Tidbits on December 31, 2020
Bob Jensen
at Trinity University
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2020 in Review
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Over 400 Examples of Critical Thinking and Illustrations of How to Mislead With
Statistics ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/MisleadWithStatistics.htm
Bob Jensen's search helpers --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/searchh.htm
Bob Jensen's World Library --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm
Animated Visualization of the United States’ Exploding Population Growth
Over 200 Years (1790 – 2010) ---
A Visualization of the United States’ Exploding Population Growth Over 200 Years
(1790 – 2010)
USA Debt Clock --- http://www.usdebtclock.org/ ubl
In September 2017 the USA National Debt exceeded $20 trillion for the first time
---
http://www.statedatalab.org/news/detail/national-debt-surpasses-20-trillion-for-the-first-time-in-us-history
Human Population Over Time on Earth ---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUwmA3Q0_OE
Online Video, Slide Shows, and Audio
Video: Tesla Assembly Line Beginning with Coils of Aluminum ---
https://www.youtube.com/embed/8_lfxPI5ObM?rel=
If this does not change the way we teach direct labor vs. mfg. overhead costing
nothing will
Animated timeline shows how Silicon Valley became a $2.8 trillion
neighborhood ---
History of Silicon Valley in one animated timeline - Business Insider
It began in the 19th century.
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
Great XMAS Flash Mob ---
https://legalinsurrection.com/2020/12/merry-christmas-enjoy-the-best-christmas-flash-mob-of-all-time/
Hillsdale College: Oh Holy Night ---
https://legalinsurrection.com/2020/12/video-hillsdale-college-choir-performs-o-holy-night/
Anna Netrebko sings Mussorgsky's Detskaya (The Nursery), Valery Gergiev
conducts the RPhO ---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykzW_x1IRho
How Joni Mitchell’s Song of Heartbreak, “River,” Became a Christmas Classic
---
https://www.openculture.com/2020/12/how-joni-mitchells-song-of-heartbreak-river-became-a-christmas-classic.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Listen to it at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VV6j_mFR9c
RUMBLE ON: MORE NATIVE AMERICAN MUSICIANS YOU SHOULD KNOW ARTS ---
www.pbs.org/independentlens/blog/rumble-on-more-native-american-musicians-you-should-know
INDIGEF (ndigenous music) --- www.indigefi.org
C-G-G-A-G B-C ---
https://jborden.com/2020/12/28/music-monday-c-g-g-a-g-b-c/
Christmas Songs ---
Music Monday: My Favorite Christmas Songs Countdown – Borden's
Blather (jborden.com)
Also see
Music Monday: And The Runner-up Is… – Borden's Blather
(jborden.com)
One of the Greatest Dances Sequences Ever Captured on Film Gets Restored in
Color by AI: Watch the Classic Scene from Stormy Weather ---
https://www.openculture.com/2020/12/one-of-the-greatest-dances-sequences-ever-captured-on-film-gets-restored-in-color-by-ai-watch-the-classic-scene-from-stormy-weather.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Direct Link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoMbeDhG9fU
Flight of the Bumble Bees ---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZO5KTJTwhE
The Ultimate 80s Medley: A Nostalgia-Inducing Performance of A-Ha, Tears for
Fears, Depeche Mode, Peter Gabriel, Van Halen & More ---
https://www.openculture.com/2020/12/the-ultimate-80s-medley.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
For Dave Brubeck’s 100th Birthday, Watch Pakistani Musicians Play an
Enchanting Version of “Take Five” ---
https://www.openculture.com/2020/12/dave-brubecks-100th-birthday.html
Dave Brubeck's Version ---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT9Eh8wNMkw
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain ---
https://www.openculture.com/2020/12/the-ukulele-orchestra-of-great-britain-performs-i-cant-get-no-satisfaction.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Beethoven by Yves Nat - Complete Piano Sonatas, Pathetique,
Moonlight, Appassionata, Hammerklavier ---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBDN2sPRggk
Bob Jensen's Links to Free Music
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Music.htm
Photographs and Art
Slide Show: Beautiful Places in the USA ---
https://247wallst.com/special-report/2020/12/06/when-we-can-travel-again-most-beautiful-places-to-visit-in-the-us/
WHAT JANE SAW (two museums visited by Jane Austin) ---
http://whatjanesaw.org/
WILLIAMS COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART: COLLECTION EXPLORER
http://wcma-explorer.williams.edu/
NATIONAL GALLERIES SCOTLAND: COLLECTIONS ARTS ---
www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/collections
NATIONAL ARTS CENTRE: RESOURCES (Canada ) ---
Resources |
Music Alive Program | National Arts Centre (nac-cna.ca)
AMERICANS (Native American Exhibit) ---
https://americanindian.si.edu/americans/
See inside Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen’s $40 million NYC
penthouse ---
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/see-inside-tom-brady-and-gisele-bundchens-40-million-nyc-penthouse-11608320786?cx_testId=48&cx_testVariant=cx_1&cx_artPos=6&mod=home-page-cx&cx_method=click#cxrecs_s
So why's he not playing for the Jets?
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
The Best Mystery Books of All Time --- https://www.thereadinglists.com/best-mystery-books-of-all-time/
Not-So-Funny Yard Signs that Get Better Later in the Slideshow (Click on the Slideshow) ---
https://www.science-a2z.com/the-most-hilarious-and-original-yard-signs-youve-ever-seen-part2/?utm_medium=yahoo&utm_source=347&utm_campaign=402654456&utm_term=NEWS_US-c&site_id=news.yahoo.com&vmcid=p%24g%2co%244650d852-484a-11eb-b141-008cfa5b6918-7f2ca7d4a700%2ct%241609076940847
Google Book Search --- https://books.google.com/advanced_book_search?hl=en
The Classroom Bookshelf --- https://www.theclassroombookshelf.com/
Digital al Public Library --- https://dp.la/
The Reading Lists --- https://www.thereadinglists.com/
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 December 15, 2020
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/2020/TidbitsQuotations121520.htm
Good News Tidbits
MIT’s Introduction to Deep
Learning: A Free Online Course ---
MIT's Introduction to Deep Learning: A Free Online Course | Open
Culture
Incredible Scientific
Discoveries in 2020 ---
https://www.newsweek.com/incredible-scientific-discoveries-2020-1557134
Why Bitcoin Will Not Take
Over the World ---
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/12/why-bitcoin-will-not-take-over-the-world.html
Agriculture Industry Bets on
Carbon as a New Cash Crop ---
https://www.wsj.com/articles/agriculture-industry-bets-on-a-new-cash-crop-carbon-11608719403?mod=djemCFO
The University of Texas
agreed to disband its absurd political correctness police force and end policies
that suppress speech on campus ---
https://legalinsurrection.com/2020/12/ut-austin-dropping-bias-response-teams-to-settle-free-speech-lawsuit/
Apple announces ambitious
plan to produce electric cars by 2024: report ---
https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/apple-announces-ambitious-plan-to-produce-electric-cars-by-2024-report
It's one thing to passively invest in a business venture and quite another to
actively manage that venture. With new ventures in health care and automobile
manufacturing, Apple may be biting off more than it can chew. But I listed this
as a good news tidbit in terms of welcoming new competition in electric car
manufacturing.
Tiny Nuclear Reactors Yield
a Huge Amount of Clean Hydrogen ---
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a34964936/small-modular-reactors-produce-clean-hydrogen/
U.S. physicists rally around
ambitious plan to build fusion power plant ---
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/12/us-physicists-rally-around-ambitious-plan-build-fusion-power-plant
The Deterrent Effect of DNA
Databases ---
https://www.manhattan-institute.org/deterrent-effects-dna-databases?utm_source=outreach&utm_medium=email
It's Been a Good Week for
Science
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/12/this-has-been-quite-a-week-for-science.html
Scientists unearth the ‘holy
grail’ of volcano research after finding way to predict eruptions ---
https://www.studyfinds.org/scientists-find-holy-grail-of-volcano-research-predict-eruptions/
Now we need some new eruptions to test the theory
Bad News: The Supervolcano Under Yellowstone is Alive and Kicking ---
http://earth.nautil.us/article/570/the-supervolcano-under-yellowstone-is-alive-and-kicking
This Car Is Powered By Salt
Water: 760HP, Top Speed 186 MPH, 621 Miles/Tank ---
https://www.scifront.com/this-car-is-powered-by-salt-water-760hp-top-speed-186-mph-621-miles-tank/?fbclid=IwAR1R3sz1mauI6oydiozJWi-3LlEmL-SfCXRoHebGiFln0pRF2iAVR_yCRMw
Thank you Jagdish Gangolly for the heads up
College undergrads find
hidden text on medieval manuscript via UV imaging ---
https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/11/college-undergrads-find-hidden-text-on-medieval-manuscript-via-uv-imaging/
Four Technology Gift Ideas
https://www.journalofaccountancy.com/newsletters/2020/nov/technology-gift-ideas-cpas.html?utm_source=mnl:cpald&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=02Dec2020
My favorite is the "Remarkable Tablet 2"
Amazon Publishing in Talks to
Offer E-books to Public Libraries ---
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/libraries/article/85068-dpla-in-talks-to-offer-amazon-publishing-e-books-to-libraries.html
OZY Examines 28 Startups to
Watch ---
https://www.ozy.com/?utm_term=OZY&utm_campaign=sundaymagazine&utm_content=Sunday_12.06.20&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email
From Peoples Into Nations: A
History of Eastern Europe ---
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jul/22/book-review-from-peoples-into-nations-a-history-of/
Bad News Tidbits
Three lessons from
Stanford’s Covid-19 vaccine algorithm debacle ---
https://www.statnews.com/2020/12/21/stanford-covid19-vaccine-algorithm/
Parents Demand Major
Academic Publisher Drop Proctorio Surveillance Tech ---
https://www.vice.com/en/article/88am8k/2000-parents-demand-major-academic-publisher-drop-proctorio-surveillance-tech2,000
Many of these parents don't care if their students cheat as long as they get A
grades
Massachusetts School
Allegedly Bans ‘The Odyssey’ by Homer ---
https://legalinsurrection.com/2020/12/massachusetts-school-allegedly-bans-the-odyssey-by-homer/
Some classics are just not politically correct
Internal investigation finds
$1 million in alleged fraud by 4 employees of Chico State’s Department of
Accounting ---
UPDATED FOR CLARITY: Internal investigation finds $1 million in
alleged fraud by 4 employees of Chico State’s Department of Accounting – The
Orion
Thank you Glen Gray for the heads up
Over 70 West Point Cadets
Accused of Cheating on Calculus Exam ---
https://legalinsurrection.com/2020/12/over-70-west-point-cadets-accused-of-cheating-on-calculus-exam/
Berkeley cheating
allegations spike nearly 400 percent with online classes ---
https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16437
Bob Jensen's threads on cheating scandals ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Plagiarism.htm#UVA
New Mexico walks back 'free'
college tuition promise, can no longer afford it ---
https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16454
The curse of 'white oil':
electric vehicles' dirty secret ---
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/dec/08/the-curse-of-white-oil-electric-vehicles-dirty-secret-lithium
Law prof advocates for Black
Americans votes to 'count twice' ---
https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16499
Why stop at twice?
