Tidbits on May 31, 2021
Bob Jensen at Trinity University

Set 5 of Bob Jensen's Favorite Older Photographs
http://cs.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Favorites/Set05/FavoritesSet05.htm

 

Tidbits on May 31 2021
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Bob Jensen's Tidbits ---
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, Animations, and Audio

Watch the Building of the Eiffel Tower in Timelapse Animation ---
https://www.openculture.com/2021/05/watch-the-building-of-the-eiffel-tower-in-timelapse-animation.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Real D-Day Landing Footage, Enhanced & Colorized with Artificial Intelligence (June 6, 1944) ---
https://www.openculture.com/2021/05/real-d-day-landing-footage-enhanced-colorized-with-artificial-intelligence-june-6-1944.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

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 

The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain’s Headbanging Cover of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” ---
Click Here

Promising Country Band “Bexar” ---
https://jborden.com/2021/05/24/music-monday-promising-country-band-bexar/

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


Photographs and Art

21 Award-Winning Photos From National Sony World Photography 2021 Competition ---
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ceciliarodriguez/2021/02/11/21-award-winning-photos-from-national-sony-world-photography-2021-competition/?sh=21cf73c325d4

ePHHOTOzine Award Winning Photographs ---
https://www.ephotozine.com/photos/id/62484633

Pinterest Award Winning Photographs ---
https://www.pinterest.com/deavonlea/award-winning-photography/

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

Locating Queer Memories ---
https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/512dbf55af5647fba8ef7ea629d353cd

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 May 31, 2021
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/2020/TidbitsQuotations053121.htm             




Creative Thinking: A Free Online Course from Imperial College London ---
https://www.openculture.com/2021/05/creative-thinking-a-free-online-course-from-imperial-college-london.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29


30+ Maps Of America That Will Make You Question Everything You Know About The USA ---
Click Here
Thank you Arnold Barkman for the heads up.


Good News Tidbits

An Interactive Visualization of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy ---
Click Here
Bob Jensen's threads on visualization of data ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/352wpvisual/000datavisualization.htm

Amazon Publishing, DPLA Ink Deal to Lend E-books in Libraries ---
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/libraries/article/86399-amazon-publishing-dpla-ink-deal-to-lend-digital-content-in-libraries.html

Judge Blocks Biden Administration From Doling Out Grants Based on Race, Gender ---
Click Here
This is America

The Largest Free Kitchen in the World: Discover India’s Golden Temple Which Serves 100,000 Free Meals Per Day ---
https://www.openculture.com/2021/05/the-largest-free-kitchen-in-the-world.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29


Bad News Tidbits

Maybe China is not so friendly toward its billionaires after all ---
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2021/05/china-fact-of-the-day-63.html

The Cost of Not Prosecuting Shoplifting --- Having Nothing Left to Shoplift or to Purchase
Walgreens said that thefts at its stores in San Francisco were four times the chain’s national average, and that it had closed 17 stores, largely because the scale of thefts had made business untenable ---
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2021/05/san-francisco-fact-of-the-day-2.html

Dangers of Open Source:  When "Published" Papers Disappear From the Archives
Why open alone is not enough - Microsoft Academic discontinued & Semantic Scholar withdraws hosting of "Open access" papers ---
http://musingsaboutlibrarianship.blogspot.com/2021/05/why-open-alone-is-not-enough-microsoft.html

NYT:  Europe Failed Miserably With Vaccines. Of Course It Did ---
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/17/opinion/europe-vaccines-commission.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

Academic Freedom under Attack: The Case of Leicester and Beyond ---
https://arc.eaa-online.org/blog/academic-freedom-under-attack-case-leicester-and-beyond

The High Cost of Providing Housing for the Homeless leads to Abandonment of Programs ---
Click Here

Prison Sentence for College Employee for Wire Fraud ---
Click Here

Germany: Family Minister Giffey quits amid plagiarism scandal ---
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-family-minister-giffey-quits-amid-plagiarism-scandal/a-57580334

‘Inconceivable’: why has Australia’s history been left to rot? ---
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/may/23/inconceivable-why-has-australias-history-been-left-to-rot

By demanding so much rigor in academic research, economists created an environment in which most of the economics people actually see is less rigorous ---
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-05-24/why-economics-is-failing-us?sref=htOHjx5Y

Here’s the dirty little secret that few of my fellow economics professors will admit: As those “perfect” research papers have grown longer, they have also become less relevant. Fewer people — including academics — read them carefully or are influenced by them when it comes to policy.

