Tidbits on June 15, 2021
Bob Jensen
at Trinity University
Wes Lavin's Pictures of Our
Wildflower Field in 2021 (Part 1) ---
http://cs.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Lavin/2021-2/Lupine2021/Part01.htm
This edition of Tidbits was finished before Erika died on June 14, 2021
My final update about Erika
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000ErikaFinalGoodbye.htm
Tidbits on June 15, 2021
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Over 400 Examples of Critical Thinking and Illustrations of How to Mislead With
Statistics ---
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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
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/
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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
Marine stuns crowd at party; he is not in uniform. Watch this
crowd. In the beginning when he started to sing, they were not even aware he was
singing the national anthem’s second verse ---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0fQd858cRc
The Mistake Waltz: Watch the Hilarious Ballet by Legendary
Choreographer Jerome Robbins ---
https://www.openculture.com/2021/06/the-mistake-waltz-watch-the-hilarious-ballet-by-legendary-choreographer-jerome-robbins.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Doris Day & Gene Nelson performing "I Know That You Know" with
Gordon MacRae at the piano in TEA FOR TWO (1950) dir. David Butler ---
https://twitter.com/DancerOnFilm/status/1397930592562470914
The World’s First Bass Guitar (1936) ---
https://www.openculture.com/2021/05/the-worlds-first-bass-guitar-1936.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Bob Jensen's Links to Free Music
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Music.htm
Photographs and Art
What Is Contemporary Art?: A Free Online Course from The Museum
of Modern Art ---
https://www.openculture.com/2021/06/what-is-contemporary-art-a-free-online-course-from-the-museum-of-modern-art.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
The Guardian's 20 Photographs of the Week ---
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/jun/11/20-photographs-of-the-week
A Data Visualization of Every Italian City & Town Founded in the
BC Era ---
https://www.openculture.com/2021/06/a-data-visualization-of-every-italian-city-town-founded-in-the-bc-era.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
California faces another drought as lake beds turn to dust – a
photo essay ---
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/30/california-drought-water-shortage-photo-essay
The Bob Ross Virtual Art Gallery: A New Site Presents 403
Paintings from The Joy of Painting Series (and Uses Data Analysis to Demystify
Bob Ross’ Craft) ---
https://www.openculture.com/2021/06/the-bob-ross-virtual-art-gallery.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Bob Jensen's threads on art history ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm#ArtHistory
Bob Jensen's threads on history, literature and art ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#History
Online Books, Poems, References, and Other Literature
In the past I've provided links to various
types electronic literature available free on the Web.
I created a page that summarizes those various links ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm
Bob Jensen's threads on libraries --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm#---Libraries
Free Electronic Literature ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm
Free Online Textbooks, Videos, and Tutorials ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm#Textbooks
Free Tutorials in Various Disciplines ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#Tutorials
Edutainment and Learning Games ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm#Edutainment
Open Sharing Courses ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
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Political Quotations on June 15, 2021
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/2020/TidbitsQuotations061521.htm
Udacity --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udacity
Flash Sale: Get 75% Off
Udacity’s Online Courses (Through June 8) ---
https://www.openculture.com/2021/05/flash-sale-get-75-off-udacitys-online-courses-through-june-8.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
What Is Contemporary Art?: A
Free Online Course from The Museum of Modern Art ---
https://www.openculture.com/2021/06/what-is-contemporary-art-a-free-online-course-from-the-museum-of-modern-art.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
MasterClass --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MasterClass
MasterClass is having a
2-for-1 Father's Day sale right now. Here are 16 great classes to try ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/masterclass-review
Example: Serena Williams Teaches Tennis
Good News Tidbits
Bill Gates, Warren Buffett to Launch ‘Game-Changing’ Nuclear Power Plant in Wyoming ---
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Jensen Comment
This might be better located closer to higher population centers like Los Angeles or NYC. But those centers are usually in states less inviting for nuclear power. What a shame.2021: We are pleased to see the U.S. Senate endorse language that strongly supports providing faster access to taxpayer-funded research results with today’s passage of the U.S. Innovation and Competition Act ---
https://sparcopen.org/news/2021/sparc-statement-on-public-access-provisions-in-the-u-s-innovation-and-competition-act/A coordinated global sting operation produced hundreds of arrests. Law enforcement in the US and Australia used an FBI app to spy on alleged organized criminals, officials said, with 224 people arrested in 18 countries ---
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-57394831Private Inequity: How a Powerful Industry Conquered the Tax System ---
https://www.yahoo.com/news/private-inequity-powerful-industry-conquered-154034998.html
Thank you W. Dennis Huber for the heads upNo Smoking — Ever? New Zealand’s Plan to Stub Out Cigarettes ---
Click HereAmerican People Are Very Generous ---
https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/78-american-people-generous/Maryland Passes Law Requiring Publishers to License Ebooks to Libraries Under “Reasonable Terms” ---
https://www.libraryjournal.com/?detailStory=maryland-passes-law-requiring-publishers-to-license-ebooks-to-libraries-under-reasonable-termsUnited Airlines said it hopes to fly passengers on a planned new supersonic jetliner by decade’s end ---