Municipal Bonds Aren’t Out
of Peril ---
https://www.wsj.com/articles/municipal-bonds-arent-out-of-peril-11608892206?mod=djm_dailydiscvrtst
Illinois Is Ground Zero for
the Pension Crisis (taxpayers in 49 states asked to should pension fraud and
mismanagement in Illinois) ---
https://www.thestreet.com/mishtalk/economics/illinois-is-ground-zero-for-the-pension-crisis
https://www.data-z.org/news/detail/illinois-and-chicagos-budget-gimmicks
https://www.data-z.org/news/detail/a-short-history-of-corruption-in-illinois
California Inmates May Have Bilked State's Unemployment Funds by $40 Million
https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-inmates-may-have-bilked-400m-from-states-unemployment
California’s $2 billion benefit fraud ---
https://www.data-z.org/news/detail/californias-2-billion-benefit-fraud
Tyler Cowen: "The
Lancet published this b.s.?"
Neoliberal economics, planetary health, and the COVID-19 pandemic: a Marxist
ecofeminist analysis - The Lancet Planetary Health
Jensen Comment
I can't make any sense out of this paper.
The U.S. Treasury market
came close to a meltdown in March, revealing a rickety system that threatens
“national economic security,” a Stanford professor says ---
Click Here
Say What? 23.6% of All US
Dollars Were Created in the Last Year ---
https://www.thestreet.com/mishtalk/economics/23-6-of-all-us-dollars-were-created-in-the-last-year
Jensen Comment
Don't believe the economists that say simply printing money for government
spending above what is taxed and borrowed is not inflationary!
Ivy League librarians demand
a world without police and prisons ---
https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16256
Would they dare step outside their libraries?
FBI: 2019 Crime
Statistics ---
https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-2019
Chattanooga library suspends protest leader C-Grimey to investigate burning
of conservative books ---
https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/local/story/2020/dec/04/book-burning/537313/
McGill University Students
Want Prof Stripped of Emeritus Status for Criticizing Social Justice, BLM, Etc.
---
https://legalinsurrection.com/2020/12/mcgill-university-students-want-prof-stripped-of-emeritus-status-for-criticizing-social-justice-blm-etc/
Freedom of speech is just too dangerous for college campuses.
https://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2020/12/online-mba-ranking-scandal-costs-temple-17-million-after-ranking-1-in-2015-2018-with-false-data-busi.html
Students push for removal of
student government member over conservative beliefs ---
https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16261
Next endangered species --- conservative faculty
Bob Jensen's threads on political correctness of USA universities ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/HigherEdControversies2.htm#PoliticalCorrectness
How Prestige Journals Remain
Elite, Exclusive And Exclusionary ---
https://www.forbes.com/sites/madhukarpai/2020/11/30/how-prestige-journals-remain-elite-exclusive-and-exclusionary/?sh=5ce6f8754d48
The IRS ‘Roboaudit’—An Abuse
of Authority ---
https://www.cpajournal.com/2020/12/24/icymi-the-irs-roboaudit-an-abuse-of-authority/
Big Time Islamic Drug
Dealers ---
https://legalinsurrection.com/2020/12/iran-backed-hezbollah-and-syria-likely-behind-billion-dollar-drugs-bust-italian-police-say/
In the meantime the Taliban made billions on drug dealing
Pretty Soon There’ll Be Just
One Big Book Publisher Left ---
Pretty Soon There’ll Be Just One Big Book Publisher Left | The
New Republic
And almost certainly one big seller..
France: Nicolas
Sarkozy graft trial: prosecutors call for four-year sentence ---
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/08/nicolas-sarkozy-graft-trial-prosecutors-call-for-four-year-sentence
Tesla is getting more
aggressive in revoking paid software features on used cars, raising the stakes
in a battle over what used Teslas can do that has raged for years ---
https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3mb3w/people-are-jailbreaking-used-teslas-to-get-the-features-they-expect
The NY Times: Meryl
Streep Isn’t on Our List of Greatest Actors. Here’s Why ---
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/insider/best-actors-list.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=Reader
Center
Book Reviews
When a Reviewer
Misleads and Lies: Reaganland ---
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/sep/8/book-review-reaganland/
When an Author MisleadsThe
Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People’s Economy
---
https://s18798.pcdn.co/albertobisin/wp-content/uploads/sites/16384/2020/10/KeltonByBisin.pdf
The Nesting Dolls, by Alina
Adams – A Meaningful Dramatization Of Life Under Socialism ---
https://legalinsurrection.com/2020/12/book-review-the-nesting-dolls-by-alina-adams-a-meaningful-dramatization-of-life-under-socialism/
The four thinkers who
(allegedly) reinvented philosophy ---
https://www.newstatesman.com/time-magicians-invention-modern-thought-wolfram-eilenberger-review
Tyler Cowen: The Very
Very Best Books of 2020 ---
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/12/the-very-very-best-books-of-2020.html
Maria Popova's Favorites for
2020 ---
https://www.brainpickings.org/2020/12/19/favorite-books-2020/?mc_cid=c420f18864&mc_eid=4d2bd13843
Barnes & Noble Book of the Year
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse ---
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-boy-the-mole-the-fox-and-the-horse-charlie-mackesy/1132291821?ean=9780063018433#/
Finalists ---
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/b/book-of-the-year/_/N-2tny
Math, what is it good for?
Absolutely everything, it turns out ---
https://flipboard.com/article/math-what-is-it-good-for-absolutely-everything-it-turns-out/a-Ki8bP00GSnipCKh1PPhZtw%3Aa%3A53023144-08f2a333d5%2Ftheglobeandmail.com
Also see
https://www.amazon.com/All-Things-Being-Equal-Better/dp/0735272891
The Guardian: Best
Fiction of 2020 ---
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/nov/28/best-fiction-of-2020
Harvard students told a
lurid tale of murder. Was it true? ---
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/harvard-students-told-a-lurid-tale-of-murder-was-it-true/2020/12/11/9ab7c5b4-2698-11eb-a688-5298ad5d580a_story.html
Kraft ---
http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/suisse/luscherj.htm
Poetry: Pushing
against the Corset ---
https://www.drb.ie/essays/pushing-against-the-corset
The Guardian: The best
recent crime and thrillers – review roundup ---
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/nov/20/the-best-recent-and-thrillers-review-roundup
An exhilarating life of
Mozart ---
https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2020/11/28/an-exhilarating-life-of-mozart
Beethoven’s triumphant
career was a struggle against adversity --- |
https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2020/11/21/beethovens-triumphant-career-was-a-struggle-against-adversity
Thoughtful Humanist Books
for Young Children ---
https://thehumanist.com/arts_entertainment/books/thoughtful-humanist-books-for-young-children
Masters of None? The
Polymath: A Cultural History from Leonardo da Vinci to Susan Sontag ---
https://literaryreview.co.uk/masters-of-none
Chernobyl: A Stalkers’ Guide
---
https://www.amazon.com/Chernobyl-Stalkers-Guide-Darmon-Richter/dp/1916218423/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=darmon+richter&qid=1607375587&sr=8-1/marginalrevol-20
The Hispanic Republican ---
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/aug/11/book-review-the-hispanic-republican/
Not a wonderful world: why
Louis Armstrong was hated by so many ---
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/dec/17/not-a-wonderful-world-louis-armstrong-was-hated-by-so-many
Russian Roulette: The Life
and Times of Graham Greene review – addicted to danger ---
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/nov/28/russian-roulette-the-life-and-times-of-graham-greene-review-addicted-to-danger
This a review of an author rather than a book review by a reviewer who says
previous biographers "disparages his subject’s previous biographers,
Norman
Sherry and Michael Sheldon: reviewers found their approach “prurient and
trivial”, he says, and much new material has since come to light."
A Year of Reading by various
readers ---
https://themillions.com/
Vox: The Year in Things ---
https://www.vox.com/the-goods/22179406/2020-in-objects-covid-new-years-toilet-paper-peloton-masks-nintendo-switch-mail-masks
Daniel Jacobson on Freedom of Speech at Universities in the Age of Cancel
Culture ---
https://connections.cu.edu/spotlights/five-questions-daniel-jacobson
Massachusetts School Allegedly Bans ‘The Odyssey’ by Homer ---
https://legalinsurrection.com/2020/12/massachusetts-school-allegedly-bans-the-odyssey-by-homer/
Some classics are just not politically correct
Microsoft's PowerToys Utility: How to Quickly Resize Multiple Images on
Windows 10 ---
https://www.howtogeek.com/704597/how-to-quickly-resize-multiple-images-on-windows-10/
Jensen Comment
I downloaded this and found you can do a lot more than resize images.
The Biggest Obstacles Faced by New Programmers ---
https://readwrite.com/2020/12/24/the-biggest-obstacles-faced-by-new-programmers/
Top energy CEOs and investors share their best predictions for 2021,
including a hydrogen boom, the rise of commercial EVs, and more layoffs in oil
---
https://www.businessinsider.com/energy-experts-dish-on-what-to-expect-in-2021-2020-12?nr_email_referer=1&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Business_Insider_select&pt=385758&ct=Sailthru_BI_Newsletters&mt=8&utm_campaign=Insider%20Select%202020-12-29&utm_term=INSIDER%20SELECT%20-%20ENGAGED%2C%20ACTIVE%2C%20PASSIVE%2C%20DISENGAGED%2C%20NEW
- The coronavirus pandemic sent shockwaves through the energy industry, making 2020 one of the most tumultuous years on record.
- What's in store for 2021? We put that question to 24 energy investors, CEOs, and analysts.
- Demand for oil could almost fully recover, but producers won't stop hurting anytime soon, they said.
- 2021 will be the year of hydrogen, and the year of commercial electric vehicles, some investors predicted.
Ah, 2020 — the year that wore out the word unprecedented.
The price of US oil went negative for the first time ever. Exxon, once the world's largest company, was kicked off the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
Meanwhile, wind and solar became the cheapest sources of electricity in most parts of the world. And Tesla's market value breached $600 billion, greater than the combined market value of the other nine largest car companies.
As coronavirus vaccines race across the country, hope is now seeping into the oil industry, where profits are tethered to fuel demand. Crude prices are notching up as a result.
Clean-energy execs are feeling good, too, as a climate-friendly administration prepares to take office. Gina McCarthy, who led the Environmental Protection Agency under former president Barack Obama, will lead domestic climate policy, while former Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm is set to run the Department of Energy and pioneer a transition to electric cars, if confirmed by the Senate.
Needless to say, 2021 is already shaping up to be a very different year. So, what can you expect?
We put that question to 24 energy investors, CEOs, and analysts. Here are their top predictions.
Layoffs, budget cuts, and bankruptcies this year among oil and gas companies were largely the result of a severe drop in demand for oil, which drove down the price of crude beginning around March.
Now the question has become, "When will demand recover, and when will it peak?"