Actual views on politics are more influenced by debates on social media, especially on such hot topics such as the minimum wage or monetary and fiscal policy. The growing role of Twitter doesn’t have to be a bad thing. Social media is egalitarian, spurs spirited debate and enables research cooperation across great distances.

Still, an earlier culture of “debate through books” has been replaced by a new culture of “debate through tweets.” This is not necessarily progress.

To use a bit of economic terminology, economists haven’t fully internalized the lessons of the Laffer Curve. By demanding so much rigor in academic research, they’ve created an environment in which most of the economics people actually see is less rigorous.

There is also a political effect. Twitter is a relatively left-wing social medium, and so the tenor of popular economic discourse has moved to the left.

Jensen Comment
One problem of demanding too much rigor is that it stifles research not amenable to rigor. At the other side of the coin too little rigor stifles credibility and robustness.


Stocks are usually lower after inflation breaches 4%, and there is a good reason ---
https://www.wsj.com/articles/inflations-magic-number-is-four-11621355006?mod=djm_dailydiscvrtst

Three may be the magic number, but it is four that obsesses the market. Specifically, inflation rising above 4% last week proved a shock for inflation-sensitive assets, with bond yields jumping and stocks falling, growth stocks most of all.

 

It might sound like yet another bit of market mysticism, alongside “cup and handle” patterns in charts or the people who try to divine price movements from the stars. But there is more than just a solid history of the market freaking out when inflation passes 4%; it has logic too.

The story goes like this. When inflation is low, rising inflation is a good thing for stocks. A pick up from 1% to 2% means the risk of falling into deflation—a serious threat to the stock market—has gone down, so share prices should go up. The market also tends to be especially sensitive to the economy when inflation is very low, because it generally means the economy is quite weak; a stronger economy pushes up inflation, and is good for stocks. The Federal Reserve is also happy to ignore rising inflation at this point, because it is what policy makers want.

As inflation rises further, the gains for stocks decrease, because deflation risk is forgotten and the prospect of a more active Fed counteracts the continued benefit from a stronger economy. But there’s a tipping point where the gains from the economy are offset by the threat from the Fed, and that seems to be about 4%. Higher bond yields switch from being good for stocks to being bad for stocks, and the market focuses on the danger of inflation instead of the rewards from the economy that’s creating that inflation.

We saw this last week, with stock prices and bond yields moving in opposite directions every day. The link between the two, measured as the correlation of their daily changes over the past 100 days, is the lowest in more than 15 years. Instead of more inflation being good news for stocks, it is now bad news—while still being bad for bonds, meaning higher yields. Less concern about inflation now means lower Treasury yields, and higher stock prices.

 

The 4% logic isn’t written in stone, but it has reasonable historic support. Since the S&P 500 was created in 1957 U.S. inflation has risen above 4% nine times, and in eight of those cases stocks were lower three months later. The exception, in 2005, saw inflation fall back below 4% again almost immediately, calming investors.

As in almost everything in investing, there are too few examples to rule out dumb luck; the S&P has fallen over three months about a third of the time. But the logic behind a shift in investor views at somewhere around 4% is pretty compelling, and it is certainly true that investors are worried about inflation now in a way that they weren’t just a few short months ago.

Continued in article


Michel Foucault --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault

How Michel Foucault Lost the Left and Won the Right ---
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/25/opinion/michel-foucault.html?referringSource=articleShare


Hayek and Keynes: Bomb Throwers ---
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2021/05/hayek-and-keynes-bomb-throwers.html


Hi Jagdish,

How to Mislead With Statistics

Part of the problem in analyzing poverty in the USA arises from how we measure it.
 

