---
Evaluating the fake news problem at the scale of the information ecosystem ---
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/14/eaay3539
Fake news,” broadly defined as false or misleading information masquerading as legitimate news, is frequently asserted to be pervasive online with serious consequences for democracy. Using a unique multimode dataset that comprises a nationally representative sample of mobile, desktop, and television consumption, we refute this conventional wisdom on three levels. First, news consumption of any sort is heavily outweighed by other forms of media consumption, comprising at most 14.2% of Americans’ daily media diets. Second, to the extent that Americans do consume news, it is overwhelmingly from television, which accounts for roughly five times as much as news consumption as online. Third, fake news comprises only 0.15% of Americans’ daily media diet. Our results suggest that the origins of public misinformedness and polarization are more likely to lie in the content of ordinary news or the avoidance of news altogether as they are in overt fakery.
Jensen Comment
The same thing happens in teaching and research when teachers cherry pick course
content. Sometimes it's caused by a teacher's political bias ---
https://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2020/10/07/the-fight-for-free-speech-n2577499?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=10/07/2020&bcid=b16c6f948f297f77432f990d4411617f&recip=17935167
More often it's wanting to focus on what teachers spent their lives preparing to teach and overlooking (with content cherry picking) that which is now embarrassing in course content.
And cherry picking is not just a political phenomenon. For example, managerial
and cost accounting teachers still devote significant modules of a course to
ABC costing without mentioning that in the real world ABC costing is seldom
used in the 21st Century due to failing to meet the cost-benefit test in
practice ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activity-based_costing#Limitations
It is all too common in academe to teach formulas, algorithms, and processes
while cherry picking out robustness issues and cost when applied in the real
world ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robust_statistics
It is by now well known that some of the greatest modern philosophers held
racist views ---
https://aeon.co/essays/racism-is-baked-into-the-structure-of-dialectical-philosophy
From the CFO Journal's Morning Ledger on September 30, 2020
Former Amazon Finance Manager Charged With Insider Trading
The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged former Amazon.com Inc finance manager Laksha Bohra and two family members with insider trading.
The SEC alleges Ms. Bohra, who handled confidential financial information for Amazon, gave such information to her husband, Viky Bohra, and his father, Gotham Bohra, ahead of company earnings announcements between January 2016 and July 2018. Viky Bohra and his father allegedly then traded on this information using 11 separate accounts, with the family making approximately $1.4 million.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Washington on Monday filed criminal charges against Laksha Bohra.
Princeton settles with
federal government in pay gap case and will pay more than $1 million to female
faculty ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/10/08/princeton-settles-federal-government-gender-based-faculty-pay-gap-case?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=1ab6559b6a-DNU_2020_COPY_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-1ab6559b6a-197565045&mc_cid=1ab6559b6a&mc_eid=1e78f7c952
Massachusetts Voters Will
Decide (Again) Who Is Allowed To Fix Their Cars ---
https://reason.com/2020/10/07/massachusetts-voters-will-decide-again-who-is-allowed-to-fix-their-cars/
The angry Australian animal
Australians are actually scared of ---
https://mashable.com/article/australia-magpies-swooping-season-masks/
NYU Settles Anti-Semitism Case ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/10/02/new-york-university-settles-anti-semitism-case-education-department?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=54d5bc8324-DNU_2020_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-54d5bc8324-197565045&mc_cid=54d5bc8324&mc_eid=1e78f7c952
Sir Isaac Newton in less
than two years at home during a plague,
and while still under 25 years of age, he began revolutionary advances in
mathematics, optics, physics, and astronomy ---
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Newton/
How to Mislead With Statistics
The problem with rapid Covid
testing ---
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/10/the-problem-with-rapid-covid-testing.html
Jensen Comment
The problem of false positives may decline as saliva tests (think Israel and the
University of Illinois) are used more often for rapid testing.
