On this Labor Day, I want to draw attention to one of the founding moments of the American Labor movement, when hundreds of young women living in a factory town took a huge risk to defend their right to a fair wage. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowell_mill_girls

I lay down in my gown upon my bed and slept till the 4 o’clock gun the next morning waked me, which I took for 8 at night, and rising to piss mistook the sun rising for the sun setting on Sunday night.

This!

The students in my upper-level electrodynamics course are taking their final exam right now, which always reminds me of the time I told my students they could bring a formula sheet to the final exam as long as it was on one side of a piece of paper.