According to The Heritage Foundation, the federal poverty line also excludes income other than cash income, especially welfare benefits. Thus, if food stamps and public housing were successfully raising the standard of living for poverty stricken individuals, then the poverty line figures would not shift, since they do not consider the income equivalents of such entitlements.[57]\\

 

Steven Pinker, writing in an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal, claims that the poverty rate, as measured by consumption, has fallen from 11% in 1988 to 3% in 2018.[58] Burkhauser et al. find that accounting for cash income, taxes, and major in-kind transfers and updating poverty thresholds for inflation show that a Full-income Poverty Rate based on President Johnson's standards fell from 19.5 percent to 2.3 percent over the 1963–2017 period.[59]

Think for example of what Medicaid has done for health care and long-term nursing services that is excluded from the poverty statistics. Millions of middle class Americans are trying to make their parents poor enough to qualify for free Medicaid long term Care.

One of the huge exclusions is income in the underground economy that is never reported and analyzed in poverty statistics. A USA article once estimated this unreported and untaxed income to be over $2 trillion. In San Antonio we saw a lot of this where house cleaners often earned over $30 per hour in the underground economy while collecting aid to dependent children and Medicaid benefits while bringing home $30 per hour in unreported income.

Why do housecleaners earn over $30 per hour? Partly its quality of service, but the major share of that high wage is an established reputation for reliability and honesty. Word spreads very quickly when a reliable and honest maid is discovered.

Bob


The Impact of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Decision in South Dakota v. Wayfair ---
https://www.cpajournal.com/2021/04/26/the-impact-of-the-u-s-supreme-courts-decision-in-south-dakota-v-wayfair/




From the Scout Report on May 21, 2021

CollectionBuilder --- https://collectionbuilder.github.io/  
CollectionBuilder is a Jekyll-based static site generator that produces metadata-driven digital exhibitions and digital collection websites. Users create a CSV file that describes the images, documents, and other media to be included on a site. From this file, CollectionBuilder generates a complete static site. In addition to item-level information pages, CollectionBuilder can also produce a number of different visualizations and navigation aids such as maps, timelines, subject-based browsing pages, and several different kinds of tag clouds. The CollectionBuilder documentation provides step-by-step instructions describing three different types of installation: using GitHub Pages, as a standalone tool to use on any site, or as a skin for data stored in a CONTENTdm instance. The project front page links to example sites employing each of these configurations and describes what use-case each is best suited for. In the GitHub Pages installation type, no software is required beyond a web browser. The other installation types require git, Ruby, and Jekyll. Instructions for how to install the required software are provided for Windows, macOS, and Linux systems.


Dasel --- https://github.com/TomWright/dasel
Dasel (short for "data selector") is a data query and editing tool that provides a uniform syntax for working with multiple document formats. The platform currently supports JSON, YAML, TOML, XML, and CSV. In the dasel documentation, users can locate a detailed reference manual describing the query syntax. A number of examples are provided that show a set of dasel selectors for common tasks (e.g., selecting a single value, selecting a given array index, etc.) and the corresponding jq and yq syntax for comparison. Examples are also provided that demonstrate the dasel put syntax that can be used to modify a document. Dasel's GitHub releases page provides compiled binaries for Windows, macOS, and Linux systems.




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


Education Tutorials

An Interactive Visualization of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy ---
Click Here
Bob Jensen's threads on visualization of data ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/352wpvisual/000datavisualization.htm

PIXPLOT: VISUALIZING IMAGE FIELDS (restoring historic photographs) ---
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/lab-apps/pix-plot/index.html

OPEN PEDAGOGY NOTEBOOK ---
http://openpedagogy.org/

MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM: TEACHER RESOURCES ---
http://teachers.mam.org/

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


Engineering, Science, and Medicine Tutorials

Food for Health ---
https://foodforhealth.techno-science.ca/

Agfuse (farmers share tips for farmers and science) ---
https://agfuse.com/

ON THE FARM STEM: ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS & INTERACTIONS ---
www.onthefarmstem.com/curriculum/behavior

How to Dress for Space
www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/business/immersive-space-suits-history-fashion-and-function

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

An Interactive Visualization of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy ---
Click Here
Bob Jensen's threads on visualization of data ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/352wpvisual/000datavisualization.htm

ACRES OF ANCESTRY (history of blacks and agriculture) ---
https://acresofancestry.org/