Walmart is set to hire
20,000 seasonal workers, which may help maintain its fulfillment edge on Amazon
---
https://www.businessinsider.com/walmart-will-hire-20-thousand-workers-ahead-of-holidays-2020-9?IR=T&utm_medium=email&utm_term=BII_Daily&utm_source=Triggermail&utm_campaign=BII
Weekender 2020.10.2 - Marketing
GPS Tracking Reveals the
Secret Lives of Outdoor Cats ---
http://www.openculture.com/2020/10/gps-tracking-reveals-the-secret-lives-of-outdoor-cats.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:+OpenCulture+(Open+Culture)
Millions of locusts
devastate fields, crops and pastures in Chile ---
https://strangesounds.org/2020/10/locust-plague-chile-combarbala-video.html
How the $36 billion vitamin
industry tricked a generation of adults into believing sugary gummies were the
ticket to good health ---
Click Here
Robert Shmerling's patients eat too much candy. They think it's good for them.
That candy — colorful, chewy, shaped like orange slices and teddy bears — is the gummy vitamin. Shmerling, who's been a rheumatologist in the Boston area for three decades and is a professor at Harvard Medical School, said some of his patients were taking a dozen supplements, gummy or otherwise, every day.
"Half of them, they're not even sure what it's for," he said.
It's not the sugar in each vitamin that concerns him, although with an average of 3 grams a serving, it adds up. Rather, Shmerling thinks his patients should simply eat better. Instead of, say, buying a $55 pack of gummies made with blue algae, wheatgrass, barley, and other veggies, they should probably just eat their veggies.
It's an amusing juxtaposition — adults who are health-conscious enough to care about their vitamin and mineral intake but don't mind starting their day off with candy.
It's also a global market worth billions, with no ceiling in sight.
Chewable vitamins are now the No. 1 way adults in America age 35 and younger consume supplements, the market-research group Mintel reported. "The marketing emphasizes you, the consumer, are missing something if you're not taking this product," said Chuck Bell, who works for the advocacy wing of Consumer Reports. "But not too many people have scurvy or rickets and have a need to take this thing."
Getting your vitamins and minerals through the sweet and chewy treats became a widely accessible option for adults in the early 2010s. Experts said the category lived in the children's aisle until marketers wondered if their parents might want to try them too.
"This promise of fun has become increasingly common in Big Food," said Charlene Elliot, a communications professor at the University of Calgary and the author of "Fun Food: Children's Food Marketing and the Politics of Consumption."
When companies speak to millennials and increasingly Gen Zers, infantilization is typical. Brands have turned a modest drinking vessel into a wine sippy cup. The popular Hydroflasks and Camelbaks allow adults to drink water through bite valves, baby bottles for grown-ups. Instructions to build one furniture company's wares sassily concludes: "YOU'RE ALL DONE! Time for Netflix!"
There are a barrage of startups that promise you'll never need to "adult" again if you just outsource those pesky chores to contract workers. For a small chunk of your allowance, Big Tech has ensured you never have to do your laundry, cook, buy groceries, or even hang a frame.
And now Big Gummy says you don't have to eat your vegetables. You can eat candy instead.
Continued in article
Insanely Cool Gadgets That
Are Going To Sell Out Soon ---
https://mydailyflavor.com/bestgadgets/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMImKLLlaWl7AIVDebACh1ssQnVEAEYASAAEgLB-_D_BwE
Bob Jensen's threads on
gadgets ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob4.htm#Technology
IBM to split into two as it
reinvents itself ---
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-54473828
Jensen Comment
It will be interesting to watch how this huge split is accounted for in the
future.
From the Scout Report on October 3, 2020
FREELAN --- www.freelan.org
Freelan is VPN software that provides a virtual LAN that connects computers anywhere in the world as if they were on the same network switch. Many of the VPN options previously covered in the Scout Report (for example, Psiphon in the 02-16-2018 issue, ProtonVPN in the 08-17-2018 issue, and TunnelBear in the 03-11-2016 issue) act as encrypted proxies that hide users' network traffic and make their computers appear to be located somewhere that they are not. However, these VPNs do not allow multiple machines connected to the service to talk to each other. In contrast, computers connected to a Freelan network can see and talk to each other. So with Freelan, geographically disparate machines can play LAN-only games, access shared drives (for example, from a NAS device), access network printers, access home automation devices, and perform any other network tasks as if they were all in the same location. A number of configuration examples are provided on the Freelan front page that demonstrate the different modes in which the software can operate. The Downloads page provides installers for Windows and macOS desktops. Users of Linux and BSD systems can find Freelan in their package repositories.
