Via coturnix, the tremendously depressing resignation letter of a public school teacher in North Carolina. It's a rotten note on which to discover what looks like a pretty good blog.
The racist comments and inappropriate sexual remarks desribed in the letter are really pretty disturbing. I wish I could say it was surprising, but sadly, it's not.
Anyway, if you want to know some of the reasons why they have a hard time getting good people to go into teaching, take a look. No school pays well enough to put up with that sort of crap.
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Via Doug Natelson, a very nice paper from the arxiv on Hanbury Brown and Twiss experiments with atoms.
If you're not reading the Columbia University stats blog, Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science, you're missing a lot of great stuff.
Last August, Dan Egerstad, of Sweden, hacked his way into secret email accounts of government embassies, various NGOs and corporations. It was easy, partly because it was not a secure network. He then posted a very large number of email user names and passwords.
This is, of course, as opposed to other jobs where you never run into bad bosses, creepy coworkers, and institutional dysfunction.