The Largest Free Kitchen in the World: Discover India’s Golden Temple Which Serves 100,000 Free Meals Per Day ---
https://www.openculture.com/2021/05/the-largest-free-kitchen-in-the-world.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Out and Around (LGBTQ rights around the world) ---
https://itgetsbetter.org/blog/lesson/out-and-around/

Locating Queer Memories ---
https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/512dbf55af5647fba8ef7ea629d353cd

Stocks are usually lower after inflation breaches 4%, and there is a good reason ---
https://www.wsj.com/articles/inflations-magic-number-is-four-11621355006?mod=djm_dailydiscvrtst

Three may be the magic number, but it is four that obsesses the market. Specifically, inflation rising above 4% last week proved a shock for inflation-sensitive assets, with bond yields jumping and stocks falling, growth stocks most of all.

It might sound like yet another bit of market mysticism, alongside “cup and handle” patterns in charts or the people who try to divine price movements from the stars. But there is more than just a solid history of the market freaking out when inflation passes 4%; it has logic too.

The story goes like this. When inflation is low, rising inflation is a good thing for stocks. A pick up from 1% to 2% means the risk of falling into deflation—a serious threat to the stock market—has gone down, so share prices should go up. The market also tends to be especially sensitive to the economy when inflation is very low, because it generally means the economy is quite weak; a stronger economy pushes up inflation, and is good for stocks. The Federal Reserve is also happy to ignore rising inflation at this point, because it is what policy makers want.

As inflation rises further, the gains for stocks decrease, because deflation risk is forgotten and the prospect of a more active Fed counteracts the continued benefit from a stronger economy. But there’s a tipping point where the gains from the economy are offset by the threat from the Fed, and that seems to be about 4%. Higher bond yields switch from being good for stocks to being bad for stocks, and the market focuses on the danger of inflation instead of the rewards from the economy that’s creating that inflation.

We saw this last week, with stock prices and bond yields moving in opposite directions every day. The link between the two, measured as the correlation of their daily changes over the past 100 days, is the lowest in more than 15 years. Instead of more inflation being good news for stocks, it is now bad news—while still being bad for bonds, meaning higher yields. Less concern about inflation now means lower Treasury yields, and higher stock prices.

The 4% logic isn’t written in stone, but it has reasonable historic support. Since the S&P 500 was created in 1957 U.S. inflation has risen above 4% nine times, and in eight of those cases stocks were lower three months later. The exception, in 2005, saw inflation fall back below 4% again almost immediately, calming investors.

As in almost everything in investing, there are too few examples to rule out dumb luck; the S&P has fallen over three months about a third of the time. But the logic behind a shift in investor views at somewhere around 4% is pretty compelling, and it is certainly true that investors are worried about inflation now in a way that they weren’t just a few short months ago.

Continued in article

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-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

An Interactive Visualization of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy ---
Click Here
Bob Jensen's threads on visualization of data ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/352wpvisual/000datavisualization.htm

The Story of Elizebeth Friedman, the Pioneering Cryptologist Who Thwarted the Nazis & Got Burned by J. Edgar Hoover ---
https://www.openculture.com/2021/05/the-story-of-elizebeth-friedman.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Real D-Day Landing Footage, Enhanced & Colorized with Artificial Intelligence (June 6, 1944) ---
https://www.openculture.com/2021/05/real-d-day-landing-footage-enhanced-colorized-with-artificial-intelligence-june-6-1944.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

The Largest Free Kitchen in the World: Discover India’s Golden Temple Which Serves 100,000 Free Meals Per Day ---
https://www.openculture.com/2021/05/the-largest-free-kitchen-in-the-world.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

The First Cellphone: Discover Motorola’s DynaTAC 8000X, a 2-Pound Brick Priced at $3,995 (1984) ---
Click Here

Star-Spangled Banner History by WizardPins ---
https://wizardpins.com/blogs/education/star-spangled-banner-history

‘Inconceivable’: why has Australia’s history been left to rot? ---
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/may/23/inconceivable-why-has-australias-history-been-left-to-rot