KIWIX SCIENCE --- www.kiwix.org/en
The Kiwix developers describe the software as an "offline reader for online content like Wikipedia, Project Gutenberg, or TED Talks." The goal of the project is to disseminate online information to people with "no or limited internet access." The Kiwix website provides a large number of "Content Packages" in the ZIM file format. This format was created by the openZIM project and is designed for the offline storage of Web content. The openZIM project was launched by Wikimedia Switzerland and receives ongoing support from the Wikimedia Foundation, among other partners. Most commonly, users select the content packages they wish to download from within the Kiwix Reader software while they have an internet connection. Alternatively, users may manually download ZIM files using the "Content Packages" link under Downloads section in the footer of the Kiwix site. Then, they can use Kiwix-Serve to share ZIM files on their computer via http with any other computer on the same network, a setup that can work nicely for a computer lab. Kwix Reader is available for macOS, Windows, and Linux desktops as well as iOS and Android devices. Kiwix-Serve is available for Windows and Linux computers.
Free Online Tutorials, Videos, Course Materials, and Learning Centers
Education Tutorials
COGNITIVE CLASS (free data science and cognitive computing courses) --- https://cognitiveclass.ai/
Is this what high school should look like?
https://jborden.com/2020/10/03/is-this-what-high-school-should-look-like/
Is everybody above average in SORA Schools?
Bob Jensen's threads on education links ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#EducationResearch
Engineering, Science, and Medicine Tutorials
Middle Schooler Becomes Youngest Person to Achieve Nuclear Fusion ---
https://interestingengineering.com/middle-schooler-becomes-youngest-person-to-achieve-nuclear-fusion?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Article&utm_campaign=organic&utm_content=Oct08
Compact Nuclear Fusion Reactor Is ‘Very Likely to Work,’ Studies Suggest ---
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/29/climate/nuclear-fusion-reactor.html
The Arctic hasn’t been this warm for 3 million years – and that foreshadows
big changes for the rest of the planet ---
https://theconversation.com/the-arctic-hasnt-been-this-warm-for-3-million-years-and-that-foreshadows-big-changes-for-the-rest-of-the-planet-144544
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
Taiwan’s Crowdsourced Democracy Shows Us How to Fix Social Media ---
https://wearenotdivided.reasonstobecheerful.world/taiwan-g0v-hackers-technology-digital-democracy/
INTERNATIONAL DISABILITY AND DEVELOPMENT CONSORTIUM SOCIAL --- www.iddcconsortium.net
Egypt’s population increases by 1 million in 8 months to reach 101 million
---
https://www.arabnews.com/node/1744096/middle-east
URBAN LAYERS (urban planning) --- http://io.morphocode.com/urban-layers/
GENDER PERSPECTIVES IN URBAN PLANNING SOCIAL --- www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sop4fqc2NV8&feature=youtu.b e
URBAN PLANNING --- www.cogitatiopress.com/urbanplanning
ON THE LAND (land planning) --- www.onthelandmedia.com
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
What is Math?
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/what-math-180975882/
Sir Isaac Newton in less than two years
at home during a plague, and
while still under 25 years old, he began revolutionary advances in mathematics,
optics, physics, and astronomy ---
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Newton/
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
1863: Rebuilding railroads --- http://armedforcesjournal.com/1863-rebuilding-railroads/
Explore the Codex Zouche-Nuttall: A Rare, Accordion-Folded Pre-Columbian
Manuscript ---
http://www.openculture.com/2020/09/explore-the-codex-zouche-nuttall.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:+OpenCulture+(Open+Culture)
10,000 Vintage Recipe Books Are Now Digitized in The Internet Archive’s
Cookbook & Home Economics Collection ---
https://www.openculture.com/2020/10/10000-vintage-recipe-books-are-now-digitized.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Also see
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#---Recipes
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
Richard and the revolutionaries: why did lefties love Wagner?