https://www.wsj.com/articles/united-plans-to-buy-15-supersonic-planes-11622724910?mod=djemCFONonwhite Students Are Majority of Amherst's Admitted Class ---
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Beginning in 2020 Amherst dropped its admission test requirement
https://boston.cbslocal.com/2020/07/27/umass-sat-act-requirement-standardized-testing-colleges/Can you work remotely? These 14 cities and towns will pay you up to $20,000 just to move there (some are university towns) ---
Click Here
I did not look into the tax implications of these varying offers.Morgantown ($12,000)
Fayetteville ($10,000)
Tucson ($7,500)
Tulsa ($10,000)
The Shoals in Alabama ($10,000)
Topeka ($15,000)
Oahu, Hawaii (free airfare and discounted hotel rates)
Various cities in Southwest Michigan ($15,000 plus $5,000 in perks)
Manilla, Iowa (free plots of land)
Claremont, Minnesota (free building lots)
Lincoln, Kansas (free building lots)
Savannah, Georgia ($2,000 toward moving expenses)
Newton, Iowa ($10,000 toward house purchase)
Baltimore (lottery toward home purchase)
Bad News Tidbits
Corrupt and Biased IRS Teamed With Unethical ProPublica: The IRS tax data leak ---
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2021/06/the-irs-tax-data-leak.html
Also see
https://mises.org/power-market/real-tax-scandalBiden’s $6T budget: Social spending, taxes on business ---
https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-business-government-and-politics-40c614b9e2703a549815c5d73043b03e
Are voters so stupid that they don't realize that business taxes are like sales taxes that are passed on to customers at cash registers?Biden's $6 Trillion Budget Plan Is Even More Expensive Than It Looks ---
https://reason.com/2021/06/02/bidens-6-trillion-budget-plan-is-even-more-expensive-than-it-looks/Despite Wage Increases, Real Hourly Pay Is Losing to Inflation ---
https://mishtalk.com/economics/despite-wage-increases-real-hourly-pay-is-losing-to-inflationConsumer prices jump 5% in May, fastest pace since the summer of 2008 ---
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/10/cpi-may-2021.html
You ain't seen nuthin yet!President's budget contains many tax proposals ---
https://www.journalofaccountancy.com/news/2021/may/president-biden-budget-contains-many-tax-proposals.html?utm_source=mnl:cpald&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=01June2021Some (mostly bad news) points about corporate tax ---
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2021/06/some-points-about-corporate-tax.html
Among other things it fuels inflation and can become a very regressive tax on the poor and lower middle classThe Worst-Kept Secret in America: High Inflation Is Back ---
https://mises.org/wire/worst-kept-secret-america-high-inflation-back
And that's before Biden hopes to spend trillions more on new programs.California and Nevada Are Now 100% in Drought ---
https://www.theorganicprepper.com/california-and-nevada-are-now-100-in-drought/Publisher retracts 20 of a researcher’s papers — then asks him to peer review
https://retractionwatch.com/2021/06/08/publisher-retracts-20-of-a-researchers-papers-then-asks-him-to-peer-review/Texas dad rips judge after convicted rapist of his teen daughter gets light (180 day) sentence ---
https://www.foxnews.com/us/texas-dad-rips-judge-after-convicted-rapist-of-his-teen-daughter-gets-light-sentence-reportBaltimore businesses threatening to withhold tax payments amid violence, ‘lawlessness’ ---
https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/baltimore-businesses-tax-payments-violence-lawlessness
The obvious answer is to eliminate the police force and let social workers enforce public safetyRetirement accounts at risk of cybertheft ---
https://www.nbcchicago.com/consumer/sleeping-giant-thieves-target-retirement-accounts/2518741/#contentFTC says consumers have reported losing more than $80 million to crypto-investment scams since October 2020 ---
https://www.wsj.com/articles/crypto-frauds-target-investors-hoping-to-cash-in-on-bitcoin-boom-11623058380?mod=djemCFOABC's chief White House reporter: A lot of reporters have 'egg on their face' over Wuhan lab-leak theory ---
https://www.foxnews.com/media/abcs-white-house-wuhan-lab-leak-theory
Also see The Washington Post's roasting of the media regarding the Wuhan lab-lead theory ---
https://www.foxnews.com/media/wapo-columnist-roasts-media-covid-19-lab-theory-fail-readersThe Guardian: Why the ‘lab-leak’ theory of Covid’s origins has gained prominence again ---
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/may/29/lab-leak-theory-covid-natural-manmade-sars-cov-2California faces another drought as lake beds turn to dust – a photo essay ---
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/30/california-drought-water-shortage-photo-essayWhose big business? (Europe fact of the day) ---
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2021/06/whose-big-business-europe-fact-of-the-day.html
Some may view this as good news, but from the standpoint of economic growth and world competition it's bad newsThe Guardian: If publishers become afraid, we’re in trouble’: publishing’s cancel culture debate boils over ---
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/jun/03/if-publishers-become-afraid-were-in-trouble-publishings-cancel-culture-debate-boils-overPaul Krugman's 10-Year History of Being Wrong About Bitcoin ---
https://reason.com/2021/06/10/paul-krugmans-10-year-history-of-being-wrong-about-bitcoin/
Paul Krugman hates to admit being wrong about anything
Although he may be right about bitcoinWealthy KPMG clients continued to dodge taxes for years after CRA detected offshore 'sham' ---
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/kpmg-isle-of-man-taxes-house-commons-finance-committee-1.6047111
Years ago, after being fined $456 million for designing bogus tax shelters, KPMG promised not to do so in the future ---
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB112533172910025699Indictment for Wire Fraud in Student Aid Scheme ---
Click HereCurrent and past editions of my blog called Fraud Updates ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm
How billionaires like
Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk avoid paying federal income tax while increasing their
net worth by billions ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-billionaires-avoid-paying-federal-income-tax-2021-6
In 2007, and again in 2011, billionaire Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos reportedly paid nothing in federal income taxes. In 2018, billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk reportedly did the same thing.
