Tidbits on February 15, 2021
Bob Jensen at Trinity University

Set 1 of My All Time Favorite Photographs ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Favorites/Set01/FavoritesSet01.htm

 

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

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

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

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

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

Animated  Visualization of the United States’ Exploding Population Growth Over 200 Years (1790 – 2010) ---
A Visualization of the United States’ Exploding Population Growth Over 200 Years (1790 – 2010)

USA Debt Clock --- http://www.usdebtclock.org/ ubl

In September 2017 the USA National Debt exceeded $20 trillion for the first time ---
http://www.statedatalab.org/news/detail/national-debt-surpasses-20-trillion-for-the-first-time-in-us-history

Human Population Over Time on Earth ---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUwmA3Q0_OE 




Online Video, Slide Shows, and Audio

What's Wrong With Wind and Solar? ---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqppRC37OgI

A Billion Years of Continental Drift in Forty Seconds ---
https://twitter.com/ThePlanetaryGuy/status/1356663955666698241

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 

I'm Gonna Be Dancing ---
https://biggeekdad.com/2019/02/im-gonna-be-dancing/
Forwarded by Auntie Bev

Farmer Dances With Her Sheep ---
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/farmer-dances-sheep-find-fame-4988445

A Glorious Concert Celebrating the Films of Hayao Miyazaki, Arranged by Film Composer Joe Hisaishi ---
https://www.openculture.com/2021/02/a-glorious-concert-celebrating-the-films-of-hayao-miyazaki-arranged-by-film-composer-joe-hisaishi.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

The Magic of Beach Boys' Harmonies ---
https://www.openculture.com/2021/02/the-magic-of-the-beach-boys-harmonies-hear-isolated-vocals-from-sloop-john-b-god-only-knows-wouldnt-it-be-nice-other-pet-sounds-classics.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Tony Bennett Duets with Lady Gaga, Amy Winehouse & Other Musicians, Passing on the Great American Songbook ---
https://www.openculture.com/2021/02/tony-bennett-duets-with-lady-gaga-amy-winehouse-other-musicians.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Hank Williams and Anita Carter ---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYhAs2kmTV4

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


Photographs and Art

How Norman Rockwell Used Photographs to Create His Famous Paintings: See Side-by-Side Comparisons ---
https://www.openculture.com/2021/02/how-norman-rockwell-used-photographs-to-create-his-famous-paintings.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

MUSEUM OF INTERNATIONAL FOLK ART: ONLINE EXPERIENCES ---
http://moifa.org/visit/online.html

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

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


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

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

WORDGATHERING: A JOURNAL OF DISABILITY POETRY AND LITERATURE ---
https://wordgathering.com/

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




Now in Another Tidbits Document
Political Quotations on February 15, 2021
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/2020/TidbitsQuotations0121521.htm             




Three Ways Employee Training Will Change in 2021 ---
https://readwrite.com/2021/02/11/3-ways-employee-training-will-change-in-2021/

Video:  Scenarios of Higher Education for Year 2020 (and beyond)---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gU3FjxY2uQ
The above great video, among other things, discusses how "badges" of academic education and training accomplishment may become more important in the job market than tradition transcript credits awarded by colleges. Universities may teach the courses (such as free MOOCs) whereas private sector companies may award the "badges" or "credits" or "certificates." The new term for such awards is a "microcredential."

Credential (Certificate, Badge, License, and Apprenticeship) Count Approaches 1 Million ---
Click Here
For example, credentials for computer programming skills are becoming more popular. Some certificates supplement college diplomas, whereas others are earned by students who did not enroll in college.


Good News Tidbits

Learning Opportunity:  30 of Coursera's most popular courses right now, offered by Yale, UPenn, Johns Hopkins, Google, IBM, and more ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/coursera-most-popular-online-classes

The American Dream:  Bumble founder Whitney Wolfe Herd becomes youngest self-made woman billionaire after IPO ---
https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/bumble-founder-whitney-wolfe-herd-billionaire
If she stays in the USA she won't be a billionaire much longer

Diversity and Inclusion in Economics ---
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2021/02/diversity-and-inclusion-in-economics.html

MINI NUCLEAR REACTORS OFFER PROMISE OF CHEAPER, CLEAN POWER ---
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3933718/posts

What are the most important statistical ideas of the past 50 years? ---
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2021/02/what-are-the-most-important-statistical-ideas-of-the-past-50-years.html

Free Slides:  If open is the answer, what is the question ---
https://zenodo.org/record/4495554#.YCKWyDGSlPY

Cuba lifts ban on most private business to deal with worst economic crisis since the fall of the Soviet Union ---
https://worldnewsera.com/news/finance/cuba-lifts-ban-on-most-private-business/
Another socialist experiment bites the dust
Socialism Doesn't Work ---
https://reason.com/2021/02/10/socialism-doesnt-work/

Rice Can Be Grown in Salty Water ---
https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/624-rice-salty-water/
This reduces dependency upon rain on coastal farms

Poverty Among Black and Hispanic Men is Falling ---
https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1246-black-men-poverty/

Academic jailed in Iran pulls off daring escape back to Britain ---
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/03/academic-jailed-in-iran-pulls-off-daring-escape-back-to-britain-kameel-ahmady

New FREE:  Inside Higher Ed Special Report Closing The Digital Divide ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/content/bridging-digital-divide-lessons-covid-19?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=8b938fc0ac-SpecialReport10_email1_20200917_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-8b938fc0ac-197565045&goal=0_1fcbc04421-8b938fc0ac-197565045&mc_cid=8b938fc0ac&mc_eid=1e78f7c952

The 10 Best Comedy Movies on Netflix ---
https://www.howtogeek.com/709539/the-10-best-comedy-movies-on-netflix/

Hydrogen-powered flight inches closer to reality as Amazon and Gates' cleantech fund back fuel-cell startup ZeroAvi ---
Click Here

Before Tom Brady was a Super Bowl champion he was an intern at Merrill Lynch — here's his resume from when he didn't think he'd make it in the NFL ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/tom-brady-college-resume-2017-1


Bad News Tidbits

The State of Washington launches investigation into 200,000 missing cows at center of Easterday bankruptcy, legal fight ---
https://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/business/agriculture/article248970215.html
Jensen Coment
This is one of the reasons auditors are still supposed to test check inventories in the high tech era
When I was a novice auditor we had to physically test check inventories at Montfort Feedlot in Greeley, Colorado. The senior auditors on our team got to count the cows. While wearing my dark auditor suit, black bowler hat, and a white shirt I got to inventory the piles and piles of other valuable inventory on in the enormous feedlot. There was so much of that inventory we ended up paying for aerial photographs and used mathematics to estimate the amount of it on hand.