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/sep/17/why-did-lefties-love-wagner-alex-ross-wagnerism-revolution-hitler
Also see
https://theamericanscholar.org/admired-and-abhorred/#.X3o-BmhKhPY
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/
September 30, 2020
· Do Fasting Diets Work? Study Finds Little Benefit
· Lockdown Could Worsen Hearing Woes for Seniors
· CDC Recommends “Low-Risk” Thanksgiving Activities
October 2, 2020
· Immunotherapy Drug Helping Lung Cancer Patients
· Last-Ditch Support System Is Saving COVID Patients
· New COVID-19 Cases Spike Again in Florida
October 3, 2020
· WebMD Poll: Health Care, Pandemic Important to Voters
· MLB to Allow Some Fans at World Series
· Immunotherapy Drug Helping Lung Cancer Patients
October 5, 2020
· Trump & COVID: Who Is Positive, Who Is Negative
· President Trump, First Lady Test Positive for COVID
· Neanderthal Genes Could Link to Severe COVID-19
October 8, 2020
Eddie Van Halen Dies of Cancer at 65FDA Chief Says Panel Must Review COVID Vaccine
White House Blocking New Vaccine Guidelines
Trump Could Suffer ‘Reversal’ in COVID Treatment
'Anti-Vaxx' Movement Shifts Focus to Civil Liberties
October 9, 2020
October 10, 2020
Coronavirus Can Survive on Skin 9 Hours
Trump to Resume Public Events, Despite Concerns
New Coronavirus Can Infect Your Eyes as Well
World Food Program Wins Nobel Peace Prize
'Love Hormone' Could Hold Key to Treating COVID
Election Stress Getting to You? You're Not Alone
Pence, Harris Address COVID, Health Care, Abortion
October 13, 2020
Fauci Comments In Trump Ad Taken ‘Out of Context’
Johnson & Johnson Pauses COVID-19 Vaccine Trial
Pew: COVID Sends Majority of Young Adults Back Home
Neck Gaiters May Protect Against COVID-19 Spread
Hundreds Gather on White House Lawn to Hear Trump
CEO Says Regeneron Must Ration COVID-19 Treatment
October 14, 2020
Fauci Comments In Trump Ad Taken ‘Out of Context’
Black Doctors Aim to Make COVID Testing Equitable
Many Seniors With Heart Failure Take 10-plus Meds
NC Teacher Dies From COVID-19 Complications
Long-Lasting Immunity Follows Serious COVID Cases
What Happened Other Times a Vaccine Was Rushed?
Two Major COVID Trials Paused for Safety Issues
Severe COVID More Likely in Black, Asian Patients
Solitary confinement: 4 in 5 seniors have felt more anxious, depressed
during pandemic ---
https://www.studyfinds.org/seniors-medicare-more-anxious-depressed-covid/
Regular exercise significantly lowers risk of death in Type 2 diabetes
patients ---
https://www.studyfinds.org/exercise-lowers-death-risk-type-2-diabetes/
Drinking coffee before breakfast could be very bad for your blood sugar
---
https://www.studyfinds.org/coffee-before-breakfast-bad-for-blood-sugar/
The Apple Watch's abnormal pulse readings are steering users to emergency
rooms unnecessarily ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-watch-creating-unnecessary-visits-to-emergency-room-2020-9?IR=T&utm_medium=email&utm_term=BII_Daily&utm_source=Triggermail&utm_campaign=BII
Weekender 2020.10.2 - Marketing
A retrospective study conducted by physicians and researchers at the Mayo Clinic revealed that out of 264 patients who received an abnormal pulse detection using their Apple Watch, only 30 patients (11%) actually received cardiovascular diagnosis after visiting their provider—suggesting the Watch is churning a high number of false positive results with this feature. For context, the Watch's pulse feature is separate from its electrocardiogram (ECG) tool, which earned FDA approval in 2018.
We think an uptick in Watch-generated avoidable patient visits will likely deter more healthcare institutions from striking deals with Apple. It's no secret that the tech giant has been using its Watch to push deeper into the healthcare arena: For one, it rolled out a blood oxygen measurement tool with its Series 6 Watch debut earlier this month, and is collaborating with UC Irvine and Anthem to test how blood oxygen measurement can help manage asthma.
New, rare form of dementia discovered by Penn scientists ---
https://www.studyfinds.org/scientists-discover-rare-dementia-vt/
Drug policy of Portugal ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_policy_of_Portugal
How the $36 billion vitamin industry tricked a generation of adults into
believing sugary gummies were the ticket to good health ---
Click Here
Robert Shmerling's patients eat too much candy. They think it's good for them.