Some respected analysts and companies, including BP, say the answer is possibly never — demand for oil may have peaked last year.
Others don't agree with that view. Daniel Yergin, vice chairman of the consulting firm IHS Markit, tells us he expects demand to recover in late 2021 or in 2022, assuming there's a strong economic rebound. He also sees some shale production ramping up before the end of next year.
Meanwhile, Vikas Dwivedi, a strategist at Macquarie Group, says demand will return in late 2022 at the earliest, but more likely in 2023. (The International Energy Agency, a respected forecaster, said that global oil demand will not recover in 2021.)
Dwivedi also points out some "positive surprises" that he says have boosted oil markets, and may continue to support them in the new year, including a strong auto and real estate market, deurbanization, and demand for petrochemicals.
As far as prices are concerned, Martijn Rats, an oil analyst at Morgan Stanley, "sees a path to" $55 per barrel of Brent in the second half of next year, according to a note the bank published in early December. Goldman Sachs also sees Brent hitting $55 next year. That's about $4 up from where prices stand today.
American shale companies will be leaner and less focused on growth.
American shale companies weren't thriving heading into the pandemic. As Morgan Stanley analysts noted, they "lost money for much of the last decade."
In that time, they pumped millions of barrels of oil out of the ground, flooding the market with crude that ultimately ended up driving down prices and undermining their own endeavors.
This year, after oil markets collapsed, companies involved in oil exploration and production were forced to adopt a more disciplined approach to spending money, the analysts said. Heading into 2021, they're focused less on growth and more on generating returns to shareholders, they added.
That's also lowered the price-per-barrel that shale firms need to turn a profit, experts say.
"Shale producers need to establish a new social contract with investors that it's not growth at any cost, it's growth at what cost," said Yergin, author of the book, The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations. "You have to give money back to investors, and I'm starting to see that."
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Eyeing low rates and financial pressure tied to Covid-19, higher-education
institutions are issuing a record amount of debt this year ---
https://www.wsj.com/articles/bond-boom-comes-to-americas-colleges-and-universities-11608978781?mod=djm_dailydiscvrtst
Jensen Comment
Contrary to what liberal economists are preaching, there will be inflation if
government spends trillions without taxing or borrowing for things like
universal health care, free college, minimum basic income, reparations, etc.
Inflation means that colleges can pay off dear dollar debt with cheap dollars.
However, the benefits depend heavily on how the borrowed dollars spent.
How to Mislead With Statistics
Paradoxes of Probability & Statistical Strangeness
https://scitechdaily.com/paradoxes-of-probability-statistical-strangeness/?fbclid=IwAR3JlsjucUeAQg8LeYTFvSoGJcFWpovSvr3gnB4CM99Ekihr-_FTuXlTQOo
Thank you Jagdish Gangolly for the heads up
Simpson's Paradox
Base Rate Fallacy
Will Rogers Paradox
Berkson's Paradox
Multiple Comparisons Fallacy
Amtrak Managerial Accounting Challenge for Students: How to
hypothetically explain this to taxpayers?
https://danfromsquirrelhill.wordpress.com/2020/12/26/amtrack/
Amtrack, the government run passenger rail system, purchases soda for $3.40 per serving, and then resells it to customers for $2.00. Meanwhile, McDonald’s purchases soda for 9 cents per serving, and then resells it to customers for $1.29.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted 10-1 Tuesday to ban smoking
tobacco in apartments (and college dorms), but made an exception for cannabis
---
CNN International on Twitter: "The San Francisco Board of
Supervisors voted 10-1 Tuesday to ban smoking tobacco in apartments, but made an
exception for cannabis https://t.co/lG19QGAEIy" / Twitter
Is smoking cannabis less of a hazard in terms of fire danger and lung disease
caused by first and second hand smoke?
The Rise and Fall of an American Dream
The Donut King who went full circle - from rags to riches, twice ---
https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-54546427?mod=djemCFO
Paychecks of Washington DC Power Players ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-much-trump-fauci-aoc-pelosi-mcconnell-schumer-earn-make-2020-12?nr_email_referer=1&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Business_Insider_select&pt=385758&ct=Sailthru_BI_Newsletters&mt=8&utm_campaign=Insider%20Select%202020-12-26&utm_term=INSIDER%20SELECT%20-%20ENGAGED%2C%20ACTIVE%2C%20PASSIVE%2C%20DISENGAGED%2C%20NEW
Anthony Fauci's $434,312 paycheck
President Trump $400,000 plus a lot of very special benefits including Air Force One
Pence earned $253,300 in 2020
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, and President Pro Tempore Chuck Grassley earn $193,400 per year
House speaker Pelosi makes $223,500 plus special benefits like a jet plane (she got a larger plane after complaining about the size of her first plane)
Most House and Senate lawmakers take home $174,000 in pay each year plus generous expense accounts
Justice Amy Coney Barrett will earn a salary of $265,600 per year as the newest member of the Supreme CourtContinued in article
Jensen Comment
For many top government leaders, think AOC, the salaries are a pittance compared
to what they make on the outside from investments, lobbyists, book royalties,
speeches, etc.
The Bank Underground Christmas Quiz ---
https://bankunderground.co.uk/2020/12/18/the-bank-underground-christmas-quiz-5/
The IRS ‘Roboaudit’—An Abuse of Authority ---
https://www.cpajournal.com/2020/12/24/icymi-the-irs-roboaudit-an-abuse-of-authority/
Chinese Stocks Have Banner Year, Gaining Nearly $5 Trillion ---
https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinese-stocks-have-banner-year-gaining-nearly-5-trillion-11608892204?mod=djm_dailydiscvrtst
How to Look Better on Zoom
(and Other Video-Calling Apps) ---
https://www.howtogeek.com/673264/how-to-look-better-on-zoom-and-other-video-calling-apps/
Bob Jensen's threads on Tricks
of the Trade ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm
Bears Love Ice Cream
Among my many online pictures are several photographs I took of a young bear tearing down our hummingbird feeder. In these mountains the shy black bears are really not dangerous; But they can be a nuisance. Erika and I retired in a cottage on the eastern outskirts of the small village called Sugar Hill, New Hampshire. Downtown Sugar Hill has three municipal buildings, a tiny post office that's open two mornings each week, and a historic store called Harmon's Cheese Country Store. The store is owned by Maxine (mother) and Brenda (daughter). Brenda operates the store and a ton of charity activities for this part of the world. She lives above the store, but many nights she sleeps over in her elderly mother's house on the west side of Sugar Hill
The following is a paragraph from Page 2 of Maxine's 2020 XMAS Letter:
Wildlife: The wildlife actually liked this crazy, covid year; with less traffic you saw more wildlife all day long. We had various birds, turkeys, hummingbirds, hawks, porcupines, coyotes, deer, and bear. A bit too much wildlife for Brenda. Our local bears raided the bird feeders and hummingbird feeders during the day, so I had to stop feeding the birds. With no bird feeders to raid, a bear discovered ice cream at our country store. He destroyed the locked ice cream freezer on the store's front porch. The next night he returned and broke into a 2nd story window to enter the store. He tried a few things but discarded them until he found the ice cream; he licked each wrapper so clean you would have thought it hadn't been used. After ice cream he poked a claw into a maple syrup jar, making a sticky mess all over the store before he left. On the 3rd day, he watched as Fish & Game set up a trap which Brenda made sure had ice cream in it. Later in the evening while Brenda was still at the store, he walked right into the trap for his ice cream fix.
Erika and I had a yard sale years ago, and a moose was disappointed that she could not find a single item of clothing that fit.
METRICS TOOLKIT ---
www.metrics-toolkit.org
For example, what are some limitations of article citation metrics?
Toyota's game-changing
solid-state battery en route for 2021 debut ---
https://asia.nikkei.com/content/4c8b11d1c65d83d23ba9aeb11030a947
A trip of 500 km on one charge. A recharge from zero to full in 10 minutes. All with minimal safety concerns. The solid-state battery being introduced by Toyota promises to be a game changer not just for electric vehicles but for an entire industry.
The technology is a potential cure-all for the drawbacks facing electric vehicles that run on conventional lithium-ion batteries, including the relatively short distance traveled on a single charge as well as charging times. Toyota plans to be the first company to sell an electric vehicle equipped with a solid-state battery in the early 2020s. The world's largest automaker will unveil a prototype next year.
The electric vehicles being developed by Toyota will have a range more than twice the distance of a vehicle running on a conventional lithium-ion battery under the same conditions. All accomplished without sacrificing interior space in even the most compact vehicle.
Solid-state batteries are expected to become a viable alternative to lithium-ion batteries that use aqueous electrolyte solutions. The innovation would lower the risk of fires, and multiply energy density, which measures the energy a battery can deliver compared to its weight.
It would take roughly 10 minutes to charge an electric vehicle equipped with a solid-state battery, cutting the recharging time by two-thirds. The battery can extend the driving distance of a compact electric vehicle while maintaining legroom.
Toyota stands at the top of the global heap with over 1,000 patents involving solid-state batteries. Nissan Motor plans to develop its own solid-state battery which will power a non-simulation vehicle by 2028.
The shift toward the new battery technology will also have an effect on companies further down the supply chain.
Japanese auto materials makers are rushing to set up the necessary infrastructure to supply automakers. Mitsui Mining and Smelting, commonly known as Mitsui Kinzoku, will start up a pilot facility that will make solid electrolytes for the batteries.
The production site, located at a research and development center in Saitama Prefecture, will be able to produce dozens of tons of solid electrolyte annually staring next year, enough to fulfill orders for prototypes.
Oil company Idemitsu Kosan is installing solid electrolyte production equipment at its Chiba Prefecture site with the aim of beginning operation next year. Manufacturing solid electrolytes requires solidifying sulfides, which is a specialty of the metal and chemical industry. Sumitomo Chemical is developing material as well.
Japanese manufacturers like Sony and Panasonic have been pioneers in commercializing battery cells for vehicles. But since the late 2000s, Chinese rivals have emerged to prominence. Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Limited, also known as CATL, is now the world's largest supplier of lithium ion batteries. Japan's Asahi Kasei, once the global leader in battery separator material, gave up the crown last year to Shanghai Energy.
Electric vehicles are anticipated to become commonplace amid the global shift away from carbon. The Japanese government has been encouraging the domestic development of solid-state batteries, under the outlook that most of the technology relating to automotive performance will depend on China if the status quo holds.
The government is putting together a fund of about 2 trillion yen ($19.2 billion) that will support decarbonization technology. Policymakers will consider using those funds to provide subsidies of hundreds of billions of yen that will fund the development of the new batteries.
The goal is to support the development of a mass-production infrastructure within Japan. Because solid-state batteries use lithium, an element with limited global reserves, the government will assist in procuring the material.
The rest of the world is following suit. Germany's Volkswagen plans to have production running for solid-state batteries as soon as 2025 via a joint-venture with a U.S. startup.
Chinese tech group QingTao (Kunshan) Energy Development will spend over 1 billion yuan ($153 million) into R&D of solid-state batteries, among other areas. The investment will last for three years starting in 2021.