The New Yorker: Inside the Making of the Facebook Supreme Court ---
Click Here

The Trouble With Mitt Romney's Family Security Act ---
https://reason.com/2021/02/11/the-trouble-with-mitt-romneys-family-security-act/

Car Accident Statistics ---
https://www.ddlawtampa.com/resources/car-accident-statistics-you-need-to-know-in-2021/

Why Public Transit Sucks in the United States: Four Videos Tell the Story ---  
https://www.openculture.com/2021/02/why-public-transit-sucks-in-the-united-states-four-videos-tell-the-story.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Signs of white supremacy in mathematics education include "the focus is on getting the 'right' answer," students being "required to 'show their work,'" and other alleged manifestations ---
https://www.foxnews.com/us/oregon-education-math-white-supremacy

Liberal Economist Blog:  The Dumbing Down of America is Poised to Accelerate ---
https://www.thestreet.com/mishtalk/economics/the-dumbing-down-of-america-is-poised-to-accelerate 
No mention is made in the article about the biggest scandal of all where students are now getting college degrees with median grade averages of A-, including graduates from our most prestigious universities ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/assess.htm#RateMyProfessor

Pseudophilosophy encourages confused, self-indulgent thinking ---
https://psyche.co/ideas/pseudophilosophy-encourages-confused-self-indulgent-thinking?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=0089016a1d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2021_02_11_04_59&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-0089016a1d-68951505

Nancy Pelosi Accused Of Corruption After Husband Caught In ‘Insider Trading’ Scheme ---
https://en-volve.com/2021/02/11/nancy-pelosi-accused-of-corruption-after-husband-caught-in-insider-trading-scheme/
There's an alleged history if such insider trading by him

Leaving Aside Trump's Role in Provoking the Capitol Riot, His Reaction to It Was Enough To Justify Impeachment ---
https://reason.com/2021/02/11/leaving-aside-trumps-role-in-provoking-the-capitol-riot-his-reaction-to-it-was-enough-to-justify-impeachment/

UIowa prof: Certain fields of study (like classics) should be ‘dismantled and burned’ ---
https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16782
Sounds like new reforms demanded by Big Brother

Paul Krugman:  Biden is the Big Spender Americans Want
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/11/opinion/biden-economic-plan.html

History Tells Us to Worry About Inflation (in spite of what Paul Krugman says) ---
https://www.bloombergquint.com/gadfly/macroeconomic-history-tells-us-to-worry-about-inflation

With more shopping moving online for good, retailers introduce new tools to rein in costly returns; 3-D body scans ---
https://www.wsj.com/articles/stores-have-a-mission-getting-you-to-keep-that-thing-you-bought-online-11612866602?mod=djemCFO
Jensen Comment
I returned an electric blanket that did not work to Amazon this week. While having an online chat with a return worker I sensed the dilemma. The blanket will probably be thrown away, and it would be cheaper for Amazon to let me keep the blanket and to send me a new working blanket. But if Amazon does this for most returns too many customers will take advantage of the policy and turn that policy into a two-for-the-price- of-one practice. An interesting challenge for students is to think of ways of avoiding avoiding two-for-of-one scams while also avoiding return shipping and handling expenses. Have students remember that whatever the policy the expected costs of returns are factored into prices paid by customers. For a high-priced item like a computer it probably pays to have it returned, repaired, and resold as a refurbished product. For an electric blanket or even cheaper products it does not pay to return, repair, and resell as a refurbished product.

Coming to America:  'The Tidal Wave Illegal Border Crossings Tripled (to over 3,000 per day) Since the Day Biden Was Inaugurated' ---
https://www.blabber.buzz/blab/pop/1024316-the-tidal-wave-began-the-day-biden-was-inaugurated-trouble-on-the-southern-border?utm_source=c-alrt&utm_medium=c-alrt-email&utm_term=c-alrt-GI&utm_content=4_IBzIGwv_cPJlMRU4kb7RWtLkQ..A
The major media won't report this data
Also see
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/juliorosas/2021/02/08/joe-bidens-immigration-crisis-is-just-beginning-n2584381?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=02/08/2021&bcid=b16c6f948f297f77432f990d4411617f&recip=17935167

Why the EU has fallen behind on vaccines ---
https://qz.com/1968175/why-the-eu-has-fallen-behind-on-vaccines/
The major media criticizes the USA's vaccine performance while overlooking the far worse vaccine performance in the over-regulated EU. One huge problem is the dearth of risk capital in the EU. Business financing in the EU is mostly from banks and financial institutions that shy away from financial risk. In the USA its much easier to finance risky ventures with equity capital. Alas, that may change with the new taxes and regulations in the USA following the 2020 election.

Harvard:  The EU’s Unsustainable Approach to Stakeholder Capitalism ---
https://hbr.org/2021/01/the-eus-unsustainable-approach-to-stakeholder-capitalism?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter_daily&utm_campaign=dailyalert_notactsubs&deliveryName=DM117021

San Francisco’s Soft-On-Crime Approach Isn’t Working ----
https://bearingarms.com/came/2021/02/05/san-francisco-crime-spike/?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=02/06/2021&bcid=b16c6f948f297f77432f990d4411617f&recip=17935167

Only New York City's finances are worse than Chicago's ---
https://www.data-z.org/news/detail/only-new-york-citys-finances-are-worse-than-chicagos

A Spike in Cheating Since the Move to Remote?
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2021/02/05/study-finds-nearly-200-percent-jump-questions-submitted-chegg-after-start-pandemic?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=deefae2887-DNU_2021_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-deefae2887-197565045&mc_cid=deefae2887&mc_eid=1e78f7c952
It will probably get worse as colleges drop Proctorio ---
https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/28/22254631/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign-proctorio-online-test-proctoring-privacy
Bob Jensen's threads on cheating ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Plagiarism.htm
The best solution to exam cheating is probably to use the village vicar or exam testing centers
That, of course, is not an answer to plagiarism

San Francisco is on the verge of destroying the city’s only merit-based public school ---
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/02/san_francisco_is_on_the_verge_of_destroying_the_citys_only_meritbased_public_school.html#ixzz6lMEjZwWF

Rudy Giuliani associate jailed for a year over fraud at fraud-busting business ---
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/08/david-correia-sentenced-rudy-giuliani-lev-parnas

IRS offers guidance to taxpayers on identity theft involving unemployment benefits ---
https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-offers-guidance-to-taxpayers-on-identity-theft-involving-unemployment-benefits?utm_source=mnl:cpald&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=02Feb2021

Harvard:  The EU’s Unsustainable Approach to Stakeholder Capitalism ---
https://hbr.org/2021/01/the-eus-unsustainable-approach-to-stakeholder-capitalism?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter_daily&utm_campaign=dailyalert_notactsubs&deliveryName=DM117021

What's Wrong With Wind and Solar? ---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqppRC37OgI
There are 109 nuclear power plants in Europe and 96 in the USA.
Europe now has experimental hydrogen trains and fusion nuclear power research. Today, many countries take part in fusion research to some extent, led by the European Union, the USA, Russia and Japan, with vigorous programs also underway in China, Brazil, Canada, and Korea ---
https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/current-and-future-generation/nuclear-fusion-power.aspx
There are many unknowns before oil and gas energy can abandoned. Also the world is dependent upon oil and gas for many things other than energy (think petrochemicals).
MINI NUCLEAR REACTORS OFFER PROMISE OF CHEAPER, CLEAN POWER ---
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3933718/posts

Electricity prices are already going up because of the 'wasteful, duplicative solar and wind on our grid' Facebook Twitter Comments Print Email ---
https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/biden-climate-actions-to-jolt-electricity-prices

Two California supermarkets closing after city orders pay hike ---
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/2-california-supermarkets-closing-city-164517339.html
Thank you Wm. Dennis Huber for the heads up.

Glass ceiling starts in childhood: Women get fewer financial lessons before becoming adults, even from their parents ---
https://www.studyfinds.org/women-fewer-financial-lessons/
Jensen Comment
Financial literacy should be one of the skills requirements before and during college and can be included in math requirements. This includes being able use financial software and tax filing software and understanding the underlying mathematics and economics.