That's according to confidential tax documents filed with the Internal Revenue Service obtained by ProPublica, which were revealed in a bombshell new report on some of the world's wealthiest people.
Bezos is currently listed by Forbes as the richest person in the world, with a net worth of $188.8 billion. Musk isn't far behind at number two on the Forbes list, with a net worth of $153.3 billion.
How do men with such dramatically high net worths avoid paying federal income tax?
Billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk derive little wealth from their annual income. Instead, much of their net worth is tied to stock holdings.
Bezos, for example, owns a 10.3% stake in Amazon that's valued at about $170 billion.
The majority of Bezos' net worth — $170 billion — is tied to Amazon stock, which fluctuates regularly and has even left the billionaire jockeying for the world's wealthiest title with Tesla CEO Elon Musk at times. At least $19 billion of Bezos' wealth is not tied to his stake in Amazon.
Bezos can skip paying taxes on his accumulated wealth from the Amazon stock because stock gains aren't taxed until they are realized by selling off the stock: Since those stocks represent value, but cannot be used as tender, they aren't counted as "income" — even if they appreciate in value tremendously, like those of Amazon and Tesla.
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Jensen Comment
Also these billionaires often offset much of their reported income with massive
charitable deductions. Wealth taxes could thereby enormously hurt the charity
beneficiaries.
Jeff Bezos tops list of
biggest charitable givers in 2020 ---
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/charity-donations-richest-lowest-9-years/
Contemporary social
psychology has been seized over the past years by a loss of credibility and
self-confidence associated with scientific fraud and unsuccessful attempts to
replicate the modern corpus of knowledge ---
https://retractionwatch.com/2021/06/09/social-psychology-in-the-age-of-retraction/
In accountancy research,
publishers just don't care much about even bothering with replication ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/TheoryTAR.htm
Why Economics Is Failing Us:
The profession suffers from a lack of boldness and imagination ---
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-05-24/why-economics-is-failing-us?sref=Rk9EBXHT
Economics is one of the better-funded and more scientific social sciences, but in some critical ways it is failing us. The main problem, as I see it, is standards: They are either too high or too low. In both cases, the result is less daring and creativity.
Consider academic research. In the 1980s, the ideal journal submission was widely thought to be 17 pages, maybe 30 pages for a top journal. The result was a lot of new ideas, albeit with a lower quality of execution. Nowadays it is more common for submissions to top economics journals to be 90 pages, with appendices, robustness checks, multiple methods, numerous co-authors and every possible criticism addressed along the way.
There is little doubt that the current method yields more reliable results. But at what cost? The economists who have changed the world, such as Adam Smith, John Maynard Keynes or Friedrich Hayek, typically had brilliant ideas with highly imperfect execution. It is now harder for this kind of originality to gain traction. Technique stands supreme and must be mastered at an early age, with some undergraduates pursuing “pre-docs” to get into a top graduate school.
At the same time, the profession is pursuing a kind of “barbells” strategy. On Twitter (and, earlier, blogs), barriers to entry are very low and a Ph.D. is not required. That can be a good thing, but quality checks are extremely weak.
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.
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Sustainability --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainability
NBER: Sustainability
in a Risky World ---
https://www.nber.org/papers/w28899#fromrss
Masked by Trust: Bias in
Library Discovery ---
https://works.bepress.com/mreidsma/5/
The rise of Google and its integration into nearly every aspect of our lives has pushed libraries to adopt similar "Google-like" search tools, called discovery systems. Because these tools are provided by libraries and search scholarly materials rather than the open web, we often assume they are more "accurate" or "reliable" than their general-purpose peers like Google or Bing. But discovery systems are still software written by people with prejudices and biases, library software vendors are subject to strong commercial pressures that are often hidden behind diffuse collection-development contracts and layers of administration, and they struggle to integrate content from thousands of different vendors and their collective disregard for consistent metadata.
Library discovery systems struggle with accuracy, relevance, and human biases, and these shortcomings have the potential to shape the academic research and worldviews of the students and faculty who rely on them. While human bias, commercial interests, and problematic metadata have long affected researchers' access to information, algorithms in library discovery systems increase the scale of the negative effects on users, while libraries continue to promote their "objective" and "neutral" search tools.
Bob Jensen's threads on bias in
academe ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/HigherEdControversies2.htm#PoliticalCorrectness
Over 700 examples of how to
mislead with statistics ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/MisleadWithStatistics.htm
Chronicle of Higher Education
Will mega universities claim a major share of the nation’s new college
students?
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Paul J. LeBlanc remembers the day, about a decade ago, when a public research university in New England announced that it was starting an online M.B.A. Southern New Hampshire University, where LeBlanc is president, had just rolled out its own ambitious online program and started its rise from undistinguished private institution with a few thousand students to today’s online-education juggernaut with more than 92,000 undergraduates enrolled.
LeBlanc found the prospect of such an august competitor bracing — until he heard a radio ad touting the new program. The ad suggested that those interested in the program come to an open house.
“You have an online program, but people have to go to your campus to get information and register?” he asks, still sounding incredulous. And, sure enough, “They’ve never been competition.”
At a time when many colleges are struggling with shrinking enrollment and tighter budgets, Southern New Hampshire is thriving on a grand scale, and it’s not alone. Liberty, Grand Canyon, and Western Governors Universities, along with a few other nonprofit institutions, have built huge online enrollments and national brands in recent years by subverting many of traditional higher education’s hallmarks. Western Governors has 88,585 undergraduates, according to U.S. Education Department data, more than the top 14 universities in the annual U.S. News & World Report rankings combined.