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Jensen Comment
The unanswered question is the change in EV cost for this new technology. The
unanswered worry is the cost and availability of lithium for hundreds of
millions of cars. My bet is still riding on hydrogen for hundreds of millions of
vehicles.
Stocking Stuffers ---
https://topcrate.com/home/?s=display&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIqcv47vW87QIVXazACh0QMQztEAEYASAAEgI6rfD_BwE
Amidst pandemic hunger
potato farmers in Idaho and Montana are destroying millions of potatoes due glut
in the supply chain ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/potato-farmers-destroy-potatoes-covid19-even-in-a-food-shortage-2020-6
Under the Biden-Harris plan,
community college will be free — and public colleges and universities will be
tuition-free for families earning less than $125,000 a year ---
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/biden-pledges-tuition-free-community-college-for-all-public-colleges-for-working-class
Jensen Comment
A lot of details need to be worked out such as funding of room, board, books,
and transportation. Then there's the issue of capacity, especially in flagship
colleges that will be the most popular for high school graduates.
But most importantly, the issue is how to fund this massive program. We should commence to grease the money printing presses since it's literally impossible to fund this free college program with government borrowing or taxation after funding other initiatives such as universal health care, bailout of states and cities, road maintenance/improvements, universal basic income, etc.
What Biden and Harris don't tell you is that new taxes on business are passed on to customers. Business firms don't pay taxes. Their customers bear increased business taxes with increased prices among the businesses that can survive the higher taxation.
In some nations (think Germany,
Norway, and Denmark) college tuition is free. However, only the top third of
high school graduates are allowed to go to college or trade schools funded by
taxpayers. The majority of students rely on the capitalist private sector to
train them on-the-job for job skills ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/HigherEdControversies.htm#Tertiary
List of countries by tertiary education attainment ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tertiary_education_attainment
I doubt that Biden and Harris are considering limiting free college and trade schools to only the top high school graduates. They envision a trillion dollar program not limited to top high school graduates.
Chronicle of Higher Education: Free Public Higher Education is a Horrible
Idea ---
https://www.chronicle.com/article/Free-Public-College-Is-a/247134?utm_source=cr&utm_medium=en&cid=cr&source=ams&sourceId=296279
Now that the race for the Democratic nomination for president is becoming more serious, it is time to take an equally serious look at the proposal for tuition-free public college that has been explicitly endorsed by candidates including Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Julián Castro and that is likely to feature prominently in the upcoming debates.
Let’s pretend, for the sake of argument, that the proposal is not both unaffordable and unenforceable without an unprecedented level of state cooperation and expenditure. Let’s pretend as well that it is more than bumper-sticker material and actually the product of careful thought. Let’s pretend that it actually could become the law of the land.
It would be a terrible law.
There are many problems with higher education in the United States, but the greatest and most destructive is the significant inequality of access to education on the basis of race and economic status, which are often though not always intertwined. The goal of any good public policy should be to use finite public funds to reduce this inequality.
While eliminating tuition at all public colleges and universities, from the smallest community college to flagships like the University of Virginia and the University of Michigan, would indeed benefit many lower-income students, it would also, and probably to a greater extent, be a boon to students from the upper-middle and upper classes.
Moreover, the policy would not alleviate and would probably worsen the most striking inefficiency in our system of public education: the abysmally low rates of graduation.
In short, tuition-free college would be a hugely inefficient use of public resources and might actually make inequality of access worse.
The median family income at Virginia is $155,500, and 67 percent of students come from the upper economic quintile. At Michigan the numbers are $154,000 and 66 percent, and at the University of Minnesota — economically diverse by comparison — $110,000 and 50 percent. By contrast, the median family income at Minnesota’s private colleges is $83,000, or slightly below the state median.
Unsurprisingly, a recent study shows that affluent students disproportionately benefit from scholarships and grants offered at these flagship public institutions. Over time these universities have become more selective, more dependent on tuition revenue as state funding has been reduced, and thus less accessible to many of the lower-income students they were ostensibly intended to serve. They behave very much like elite private colleges and universities.
Here is almost certainly what would happen if these public universities were to become tuition-free: The absence of tuition would sharply increase the number of applications they received and would make them even more selective than they are now. Already Virginia and Michigan accept fewer than 30 percent of their applicants.
Unless those elite universities completely changed their admissions practices, an increase in selectivity would benefit primarily the high-achieving students who attend private and well-funded suburban high schools. Nothing in the "free tuition" plans addresses the capacity of these universities to enroll more students, so the applicants most likely to be squeezed out would be those from precisely the economic backgrounds that the plans are intended to help.
Nor does anything in these plans address the quality and efficiency of education provided at public institutions, so the graduation rates at the less selective, woefully underfunded institutions would remain low or get lower. The current six-year graduation rate at four-year Minnesota state universities is 49 percent. Among students of color it is 44 percent. More than half of the students who would attend such a college free would not receive a degree from that college.
Absent the ability to charge tuition, and given the likelihood that federal and state subsidies would be unable to keep pace with rising costs, the most likely outcome is that these already low graduation rates would decline over time. Absent any plan to address racial inequality, the achievement gap between white students and students of color would persist. There is no simple way to deal with the problem of inequality of access to education in the United States, given the deep and complex roots of that problem in everything from racism to fiscal policies that have come increasingly to favor the wealthy. But any policy change should focus on ensuring that the greatest benefit accrues to those who are most in need, that is, those from the lower income levels.
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Bob Jensen's threads on how free college in parts of Europe is only available to
the elite Top 1/3 of Tier 2 (high school) graduates. No nation in the world
offers free college to everybody ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/HigherEdControversies.htm#Tertiary
Trendline Quiz: For a
given phenomenon (like number of workers per Social Security retiree) you draw a
trend line and then compare your answer with the actual trend line ---
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/12/the-hardest-storyline.html
Compare your answer both in terms of trend and closeness of the dots.
A similar quiz could be developed for accounting students such as comparing cash
flow trends of a company with accrual earnings and working capital ratios.
For example, note the well-known
WT Grant
Case. In 1980 Largay and Stickney (Financial Analysts Journal)
published a great comparison of WT Grant's operating working capital with
accrual earnings and cash flows. I used this study for years in some of my
accounting courses. It's a classic for giving students an appreciation of when
cash flow statements can be more predictive than accrual earnings or working
capital trends when inventories and accounts receivable are badly managed.! This
large chain of department stores went bankrupt and died in 1976.
How to Mislead Without Statistics
With Centuries-Old Techniques, This Farm Is Preparing for the Future No
modern methods or machinery required — just crops cultivated by hand in
incredible, climate-proof quantities ---
https://reasonstobecheerful.world/permaculture-bec-hellouin-farm-france/
. . .
There is no tractor or plow in this place of constant growth. The farmers do not use fossil fuels, nor artificial fertilizers and pesticides. The manual work saves costs and reduces their carbon footprint. But there is also another reason. A tractor designed for modern farming could not plant more than three rows of carrots on the barely one-meter-wide strips utilized by this farm. At Bec Hellouin, four times that density of crops is grown in that amount of soil. “We cultivate radishes, carrots, lettuce and cabbage in 12 rows on this space,” says Charles.
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Jensen Comment
Much can be said for the above ventures into farming on land not amenable to
mechanized large-scale food production. But we should not extrapolate this
article to world production of grains (corn, soybean, and wheat)
production from giant farms in the USA's Midwest or the mechanized vegetable
production in California where my son is connected by marriage to a 5,000 acres
of rice and tomato farm using enormous Caterpillar tractors, giant combines,
etc. Yes you can now plant and harvest rice and tomatoes with robotic tractors,
combines, and trucks. The produce is untouched by human hands. The trucks taking
harvests to processing mills could even be driverless if the laws permitted such
deliveries without drivers.
The modern world with over seven billion hungry people cannot and will not return to farming without machines --- big and better machines. What the above article fails to compare is the productivity of our present mechanized farms with productivity of what they would become today if we banned the machinery and chemicals of farming. We can now longer feed the world with hunting, gathering, and non-mechanized organic farms and food factories.
I'm reminded of the following remarks of Milton Friedman about the lesson of
spoons.
Milton Friedman: The Lesson of the
Spoons ---
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/08/spoons-are-in-aisle-9.html
Chopsticks would be even better than spoons in providing more and more workers
with tools to move the earth.
FiveThirtyEight: The 40 Weirdest and Best Charts We Made in 2020
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-40-weirdest-and-best-charts-we-made-in-2020/
Google is facing multiple lawsuits from the Department of Justice and three
dozen states. Here’s what you need to know ---
https://www.wired.com/story/google-antitrust-lawsuits-explainer/
WILLIAMS COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART: COLLECTION EXPLORER
http://wcma-explorer.williams.edu/
A Quick Bit of Math: Is one set of students (say graduates of
Williams College) worth 15 times more than the other (say graduates of
community colleges)? ---
A Quick Bit of Math | Confessions of a Community College Dean
(insidehighered.com)
A few days ago, in the midst of trying to perform some budgetary alchemy, I found myself wondering about the budget at my alma mater. I know it’s a different sector of higher ed, but students are students. How much, I wondered, is the disparity?
Naturally, I turned to the interwebs.
A quick search turned up this page from the provost’s office of Williams College. It covers 2018-19, but I think that’s close enough to get the general idea. It opens by noting that “Last year, we invested $115,000 in each of our students.” The total was $238 million for slightly over 2,000 students. Lest we think that excessive, though, it goes on to note that the nonlabor part of the budget remains lower than it was 10 years ago. It’s 24 percent of the budget, which comes out to roughly $27,600 per student.
Brookdale’s budget for the year is about $81 million. It currently has 10,438 students. That comes out to just over $7,760 per student. Put differently, the amount spent on one Williams student equals the amount spent on 14.8 Brookdale students.
Hmm.
That seems a bit much. Having met students from both, I don’t think a Williams student is worth nearly 15 Brookdale students.
To be fair, the Williams figure includes dorms, which we don’t have. If we assume that dorms and related costs are, say, 30 percent of the total -- a guess, but roll with it -- then the amount spent on directly comparable things is $80,500 per student, as opposed to our $7,760. That’s still over 10 to one.
The provost makes the point that at an annual tuition of $70,000, Williams charges about $45,000 less than the cost of production, even for full-pay students. We also charge less than the cost of production. Tuition and fees add up to slightly over half of our operating budget. Both institutions are nonprofit. At that level, some comparison seems fair.
This isn’t about Williams specifically. As a grad myself, if I wanted to beat up on a small New England liberal arts college, I’d beat up on Amherst. (It’s what we do.) And at least Williams had the decency to reduce tuition when it went to remote instruction, unlike some places (cough UVA cough).
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Jensen Comment
Firstly, it should be noted that we should be talking averages here and not
exceptions such as a comparison of the best community college graduate with the
worst graduates of Ivy League colleges.