Danish minimum wage data ---
http://stgmarginalrev.wpengine.com/marginalrevolution/2021/02/danish-minimum-wage-data.html

Congressional Budget Office (CBO) --- Says Raising Minimum Wage to $15 an Hour Would Kill Jobs, Because Obviously It Would ---
https://reason.com/2021/02/09/cbo-says-raising-minimum-wage-to-15-an-hour-would-kill-jobs-because-obviously-it-would/

During Pandemic, China Sent Millions of Counterfeit Masks, Test Kits to US: Customs Data ---
https://www.theepochtimes.com/during-pandemic-china-sent-millions-of-counterfeit-masks-test-kits-to-us-customs-data_3686127.html?utm_source=newsnoe&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=breaking-2021-02-05-1

Stephen Colbert's Super Bowl commercial (to promote his show) called 'disgusting' and not even remotely funny ---
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/stephen-colberts-super-bowl-disgusting-eating-sounds

How many coal fired power plants are there in the world today? Green New Deal??? The EU has 468 - building 27 more... Total 495 Turkey has 56 - building 93 more... Total 149 South Africa has 79 - building 24 more... Total 103 India has 589 - building 446 more... Total 1035 Philippines has 19 - building 60 more... Total 79 South Korea has 58 - building 26 more... Total 84 Japan has 90 - building 45 more... Total 135 China has 2,363 - building 1,171 more... Total = 3,534 That’s 5,615 projected coal powered plants in just 8.countries.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3933372/posts

Bitcoin consumes 'more electricity than Argentina' --- 
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56012952 
Thank you Glen Gray for the heads up
U.S. subway systems filled with hazardous air pollutants, but New York City ranks worst of all --- 
https://www.studyfinds.org/subway-systems-air-pollutants-nyc/  

Bruce Springsteen DWI: Singer charged with drink-driving ---
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56019580


Newsweek:  50 Totally Random Facts About the USA
https://www.newsweek.com/50-totally-random-facts-about-us-1568361


Is Spacetime Real?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2021/02/12/ask-ethan-is-spacetime-real/?sh=75aedb47fe85


Comparing Marginal Costs

Previously I wrote about the first time my father ever took a trip away from the family farm in Seneca, Iowa. The year was 1925 when he and four relatives drove on grass roads in a Model T Ford to Viking, Alberta to visit Norwegian relatives ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/vernon.htm
I mention this now to note that on the Viking farm some of the gas lamps were never turned off, the reason being that the cost of one match used to light a lamp daily was more than the cost a day's supply of gas for the lamp. So close to the gas wells, lamp gas was very nearly a free good. In those days, Norwegian immigrants counted every penny.

This cost example relates to the following quotation from a former minister of our church who is now nearly 100 years old and blind. He's in the process of dictating his memoirs. One recent paragraph reads as follows:

Quoin, Illinois, is on the mail line of the Illinois Central Rail Road that ran from Chicago to New Orleans. Every time I would see a giant steam locomotive I would say, “That’s what I want!”. Alas, I failed the eye test to be a train engineer. When I was in college at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, only twenty miles south, I came home every week-end. The train fare was cheaper that buying seven meals and laundry. Then when I was in the University of Illinois, 150 miles north on the ICRR, I rode the “City of New Orleans” This was a diesel-electric trains. When I was in the army, I rode the Pennsylvania from Newark [NJ] to Illinois. I also went to Boston and back to New York on the on the New York, New Haven, and Hartford. Oh, yes, my wife Emily, our baby Nancy, and I road 600 miles across the Island of Newfoundland on the narrow-gage Canadian Pacific. Emily and I road the Wabash from St. Louis to Chicago [and back, of course]. I still love the steam locomotives; I still dream of life as an engineer and wonder what that life would've been like. I might not have lived in nine states and in a foreign country. I traveled as far west as Hawaii and as far east as Israel; as are south as Florida and as far north as Canada. Never having much money, I was seventy-seven before I flew for the first time.


Here are the top insights an Amazon VP personally learned from Jeff Bezos ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bezos-amazon-colin-bryar-vp-what-i-learned-2021-2

1. "Getting a team on the same page is a lot of work and it's not an efficient process."

2. "Act like you live in a world where the customer has perfect information."

3. "Be proud of your choices and actions, not your gifts."

4. "Successful entrepreneurs are risk averse people. They take their precious resources and then systematically go about reducing those risks." 

5. "Invention eliminates tradeoffs."

6. "Amazon lives in a very narrow window where storing things server side is difficult, except for us."

7. "If a metric is not audited on a regular basis, assume it's wrong."

8. "When given a choice, err in favor of dealing with an honest customer."

9. "Optimists tend to make their own luck."

10. "Culture starts by who you select as employees. After a point, your culture becomes self-reinforcing."


Americans liked to believe that Japan was Westernising through the 20th century: Japan was vigorously doing the opposite ---
https://aeon.co/essays/is-westernisation-fact-or-fiction-the-case-of-japan-and-the-us?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=0089016a1d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2021_02_11_04_59&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-0089016a1d-68951505


Why the EU has fallen behind on vaccines ---
https://qz.com/1968175/why-the-eu-has-fallen-behind-on-vaccines/
The major media criticizes the USA's vaccine performance while overlooking the far worse vaccine performance in the over-regulated EU. One huge problem is the dearth of risk capital in the EU. Business financing in the EU is mostly from banks and financial institutions that shy away from financial risk. In the USA it's much easier to finance risky ventures with equity capital. Alas, that may change with the new taxes and regulations in the USA following the 2020 election.

Harvard:  The EU’s Unsustainable Approach to Stakeholder Capitalism ---
https://hbr.org/2021/01/the-eus-unsustainable-approach-to-stakeholder-capitalism?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter_daily&utm_campaign=dailyalert_notactsubs&deliveryName=DM117021

. . .

 

Not only does the report fail to show that EU businesses are misgoverned, it also makes proposals that would actually put these businesses at risk. Most importantly, the report recommends an EU-wide reformulation of directors’ duties to include a broad and ill-defined range of considerations, including representing the interests of the “global environment” and “society at large.” These duties would be enforced by non-investor stakeholders bringing suits in court.

The effect of implementing such proposals would be corporate paralysis. Almost any board decision could be legally challenged by some stakeholder claiming a violation of directors’ almost boundary-less duties. Concerned about personal liability, or even just the embarrassment of being named defendant in a lawsuit, directors will refrain from major decisions without getting buy-in from every stakeholder that might sue them. How will these firms compete with nimble U.S. and Chinese firms? Conducting business through an EU-listed firm will simply no longer be sustainable. Firms will go private, or seek to avoid these rules by domiciling and listing elsewhere.

In fact, the sustainability of Europe’s entire business eco-system would be put at risk. Directors of large listed EU firms would feel pressured to cut back on dividends and repurchases and invest more internally, even if such investments make little sense from investors’ perspective. Capital would be trapped in cash-rich firms and mis-spent. The flow of capital from larger public firms to smaller public and private firms would dry up. Firms looking to raise cash would find it more difficult. After all, why would investors hand funds over to directors whose EU-mandated fiduciary duties now require them to deploy the funds to benefit the global environment and society at large? The question answers itself.

If the European Commission really wishes to increase business sustainability, it should take steps to make it easier, not harder, for European firms to raise, deploy, and return equity capital. It should turn its back on the report’s proposals, which are as poorly-grounded as the findings of short-termism trotted out to justify them.

 

In listserv correspondence Jagdish Gangolly wrote:

If my reading of the Dennis article is right, he is arguing for the entity theory of accounting. That will require an entirely new thinking on corporate governance, somewhat on the lines of the German model where corporations have Board of directors and Board of supervisors, the latter consisting of all stakeholders. I personally think that would be a good idea and considerably improve corporate governance in the US.

Jensen Comment About a Shortage of German Shareholders Willing to Take Financial Risks in Equity Markets

German tendency toward government regulation and financial tradition for bank financing resulted in the smallness of stock markets and equity financing in Germany relative to the USA and even some other nations in Europe and China. Germany depends mostly upon banks for business financing. As a result there is no Silicon Valley for venture equity capital in Germany.