While some so-called mega-universities have physical campuses, they’ve focused intensely on building online programs. They’ve emphasized recruiting working adults over fresh high-school graduates. They’ve embraced competency-based education, in which students earn credits from life experiences and from demonstrating proficiency in a subject. They market widely and vigorously, and lean into, rather than recoil from, some other common corporate practices and philosophies.
These universities have clearly found a new way to play the game that many colleges are losing. With no end to their expansion in sight, they could one day lay claim to a significant share of the nation’s new college students. Much as Amazon and Walmart now stand as the templates for the retail business, mega-universities in many ways reflect a shift in what Americans seek in a college degree: something practical, convenient, and inexpensive. Traditional institutions can certainly learn from these disruptors. And the more they do, for better or worse, the more these mega-universities may change the shape and purpose of higher education.
I f mega-universities’ success can be reduced to one factor, it’s that they have pursued the more than 30 million Americans who have some college credit but who never graduated — a cohort half again as large as the more than 20 million Americans now enrolled.“The shortage of students is a fallacy,” says Michael M. Crow, president of Arizona State University, which enrolled more than 95,000 undergraduates in 2017, about 28,000 of them online. The number of Americans with some college but no degree presents “an unbelievable market,” he adds, but most institutions that educate students on a brick-and-mortar campus are not equipped to recruit, or serve, such students.
Mega-universities have honed their offerings and delivery to provide the most flexible, expedient, and career-focused education possible, which particularly appeals to working adults. At the moment, “the higher-education value proposition is all around the most inexpensive education and certification that will get me a job,” says Susan Grajek, vice president for communities and research at Educause, a nonprofit organization that advocates for technology in higher education.
Traditional four-year-college leaders often pay lip service to doing better by older students, but many don’t have programs specifically for them. That’s changing. While community colleges have long served students of all ages, traditional four-year colleges’ “business model is being blown up and, demographically, they’ve seen a decline of traditional-age students, so there’s this wondrous new discovery of the adult learner,” LeBlanc says.
The rise of the mega-university is “a rational response to the marketplace,” says James H. Page, chancellor of the University of Maine system. That system is answering the need for a more educated work force, and steep demographic declines projected for the state, by experimenting with online programs aimed at Mainers with some college but no degree.
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The University of Arizona
Global Campus acquired a troubled for-profit online institution, Ashford
University, last August to create a new online mega-university ---
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Jensen Comment
We may well see a trend in respected non-profit universities buying up failing
for-profit universities such as when Purdue acquired Kaplan and the University
of Arizona acquired Ashford. Arizona State University and the University of
Arizona are now in direct competition with one another for global dominance.
This ia a test of whether prior
name recognition and reputation can lend sufficient academic prestige to massive
online college degrees. It also puts more pressure on students to perform in
competency based grading competition that replaces much of the subjectivity
assessments in smaller onsite courses ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/assess.htm#ConceptKnowledge
In the meantime, for-profit companies are still in the competition.
"10 Top Education Companies of 2013," Center for Digital Education, February 14, 2013 --
-Fast Company issues its annual list of the most innovative companies in education. The 2013 list includes nine companies and one community college.
In its annual list of top companies, the magazine broke down the organizations that have the most impact on education. Not surprisingly, the top three slots were filled by online course providers that partner with universities. They earned their spots for disrupting traditional university course delivery methods by offering classes at no charge to students.
1. Coursera
2. Udacity
3. EdX
4. Rio Salado Community College
5. Amplify
6. GameDesk
7. Duolingo
8. InsideTrack
9. FunDza
10. ClassDojo
But while the list includes the word company, not every organization included is a company. For example, Rio Salado Community College in Arizona came in fourth.
Rio Salado designed a custom course management and student services system that helps students stay on track with their education. Through predictive analytics, the college shows professors which students could be at risk of dropping out and need more attention. It also alerts professors when a student doesn't show up to class regularly or skips an assignment. The system allows educators to recognize at-risk students early and take action to help them.
For more information about what these companies did to be on the list, check out Fast Company's story.
Introducing InStride, Arizona State's For-Profit, Preferred Provider Strategy for Growing Online Enrollments ---
ASU's InStride is latest entrant to the $20 billion tuition benefits market, a potential growth area as employers mull alternatives to the traditional college degree and whether to pay for customized online credentials for their workers.---
ASU Online ---
Bob Jensen's threads on mega-universities and employer-university partnerships ---
Bob Jensen's threads on education technology are at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/0000start.htm
Ages of American Capitalism ---
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2021/06/ages-of-american-capitalism.html
Jensen Comment
It would be interesting to have students compare the "ages of American
capitalism" with the increasing complexities of financial contracting and
accounting for those contracts such as the history of insurance contracting,
mezzanine contracts, and the history of derivative financial instruments as
financial risk hedges. The key was the development of markets in those more
complex contracts.
What Beta means when considering a stock's risk ---
https://www.investopedia.com/
Academics must become more
engaged in the open access struggle ---
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/blog/academics-must-become-more-engaged-open-access-struggle
Bob Jensen's threads on the
oligopoly abuses of for-profit publishers ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudReporting.htm#ScholarlyJournals
ACICS --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accrediting_Council_for_Independent_Colleges_and_Schools
The Department of Education
terminated federal recognition of
the controversial Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools ---
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Boom, Not Bust, for
Employer-Funded Learning ---
Click Here
The number of entities seeking to help corporations educate and train their employee bases has grown significantly in the last few years.
