Tidbits on October 15, 2020
Bob Jensen at Trinity University

Part 2 of Our 2020 Foliage Season
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Foliage/Set10/FoliageSet15.htm

 

Tidbits on October 15, 2020
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Over 400 Examples of Critical Thinking and Illustrations of How to Mislead With Statistics --
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http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/MisleadWithStatistics.htm

Bob Jensen's 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

Nostalgia:  Where are the Clowns? --- https://www.theretrosite.com/uploads/videos/6c636bd484d7.mp4

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 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

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


Photographs and Art

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

Bob Jensen's threads on art history ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm#ArtHistory

Bob Jensen's threads on history, literature and art ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#History


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

Bob Jensen's threads on libraries --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm#---Libraries

 

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




Now in Another Tidbits Document
Political Quotations on 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 ScinapseNAVER academicScilit 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.

Continued in article

 

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


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

Former Federal Government Contract Officer Sentenced to Prison for Accepting Bribes ---
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

Continued in article

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.

 Continued in article

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.
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  ---

Also see
https://aeon.co/essays/racism-is-baked-into-the-structure-of-dialectical-philosophy

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

·        Closer Look: Trump, Biden Plans on Health Care

·        End Ban on Cornea Donations from Gay Men: Study

·        Do Fasting Diets Work? Study Finds Little Benefit

·        Pandemic Has More Americans Turning to Alcohol

·        S.C. Woman Dies of COVID-19 Weeks After Daughter

·        Lockdown Could Worsen Hearing Woes for Seniors

·        Study Confirms Minorities at Higher Odds of COVID

·        Women Get Worse Care for Heart Attack

·        CDC Recommends “Low-Risk” Thanksgiving Activities

October 2, 2020

·        President Trump, First Lady Test Positive for COVID

·        Irregular, Long Periods Tied to Shorter Life Span

·        Immunotherapy Drug Helping Lung Cancer Patients

·        Tough Menopause May Signal Future Heart Woes

·        Race Doesn't Impact COVID Survival Rate in Hospital

·        Last-Ditch Support System Is Saving COVID Patients

·        Alcohol-Linked Deaths Spike in Rural America

·        NFL Postpones Titans-Steelers Game Due to COVID-19

·        New COVID-19 Cases Spike Again in Florida

October 3, 2020

·        Trump & COVID: Who Is Positive, Who Is Negative

·        President Trump, First Lady Test Positive for COVID

·        WebMD Poll: Health Care, Pandemic Important to Voters

·        Officials Begin Task of Tracing Trump's Contacts

·        'Superspreaders' Are Driving the COVID-19 Pandemic

·        MLB to Allow Some Fans at World Series

·        Neanderthal Genes Could Link to Severe COVID-19

·        Irregular, Long Periods Tied to Shorter Life Span

·        Immunotherapy Drug Helping Lung Cancer Patients

October 5, 2020

·        Why A Negative Test Doesn't Rule Out COVID

·        What Trump’s Symptoms Mean for COVID Course

·        Trump & COVID: Who Is Positive, Who Is Negative

·        Task of Tracing Trump's Contacts Widens

·        WebMD Poll: Health Care, Pandemic Important to Voters

·        President Trump, First Lady Test Positive for COVID

·        'Superspreaders' Are Driving the COVID-19 Pandemic

·        MLB to Allow Some Fans at World Series

·        Neanderthal Genes Could Link to Severe COVID-19

October 8, 2020

Dozens of Mammals at Risk of COVID Infection

Doctor: Trump Symptom-Free for 24 Hours

Eddie Van Halen Dies of Cancer at 65

FDA 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

For Black Americans, Resilience Key to Heart Health

Risk of Severe COVID May Hinge on Type of Asthma

October 9, 2020

Pence, Harris Address COVID, Health Care, Abortion

Trump Touts Unproven Therapy as COVID 'Cure'

CDC Says Wearing Masks and Closing Bars Works

  • Pence Should Quarantine, Not Debate, Expert Says
  • Dozens of Mammals at Risk of COVID Infection
  • Doctor: Trump Symptom-Free for 24 Hours

    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

    Trump Touts Unproven Therapy as COVID 'Cure'

    Pence’s Red Eye Raises COVID Concerns

    October 13, 2020

        Fauci Comments In Trump Ad Taken ‘Out of Context’

    What Happened Other Times a Vaccine Was Rushed?

    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

    First Confirmed U.S. Cases of COVID Reinfections

    Coronavirus Survives on Surfaces for Weeks: Study

    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

    Pew: COVID Sends Majority of Young Adults Back Home

    VIEW ALL HEALTH NEWS


    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  

    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

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    Humor April 2019--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book19q2.htm#Humor0419.htm 

    Humor March 2019--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book19q1.htm#Humor0319.htm

    Humor February 2019--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book19q1.htm#Humor0219.htm 

    Humor January 2019--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book19q1.htm#Humor0119.htm   




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

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

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

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

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

    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