 

ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF PRIVATE EQUITY INVESTMENTS ON THE GERMAN STOCK MARKET ---
https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/48426/1/577332147.pdf

The German capital market has different characteristics to those of the US and the UK. The key differences involve the development of public equity markets, patterns of ownership structure, and minority shareholder protection. In contrast to other major economies, such as the US, the UK, and Japan, the number of exchange listed German companies is comparatively low. As a consequence, banks and other financial institutions act as the primary suppliers of external capital for (German) corporations. In addition, the typical market listed German firm is characterized by a small number of large shareholders. Franks and Mayer (2001) observe that “85% of the largest quoted companies have a single shareholder owning more 3 than 25% of the voting shares”1 (based on 171 companies in 1990). This percentage seems to be stable over time (at least for non-financial companies). In a study based on all nonfinancial companies listed on the „official‟ trading segment of the Frankfurt stock exchange between 1997 and 2004 (264 companies), Andres (2007) states that the percentage observed by Franks and Mayer (2001) is strikingly consistent with ownership patterns 15 years later, “with 84.5% of the firms featuring a shareholder with a stake of more than 25%.”

 

German inventors and developers seek outside investors such as USA's Tesla that is now building a mega electric vhicle factory in Germany. A German biotechnology developer, BioNTech, partnered with the USA's Pfizer to conduct clinical trials, finance, and produce its covid vaccine ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfizer%E2%80%93BioNTech_COVID-19_vaccine

BioNTech is the initial developer of the vaccine, and partnered with Pfizer for development, clinical research, overseeing the clinical trials, logistics, finances and for worldwide manufacturing,[32] with the exception of China, where the license to distribute and manufacture was purchased by Fosun, alongside its investment in BioNTech.[33][34] Distribution in Germany and Turkey is by BioNTech itself.[35] Pfizer indicated in November 2020, that 50 million doses could be available globally by the end of 2020, with about 1.3 billion doses in 2021.[

 Jensen Comment
Until the radical left destroys equity capital markets, the USA is probably the best nation for risky financing with corporate common stock. No other nation welcomes Initial Public Offerings like the USA. IPOs are generally marketed by investment banks in the USA because there is such a large throng of USA investors willing to make risky financial investments in their quests for the American Dream. Before the 2020 election there were, as Jagdish points out, tax advantages of equity investing in the USA.  After the 2020 election tax advantages of shareholder equity investing will largely disappear coupled with new wealth taxes and new taxes on businesses that, combined with newer German-like regulations of corporations, may dry up much of that risk capital in the USA.

The USA, along with the rest of the world, will be moving toward having governments finance risky ventures. This will help financial winners and losers doing social good to become funded with taxpayer dollars, but it also adds layers of inefficient politics, bureaucracy, fraud, and red tape. Exhibit A is the massive fraud that arose with Medicare and Medicaid financing of health care.

What's worse is that the paths of becoming billionaires with inventions and developments will probably destroy much of the innovation that comes along with the former American Dream.

Interestingly, while the American Dream declines the Chinese Dream is roaring.

After 40 years of capitalism, China’s income is divided almost as unequally as America’s ---
https://qz.com/1591961/thomas-pikettys-new-research-shows-rising-inequality-in-china/
China has more billionaires than any other country in the world (and generating more at a higher rate than any other nation) ---
https://qz.com/1919974/china-created-a-record-number-of-billionaires-despite-covid-19/

 

The China Dream:  Rise of the Billionaire Tiger Women from Poverty
"Tigress Tycoons," by Amy Chua, Newsweek Magazine Cover Story, March 12, 2012, pp. 30-39 ---
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/03/04/amy-chua-profiles-four-female-tycoons-in-china.html

Like a relentless overachiever, China is eagerly collecting superlatives. It’s the world’s fastest-growing major economy. It boasts the world’s biggest hydropower plant, shopping mall, and crocodile farm (home to 100,000 snapping beasts). It’s building the world’s largest airport (the size of Bermuda). And it now has more self-made female billionaires than any other country in the world.

 

This is not only because China has more females than any other nation. Many of these extraordinary women rose from nothing, despite living in a traditionally patriarchal society. They are a beguiling advertisement for the New China—bold, entrepreneurial, and tradition-breaking.

 

Four standouts among China’s intriguing new superwomen are Zhang Xin, the factory worker turned glamorous real-estate billionaire, with 3 million followers on Weibo (China’s Twitter); talk-show mogul Yang Lan, a blend of Audrey Hepburn and Oprah Winfrey; restaurant tycoon Zhang Lan, who as a girl slept between a pigsty and a chicken coop; and Peggy Yu Yu, cofounder and CEO of one of China’s biggest online retailers. None of these women inherited her money, and unlike many of the richest Chinese who are reluctant to draw public scrutiny to their path to wealth, they are proud to tell their stories.

 

How did these women make it to the top in the wild, wild East? Did they pay a price, either in their family or their professional lives? What was it that distinguished them from their famously hardworking compatriots? As I set out to explore these questions, my interest was partly personal. All four of my subjects lived for extended periods in the West. As a Chinese-American, and now the infamous Tiger Mom, I was curious: how “Chinese” were these new Chinese tigresses?

 

It turns out that each of these women, in her own way, is a dynamic combination of East and West. Perhaps this is one secret to their breathtaking success.

Zhang Xin is a rags-to-riches tale right out of Dickens. She was born in Beijing in 1965. The next year Mao launched the Cultural Revolution, and millions, including intellectuals and party dissidents, were purged or forcibly relocated to primitive rural areas. Children were encouraged to turn in their parents and teachers as counterrevolutionaries. Returning to Beijing in 1972, Zhang remembers sleeping on office desks, using books for pillows. At 14 she left for Hong Kong with her mother, and for five years she worked in a factory by day, attending school at night.

 

“I was a miserable kid,” she told me. With her chic cropped leather jacket and infectious laughter, the cofounder of the $4.6 billion Soho China real-estate empire is today an odd combination of measured calculation and warm spontaneity. “My mother drove me in school so hard. That generation didn’t know how to express love.

 

“But it wasn’t just me. It was all of China. I don’t think anybody was happy. If you look at photos from those days, no one is smiling.” She mentioned the contemporary artist Zhang Xiaogang, who paints “cold, emotionless” faces. “That’s exactly how we all grew up.”

. . .

But the four women I interviewed are a new breed. Progressive, worldly, and open to the media, they are in many ways not representative of China, past or present. Perhaps they are merely the lucky winners of the 1990s free-for-all in China, a window that may already be closing. Or perhaps they are the forerunners of a China still to come, in which paths to success are far more open. Each has found a way to dynamically fuse East and West, to staggering commercial success. It may still be a long way off, but if China can achieve a similar alchemy—melding its tremendous economic potential and traditional values with Western innovation, the rule of law, and individual liberties—it would be a land of opportunity tough to beat.


Harvard:  The EU’s Unsustainable Approach to Stakeholder Capitalism ---
https://hbr.org/2021/01/the-eus-unsustainable-approach-to-stakeholder-capitalism?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter_daily&utm_campaign=dailyalert_notactsubs&deliveryName=DM117021

. . .

Not only does the report fail to show that EU businesses are misgoverned, it also makes proposals that would actually put these businesses at risk. Most importantly, the report recommends an EU-wide reformulation of directors’ duties to include a broad and ill-defined range of considerations, including representing the interests of the “global environment” and “society at large.” These duties would be enforced by non-investor stakeholders bringing suits in court.