Some of these organizations, such as Bright Horizons' EdAssist Solutions, Guild Education, Arizona State University's InStride and Edcor, focus on managing companies' tuition benefits programs by matching workers with courses and programs and providing external support. Other corporations pay to give their employees access to the offerings of online course providers such as Coursera for Business, edX and Pluralsight. "Competency marketplaces" such as LinkedIn Learning and the community college-focused Unmudl are also in the mix.
Spending on employee training and development often dries up during economic downturns, as it did in the wake of the 2008 Great Recession, and some observers expected that might happen during the COVID-19-driven recession last year. But that's not what happened.
Bob Jensen's threads on fee-based distance education ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Crossborder.htm
Bob Jensen's threads on free (or nearly free) distance education from the most
prestigious universities of the world ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
The learning is free but there are standards and fees for academic credits
In 1971 Pakistan was 70%
richer than Bangladesh; today, Bangladesh is 45% richer than Pakistan ---
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2021/06/bangladesh-fact-of-the-day-3.html
A Beautiful, High-Resolution
Map of the Internet (2021) ---
https://www.openculture.com/2021/06/a-beautiful-high-resolution-map-of-the-internet-2021.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Bob Jensen's threads on data
visualization ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/352wpvisual/000datavisualization.htm
From the Scout Report on June 4, 2021
Squid Notes (Educational Technology) --- www.squidnotes.com
Squid Notes (formerly Papyrus) is a tool for taking handwritten notes on Android devices with an active pen, a passive stylus, or a finger. Notes are stored using a vector graphics engine so that they will not pixelate when zoomed and look great "at any zoom level." New notes pages may be blank, ruled, or graphed and can be either infinite in size or constrained to a number of standard paper sizes. Squid Notes can import PDFs or images that can then be annotated (e.g., to grade papers, sign documents, or mark up images). The resulting files can be re-exported as PDFs or images, emailed, shared via Evernote, and more. When a user's device is connected to a projector, Squid Notes can also provide a virtual whiteboard. Squid Notes is available via the Google Play store.
Timelines --- https://timeline.knightlab.com/
TimelineJS is a JavaScript library for building "visually rich, interactive timelines." It is designed to be immediately functional without extensive custom code. In the most basic implementation, users construct a Google spreadsheet containing their data and tell TimelineJS where to find it. The example timeline on the project's front page was created in exactly this way. Clicking the "Make a Timeline" button on the site's landing page, users can locate step-by-step instructions showing how to create a timeline in this way. More experienced developers can customize what is displayed with their own CSS and JavaScript code using the reference material listed under Technical Documentation (found near the bottom of the landing page). The TimelineJS developers primarily test in Google Chrome but follow web standards such that the project should work in any modern browser.
Free Online Tutorials, Videos, Course Materials, and Learning Centers
Education Tutorials
Bob Jensen's threads on education links ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#EducationResearch
Engineering, Science, and Medicine Tutorials
Follow the Science --- https://pudding.cool/2021/03/covid-science/
Introduction to College Research ---
https://introtocollegeresearch.pressbooks.com/
Bristish Science Week: Activity Packs ---
www.britishscienceweek.org/plan-your-activities/activity-packs
Seacoast Science Center --- www.seacoastsciencecenter.org
New England Aquarium: Climate Change and the Oceans ---
www.neaq.org/learn/climate-change-education-resources/climate-change-ocean
Ageless: The New Science of Getting Older Without Getting Old ---
https://www.amazon.com/Ageless-Science-Getting-Older-Without/dp/0385544928/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=andrew+steele+ageless&qid=1622427228&sr=8-1
Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer ---
https://www.amazon.com/Extra-Life-History-Living-Longer/dp/0525538852/ref=sr_1_1?crid=DTOKMQEBWKG0&dchild=1&keywords=steven+johnson+a+short+history+of+living+longer&qid=1622427382&sprefix=steven+johnson+%2Caps%2C162&sr=8-1
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
Your Story, Our Story (family stories about immigration and culture) --- https://yourstory.tenement.org/
Reclaiming History as an Indigenous Hiker ---
https://www.travelandleisure.com/lets-go-together-podcast/episode-20-reclaiming-history-as-an-indigenous-hiker
RecreateResponsibility (outdoor recreation and hiking) --- https://www.recreateresponsibly.org/
Hiking 101 --- https://americanhiking.org/hiking-resources/#hiking-101
Hiking Project --- https://www.hikingproject.com/
Introduction to College Research ---
https://introtocollegeresearch.pressbooks.com/
Bob Jensen's threads on Economics, Anthropology, Social Sciences, and
Philosophy tutorials are at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Bob Jensen's links to free courses and tutorials --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
Law and Legal Studies
Bob Jensen's threads on law and legal studies are at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2-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
Papyrus --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papyrus
Early accounting records were written on papyrus
How Egyptian Papyrus Is Made: Watch Artisans Keep a 5,000-Year-Old Art Alive
---
https://www.openculture.com/2021/06/how-egyptian-papyrus-is-made-watch-artisans-keep-a-5000-year-old-art-alive.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
"Papyrus Research Provides Insights Into 'Modern Concerns' of Ancient World," Science
Daily,
October 30, 2010 --- Click
Here
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101029092045.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Latest+Science+News%29
The Anglo-Saxons: A History of the Beginnings of England: 400 – 1066
https://www.amazon.com/Anglo-Saxons-Making-England-410-1066/dp/1643133128/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=marc+morris+anglo+saxons&qid=1622427171&sr=8-1
A Data Visualization of Every Italian City & Town Founded in the BC Era ---
https://www.openculture.com/2021/06/a-data-visualization-of-every-italian-city-town-founded-in-the-bc-era.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Freedom on the Move (African American History) --- https://freedomonthemove.org/
Immigrant Voices --- https://www.immigrant-voices.aiisf.org/
The USA's Largest Industries in 1890 ---
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2021/06/u-s-largest-industries-1890.html
World War II Alaska --- https://www.ww2alaska.com/
Ages
of American Capitalism ---
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2021/06/ages-of-american-capitalism.html
Jensen Comment
It would be interesting to have students compare the "ages of American
capitalism" with the increasing complexities of financial contracting and
accounting for those contracts such as the history of insurance contracting,
mezzanine contracts, and the history of derivative financial instruments as
financial risk hedges. The key was the development of markets in those more
complex contracts.
