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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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, 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/
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 

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




Now in Another Tidbits Document
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 ---
Click Here
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-57394831

Private 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 up

No Smoking — Ever? New Zealand’s Plan to Stub Out Cigarettes ---
Click Here

American 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-terms

United 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=djemCFO

Nonwhite Students Are Majority of Amherst's Admitted Class ---
Click Here
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-scandal

Biden’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-inflation

Consumer 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=01June2021

Some (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 class

The 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-report

Baltimore 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 safety

Retirement accounts at risk of cybertheft ---
https://www.nbcchicago.com/consumer/sleeping-giant-thieves-target-retirement-accounts/2518741/#content

FTC 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=djemCFO

ABC'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-readers

The 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-2

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

Whose 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 news

The 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-over

Paul 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 bitcoin

Wealthy 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/SB112533172910025699

Indictment for Wire Fraud in Student Aid Scheme ---
Click Here

Current 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?
Click Here 

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.

If 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 ---
http://www.centerdigitaled.com/news/10-Education-Companies-2013.html

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 ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/digital-tweed/introducing-instride-asu%E2%80%99s-profit-preferred-provider-strategy-growing-online

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.---
https://www.insidehighered.com/digital-learning/article/2019/05/30/asu-spin-latest-arrival-20-billion-corporate-tuition-benefits?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=021639dbd8-DNU_2019_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-021639dbd8-197565045&mc_cid=021639dbd8&mc_eid=1e78f7c952

ASU Online ---
https://go.asuonline.asu.edu/lpppc-brand/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=

 

Bob Jensen's threads on mega-universities and employer-university partnerships ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/HigherEdControversies.htm#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/investing/beta-know-risk/


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 ---
Click Here


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

Woman Sues Fertility Doctor, Alleges ‘Medical Rape’

Experimental Treatment Offers New Hope Against Lupus

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

Study Pinpoints Cancer Patients at Highest Risk From COVID

CDC: Fully Vaccinated Can Skip Routine COVID Testing

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

Study Pinpoints Cancer Patients at Highest Risk From COVID

CDC: Fully Vaccinated Can Skip Routine COVID Testing

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

TX May Punish Businesses That Require Vaccination Proof

Obesity Increases Risk of Long-COVID, Study Finds

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

Beech-Nut Recalls Baby Food Over High Arsenic Levels

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

Evidence Ties COVID Vaccines to Heart Issue in Youth

Eat Two Fruits a Day, Ward Off Diabetes?

June 14, 2021

Is 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

With COVID Easing, Germs Are on the Hunt -- For Us

Music at Bedtime Might Not Be a Great Idea

VIEW ALL HEALTH NEWS

 


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




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

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

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

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

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

The Cult of Statistical Significance: How Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives ---
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/DeirdreMcCloskey/StatisticalSignificance01.htm

How Accountics Scientists Should Change: 
"Frankly, Scarlett, after I get a hit for my resume in The Accounting Review I just don't give a damn"
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/AccounticsDamn.htm
One more mission in what's left of my life will be to try to change this
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/AccounticsDamn.htm 

What went wrong in accounting/accountics research?  ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm#WhatWentWrong

The Sad State of Accountancy Doctoral Programs That Do Not Appeal to Most Accountants ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm#DoctoralPrograms

AN ANALYSIS OF THE EVOLUTION OF RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS BY THE ACCOUNTING REVIEW: 1926-2005 ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/395wpTAR/Web/TAR395wp.htm#_msocom_1

Bob Jensen's threads on accounting theory ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm

Tom Lehrer on Mathematical Models and Statistics ---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfZWyUXn3So

Systemic problems of accountancy (especially the vegetable nutrition paradox) that probably will never be solved ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudConclusion.htm#BadNews

 

World Clock --- http://www.peterussell.com/Odds/WorldClock.php
Facts about the earth in real time --- http://www.worldometers.info/

Interesting Online Clock and Calendar --- http://home.tiscali.nl/annejan/swf/timeline.swf
Time by Time Zones --- http://timeticker.com/
Projected Population Growth (it's out of control) --- http://geography.about.com/od/obtainpopulationdata/a/worldpopulation.htm
         Also see http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/P/Populations.html
        
Facts about population growth (video) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMcfrLYDm2U
Projected U.S. Population Growth --- http://www.carryingcapacity.org/projections75.html
Real time meter of the U.S. cost of the war in Iraq --- http://www.costofwar.com/ 
Enter you zip code to get Census Bureau comparisons --- http://zipskinny.com/
Sure wish there'd be a little good news today.

Free (updated) Basic Accounting Textbook --- search for Hoyle at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm#Textbooks

CPA Examination --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cpa_examination
Free CPA Examination Review Course Courtesy of Joe Hoyle --- http://cpareviewforfree.com/

Rick Lillie's education, learning, and technology blog is at http://iaed.wordpress.com/

Accounting News, Blogs, Listservs, and Social Networking ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/AccountingNews.htm

Bob Jensen's Threads --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/threads.htm 
Current and past editions of my newsletter called New Bookmarks --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookurl.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called Tidbits --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called Fraud Updates --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm

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

Some of Bob Jensen's Tutorials

Many useful accounting sites (scroll down) --- http://www.iasplus.com/links/links.htm

 

Bob Jensen's Sort-of Blogs --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/JensenBlogs.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called New Bookmarks --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookurl.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called Tidbits --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called Fraud Updates --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm

Some Accounting History Sites

Bob Jensen's Accounting History in a Nutshell and Links --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm#AccountingHistory
 

Accounting History Libraries at the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) --- http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/accountancy/libraries.html
The above libraries include international accounting history.
The above libraries include film and video historical collections.

MAAW Knowledge Portal for Management and Accounting --- http://maaw.info/

Academy of Accounting Historians and the Accounting Historians Journal ---
http://www.accounting.rutgers.edu/raw/aah/

Sage Accounting History --- http://ach.sagepub.com/cgi/pdf_extract/11/3/269

A nice timeline on the development of U.S. standards and the evolution of thinking about the income statement versus the balance sheet is provided at:
"The Evolution of U.S. GAAP: The Political Forces Behind Professional Standards (1930-1973)," by Stephen A. Zeff, CPA Journal, January 2005 --- http://www.nysscpa.org/cpajournal/2005/105/infocus/p18.htm
Part II covering years 1974-2003 published in February 2005 --- http://www.nysscpa.org/cpajournal/2005/205/index.htm 

A nice timeline of accounting history --- http://www.docstoc.com/docs/2187711/A-HISTORY-OF-ACCOUNTING

From Texas A&M University
Accounting History Outline --- http://acct.tamu.edu/giroux/history.html

Bob Jensen's timeline of derivative financial instruments and hedge accounting ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudRotten.htm#DerivativesFrauds

History of Fraud in America --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/415wp/AmericanHistoryOfFraud.htm
Also see http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Fraud.htm

Bob Jensen's Threads ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/threads.htm

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

All my online pictures --- http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/PictureHistory/

 

Professor Robert E. Jensen (Bob) http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen
190 Sunset Hill Road
Sugar Hill, NH 03586
Phone:  603-823-8482 
Email:  rjensen@trinity.edu