Secondly, it should be noted that Williams College provides more than most any community college (ignoring the difference between four years of undergraduate schooling versus two years). Much of the extra value of a Williams diploma rides on the prestige it brings when students apply for graduate/professional schools or seek employment. This prestige arises from various interacting factors such as admission standards amongst competitive applicants to Williams College, small classes even in core first-year courses, an outstanding faculty in all disciplines, and all the things Williams provides for students outside of classroom learning (such as dorm living, speakers and artistic performers invited to campus, and great interactions with other students outside the classroom, including participation in athletic teams).
Thirdly, Williams, like other prestigious colleges, has a great network of alumni that can assist graduates in many ways, including mentoring, internships, and the job market. These become even more important among professional schools. For example the Tuck MBA Program at Dartmouth College prides itself in having very close alumni relations that connects recent graduates with successful Tuck alumni in business and government.
We should not claim that a Williams College graduate is "worth more" than a community college graduate, because value of any graduate is determined by many variables other than collegiate experience. But we should note that a Williams College student is probably afforded more living and learning opportunities that most community college students.
How the US government hack happened, and what it means, explained by an
expert ---
https://www.vox.com/22187866/usa-cyber-hack-solar-winds-microsof
Feds Bust Massive Drug Ring at Duke, UNC-Chapel Hill, and Appalachian State
---
https://legalinsurrection.com/2020/12/feds-bust-massive-drug-ring-at-duke-university-unc-chapel-hill-and-appalachian-state/
Hearing Aid Regulations: Can You Hear Me Now? No ---
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/12/can-you-hear-me-now-no.html
Harvard Business Review: U.S. Financial Reporting Is Stuck in the 20th
Century ---
https://hbr.org/2020/12/u-s-financial-reporting-is-stuck-in-the-20th-century?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter_monthly&utm_campaign=finance_not_activesubs&deliveryName=DM111568
. . .
Value investors rely on multiple, often complicated, methods to make trading decisions. One way relies on income statement (profits) and balance sheets (assets) to identify cheap or expensive stocks. For example, a stock with low stock prices but large assets and profits could be a good stock to buy. This has been the fundamental tenet of value investing. However, as our previous HBR article and Professor Baruch Lev’s 2016 book The End of Accounting describe, balance sheet and income statement are becoming largely useless for this kind of decision making.
Continued in article
Jensen Comment
One thing about the Harvard Business Review is that often it's
prestigious name contains articles with enticing titles and little substance in
the articles. The above article is a great example of having a misleading title
and little substance in the article.
From the title one would think that the article is going to tell you something substantive about moving financial reporting to the 21st Century. I find nothing in the article about how we should move financial reporting to the 21st Century. For example, the article suggests creating "recreated values," but does not explain how to create these values operationally or how "recreated values" could be part of the FASB standards for auditors and their clients.
The authors state that Lev's writings describe how useless the balance sheet and the income statement are becoming. I disagree! There is empirical evidence over the past two decades that shows that this is not the case, and that traditional accounting numbers have information value for investment decisions. Furthermore, Lev's proposals for recreated values are totally useless, because they are highly subjective vaporware numbers that, to my knowledge, have never produced recreated values that decision makers found useful. If there are such illustrations of the operational value of Lev's proposals why didn't the authors of this HBR article cite them as useful illustrations.
My criticisms of Lev's The End of Accounting book are at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm#LimitsOfBigData
As an illustration of the usefulness of FASB standards for financial decision
making, consider the FASB requirement that hedge accounting only be allowed to
the extent hedges are effective. Many similar findings for the usefulness of
FASB and IFRS standards can be found in the academic literature.
Does Mandatory Retrospective Hedge Effectiveness Assessment under ASC 815
Provide Risk-Relevant Information? ---
Accounting Horizons (2020) 34 (3): 61–85
https://meridian.allenpress.com/accounting-horizons/article-abstract/34/3/61/432377/Does-Mandatory-Retrospective-Hedge-Effectiveness
Current accounting standards permit special accounting treatment of derivatives used for hedging purposes. However, the requirement to perform periodic, retrospective assessments of hedge effectiveness and to disclose a quantitative accounting measure of hedge ineffectiveness (AMHI) for such derivatives has been controversial. In response to concerns over the compliance costs of this requirement, the FASB removed this requirement in the recently effective ASU 2017-12. However, this change was made with little empirical evidence on the benefits of retrospective effectiveness assessment and quantitative disclosure of AMHI. We document one potential benefit of this requirement to investors by providing initial evidence that (1) AMHI is positively associated with an array of concurrent market- and accounting-based risk measures and (2) investors react negatively to large AMHIs and related disclosures upon 10-K filings. Our findings suggest that this requirement can provide investors with risk-relevant information and shed light on its potential usefulness.
Bob Jensen's free tutorials on accounting for derivative financial
instruments and hedging activities ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/caseans/000index.htm
Jensen Comment
Of course there's a continuing need to improve financial reporting standards for
the 21st Century. Sadly, the above HBR article entitled "U.S. Financial
Reporting Is Stuck in the 20th Century" does virtually nothing to improve
financial reporting standards other than to promote vaporware accountancy.
From the Chronicle of Higher Education
The essayist (former long-time journal editor for Phi Beta Kappa Society) who
mocked Jill Biden’s degree, and was widely derided in return, has been lobbing
grenades at colleges for decades ---
https://www.chronicle.com/article/joseph-epstein-is-not-a-fan-of-the-modern-university?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=campaign_1834765_nl_Chronicle-Review_date_20201221&cid=cr&source=ams&sourceId=296279&cid2=gen_login_refresh
You may have heard that Joseph Epstein wrote a column in The Wall Street Journal arguing that Jill Biden, soon to be the first lady of the United States, shouldn’t call herself “Dr.” even though she has earned a terminal degree in education and has every right to employ that honorific. You may have also heard that his column was not generally well-received, inspiring rebukes from the likes of Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama, and his former employer, Northwestern University (which said it “strongly disagrees with Mr. Epstein’s misogynistic views”). But were you aware that Joseph Epstein has other opinions about, for example, how college presidents these days are ridiculous figureheads who lack the gravitas of their predecessors, or why the real problem with the current crop of undergraduates is that their parents hugged them too much?
Well, he does. And he shares these pungent critiques, and many more like them, in his recent book, Gallimaufry: A Collection of Essays, Reviews, Bits. It should be noted that although Epstein is enjoying — or maybe enduring — an unexpected cameo in the national news cycle, it’s not as if he just burst onto the hot-take scene. His publisher, Axios Press, calls him “the greatest living essayist writing in English,” a superlative that rules out a host of worthy contenders, though what’s unquestionably true is that he is among the language’s most prolific. Gallimaufry contains 528 pages’ worth of his musings. His 2018 collection, The Ideal of Culture, is a mere 572 pages. And there is no shortage of other volumes with droll titles for the Epstein completist: With My Trousers Rolled, Once More Around the Block, Narcissus Leaves the Pool, The Middle of My Tether.
For more than two decades, Epstein was the editor of The American Scholar, the magazine of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. His stewardship there was not without controversy. He wrote the following assessment of feminist scholars in 1991: “The feminists roll on, perpetually angry, making perfectly comprehensible the joke about the couple in their West Side Manhattan apartment who, having been twice robbed, determine to protect themselves, he wanting to get a revolver, she a pit bull, and so they agree to compromise and instead get a feminist.” That, along with an eyebrow-raising line about “dykes on bikes” directed at the feminist scholar Catharine R. Stimpson, prompted Joyce Carol Oates, the novelist, to write that it was an “embarrassment” that Epstein served as editor and that his “resignation is long overdue.”
Overdue or not, he didn’t resign, although five years later he was fired. In his new collection, he blames his ouster on that vague catch-all, political correctness. “As for the reason for my being fired,” he writes, “it had nothing to do with politics, since I made it a point to clear the journal’s pages of all contemporary political content, but to do with my not running any articles in the journal on the subjects of feminism or African-American studies.” That wasn’t because he was necessarily against running such articles, he contends, but because he “wasn’t interested in the clichés on the subject and hoped for work that went beyond standard victimology.” At the time, The Chronicle quoted one professor as calling Epstein a victim of the culture wars (there was one then too) and another as saying he “has been driving people crazy for years.” Take your pick.
Epstein, who is 83, was bemoaning changes in college life, and in the rest of society, long before many of those skewering him on Twitter — or their parents, probably — were born. In his essay “Immaturity on Campus,” he shakes his head ruefully at the fact that, when he began teaching, in 1973, jackets and ties were no longer de rigueur for male professors, and not all female professors wore skirts. Epstein believes that the classroom power dynamic has shifted too far in favor of students, and he traces that trend to asking them to evaluate their professors. “Who ever said that students were in a position properly to judge the true quality of teaching?” he writes. He cites a fellow professor’s decision to bring doughnuts to an early-morning class as a pathetic example of “sucking up,” and hopes the “doughnuts received a strong evaluation.”
Those evaluations helped lead to rampant grade inflation (“somehow the grade of C jumped up to B ). “At the school where I taught, a proudly left-wing teacher was said to give black students automatic A’s as an act of reparation,” he writes. What’s more, some students started referring to professors by their first names, which for Epstein suggested more than a casual, hallway familiarity: “I recall a young female student, on the edge of tears, during an office hour, asking why I had marked up her papers, as she thought, so severely. ‘Jerry [an associate professor in the same department],’ she said, ‘is never so hard on my writing.’ Hmm, ‘Jerry’? I concluded there was a good chance The deeper problem, in Epstein’s estimation, is that today’s college students have been on the receiving end of unwarranted encouragement from their parents. Epstein says he was once tempted to scrawl “too much love in the home” across an undergraduate composition that fell short of his standards. Epstein himself did not suffer from the same surfeit of affection; in fact, he doesn’t remember ever being hugged by his parents or told that they loved him. (The book includes an essay that spells out why “being hugged by a man … is not my idea of a swell time”).
Don’t get him started on college presidents today. Back in Epstein’s time, that office was occupied by scholars of stature like Robert F. Goheen at Princeton or Alfred Whitney Griswold at Yale. Now he can only dimly recall that “the president of Harvard is a woman, or was a woman until recently.” Presidents are no longer the towering intellects of yore, according to Epstein. These days, when college presidents aren’t “hanging with the wealthy in a position of unspoken but obvious subservience,” they are being “photographed in sweaters and neckties surrounded by racially and ethnically diverse students.” It is a sorry state of affairs, he believes, though Epstein expresses sympathy for the diminished institutional leaders. “In our time every university president is a minor-league Ozymandias, within the small compass of his realm a king of kings — and yet a king without any real power to change things that matter.”
It would be unfair to suggest that Epstein’s oeuvre is endless spleen-venting at the supposed failures and absurdities of modern higher education. He can be a witty guide to the work of writers he admires, like P.G. Wodehouse, who also tended to view anything newfangled with a jaundiced eye. He delivers memorably caustic assessments of Susan Sontag (“the great American savant-idiot”) and Isaiah Berlin (after considering whether he was a writer or a scholar, Epstein wonders “if he were either”). He defends the despised typeface Comic Sans and chronicles his own ill-fated forays into facial hair, comparing a mustache he once grew to — brace yourself — a “Guatemalan illegal alien.” He is a man who is not afraid to take an unpopular stance or risk offense while making a crack.