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
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
School Librarians United --- https://schoollibrariansunited.libsyn.com/
Bob Jensen's helpers for writers are at http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob3.htm#Dictionaries
Bob Jensen's threads on medicine ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2-Part2.htm#Medicine
CDC Blogs --- http://blogs.cdc.gov/
Shots: NPR Health News --- http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots
Updates from WebMD --- http://www.webmd.com/
June 1, 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
June 5, 2021
Air Pollution Linked to Higher Risk of Parkinson's
Your Weirdest Dreams Could Be Making You Smarter
Prior COVID Infection May Shield You for at Least 10 Months
Fauci: ‘Conceivable’ COVID Came From Cave in China
FDA: Don’t Eat Cicadas if Allergic to Shellfish
Pfizer Vaccine Protects Less Against India Variant
Your Puppy Is Born Ready to Interact With You
Drug Lynparza Helps Fight Some Early-Stage Breast Cancers
Targeted Radiotherapy Might Help Fight Advanced Prostate Cancer
June 7, 2021
FDA Approves 'Game Changer' Drug for Weight Loss
Kids, COVID & Vaccines: What to Know
FDA Approves Controversial Alzheimer's Drug
Two Common Eating Habits That Can Really Pile on Pounds
U.S. Hits Vaccine Milestone, May Miss July 4 Goal
Florida Stops Publishing Daily COVID-19 Numbers
CPSC Bans Sleepers After 100 Infant Deaths
June 8, 2021
FDA Approves 'Game Changer' Drug for Weight Loss
Kids, COVID & Vaccines: What to Know
FDA Approves Controversial Alzheimer's Drug
Two Common Eating Habits That Can Really Pile on Pounds
U.S. Hits Vaccine Milestone, May Miss July 4 Goal
Florida Stops Publishing Daily COVID-19 Numbers
CPSC Bans Sleepers After 100 Infant Deaths
June 9, 2021
Secondhand Smoke Linked to Higher Arthritis Risk
Hospital Suspends Workers Over COVID Vaccine Compliance
'Plant-Based' vs. Low-Fat Diet: Which Is Better for Your Heart?
Controversial New Alzheimer's Drug: What to Know
Trust in CDC, FDA Took a Beating During Pandemic
Why a COVID Diagnosis Could Cost You More in 2021
Implanted Microchip Could Help Avoid Stroke
June 10, 2021
Delta Variant and COVID-19 Vaccines: What to Know
'Laughing Gas' May Help Tough-to-Treat Depression
Study Hints iPhone 12 May Interfere with Heart Devices
Caffeine May Raise Risk of Inherited Glaucoma
FDA Approves New Drug Against Weaponized Smallpox
Florida Woman Dies From Dengue Fever
Pandemic Boosted Drinking Among Americans Over 50
Healthy Levels of Vitamin D May Boost Breast Cancer Outcomes
June 11, 2021
COVID-19 Vaccine Rates Lag Behind in Southern States
Problematic Gut Microbes Hitch a Ride With Travelers
Havana Syndrome Attacks Leave Baffling Symptoms
Delta COVID Variant 60% More Transmissible
COVID Vacations: Plan, Be Flexible, Travel Safe
Benzene Found in Popular Sunscreens: What to Know
Expiration Dates on J&J COVID Vaccine Extended
June 14, 2021
VIEW ALL HEALTH NEWSIs a COVID Vaccine for Children Still Necessary?
Oncologists, Breast Cancer Patients Differ on Alternative Therapies
OSHA Sets COVID Safety Rules for Health Care Workers
Study: Want to Have a Baby? Mind Your Alcohol
Novavax Says COVID Vaccine Works Against Variants
Judge Tosses Hospital Staff Suit Over Vaccine Mandate
COVID Tied to Spike in Suicide Attempts By Girls
Trump's COVID Meds To Be Made Mainstream ---
Click Here
‘Dream team’ duo of drugs may cure COVID-19 entirely ---
https://www.studyfinds.org/dream-team-drugs-cure-covid-19/
Ageless: The New Science of Getting Older Without Getting Old ---
https://www.amazon.com/Ageless-Science-Getting-Older-Without/dp/0385544928/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=andrew+steele+ageless&qid=1622427228&sr=8-1
Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer ---
https://www.amazon.com/Extra-Life-History-Living-Longer/dp/0525538852/ref=sr_1_1?crid=DTOKMQEBWKG0&dchild=1&keywords=steven+johnson+a+short+history+of+living+longer&qid=1622427382&sprefix=steven+johnson+%2Caps%2C162&sr=8-1
Humor for June 2021
The Mistake Waltz: Watch the Hilarious Ballet by Legendary Choreographer
Jerome Robbins ---
https://www.openculture.com/2021/06/the-mistake-waltz-watch-the-hilarious-ballet-by-legendary-choreographer-jerome-robbins.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't
matter.