That candy — colorful, chewy, shaped like orange slices and teddy bears — is the gummy vitamin. Shmerling, who's been a rheumatologist in the Boston area for three decades and is a professor at Harvard Medical School, said some of his patients were taking a dozen supplements, gummy or otherwise, every day.
"Half of them, they're not even sure what it's for," he said.
It's not the sugar in each vitamin that concerns him, although with an average of 3 grams a serving, it adds up. Rather, Shmerling thinks his patients should simply eat better. Instead of, say, buying a $55 pack of gummies made with blue algae, wheatgrass, barley, and other veggies, they should probably just eat their veggies.
It's an amusing juxtaposition — adults who are health-conscious enough to care about their vitamin and mineral intake but don't mind starting their day off with candy.
It's also a global market worth billions, with no ceiling in sight.
Chewable vitamins are now the No. 1 way adults in America age 35 and younger consume supplements, the market-research group Mintel reported. "The marketing emphasizes you, the consumer, are missing something if you're not taking this product," said Chuck Bell, who works for the advocacy wing of Consumer Reports. "But not too many people have scurvy or rickets and have a need to take this thing."
Getting your vitamins and minerals through the sweet and chewy treats became a widely accessible option for adults in the early 2010s. Experts said the category lived in the children's aisle until marketers wondered if their parents might want to try them too.
"This promise of fun has become increasingly common in Big Food," said Charlene Elliot, a communications professor at the University of Calgary and the author of "Fun Food: Children's Food Marketing and the Politics of Consumption."
When companies speak to millennials and increasingly Gen Zers, infantilization is typical. Brands have turned a modest drinking vessel into a wine sippy cup. The popular Hydroflasks and Camelbaks allow adults to drink water through bite valves, baby bottles for grown-ups. Instructions to build one furniture company's wares sassily concludes: "YOU'RE ALL DONE! Time for Netflix!"
There are a barrage of startups that promise you'll never need to "adult" again if you just outsource those pesky chores to contract workers. For a small chunk of your allowance, Big Tech has ensured you never have to do your laundry, cook, buy groceries, or even hang a frame.
And now Big Gummy says you don't have to eat your vegetables. You can eat candy instead.
Continued in article
Humor for October 2020
Photographs That Made Me Smile --- https://www.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/crpjwk/every_year_this_mama_duck_brings_her_babies_to_my/
Charlie Chaplin & Buster Keaton Go Toe to Toe (Almost) in a Hilarious Boxing
Scene Mash Up from Their Classic Silent Films ---
http://www.openculture.com/2020/10/charlie-chaplin-buster-keaton-go-toe-to-toe-almost-in-a-hilarious-boxing-scene-mash-up-from-their-classic-silent-films.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Nostalgia: Where are the Clowns? --- https://www.theretrosite.com/uploads/videos/6c636bd484d7.mp4
Forwarded by Auntie Bev
Bread is like the sun. It rises in the yeast and sets in the waist.
The nurse informed the doctor that there was a man in the waiting room claiming to be invisible. The doctor replied to tell the patient that the doctor would not be able to see him today.
You know you're old if you actually had to win to get a trophy when you were a kid.
The last thing a turkey wants on Thanksgiving is to be surrounded by family.
Forwarded by Maria
Turning vegan would be a missed steak
If you can't laugh at yourself, call me and I will
Our mountains aren't just funny, they're hill areas
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
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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
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Humor January 2019--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book19q1.htm#Humor0119.htm
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Online Distance Education Training and Education ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Crossborder.htm
For-Profit Universities Operating in the Gray
Zone of Fraud (College, Inc.) ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/HigherEdControversies.htm#ForProfitFraud
Shielding Against Validity Challenges in Plato's Cave ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/TheoryTAR.htm
The Cult of Statistical Significance:
How Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives ---
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/DeirdreMcCloskey/StatisticalSignificance01.htm
How Accountics Scientists Should Change:
"Frankly, Scarlett, after I get a hit for my resume in The Accounting Review
I just don't give a damn"
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/AccounticsDamn.htm
One more mission in what's left of my life will be to try to change this
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/AccounticsDamn.htm
What went wrong in accounting/accountics research?
---
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