TEXTILES AND FASHION DESIGN

FASHION HISTORY TIMELINE ---
https://fashionhistory.fitnyc.edu/

GIORGIA LUPI & OTHER STORIES: A DATA-DRIVEN FASHION COLLECTION INSPIRED BY THREE TRAILBLAZING WOMEN IN SCIENCE ---
https://www.pentagram.com/work/giorgia-lupi-other-stories/story

PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM: FASHION & TEXTILES ---
www.pem.org/explore-art/fashion-textiles

HOW TO DRESS FOR SPACE ---
www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/business/immersive-space-suits-history-fashion-and-function

ART OF CITIZENRY: WHICH IS IT? CULTURAL APPRECIATION OR APPROPRIATION ---
www.artofcitizenry.com/podcast/episode-3-cultural-appropriation 

FASHION AND TEXTILE MUSEUM: BLOG ---
https://fashiontextilemuseumblog.wordpress.com/

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

Old English Online --- https://oldenglish.info/

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

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/

May 20, 2021

India Posts Highest Death Toll In Pandemic So Far

Scientist Is Auctioning His DNA, Says You Could, Too

CDC: Over 600,000 12- to 15-Year-Olds Vaccinated

Tennessee Transgender Bill Signed Into Law

House OKs COVID Hate Crimes Act, Sends Bill to Biden

Ohio COVID-19 Vaccine Lottery Looks Like a Winner

First Case of COVID-19 Triggering Recurrent Clots in Arm

6 Reasons Bipolar Patients Don't Take Their Meds

UK Allows Hugging Again as COVID-19 Rules Relaxed

May 22, 2021

COVID Vaccines Protect Against Top Variants, WHO Says

White House, Dating Apps Unite to Push Vaccination

Fauci: U.S. Can Avoid a Fall COVID-19 Resurgence

Colonoscopy After 75: A Potential Lifesaver

Racial Disparities Persist in Vaccinations, CDC Data Shows

Number of Gender-Diverse Teens Grows

Yankees, Olympics, & COVID: Can Sports Win the Day?

Fauci: COVID Boosters Likely Needed Within a Year

What Experts Predict From COVID This Fall and Winter

May 29, 2021

Police Blues: Rising Stress Puts Officers at Risk

Keep COVID Precautions or Party Like It's 2019?

Big Bucks and Savings: Vaccine Incentives Multiply

Texas Standoff Illustrates Battle Over COVID Vaccines

COVID-19 Immunity Could Last for Years, Studies Say

Biden Orders Investigation into Coronavirus Origins

Doctors, Nurses Blast CDC’s Mask Guidance Change

Woman Sues Fertility Doctor, Alleges ‘Medical Rape’

Experimental Treatment Offers New Hope Against Lupus

VIEW ALL HEALTH NEWS

Colonoscopy After 75: A Potential Lifesaver ---
https://www.webmd.com/colorectal-cancer/news/20210521/colonoscopy-after-75-a-potential-lifesaver


Identification of shared and differentiating genetic risk for autism spectrum disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and case subgroups ---
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.05.20.21257484v1




Humor for May 2021

Forwarded by Auntie Bev

Over a double latte, the Greek mentions "We built the Parthenon, you may recall,

along with the Temple of Apollo."

"Aye, and it was the Irish that discovered the Summer and Winter Solstices."

"But it was the Greeks who gave birth to advanced mathematics."

"Granted, but it was the Irish who built the first timepieces."

Knowing that he's about to deliver the coup de grace, the son of Athens points out with a note of finality:

 "Keep in mind that it was the ancient Greeks who invented the notion of sexas a pleasurable activity!"

"Aye! True enough, but it was the Irish who got women involved."


Tax/IRS jokes

1. Q: Which superhero pays no tax?

A: Spiderman, all his income is net.

2. Q: What do the IRS, a mugger, and your kids have in common?

A: They all take your money.

3. Why don’t skunks have to pay taxes?

A: Because they only have one scent.

4. I was told when I bought solar panels for my house, they would be free because of the tax breaks. Does this mean they are on the house?

5. There are three types of tax forms:

Short, long, and surrender.

6. Intaxifcation: The wonderful feeling you get when you receive a tax refund until you realize it was your own money in the first place.