Jack Benny
Saturday Night Live, with the Muppets ---
https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/the-muppet-show/4362996?~campaign=2021-05_NBC_Reng_X_May&~channel=email&tags=Hero_SNL&messageid=2384894&userid=-4101969149725553413&%243p=e_iterable&_branch_match_id=927622185271825608
Old Men Have No Mercy. Bob Stromberg - Full Special
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELUs7a0d5Q4
Forwarded by Auntie Bev
Will someone please tell these idiots that you don't kill a cow to get milk.
If a telemarketer calls give the phone to your three year old and tell her its Santa.
If someone tells you that you look so familiar tell them they must watch porn.
You're never childless when you have a husband.
Marriage is a relationship where one is always right and the other is a husband.
I ordered a chicken and an egg from Amazon.
I'll let you know.Husbands are the best people to share your secrets.
They won't tell anyone because they weren't really listening.
Forwarded by Auntie Bev
In the year 2021, the Lord came unto Noah, Who was now living in America and said: "Once again, the earth has become wicked and over -populated, and I see the end of all flesh before me." "Build another ark and save two of every living thing Along with a few good humans." He gave Noah the blueprints, saying: "You have 6 months to build the ark before I will Start the unending rain for 40 days and 40 nights."Smiling face with SunglassesSmiling face with Sunglasses Six months later, the Lord looked down and saw Noah Weeping in his yard - but no ark. "Noah!," He roared, "I'm about to start the rain! Where is the ark?" "Forgive me, Lord," begged Noah, "but things have changed." "I needed a building permit."
I've been arguing with the boat inspector About the need for a sprinkler system."
"My neighbors claim that I've violated the Neighborhood by-laws by building the ark in my Back yard and exceeding the height limitations. We had to Go to the local Planning Committee for a decision."
"Then the local Council and the electric company demanded
A shed load of money for the future costs of moving power Lines and other overhead obstructions, to clear the Passage for the ark's move to the sea. I told them That the sea would be coming to us, but they would Hear none of it."
"Getting the wood was another problem. There's a ban On cutting local trees in order to save the Greater Spotted Barn Owl." "I tried to convince the environmentalists that I Needed the wood to save the owls - but no go!"
"When I started gathering the animals the ASPCA took me to court. They insisted that I was Confining wild animals against their will. They Argued the accommodations were too restrictive and It was cruel and inhumane to put so many animals in A confined space."
"Then the Environmental Protection Agency ruled that I couldn't build the ark until they'd conducted an environmental impact study On your proposed flood."
"I'm still trying to resolve a complaint with the Human Rights Commission on how many minorities I'm Supposed to hire for my building crew."
"The Immigration Dept. Is checking the Visa status of most of the people who want to work."
"The trade unions say I can't use my sons. They Insist I have to hire only Union workers with Ark-building experience."
"To make matters worse, the IRS seized all my assets, claiming I'm trying to leave the country illegally with endangered species."
"So, forgive me, Lord, but it would take at least 10 Years for me to finish this ark."
"Suddenly the skies cleared, the sun began to shine, And a rainbow stretched across the sky."
Noah looked up in wonder and asked, "You mean you're not going to destroy the world?"
"No," said the Lord. "The Government beat me to it."
Forwarded by Paula
This is something to think about when negative people are doing their best to rain on your parade.
So remember this story the next time someone tries to make your life miserable.
A woman was at her hairdresser's getting her hair styled for a trip to Rome with her husband. She mentioned the trip to the hairdresser, who responded:
" Rome ? Why would anyone want to go there? It's crowded and dirty. You're crazy to go to Rome . So, how are you getting there?"
"We're taking Continental," was the reply. "We got a great rate!"
" Continental?" exclaimed the hairdresser. " That's a terrible airline. Their planes are old, their flight attendants are ugly, and they're always late. So, where are you staying in Rome ?"
"We'll be at this exclusive little place over on Rome 's Tiber River called Teste."
"Don't go any further. I know that place. Everybody thinks it’s gonna be something special and exclusive, but it's really a dump."
"We're going to go to see the Vatican and maybe get to see the Pope."
"That's rich," laughed the hairdresser. You and a million other people trying to see him. He'll look the size of an ant.
Boy, good luck on this lousy trip of yours. You're going to need it."
A month later, the woman again came in for a hairdo. The hairdresser asked her about her trip to Rome
"It was wonderful," explained the woman, "not only were we on time in one of Continental's brand new planes, but it was overbooked, and they bumped us up to first class. The food and wine were wonderful, and I had a handsome 28-year-old steward who waited on me hand and foot..
And the hotel was great! They'd just finished a $5 million remodeling job, and now it's a jewel, the finest hotel in the city. They, too, were overbooked, so they apologized and gave us their owner's suite at no extra charge!"
"Well," muttered the hairdresser, "that's all well and good, but I know you didn't get to see the Pope."
"Actually, we were quite lucky, because as we toured the Vatican, a Swiss Guard tapped me on the shoulder, and explained that the Pope likes to meet some of the visitors, and if I'd be so kind as to step into his private room and wait, the Pope would personally greet me.