The effect of implementing such proposals would be corporate paralysis. Almost any board decision could be legally challenged by some stakeholder claiming a violation of directors’ almost boundary-less duties. Concerned about personal liability, or even just the embarrassment of being named defendant in a lawsuit, directors will refrain from major decisions without getting buy-in from every stakeholder that might sue them. How will these firms compete with nimble U.S. and Chinese firms? Conducting business through an EU-listed firm will simply no longer be sustainable. Firms will go private, or seek to avoid these rules by domiciling and listing elsewhere.

In fact, the sustainability of Europe’s entire business eco-system would be put at risk. Directors of large listed EU firms would feel pressured to cut back on dividends and repurchases and invest more internally, even if such investments make little sense from investors’ perspective. Capital would be trapped in cash-rich firms and mis-spent. The flow of capital from larger public firms to smaller public and private firms would dry up. Firms looking to raise cash would find it more difficult. After all, why would investors hand funds over to directors whose EU-mandated fiduciary duties now require them to deploy the funds to benefit the global environment and society at large? The question answers itself.

If the European Commission really wishes to increase business sustainability, it should take steps to make it easier, not harder, for European firms to raise, deploy, and return equity capital. It should turn its back on the report’s proposals, which are as poorly-grounded as the findings of short-termism trotted out to justify them.


Robotic Process Automation: Solutions Even a Managing Partner Can Use ---
http://thinktwenty20.com/index.php/blog/569-robotic-process-automation-solutions-even-a-managing-partner-can-use  


How to Mislead With Statistics

What Do Happiness Data Mean? Theory and Survey Evidence—Dan Benjamin, Jakina Debnam Guzman, Marc Fleurbaey, Ori Heffetz and Miles Kimball ---
https://blog.supplysideliberal.com/post/2021/2/11/what-do-happiness-data-mean-theory-and-survey-evidencedan-benjamin-jakina-debnam-guzman-ori-heffetz-marc-fleurbaey-and-miles-kimball


Yes, elephants are afraid of bees. So intensely that the tiny insect is helping farmers shoo away marauding elephants that could wipe out a year’s harvest in one night ---
https://m.timesofindia.com/city/mumbai/bees-halt-hungry-elephants-eyeing-crops-cut-human-animal-conflict/amp_articleshow/80609181.cms

Jensen Comment
This begs the question of whether the farmers on elephant land or the elephants are on farmers' land. This is possibly one of those examples externalities that capitalism alone cannot resolve.


What is a blockchain?
https://www.howtogeek.com/335814/what-is-a-blockchain/


Wood-pulp prices are soaring thanks to speculators in China, with help from paper takeout containers, a weaker dollar and people using restrooms at home instead of at the office ---
https://www.wsj.com/articles/wood-pulp-prices-surge-as-speculators-pounce-in-china-11612270802?mod=djemCFO

. . .

China buys more than one-third of the world’s pulp and churns out paper products and packaging. Shanghai pulp futures, which began trading in 2018, serve as a price guide for an array of varieties and grades, similar to the way that West Texas Intermediate and Brent crude futures are reference points for oil prices.

Demand for virgin pulp, from trees as opposed to recycled cardboard and paper, has been on the rise in China, which has limited scrap imports that it once bought by the boatful to feed its factories. Pulp producers in Europe and North America have been diverting shipments from local spot markets to China to capture the surging prices, analysts say.

Though pulp was a poor performer for most of 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic shook up the market for paper products and set the stage for a rebound in demand.

The big change occurred in bathrooms and toilet tissue, napkins and paper towels made with virgin pulp—and a lot less for the scratchy stuff made from recycled material and found in offices, restaurants and other public places. kitchens. More time at home during the pandemic meant greater demand for premium

A big question lingering over the market is how much of the demand is from Chinese companies needing pulp to make products and how much is being bought by speculators who have bid up futures and need bales in case they get stuck having to deliver pulp to trade counterparties. In the latter scenario, futures prices are effectively pulling up physical, or spot, prices and there is risk of a sharp reversal of prices,

Continued in article


Taxes in Retirement: How All 50 States Tax Retirees ---
https://www.kiplinger.com/retirement/602202/taxes-in-retirement-how-all-50-states-tax-retirees
For example what are the 33 states not having estate or inheritance taxes?
What states do not tax retirement income and capital gains?
What states do not have sales taxes?
What states have real estate transfer taxes?


Home prices near Miami have risen over 25% in the last year as Silicon Valley and Wall Street high income families flock to Florida ---
Click Here

Silicon Valley elites and hedge fund millionaires are flocking to Miami, and it's already resulting in a major spike in home prices. 

A new report from The New York Times' Nellie Bowles examines the influx of business leaders to South Florida amid the pandemic. What may have begun as a temporary stay has become a permanent transfer, and it's sending home prices skyrocketing. 

By the end of 2020, the median home sale price in Palm Beach shot up to $4.9 million, an increase of 29% from the year earlier, real estate firm Douglas Elliman told The Times. By comparison, Manhattan's prices rose only about 5% during the same period. 

Continued in article


Ten Pros and Cons of MacBook Air ---
https://honestproscons.com/pros-and-cons-of-macbook-air/
The article fails to discuss how the new M1 processsor changes MacBook Air for better and for worse.


How to Mislead With Statistics

Causal Inference: The Mixtape ---
https://www.amazon.com/Causal-Inference-Mixtape-Scott-Cunningham/dp/0300251688/ref=sr_1_1?tag=marginalrevol-20
I cannot comment on this particular new book that I've not yet read. But I do no that causal inference is easier said than done in statistical analysis because so many correlated variables have unknown or non-measurable underlying causes. One of the more famous findings of John Donohue and Steven Levitt was that legalized abortion played a major role in the dramatic decline in crime during the 1990s. The following paper raised doubts about the finding ---
https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w15098/w15098.pdf
One problem is that there are so many factors that affect both abortion and crime in selected age groups. One is the impact of the pill that affects both birth rates and poverty (freeing up young women and men to pursue more successful careers with less fear of pregnancy). Another underlying factor could be economic opportunity variations over time having an impact on crime rates. Another factor impacting crime rates and education is the rise in addiction to narcotics and other substances. Increased addiction leads to school drop outs, gang membership, prison, poverty, and murder rates. Murder and drug offense imprisonment may act like abortion in criminals from the streets.


Drew Brees and Tom Brady top the list of the highest-paid NFL players of all time ---
Click Here


How Billionaire Robert Smith Avoided Indictment in a Multimillion-Dollar Tax Case ---
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-02-03/how-billionaire-robert-smith-avoided-indictment-in-multimillion-dollar-tax-case?cmpid=BBD020321_BIZ&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=210203&utm_campaign=bloombergdaily


Some Things You Maybe Did Not Know About Negative Interest Rates ---
https://intheaggregate.substack.com/p/deep-into-the-negative?r=d78bg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=twitter


How to Avoid the Associate Professor Trap ---
https://www.chronicle.com/article/how-to-avoid-the-associate-professor-trap?cid=gen_sign_in

. . .

When it comes to service, Rabinowitz is right that some associate professors take on extensive responsibilities. For some, it’s a burden forced on them. But for others, the ability to do more good for their institutions represents an exciting opportunity. We need better ways to support both those reluctant burden-carriers and those who find joy and fulfillment in their institutional labor. But it’s important to distinguish between the reluctant and the willing. Academics are rarely generous in their capacity to see service as a form of expertise. Why not recalibrate service accordingly? Service specialties — what interests me? What am I good at? How can the institution support faculty — especially Black, Indigenous, and other faculty of color, and women — for a more realistic set of achievements in service to the academic mission? In the end, what is the difference, or is there a difference at all, between service and leadership?

