( what happens when you raise a chimpanzee as a human )

Annals of Crime
The Perfect Mark
How a Massachusetts psychotherapist fell for a Nigerian e-mail scam.
by Mitchell Zuckoff
The New Yorker
May 15, 2006

( facinating article - sorry I can't remember who's blog I swiped this from )

The Rubber Room

What is The Rubber Room?

Simply put, "The Rubber Room" is a room where hundreds and hundreds of New York City schoolteachers presently sit, being paid full salary to do absolutely nothing.

But, like so many things, it's not quite so simple...

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i hung on every word

I've been listening online to a facinating radio show called "This American Life" - it's AWESOME.

The one that got me hooked was Act One of the episode called "The Sanctity of Marriage" (listen from 6 minutes to 30 minutes) which discusses the work of researcher John Gottman. He would film couples for 15 minutes discussing something they disagree ( Read more... )