Sure enough, five minutes later, the Pope walked through the door and shook my hand! I knelt down and he spoke a few words to me.."
"Oh, really! What'd he say ?"He said: "Who messed up your hair?"
Humor May 2021 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book21q2.htm#Humor0521.htm
Humor April 2021 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book21q2.htm#Humor0421.htm
Humor March 2021 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book21q1.htm#Humor0321.htm
Humor February 2021 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book21q1.htm#Humor0221.htm
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
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Online Distance Education Training and Education ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Crossborder.htm
For-Profit Universities Operating in the Gray
Zone of Fraud (College, Inc.) ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/HigherEdControversies.htm#ForProfitFraud
Shielding Against Validity Challenges in Plato's Cave ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/TheoryTAR.htm
The Cult of Statistical Significance:
How Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives ---
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/DeirdreMcCloskey/StatisticalSignificance01.htm
How Accountics Scientists Should Change:
"Frankly, Scarlett, after I get a hit for my resume in The Accounting Review
I just don't give a damn"
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/AccounticsDamn.htm
One more mission in what's left of my life will be to try to change this
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/AccounticsDamn.htm
What went wrong in accounting/accountics research?
---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm#WhatWentWrong
The Sad State of Accountancy Doctoral
Programs That Do Not Appeal to Most Accountants ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm#DoctoralPrograms
AN ANALYSIS OF THE EVOLUTION OF RESEARCH
CONTRIBUTIONS BY THE ACCOUNTING REVIEW: 1926-2005 ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/395wpTAR/Web/TAR395wp.htm#_msocom_1
Bob Jensen's threads on accounting theory
---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm
Tom Lehrer on Mathematical Models and
Statistics ---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfZWyUXn3So
Systemic problems of accountancy (especially the
vegetable nutrition paradox) that probably will never be solved ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudConclusion.htm#BadNews
World Clock ---
http://www.peterussell.com/Odds/WorldClock.php
Facts about the earth in real time --- http://www.worldometers.info/
Interesting Online Clock
and Calendar
---
http://home.tiscali.nl/annejan/swf/timeline.swf
Time by Time Zones ---
http://timeticker.com/
Projected Population Growth (it's out of control) ---
http://geography.about.com/od/obtainpopulationdata/a/worldpopulation.htm
Also see
http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/P/Populations.html
Facts about population growth (video) ---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMcfrLYDm2U
Projected U.S. Population Growth ---
http://www.carryingcapacity.org/projections75.html
Real time meter of the U.S. cost of the war in Iraq ---
http://www.costofwar.com/
Enter you zip code to get Census Bureau comparisons ---
http://zipskinny.com/
Sure wish there'd be a little good news today.
Free (updated) Basic Accounting Textbook --- search for Hoyle at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm#Textbooks
CPA Examination ---
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cpa_examination
Free CPA Examination Review Course Courtesy of Joe Hoyle ---
http://cpareviewforfree.com/
Rick Lillie's education, learning, and technology blog is at http://iaed.wordpress.com/
Accounting News, Blogs, Listservs, and Social
Networking ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/AccountingNews.htm
Bob Jensen's Threads ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/threads.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called New
Bookmarks ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookurl.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called
Tidbits ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called Fraud
Updates ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm
Online Books, Poems, References,
and Other Literature
In the past I've provided links to various types electronic literature available
free on the Web.
I created a page that summarizes those various links ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm
Some of Bob Jensen's Tutorials
Many useful accounting sites (scroll down) --- http://www.iasplus.com/links/links.htm
Bob Jensen's Sort-of Blogs ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/JensenBlogs.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called New
Bookmarks ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookurl.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called
Tidbits ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called Fraud
Updates ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm
Some Accounting History Sites
Bob Jensen's
Accounting History in a Nutshell and Links ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm#AccountingHistory
Accounting
History Libraries at the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) ---
http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/accountancy/libraries.html
The above libraries include international accounting history.
The above libraries include film and video historical collections.
MAAW Knowledge Portal for Management and Accounting ---
http://maaw.info/
Academy of Accounting Historians and the Accounting Historians Journal ---
http://www.accounting.rutgers.edu/raw/aah/
Sage Accounting History ---
http://ach.sagepub.com/cgi/pdf_extract/11/3/269
A nice timeline on the development of U.S. standards and the evolution of
thinking about the income statement versus the balance sheet is provided at:
"The Evolution of U.S. GAAP: The Political Forces Behind Professional
Standards (1930-1973)," by Stephen A. Zeff, CPA Journal, January 2005
---
http://www.nysscpa.org/cpajournal/2005/105/infocus/p18.htm
Part II covering years 1974-2003 published in February 2005 ---
http://www.nysscpa.org/cpajournal/2005/205/index.htm
A nice timeline of accounting history --- http://www.docstoc.com/docs/2187711/A-HISTORY-OF-ACCOUNTING
From Texas
A&M University
Accounting History Outline ---
http://acct.tamu.edu/giroux/history.html
Bob
Jensen's timeline of derivative financial instruments and hedge accounting ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudRotten.htm#DerivativesFrauds
History of
Fraud in America ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/415wp/AmericanHistoryOfFraud.htm
Also see
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Fraud.htm
Bob Jensen's
Threads ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/threads.htm
More of Bob Jensen's Pictures and
Stories
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Pictures.htm
All my online pictures --- http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/PictureHistory/
Professor Robert E. Jensen (Bob)
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen
190 Sunset Hill Road
Sugar Hill, NH 03586
Phone: 603-823-8482
Email:
rjensen@trinity.edu