This is just the start. Consider a wholesale reimagining of faculty careers. A reimagining that accounts for the importance of faculty development within the full complexity of our campuses, our professions, and our lives.

The real trap is the collective attachment to the belief that everyone’s career needs to look the same. It goes like this: If we are lucky, we scramble onto the tenure track and into the tenure review. Success! — and … then what? More of the same?

Stop and imagine instead a career in its full length and breadth, developing over decades. Think about a professional life as one with phases, opportunities, and interests that build on one another, that evolve — and, who knows? even change with growth. Imagine that each of us undertakes a thoughtful self-inventory about accomplishments and aspirations, framed in the institutional complexity of research, teaching, and faculty governance. And in the context of real human lives.

Different kinds of work have different seasons. Academic institutions need, desperately, faculty citizens who are skilled in many different forms of expertise. Imagine, then, that standards for professional success or advancement, or for status, promotions, or even (gasp!) raises follow achievement in the diverse forms of expertise, including service, that an institution needs. Given the choice between martyrdom and thoughtful engagement with our institutional roles, we will choose engagement every time

Continued in article

Jensen Comment
I've seen two types of career associate professors in my 40 years on the faculties of four universities. Nearly all did not become full professors because their research publication records since obtaining tenure are thin or non existent. The Type 1 associate professors stay active in teaching and service. They become the underpaid workhorses in the department apart from research. The Type 2 associate professors minimize service and research while teaching assigned courses and keeping minimal office hours. I've seen some that took on other careers alongside their teaching. I recall one that became a lobster fisherman, several that became farmers, several that were paid abysmally to prepare textbook supplements for publishers (think test banks and multimedia), several that had tax return preparation businesses, several that performed accounting services as CPAs, etc.

I think we need to look into the recommendations of the above article for the Type 1 workhorse associate professors who do a lot for the department other than research. I think we need to fire the Type 2 virtual drop outs whenever we can do better by hiring new assistant professors. Unfortunately, the market for new assistant professors in accountancy pays such high salaries that colleges decide it's better to keep the low-paid associate professors relative to paying more for scarce new assistant professors of accounting coming fresh out of Ph.D. programs. Some colleges seek out tenure rejects from prestigious universities. Often these rejects do adequate research and publishing for Tier 2 universities but not Tier 1 research universities.

 




From the Scout Report on February 5, 2021

SHINY SCIENCE --- Shiny (rstudio.com) 
Shiny's developers describe it as "an R package that makes it easy to build interactive web apps straight from R." Users need not have web development experience, nor do they need to write HTML, CSS, or Javascript. Instead, users construct the analysis and visualizations they desire as fairly standard R code from which Shiny will generate an interactive web version. In the Gallery section of the Shiny site, users can locate a variety of data dashboards that were created with Shiny. The Get Started section provides links to a number of written and video tutorials that demonstrate how to install and use the system. The Deploy section of the site discusses options and requirements for hosting web applications that were created with Shiny. Being an R package, Shiny requires R to run. It can be installed from CRAN by running install.packages("shiny") at an R console.


ZAPIER SCIENCE --- https://zapier.com/
Zapier is a service designed to connect and automate other web applications. Their homepage gives an example that will be applicable to many readers. When an email with an attachment arrives in a user's Gmail inbox, Zapier will copy the attachment from Gmail to Dropbox and then send the user a notification in Slack about the new file. Additional examples can be located in the Popular Ways to Use Zapier section (found under the Explore tab on the website). A full list of the more than 2,000 apps that work with Zapier can also be located under the Explore tab. The Product Tour (under Why Zapier?) provides a video tutorial demonstrating how to use the service. Users on the free tier can configure up to five workflows that will take up to 100 actions per month. Additional and more complex automation is available for a monthly fee.




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


Education Tutorials

ENGLISH LEARNERS IN STEM SUBJECTS: TRANSFORMING CLASSROOMS, SCHOOLS, AND LIVES ---
www.nap.edu/catalog/25182/english-learners-in-stem-subjects-transforming-classrooms-schools-and-lives

STEM Resource Guide for Kids ---
https://www.computerscience.org/resources/stem-for-kids/

THE GIST: CLASSROOM STRATEGIES FOR INCLUSIVE STEM LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS ---
www.thegist.edu.au/media/1534/gist_classroom_strategies_booklet_web.pdf

Future of Text ---
https://futuretextpublishing.com/future-of-text-2020-download/

Computer Coding Skills

The top 10 coding skills recruiters are looking for right now — and how to learn them online for free
The top coding languages recruiters are looking for right now - Business Insider

01 C/C++
02 Python
03 Java
04 JavaScript
05 Go
06 C#
07 Assembly
08 PHP
09 Ruby
10 Matlab


THE CODING TRAIN (video) --- www.youtube.com/user/shiffman/featured

Free Code Camp --- http://www.freecodecamp.com/

Sololearn (coding) --- https://www.sololearn.com/

Khan Academy Computer Programming --- https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/computer-programming 

DevArt: Art made with code --- https://devart.withgoogle.com/ 

Learn How to Code for Free: A DIY Guide for Learning HTML, Python, Javascript & More ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/03/learn-how-to-code-for-free-a-diy-guide-for-learning-html-python-javascript-more.html 

Python Programming Language --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_(programming_language )

Learn Python Programming Language with a Free Online Course from MIT ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/05/learn-python-with-a-free-online-course-from-mit.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29 

Free eBooks on Computer Programming from O’Reilly Media ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/05/36-ebooks-on-computer-programming-from-oreilly-media-free-to-download-and-read.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29 

CS For All: Introduction to Computer Science and Python Programming ---
https://www.edx.org/course/cs-all-introduction-computer-science-harveymuddx-cs005x 

THE CODING TRAIN (video) --- www.youtube.com/user/shiffman/featured

GRASSHOPPER --- https://learn.grasshopper.app/

QIFI CODE GENERATOR --- https://qifi.org/

THE ART, SCIENCE, AND ENGINEERING OF PROGRAMMING --- https://programming-journal.org/

PROGRAMMINGKNOWLEDGE --- www.youtube.com/c/ProgrammingKnowledge/featured

ALL YOU NEED IS CODE --- www.allyouneediscode.eu/home

REN'PY (generate a novel from code) --- www.renpy.org

Bob Jensen's threads on computers and networking ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#---ComputerNetworking-IncludingInternet

Bob Jensen's threads on education links ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#EducationResearch


Engineering, Science, and Medicine Tutorials

Is Spacetime Real?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2021/02/12/ask-ethan-is-spacetime-real/?sh=75aedb47fe85

ENGLISH LEARNERS IN STEM SUBJECTS: TRANSFORMING CLASSROOMS, SCHOOLS, AND LIVES ---
www.nap.edu/catalog/25182/english-learners-in-stem-subjects-transforming-classrooms-schools-and-lives

THE GIST: CLASSROOM STRATEGIES FOR INCLUSIVE STEM LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS ---
www.thegist.edu.au/media/1534/gist_classroom_strategies_booklet_web.pdf

From the Scout Report on January 29, 2021

BOXING FOR BREAKFAST OR "JUST BECAUSE"? NEW RESEARCH EXPLORES WHY OCTOPUSES PUNCH FISH

 

Octopuses Observed Punching Fish, Perhaps Out of Spite, Scientists Say
https://www.sciencealert.com/octopuses-observed-punching-fish-perhaps-out-of-spite-scientists-say 

Octopus punches fish in the head (just because it can)
https://www.livescience.com/octopuses-punch-fish.html