7. Golf is a lot like taxes. You drive hard to get to the green and then wind up in the hole.

8. How do dairy farmers do their taxes? The ones with simple taxes use a cowculator, and the ones with complicated situations have to go to an accowntant.

9. April 15th is when the money supply gets out of hand—as in out of your hand and into the governments.

10. Something you’ll never hear on tax day: Taxes are liberating! They free you from the burden of deciding how to spend your own money.

11. Q: Why won’t the IRS embrace bitcoin?

A: They don’t trust anything they can’t freeze.

12. An IRS auditor is walking down the street when a mugger stops him.

“Give me your money!” the mugger says. “You can’t do that!” says the IRS auditor.

“Oh,” the mugger comments. “Well, in that case, give me MY money.”

13. Q: Why did the church get indicted by the IRS?

A: For displaying false profits.

14. The IRS is a place that says, “Watch your step” going in, and “Watch your language” going out.

15. Seen on the T-shirt of an IRS tax agent: We’ve got what it takes to take what you got.

16. The IRS has made a major announcement. All Cannabis dealers must file a joint tax return.

17. I received a letter from the IRS telling me I committed tax fraud. They must have the wrong address because I have never paid taxes in my life.

18. Q: What did the IRS say to the cat about his litter box deduction?

A: I’m sorry, but you can’t claim your litter box as a deduction just because you do your business there.

19. Q: What do a pelican, a vulture, and the IRS have in common? They all have big bills.

20. Did you ever notice when you put the words “the” and “IRS” together, it spells “theirs?!”

21. Q: Why did the IRS audit the chiropractor?

A: He owed back taxes.

22. Q: Why did Sherlock Holmes got audited by the IRS?

A: He had too many deductions.

23. Q: What do you call an accountant with an opinion?

A: An auditor.

24. After I spoke with the tax auditor, I slept like a baby. I woke up every hour and cried.

25. Nothing has done more to stimulate the art of creative writing than the itemized deduction section of t income tax forms.

26. At no time is it easier to keep your mouth shut than during an audit of your income tax return.

27. Income tax is Uncle Sam’s version of “Truth or Consequences.”

28. Q: Where is the place to negotiate with the IRS?

A: At the tax table.

29. Nothing makes a person more humble about their income than to fill out a tax form.

30. Q: Where do actors that don’t pay taxes perform?

A: In the audit-orium.

31. I was told when I bought solar panels for my house, they would be free because of the tax breaks. Does this mean they are on the house?

32. There are three types of tax forms:

Short, long, and surrender.

33. Intaxifcation: The wonderful feeling you get when you receive a tax refund until you realize it was your own money in the first place.

34. Golf is a lot like taxes. You drive hard to get to the green and then wind up in the hole.

35. How do dairy farmers do their taxes? The ones with simple taxes use a cowculator, and the ones with complicated situations have to go to an accowntant.

36. April 15th is when the money supply gets out of hand—as in out of your hand and into the governments.

37. Something you’ll never hear on tax day: Taxes are liberating! They free you from the burden of deciding how to spend your own money.

38. Q: Why won’t the IRS embrace bitcoin?

A: They don’t trust anything they can’t freeze.

38. An IRS auditor is walking down the street when a mugger stops him.

“Give me your money!” the mugger says. “You can’t do that!” says the IRS auditor.

“Oh,” the mugger comments. “Well, in that case, give me MY money.”

39. Q: Why did the church get indicted by the IRS?

A: For displaying false profits.

40. The IRS is a place that says, “Watch your step” going in, and “Watch your language” going out.

42. Seen on the T-shirt of an IRS tax agent: We’ve got what it takes to take what you got.

41. The IRS has made a major announcement. All Cannabis dealers must file a joint tax return.

42. I received a letter from the IRS telling me I committed tax fraud. They must have the wrong address because I have never paid taxes in my life.

43. Q: What did the IRS say to the cat about his litter box deduction?

A: I’m sorry, but you can’t claim your litter box as a deduction just because you do your business there.

44. Q: What do a pelican, a vulture, and the IRS have in common? They all have big bills.

45. Did you ever notice when you put the words “the” and “IRS” together, it spells “theirs?!”

 




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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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190 Sunset Hill Road
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Phone:  603-823-8482 
Email:  rjensen@trinity.edu