Continued in article
Jensen Comment
After students acquired power through their teacher evaluations, the media grade
in the USA actually jumped from C to A-
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/assess.htm#RateMyProfessor
I think students would rather get easy A grades than donuts.
Final Grade Option: University of Texas lets students decide if they
want to keep their final grade, despite 'unintended consequences' ---
https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16412
What if recruiters commence to equate the "Pass" grades with "C" grades?
How to Mislead With Statistics
The worst 15 states for retirement taxes
https://moneywise.com/a/the-15-worst-states-for-retirement-taxes
Has anybody whispered in the Omaha's famous
Warren
Buffett?
01 Nebraska (highest retirement taxes)
02 Connecticut
03 Kansas
04 Wisconsin
05 Minnesota
06 Vermont
07 Rhode Island
08 New Jersey
09 Illinois
10 New York
11 California
12 Maine
13 Maryland
14 Ohio
15 Massachusetts
Jensen Comment
The differences in retirement taxes differ relatively little compared to
differences in living costs, especially real estate prices and rents. One can
retire in a relatively cheap rural home in Nebraska, Kansas, Wisconsin, and
Minnesota compared to rural homes in most of the other states listed above.
Small towns in in the Midwest have be drying up for years as large farms gobbled
up small farms and took away most of the retail trade in small farming
communities.
The above rankings are misleading for low-income retirees, but the article does a reasonably good job pointing this out.
It's about time for Warren Buffett to move to Texas, but he probably is not as concerned about his taxes as most people since he gives so much more to charities than he pays in taxes each year. Taxing him merely steals money from those charities.
Cancel Culture --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancel_culture
Conservative Miami Law Prof Fights The Campus Cancel Culture ---
https://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2020/12/conservative-miami-law-prof-fights-the-campus-cancel-culture.html#more
Bob Jensen's threads on political correctness ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/HigherEdControversies2.htm#PoliticalCorrectness
Dyslexia and Specific Learning Difficulties in Adults ---
Dyslexia and Specific Learning Difficulties in Adults -
writix.co.uk
Bob Jensen's threads on technology helpers for disabled students ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm#Handicapped
Why are investment prices rising amidst an explosion in corona virus cases in the USA?
From a Quartz newsletter on December 13, 2020
. . .
You can thank the pandemic for this year’s splashy stock debuts. Much of 2020’s IPO value comes from tech companies, which have seen their valuations shoot up as coronavirus created massive demand for video conferencing, food delivery, online shopping, and other digital tools that make hunkering down more bearable.
The pandemic also brought a wave of new investors into the stock market. Stuck at home, bored, and without live sports to bet on, millions of Americans made accounts on stock-trading app Robinhood. Investment firm Fidelity saw trading volume rise 97% in the third quarter year over year, while the Nasdaq saw equity options trades go up by half. These novice traders have eagerly piled into IPOs alongside institutional investors.
The situation is raising alarm bells, especially since the last time the US saw a dizzying, tech-led IPO spike in 2000, it was quickly followed by a massive bust. Two decades later, widespread speculation and low federal interest rates have combined to pump valuations up to new heights, despite the fact that 80% of the companies that have gone public this year don’t turn a profit. Hand-wringing analysts called this week’s IPO prices “absurd,” “ridiculous,” and “embarrassing.”
Time will tell whether they—or the millions of new investors who just bought into Airbnb, Doordash, and C3.ai at towering valuations—are right.
Jensen
Comment
High-priced homes in our White Mountains of New Hampshire, like housing prices
in many other rural properties in various parts of the USA, are in a hot market
at the moment due to various factors such as urban flight, lower state taxation,
low interest rates, lower crime in rural areas, and new remote working
alternatives.
And people are spending more on housing and other equity investments in anticipation of spiked inflation that will follow trillions of increased federal government spending.
I'm friends with a relatively young couple from Cape Cod who are now building a new scenic home not far from our home. She is a research proposal editor for MIT who, until covid hit, had nearly a two-hour commute each way by train to and from MIT. Now she does her job remotely and can continue to do so when she and her husband move into their new home in Sugar Hill, NH.
What are expensive sports teams doing for city economies?
From a Quartz newsletter on December 13, 2020
Morale lesson.
For all that “show me the money” bravado, sports teams, it turns out, mean very little to a city’s economy. Economists see the impact of baseball teams as “small potatoes”—the equivalent of one mid-sized department store at best. In an illuminating analysis for Quartz’s field guide on the sports industry, Dan Kopf gets to the heart of why we root for them in the first place.
How to Mislead With Statistics (by avoiding key variables)
Are Home Prices in Black Neighborhoods Underpriced? ---
https://www.thestreet.com/mishtalk/economics/are-home-prices-in-black-neighborhoods-underpriced
Jensen Comment
Read the article for examples of how the statistics are misleading in this
study. However, the article misses several main points. Firstly, it does not
mention crime statistics for black neighborhoods. Secondly, it does not mention
that many black neighborhoods like those in Chicago are centers for dangerous
gangs and gang warfare. Thirdly, I don't know how an analyst makes adjustments
for public education troubles and "walkability" troubles for whites in most
black neighborhoods.
And there are some seemingly little things that are not so little in terms of real estate value. Because many prosecutors are not discouraging shoplifting crime in low income neighborhoods (think of Los Angeles that no longer prosecutes teenage misdemeanors) retail businesses like supermarkets and big box stores are avoiding low income neighborhoods. This in turn, affects real estate values, since shopping is no longer convenient in those neighborhoods. There are other inconveniences such as having worse taxi pickup services in high crime neighborhoods.
Oracle is moving its headquarters from Silicon Valley to Austin, Texas — the
latest tech giant to flee the tech capital for the Southern state ---
Oracle moving HQ from Silicon Valley to Austin, Texas - Business Insider
Elon Musk, like everyone else, is moving to Texas. Here are 12 Lone Star
State cities America is in love with ---
The Texas cities everyone in the country is moving to - Business Insider
Colorado State Will Offer Pass/Fail Grading; U. of Maryland Won’t ---
https://www.chronicle.com/article/live-coronavirus-updates-heres-the-latest?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=campaign_1797892_nl_Academe-Today_date_20201209&cid=at&source=ams&sourceId=296279&cid2=gen_login_refresh
Jensen Comment
Students complaining the loudest at Colorado State are probably the best
students in the courses who can no longer demonstrate that they are best among
all the students receiving a "Pass" grade.
Most of my students over my 40 years of teaching received traditional letter
grades. The few who passed my courses on a Pass-Fail basis tended to put in the
minimal effort required to pass. Nearly all of them were capable of learning
more from my courses, but the pass-fail option allowed them to put more effort
into courses where they struggled for traditional letter grades.
Graduate programs where students were required to have a B average to graduate
were problematic for them, because for some students C grades in graduate school
voulf lead to not being able to graduate when they don't have offsetting A
grades elsewhere. In other words some students put extra effort in my courses to
avoid "the hook." Years ago a C grade no longer reflected an average grade like
it was before grade inflation ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/assess.htm#RateMyProfessor
The week at Retraction Watch featured:
Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 39.
Continued in article
The Moscow Times: Russia Suffers New Blow in $50Bln Yukos Case ---
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2020/12/04/russia-suffers-new-blow-in-50bln-yukos-case-a72242
Who on earth believes Russia will cough up $50 billion for this?
Z-value ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_score
Also see
https://www.wikihow.com/Calculate-Z-Scores
The Distribution of One Million Z-Values ---
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/12/the-distribution-of-one-million-z-values.html
In total, 557,013
vehicles were stolen in the 15 cities listed below from 2017 through 2019 ---
https://www.foxnews.com/auto/portand-stolen-car-rate
1 Portland, OR (Highest Stolen Car Rate Per Capita in the USA)
2 San Jose, CA
3 Seattle, WA
4 Salt Lake City, UT
5 San Francisco, CA
6 Riverside, CA
7 Las Vegas, NV
8 Memphis, TN
9 Louisville, KY
10 Los Angeles, CA
11 Oklahoma City, OK
12 Milwaukee, WI
13 San Antonio, TX
14 New Orleans, LA
15 Tucson, AZOnly cities of more than 1 million residents were compared and ranked. Denver was excluded due to lack of data. Smaller cities and towns near the USA's southern border have higher theft rates per capita.
Recent New York Sales Tax
Litigation Leaves Auto Dealership at Side of Road ---
https://www.cpajournal.com/2020/12/01/recent-new-york-sales-tax-litigation-leaves-auto-dealership-at-side-of-road/
Jensen Question
Do these same issues arise in divorce such as when one spouse grants full-title
to property (such as an automobile) to the other spouse as part of the divorce
settlement? Is this transfer of title subject to sales tax? This could be
expensive in states where real estate titles transfers are subject to a sales
tax.
WSJ: Stock Buybacks:
What Every Investor Needs to Know ---
https://www.wsj.com/articles/stock-buybacks-what-every-investor-needs-to-know-11607185864?mod=djm_dailydiscvrtst
Alexander Hamilton:
The Federalist Papers #22 A: The Articles of Confederation Lead to Uncoordinated
Trade Policy and Military Free-Riding ---
https://blog.supplysideliberal.com/post/2020/12/13/alexander-hamilton-the-articles-of-confederation-lead-to-uncoordinated-trade-policy-and-military-free-riding
This Reads Like a
Forthcoming BBC Mystery Script: Solving the great book heist ---
Tome raiders: solving the great book heist | Books | The Guardian
Oracle’s Hidden Hand Is
Behind the Google Antitrust Lawsuits ---
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-23/oracle-for-years-secretly-lobbied-states-justice-department-to-sue-google?cmpid=BBD122320_BIZ&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=201223&utm_campaign=bloombergdaily
A court in St. Petersburg on
Friday convicted a prominent history professor on charges of murdering and
dismembering a female student and sentenced him to 12 1/2 years in prison ---
https://news.yahoo.com/russian-professor-sent-prison-killing-141652203.html
Jensen Comment
In the USA this would be considered a light sentence considering all the
life-without-parole sentences that I hear about on TV's Forensic Files. But then
a year in most any Russian prison may be less comfortable than in most USA
prisons.
From the Scout Report on December 4, 2020
DVC --- Data Version Control · DVC
DVC is a distributed revision control system and automation framework for data scientists. The DVC documentation is written primarily around machine learning applications, but very similar workflows pop up when performing many other kinds of statistical analysis or simulation. DVC leverages Git to track program code or scripts and provides large file storage using backends such as Amazon S3, Azure Blob Storage, Google Drive, and others. This "large file storage" is meant to cover both original source data files as well as intermediate results (including parameter files for machine learning models, statistical results like fitted curves, and results of simulations). DVC's automation framework allows users to describe the steps in their analysis as stages in a "lightweight pipeline." As users make changes to their scripts and code, DVC can re-run only the stages in the pipeline whose inputs have changed. DVC can track different analyses as "experiments" that are represented as git branches, providing users with a systematic way to store alternative approaches. DVC is written in Python and should run anywhere that Python does. The Download section of the DVC site provides installation instructions for Windows, macOS, and Linux systems.