Octopuses Like to Punch Fish, New Research Suggests
https://gizmodo.com/octopuses-like-to-punch-fish-new-research-suggests-1845929379

Octopuses punch fishes during collaborative interspecific hunting events
https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ecy.3266

Octopod: Inside The Amazing World Of The Octopus
https://www.npr.org/2018/01/09/576930301/octopod-inside-the-amazing-world-of-the-octopus

And the world's greatest pack hunters are...
https://animalogic.ca/wild/and-the-worlds-greatest-pack-hunters-are

According to new research from Eduardo Sampaio, Martim Costa Seco, Rui Rosa, and Simon Gingins (a team of animal behavior and biology specialists), there may be a smackdown happening in the sea. The team's research on collaborative hunting and game theory led to a fascinating discovery: video footage of octopuses getting violent towards their fellow marine inhabitants. Described as "active displacement," and "a swift, explosive motion with one arm," the octopuses are essentially throwing jabs at nearby fish. In part, these punches are an aspect of the collaborative hunting partnership between coral reef fishes and octopuses; essentially, the move increases an octopus's access to prey. However, though many of the jabs are purposeful and practical, the research suggests that sometimes the jabs are unrelated to hunting. More analysis is needed to fully understand the phenomenon, but the research team hypothesized two reasons for these extra punches: first, an act of spite, and second, an "act of aggression with delayed benefits." In addition to the scientific insight, this discovery has provided some comic relief for the researchers. After all, it is a phenomenon that perhaps everyone can all relate to: Some days one feels like the octopus, some days one feels like the sucker-punched fish. [EMB]

At the first link, Peter Dockrill's article for ScienceAlert describes this "partner control mechanism," comparing it to the way one might "elbow-out fellow diners at a buffet." The second link leads to Mindy Weisberger's reporting for Live Science, which opens by pondering the question "why do octopuses have eight arms?" and suggests the anatomical adaptation is all "the better to punch fish with." Weisberger also provides insights on the "hunting alliances" formed between octopuses and fish, a partnership that scientists have observed for decades. To view these brawls, readers will want to check out George Dvorsky's article for Gizmodo at the third link, which includes a link to video footage. Readers will find the study, published in the scientific journal Ecology, at the fourth link. If this story sparked an interest in octopuses generally, check out the fifth link. Here, readers will find an episode of NPR's podcast 1A that dives into a thirty minute discussion on the creatures (notable facts include that octopuses have a beak in their armpits, can release venom and ink, can taste with their skin, and can squeeze through an orange-sized pipe, despite sometimes weighing more than 100 pounds). Readers curious about other species that employ collaborative hunting techniques may enjoy the sixth link, which leads to a topical excerpt from Animalogic by Jennifer Huizen.

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

DISABILITY THINKING --- https://disabilitythinking.com/

Bob Jensen's threads on Economics, Anthropology, Social Sciences, and Philosophy tutorials are at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm

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


Law and Legal Studies

DISABILITY THINKING --- https://disabilitythinking.com/

The History of Disabilities in the United States ---
http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2012/09/26/review-kim-e-nielsen-disability-history-united-states

Bob Jensen's threads on law and legal studies are at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2-Part2.htm#Law


Math Tutorials

 

Bob Jensen's threads on free online mathematics tutorials are at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Scroll down to Mathematics and Statistics

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


History Tutorials

History of American Newspapers ---
The History of American Newspapers Has Been Digitized: Explore 114 Years of Editor & Publisher, "the Bible of the Newspaper Industry" | Open Culture

The History of Disabilities in the United States ---
http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2012/09/26/review-kim-e-nielsen-disability-history-united-states

WORDGATHERING: A JOURNAL OF DISABILITY POETRY AND LITERATURE ---
https://wordgathering.com/

Birth of Thomas Edison ---
https://info.mysticstamp.com/this-day-in-history-february-11-1847-2/

PRESERVING THE HISTORIC BROADCASTS OF WRVR-FM PUBLIC RADIO ---
http://wrvrtranscripts.americanarchive.org/

MUSEUM OF INTERNATIONAL FOLK ART: ONLINE EXPERIENCES ---
http://moifa.org/visit/online.html

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

A Tour of U.S. Accents: Bostonian, Philadelphese, Gullah Creole & Other Intriguing Dialects ---
https://www.openculture.com/2021/02/accent-expert-gives-a-tour-of-u-s-accents.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Future of Text ---
https://futuretextpublishing.com/future-of-text-2020-download/

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

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


Music Tutorials

A Glorious Concert Celebrating the Films of Hayao Miyazaki, Arranged by Film Composer Joe Hisaishi ---
https://www.openculture.com/2021/02/a-glorious-concert-celebrating-the-films-of-hayao-miyazaki-arranged-by-film-composer-joe-hisaishi.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

CIVIL RIGHTS ON THE B-SIDE ---
www.kennedy-center.org/education/resources-for-educators/classroom-resources/media-and-interactives/media/music/civil-rights-on-the-b-side

CIVIL RIGHTS: THE MUSIC AND THE MOVEMENT ---
www.youtube.com/watch/QDbSjkkHPGs

THE FREEDOM RIDERS AND THE POPULAR MUSIC OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT ---
https://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plans/freedom-riders-and-popular-music-civil-rights-movement

A PLAYLIST FOR THE MOVEMENT ---
www.tolerance.org/podcasts/teaching-hard-history/civil-rights-movement/a-playlist-for-the-movement

VIRTUAL NONPROFIT TOUR OF THE MEMPHIS ROCK 'N' SOUL MUSEUM ---
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w20sPrzXfE

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

Grammica Grammar Check ---
https://grammica.com/grammar-check

Future of Text ---
https://futuretextpublishing.com/future-of-text-2020-download/

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/

February 2, 2021

Tampa’s Mayor vs. a Covid-Era Super Bowl

Metformin Could Help Prevent Some Breast Cancers

Moral Injury: Pandemic’s Fallout for Health Care Workers

‘Category 5’ COVID Hurricane Approaches, Expert Says

Tough Pain Relief Choices in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Vaccine Not as Effective Against S. African Variant

CDC: Wear Mask Fitters for Better COVID Protection

NYC Indoor Dining Reopens on Valentine’s Day

CDC Orders Face Masks on Mass Transit

February 3, 2021

U.S. to Ship 1 Million Vaccine Doses to Pharmacies

Many Docs Biased Against Patients With Disabilities

Black Vaccine Hesitancy Rooted in Mistrust, Doubts

Like Flu, COVID-19 May Turn Out to Be Seasonal

U.S. to Buy 8.5 million at-home COVID Tests

‘No Red Flags’ In Pregnant Women Taking Vaccine

Seniors Without Family or Friends Lag in Vaccine Rate

Tampa’s Mayor vs. a Covid-Era Super Bowl

Metformin Could

Help Prevent Some Breast Cancers

February 4, 2021

Green Tea, Coffee May Help You Avoid a 2nd Heart Attack

Whole Wheat Is Better for You Than White Bread

Grassroots Efforts Help People Get COVID Vaccines

Combo Drug Doubles Lung Cancer Survival

U.S. COVID-19 Death Toll Passes 450,000

Drugged Driving a Growing Threat on U.S. Roads

Breast Cancer Now the Leading Cancer Diagnosis

AstraZeneca Vaccine May Reduce COVID Transmission

Program Will Ship 337 Million Doses to Poor Nations

February 6, 2021

Doctors: Don’t Make Game Day ‘Superspreader Sunday’

Are COVID Deaths the Result of 'Social Murder'?