CP EDITOR --- https://cpeditor.org/
CP Editor's developers describe it as a "lightweight and cross-platform code editor specially designed for competitive programming," that aims to make programming easier by "automating many things for you." In particular, it has support for automatically running a test suite as changes are made to a program and highlighting any test cases that are failing. CP Editor also provides syntax highlighting and code completion features for C/C++, Java, and Python. By installing a Language Server, users can also get linting of their code as they type, with errors and warnings underlined with the error text. Users can also assemble their own personal libraries of "code snippets" that can be quickly inserted into the file they are editing. In the Download section of the CP Editor, site users can locate installers for Windows, macOS, and Linux systems.
From the Scout Report on December 18, 2020
ASCIIDOCTOR --- https://asciidoctor.org/
Asciidoctor is a publishing system that processes source files written in the AsciiDoc minimal markup format to produce output in HTML5, DocBook, PDF, and a number of other formats. According to the pull-quote on the Asciidoctor front page from Linux creator Linus Torvalds, AsciiDoc is a good format to use because "it's actually readable by humans, easier to parse and way more flexible than XML." The "Get Writing" link at the top right of the Asciidoctor home page will lead users to a guide documenting the AsciiDoc format along with a brief tutorial on how to produce HTML 5 and DocBook output. In the Docs section of the site, users can find more detailed reference manuals both on the AsciiDoc syntax and on advanced uses of the Asciidoctor toolchain. Under the Installation heading on the front page, users can locate instructions for installing Asciidoctor on Windows, macOS, and several flavors of Linux
ZEROTIER --- www.zerotier.com
ZeroTier is a network virtualization system that combines the capabilities of traditional VPN systems and software defined wide area network solutions. Some example uses of ZeroTier include: accessing devices on a home network (for example, network attached storage, home automation, and printers) from anywhere; creating a virtual LAN across several households to play network games; routing traffic destined for the internet through a VM running on a cloud provider; routing traffic received at a VM on a cloud provider to an internal machine on a private network; or connecting systems running on a variety of cloud providers as if they were in a single data center. The ZeroTier manual located in the Support section of the site contains a detailed technical description of how the software works along with a number of example configurations. The ZeroTier Knowledge Base contains additional tutorials and "Getting Started" guides. The ZeroTier site offers installers for Windows, macOS, Linux, and FreeBSD desktops along with installers for Android and iOS devices. On the free "Basic" service plan, users can create networks with up to 50 members.
Free Online Tutorials, Videos, Course Materials, and Learning Centers
Education Tutorials
CLOUD ZOO (zoology) --- https://pudding.cool/2020/11/cloud-zoo/
THE CRAFTY WRITER'S CREATIVE WRITING COURSE ---
https://www.thecraftywriter.com/
WILLIAMS COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART: COLLECTION EXPLORER
http://wcma-explorer.williams.edu/
150 SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS --- www.fizzicseducation.com.au/category/150-science-experiments
Bob Jensen's threads on education links ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#EducationResearch
Engineering, Science, and Medicine Tutorials
Scientists suggest US embassies were hit with high-power microwaves – here’s
how the weapons work
https://theconversation.com/scientists-suggest-us-embassies-were-hit-with-high-power-microwaves-heres-how-the-weapons-work-151730
U.S. physicists rally around ambitious plan to build fusion power plant ---
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/12/us-physicists-rally-around-ambitious-plan-build-fusion-power-plant
METRICS TOOLKIT --- www.metrics-toolkit.org
THE PLANETARY SCIENCE JOURNAL ---
https://iopscience.iop.org/journal/2632-3338
JOURNAL OF COMPUTER APPLICATIONS IN ARCHAEOLOGY ---
https://journal.caa-international.org/
1948: The first transistor, short for transfer resistor, was developed
at Bell Labs. The 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to three Bell
scientists for the science behind the invention ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor
CORAL REEF RESEARCH FOUNDATION ---
Home - Coral Reef Research
Foundation (coralreefpalau.org)
Mount Everest is higher than previously thought, say Nepal and China ---
https://nationalpost.com/news/world/mount-everest-is-higher-than-previously-thought-say-nepal-and-china
THE SCIENCE OF BAKING: HOW PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY CAN MAKE YOU A BETTER BAKER --- www.pepper.ph/science-baking
150 SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS --- www.fizzicseducation.com.au/category/150-science-experiments
CLOUD ZOO (zoology) --- https://pudding.cool/2020/11/cloud-zoo/
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
LGBTQ&A --- www.lgbtqpodcast.com
PSYCHSESSIONS Podcasts ---
https://psychsessionspodcast.libsyn.com/
METRICS TOOLKIT ---
www.metrics-toolkit.org
For example, what are some limitations of article citation metrics?
MY AMERICA (Immigration) --- https://my-america.org/
ILLUSTRATED VERSION OF THE DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS ---
www.un.org/en/udhrbook/index.shtml
FACING HISTORY AND OURSELVES: UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS ---
www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/universal-declaration-human-rights
COLUMBIA HUMAN RIGHTS LAW REVIEW ---
HRLR
Posts – Columbia Human Rights Law Review
CANADIAN MUSEUM FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: STORIES ---
https://humanrights.ca/stories
BETTER HUMAN PODCAST ---
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/better-human-podcast/id1481010283
ON-CALL SCIENTISTS (human rights) --- www.aaas.org/programs/on-call-scientists
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
MATHOLOGER (MATHEMATICS Video) --- www.youtube.com/channel/UC1_uAIS3r8Vu6JjXWvastJg
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
Alexander Hamilton: The Federalist Papers #22 A: The Articles of
Confederation Lead to Uncoordinated Trade Policy and Military Free-Riding ---
https://blog.supplysideliberal.com/post/2020/12/13/alexander-hamilton-the-articles-of-confederation-lead-to-uncoordinated-trade-policy-and-military-free-riding
Charles Babbage originated the modern analytic computer. He invented the
principle of the analytical engine, the forerunner of the modern electronic
computer ---
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Babbage/
Reply from Jagdish
Bob,
And the world's first programmer was Ada Lovelace, Countess of Lovelace; she was the daughter of the Scottish poet Lord Byron. Ada programmed Babbage's machine, and the programming language Ada is named after her.Here is a video on the Ada programming language. I hope someone adapts it to designing accounting systems. It is one of the ideal languages for the purpose since it has all the tools that are required for the purpose. C++, Jaca,... do not.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e-BGblAMC4&feature=emb_logoRegards,
Jagdish
Jagdish S. Gangolly
Emeritus Associate Professor
Department of Informatics
Director (Retired), PhD Program in Information Science
State University of New York at Albany
1400 Washington Ave Albany, NY 12222
From Peoples Into Nations: A History of Eastern Europe ---
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jul/22/book-review-from-peoples-into-nations-a-history-of/
Isaac Newton Theorized That the Egyptian Pyramids Revealed the Timing of the
Apocalypse: See His Burnt Manuscript from the 1680s ---
Isaac Newton Theorized That the Egyptian Pyramids Revealed the
Timing of the Apocalypse: See His Burnt Manuscript from the 1680s | Open Culture
WHEN THE SMITHSONIAN DISCOVERED AN ANCIENT EGYPTIAN COLONY IN THE GRAND
CANYON ---
https://archaeology-world.com/when-the-smithsonian-discovered-an-ancient-egyptian-colony-in-the-grand-canyon/
WHAT JANE SAW (two museums visited by Jane Austin) ---
http://whatjanesaw.org/
MY AMERICA (Immigration) --- https://my-america.org/
Financing Social Security Through the Years ---
https://www.cpajournal.com/2020/12/03/icymi-financing-social-security-through-the-years/
Open Source Cookbooks --- https://opensourcecookbook.cargo.site/
HISTORY OF PIES --- https://whatscookingamerica.net/History/PieHistory.htm
Aerospace and Aviation
Wright Brothers --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_brothers
Charles Lindbergh --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lindbergh
AEROSPACE HISTORY TIMELINE --- www.aiaa.org/about/History-and-Heritage/History-Timeline
RAF100: AIMING FOR AWESOME --- www.raeng.org.uk/education/schools/teaching-and-learning-resources/raf100
EAA AVIATION MUSEUM: VIRTUAL COCKPIT TOURS --- www.eaa.org/eaa-museum/cockpit-360-virtual-tour
BESSIE COLEMAN, BARNSTORMING PIONEER --- www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCgdU2oHt_0
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AVIATION, AERONAUTICS, AND AEROSPACE ---
https://commons.erau.edu/ijaaa/
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/
What Ancient Egyptian Sounded Like & How We Know It ---
What Ancient Egyptian Sounded Like & How We Know It | Open
Culture
Bob Jensen's links to language tutorials are at http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2-Part2.htm#Languages
Music Tutorials
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
THE CRAFTY WRITER'S CREATIVE WRITING COURSE ---
https://www.thecraftywriter.com/
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/
December 1, 2020
Biden Fractures Foot, Will Wear Orthopedic Boot
Moderna to Seek FDA Approval for COVID Vaccine
This Injury a Possible Sign of Domestic Violence
COVID in Kids: The Most Telling Symptoms
Millions Traveled for Thanksgiving Holiday
CDC Group Meets Tuesday on COVID Vaccine Priority
AstraZeneca Plans More Testing of COVID-19 Vaccine
December 2, 2020
FL Gov Discounts More Lockdowns and Mask Mandates
Nurse on Leave After Mocking COVID Precautions
Cases Drop 30% in England After Lockdown
CDC Panel Votes on Who Should Get COVID Vaccines First
Pence: Vaccine Distribution May Start in 2 Weeks
Several COVID-19 Advisers Make Grim Predictions
Controversial Trump COVID Adviser Scott Atlas Resigns
December 3, 2020
Couple Uses Canceled Wedding to Feed Hundreds
UK Authorizes Use of Pfizer COVID Vaccine
LGBTQ Adults Often Miss Out on Cholesterol Meds
Menopause Can Make Workplace Tougher for Women
NYC Issues Warning for Elderly and at-Risk People
FL Gov Discounts More Lockdowns and Mask Mandates
Nurse on Leave After Mocking COVID Precautions
December 4, 2020
Financial Missteps Could Signal Future Dementia
Pandemic Is Driving U.S. Surge in Cardiac Arrests Tied to Overdose
Can Some Vaccines Reduce Your Alzheimer’s Risk?
Obama, Bush, Clinton Will Take COVID-19 Vaccine
COVID Can Harm the Infant Heart
CVS Will Give COVID Treatment in Patients’ Homes
‘Overwhelming Majority’ Will Need COVID-19 Vaccine
December 5, 2020
Biden to Ask Americans to Wear Masks for 100 Days
Couple Arrested for Flying After Testing Positive
U.S. Emergency Call System Faces ‘Breaking Point’
Hackers Tried to Access COVID Vaccine ‘Cold Chain’
Baby Girl Born From Embryo Frozen for 27 Years
California Governor Issues New Stay-at-Home Order
Smile When You Get a COVID Vaccine, It'll Hurt Less
December 8, 2020
Nurse Shares COVID Vaccine Side Effects from Trial
Public Health Experts Applaud Biden’s CDC Pick
ADHD Medication ODs Rising in U.S. Kids, Teens
Pandemic Drives Couples to Divorce or to Seek Help
Biden to Name California AG as HHS Secretary
Americans Increasingly Say They'll Get COVID Vaccine
Thanksgiving Travel COVID Surge Expected This Week
December 9, 2020
A Better, Safer Way to Rid Some Kids of Seizures?
New Technology May Help Cells Fight against Cancer
Oregon Doctor Suspended After Refusal to Wear Mask
AstraZeneca COVID Vaccine Effective in Late Trials
Drug Reverses Age-Related Mental Decline in Mice
Will December's COVID-19 Crush Overwhelm Hospitals?
FDA: Pfizer COVID Vaccine Effective After One Dose
December 10, 2020
Allergic Reactions Spur Alerts Over Pfizer Vaccine
COVID Fuels Depression In Pregnant Women, New Moms
U.S. Can’t Get More Pfizer Vaccines Before June
U.S. Faces ‘Dark Time’ with Holiday COVID Surges
Florida State Police Raid Home of DeSantis Critic
Mystery Illness Strikes Hundreds in India
A Better, Safer Way to Rid Some Kids of Seizures?
New Technology May Help Cells Fight against Cancer
Oregon Doctor Suspended After Refusal to Wear Mask
December 11, 2020
Ellen DeGeneres Says She Has COVID-19
COVID-19 Vaccines On the Way: What to Know
COVID Vaccine Wins Key U.S. Vote
COVID-19 Deaths Surpass 9/11 Deaths in Single Day
Recall: Erectile Dysfunction, Depression Drugs Mixed Up
158 People Arrested at LA 'Super Spreader' Party
Schools & Vaccines Are Biden Priorities
December 12, 2020
COVID Vaccine Supply Limited, Distribution Unclear
FDA Approves Emergency Use of Pfizer COVID Vaccine
COVID Leads to Heartbreaking Letters to Santa
High-Dose Vitamin D Won't Prevent Seniors' Falls
Why Do Black Patients Fare Worse With Blood Cancer?
Med Student Finds Buried Treasure Worth Millions
Nearly 3 Million to Get COVID Vaccine in First Week
December 15, 2020
COVID Surge Wrecks Contact Tracing Efforts
Reports: Nursing Home Vaccinations May Be Delayed
COVID-19 Appeared in Boy in Italy in November 2019
COVID Patients Can Have Neurological Problems
Hundreds of Hospitals at or Near Full Capacity
Kids' Weight Rises When Convenience Stores Open
December 16, 2020
World War II Vet Receives VA’s First COVID Vaccine
FDA Committee: Moderna Is Vaccine Highly Effective
FDA Approves Non-Prescription Home Test for COVID
Pediatricians: Let Kids Be Part of Vaccine Trials
High BP in Middle Age Can Harm Your Brain
Public Information Lacking Amid COVID Vaccine Push
CDC Encourages COVID Vaccine With Stickers, Buttons
December 21, 2020
Most Americans Oppose COVID Vaccine Mandates
COVID Has Southern California ICU Capacity at Zero
Experts: Pregnant Women Can Get COVID-19 Vaccine
104-Year-Old WWII Veteran Beats COVID
No Link Seen Between COVID, Guillain-Barré Syndrome
COVID Far More Lethal Than Flu, Data Shows
Pence Receives COVID-19 Vaccine on Live TV
December 22, 2020
WebMD Poll: More Want COVID-19 Vaccine Earlier
Biden Receives COVID-19 Vaccine on TV
75 COVID-19 Cases Linked to N.C. Church Event
Johnson & Johnson May Apply for EUA in February
8 Nuns Die of COVID at Wisconsin Retirement Home
Employers Can Require Mandatory Vaccines for Staff
Reactions Pause COVID-19 Vaccinations at Hospital
December 23, 2020
CDC Seeks Passengers on Flight Where Man Died of COVID
Congress Passes Pandemic Economic Relief Package
Fauci: Santa Claus Vaccinated, Cleared for Travel
Poll: Mask Wearing Declines Even as COVID Spreads
COVID-19 Variant Sparks U.K. Travel Restrictions
Biden Receives COVID-19 Vaccine on TV
WebMD Poll: More Want COVID-19 Vaccine Earlier
December 24, 2020
Fauci: ‘Umbrella of Protection’ Possible By Summer
As COVID Numbers Rise, So Does 'Psychic Numbing'
Looking Back on 2020: Top COVID-19 Search Terms
Travelers from the UK to NYC Must Now Quarantine
COVID Makes 2020 the Deadliest Year in U.S. History
COVID Doesn't Pass to Baby During Pregnancy
Lean Cuisine Meals Recalled Due to Plastic Pieces
December 25, 2020
Masks May Not Stop Kids from Reading Emotions
Feds Buy 100 Million More Pfizer Vaccine Doses
Antarctica Reports First COVID-19 Outbreak
Looking Back on 2020: Top COVID-19 Search Terms
From Public to Personal: Pandemic Lessons Learned
As COVID Numbers Rise, So Does 'Psychic Numbing'
Fauci: ‘Umbrella of Protection’ Possible By Summer
December 30, 2020
Your Boss May Require You to Get a COVID-19 Vaccine
2.1 Million COVID Vaccine Doses Given in U.S.
3-Year-Old COVID Patient Recovering From Stroke
Los Angeles County Testing for New COVID Variant
Making Boredom Help You Thrive During COVID-19
Eviction Bans Keep Renters Home, Curb COVID Spread
COVID-19 Survival Declines When Brain Affected: Study
December 31, 2020
COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout Faces Delays
UK Approves AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine
Colorado Finds First U.S. Case of U.K. COVID Variant
Pandemic Tougher on Mental Health For Women Than Men
WHO Leader: COVID ‘Not Necessarily the Big One’
Extreme Psychotic Reactions In Few COVID Patients
Florida, Texas Vaccinate Those 65 and Older
Europe has great health care systems and universities. So why aren't
European nations apart from the U.K. leading the way in development of Covid19
vaccines?
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/other/covid-19-vaccine-updates-from-around-the-world-these-nine-candidates-are-at-phase-iii-trial-stage/ss-BB19594l
Click on the right arrow to see the nine leading vaccines being developed ---
mostly from the USA and China except for the one being developed in the U.K.
Does Europe rely too much on pharmaceuticals developed outside of Europe,
especially those developed in the USA?
Vitamin D Could Explain Why Autism Is Three Times More Common in Boys
https://scitechdaily.com/vitamin-d-could-explain-why-autism-is-three-times-more-common-in-boys/
Blindness cure on horizon after vision loss fully restored in mice with
glaucoma ---
https://www.studyfinds.org/blindness-cure-vision-loss-fully-restored-glaucoma/
What happens to our consciousness when we fall asleep? Study may solve one
of biggest scientific mysteries ---
https://www.studyfinds.org/what-happens-to-consciousness-when-asleep/
Humor for December 2020
The Funniest Books of All Time --- https://www.thereadinglists.com/funniest-books-of-all-time/
Not-So-Funny Yard Signs that Get Better Later in the Slideshow (Click on the Slideshow) ---
https://www.science-a2z.com/the-most-hilarious-and-original-yard-signs-youve-ever-seen-part2/?utm_medium=yahoo&utm_source=347&utm_campaign=402654456&utm_term=NEWS_US-c&site_id=news.yahoo.com&vmcid=p%24g%2co%244650d852-484a-11eb-b141-008cfa5b6918-7f2ca7d4a700%2ct%241609076940847
Forwarded by Auntie Bev
The local news station was interviewing an 80-year-old-lady because she had just gotten married for the fourth time. The interviewer asked her questions about her life, about what it felt like to be marrying again at 80, and then about her new husband’s occupation. “He is a funeral director” she answered. “Interesting,” the newsman thought.
He then asked her if she wouldn’t mind telling him a little about her first three husbands and what they did for a living. She paused for a few moments, needing time to reflect on all those years. After a short time, a smile came to her face and she answered proudly, explaining that she had first married a banker when she was in her 20’s, then a circus ringmaster when in her 40’s and a preacher when in her 60’s and now in her 80s a funeral director.
The interviewer looked at her, quite astonished, and asked why she had married four men with such diverse careers.
(Wait for it)
She smiled and explained, “ I married one for the money, two for the show, three to get ready, and four to go."
Forwarded by Auntie Bev
"You claim to be a chocolate lab," said the cat to the dog. "Lemme check."
Attack this day with the enthusiasm and confidence of of a four-year old wearing a Batman t-shirt.
I thought I would never be the kind of person to wake up early just to exercise. I was right all along.
Two ways to really improve your day: Don't check the news, and stay off the scales.
The Circle of Life: An old man on a walker meets a toddler trying to push a stroller.
Elsie Frey's One Liners Forwarded by Tina
For me drinking responsibly means don't spill it.
The older I get, the earlier it gets late.
I remember when I could get up without sound effects.
When I ask for directions, please don't use words like "east."
When I run I run like the winded.
I finally got eight hours of sleep; It only took three days, but whatever.
Humor December 2020 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book20q4.htm#Humor1220.htm
Humor November 2020 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book20q4.htm#Humor1120.htm
Humor October 2020 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book20q4.htm#Humor1020.htm
Humor September 2020 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book20q3.htm#Humor0920.htm
Humor August 2020 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book20q3.htm#Humor0820.htm
Humor July 2020 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book20q3.htm#Humor0720.htm
Humor June 2020 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book20q2.htm#Humor0620.htm
Humor May 2020 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book20q2.htm#Humor0520.htm
Humor April 2020 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book20q2.htm#Humor0420.htm
Humor March 2020 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book20q1.htm#Humor0320.htm
Humor January 2020 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book20q1.htm#Humor0120.htm
Humor December 2019--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book19q4.htm#Humor1219.htm
Humor November 2019--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book19q4.htm#Humor1119.htm
Humor October 2019--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book19q4.htm#Humor1019.htm
Humor September 2019--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book19q3.htm#Humor0919.htm
Humor August 2019--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book19q3.htm#Humor0819.htm
Humor July 2019--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book19q3.htm#Humor0719.htm
Humor June 2019--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book19q2.htm#Humor0619.htm
Humor May 2019--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book19q2.htm#Humor0519.htm
Humor April 2019--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book19q2.htm#Humor0419.htm
Humor March 2019--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book19q1.htm#Humor0319.htm
Humor February 2019--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book19q1.htm#Humor0219.htm
Humor January 2019--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book19q1.htm#Humor0119.htm
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
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Sugar Hill, NH 03586
Phone: 603-823-8482
Email:
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