Many Adults Don't Get Enough Fruits, Vegetables

Government Seeking More Rapid COVID-19 Tests

J&J Seeks Emergency Approval of COVID Vaccine

U.K. to Test COVID Vaccine Mixing

Climate Change May Have Helped COVID-19 Emerge

Very Little Spread of COVID at Kids' Day Camps

Why 2 COVID Vaccine Doses Are Needed

February 7, 2021

Doctors: Don’t Make Game Day ‘Superspreader Sunday’

Are COVID Deaths the Result of 'Social Murder'?

Many Adults Don't Get Enough Fruits, Vegetables

Government Seeking More Rapid COVID-19 Tests

J&J Seeks Emergency Approval of COVID Vaccine

U.K. to Test COVID Vaccine Mixing

Climate Change May Have Helped COVID-19 Emerge

Very Little Spread of COVID at Kids' Day Camps

Why 2 COVID Vaccine Doses Are Needed

February 10, 2021

NYC Indoor Dining Will Resume Friday

Experts Debunk COVID-19 Vaccine-Shingles Link

Study: COVID Cases Have Been ‘Severely Undercounted’

White House Boosts Vaccines to Underserved Communities

Beyond COVID-19: Can mRNA Treat Diseases, Too?

Coronavirus ‘Most Likely’ Started in Animals: WHO

Can Gut Parasites Slow the Aging Process?

High BP at Night, Alzheimer's Risk May Rise, Too

Neanderthal Poop Shows Clues to Humans' Microbiome

February 12, 2021

How Families Cope When Only One Gets COVID Vaccine

Walmart, Walgreens, CVS to Offer COVID-19 Vaccines

Prior Exposure to Common Cold Won't Shield You From COVID

You've Had COVID: 1 Vaccine Dose May Be Enough

COVID Quarantines Not Necessary for Vaccinated People

Did the New Coronavirus Come From Pangolins?

Child Suicides Rising During Lockdown

Obesity Helps Drive Half of New Diabetes Cases

Too Much Light at Night May Raise Odds for Thyroid Cancer

February 13, 2021

Is Any Amount of Coffee Safe for Baby During Pregnancy?

Southern California Is Origin of New COVID-19 Variant

At Current Vaccination Pace, When Is Herd Immunity Likely?

Report: Trump Sicker With COVID-19 Than Portrayed

Fauci: ‘Open Season’ for Shots May Start in April

Expert Tips for Teachers When Schools Reopen

White House Weighing Domestic COVID Travel Restrictions

Variants Spread as CA Surpasses NY in COVID Deaths

Shortages Force Los Angeles Vaccine Sites Closures

 


Alzheimer's Disease --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alzheimer%27s_disease

Also see --- https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-health-watch/how-michigan-can-prepare-coming-alzheimers-crisis

The Other Pandemic: What to Do About the Coming Alzheimer’s Crisis ---
https://www.barrons.com/articles/the-coming-alzheimers-crisisand-what-to-do-about-it-51612543200

Although 80% of those with the disease are 75 or over, Alzheimer's typically emerges in midlife, 20 to 30 years before symptoms like memory loss or troubles with language appear.


Prostate cancer treatment leaves men disease-free after blasting tumors with sound waves ---
https://www.studyfinds.org/prostate-cancer-sound-waves-cure/


Germany:  Sperm ‘switch’ would allow men to turn their fertility on and off ---
https://www.studyfinds.org/sperm-switch-men-control-fertility/




Humor for February 2021

The 10 Best Comedy Movies on Netflix ---
https://www.howtogeek.com/709539/the-10-best-comedy-movies-on-netflix/

Breakup Humor --- https://jborden.com/2021/02/13/a-little-break-up-humor/

SNL’s cold open spoofed the Super Bowl preshow — and the game’s awkward ads ---
https://www.vox.com/2021/2/7/22271013/snl-cold-open-super-bowl-commercial

Memories of the 1950s ---
https://1funny.com/fond-memories-of-the-1950s
Thank you Auntie Bev


Forwarded by Tina

Why do we love children? 

1) NUDITY 
I was driving with my three young children one warm summer evening when a woman in the convertible ahead of us stood up and waved. She was stark naked! As I was reeling from the shock, I heard my 5-year-old shout from the back seat, 'Mom, that lady isn't wearing a seat belt!' 

2) OPINIONS 
On the first day of school, a first-grader handed his teacher a note from his mother. The note read, 'The opinions expressed by this child are not necessarily those of his parents ' 

3) KETCHUP 
A woman was trying hard to get the ketchup out of the jar. During her struggle the phone rang so she asked her 4-year-old daughter to answer the phone. 'Mommy can't come to the phone to talk to you right now. She's hitting the bottle.' 

4) MORE NUDITY 
A little boy got lost at the YMCA and found himself in the women's locker room. When he was spotted, the room burst into shrieks, with ladies grabbing towels and running for cover. The little boy watched in amazement and then asked, 'What's the matter, haven't you ever seen a little boy before?' 

5) POLICE # 1 
While taking a routine vandalism report at an elementary school, I was interrupted by a little girl about 6 years old. Looking up and down at my uniform, she asked, 'Are you a cop? Yes,' I answered and continued writing the report. My mother said if I ever needed help I should ask the police. Is that right?' 'Yes, that's right,' I told her. 'Well, then,' she said as she extended her foot toward me, 'would you please tie my shoe?' 

6) POLICE # 2 
It was the end of the day when I parked my police van in front of the station. As I gathered my equipment, my K-9 partner, Jake, was barking, and I saw a little boy staring in at me. 'Is that a dog you got back there?' he asked. 
'It sure is,' I replied. 
Puzzled, the boy looked at me and then towards the back of the van. Finally he said, 'What'd he do?' 

7) ELDERLY 
While working for an organization that delivers lunches to elderly shut-ins, I used to take my 4-year-old daughter on my afternoon rounds. She was unfailingly intrigued by the various appliances of old age, particularly the canes, walkers and wheelchairs. One day I found her staring at a pair of false teeth soaking in a glass. As I braced myself for the inevitable barrage of questions, she merely turned and whispered, 'The tooth fairy will never believe this!' 

8) DRESS-UP 
A little girl was watching her parents dress for a party.. When she saw her dad donning his tuxedo, she warned, 'Daddy, you shouldn't wear that suit.' 
'And why not, darling?' 
'You know that it always gives you a headache the next morning.' 

9) DEATH 
While walking along the sidewalk in front of his church, our minister heard the intoning of a prayer that nearly made his collar wilt. Apparently, his 5-year-old son and his playmates had found a dead robin. Feeling that proper burial should be performed, they had secured a small box and cotton batting, then dug a hole and made ready for the disposal of the deceased. 
The minister's son was chosen to say the appropriate prayers and with sonorous dignity intoned his version of what he thought his father always said: 'Glory be unto the Faaather, and unto the Sonnn, and into the hole he goooes.' (I want this line used at my funeral!) 

10) SCHOOL 
A little girl had just finished her first week of school. 'I'm just wasting my time,' she said to her mother. 'I can't read, I can't write, and they won't let me talk!' 

11) BIBLE 
A little boy opened the big family Bible. He was fascinated as he fingered through the old pages. Suddenly, something fell out of the Bible. He picked up the object and looked at it. What he saw was an old leaf that had been pressed in between the pages. 
'Mama, look what I found,' the boy called out. 
'What have you got there, dear?' 
With astonishment in the young boy's voice, he answered, 'I think it's Adam's underwear!'

 




Humor January 2021 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book21q1.htm#Humor0121.htm  

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




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/

 

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Phone:  603-823-8482 
Email:  rjensen@trinity.edu