60 Minutes ran a piece on the amount of money spent in the last 2 months of life. It's rationing that's irrational, according to the doctor interviewed. Great journalism, great example of what should be a bipartisan issue that has become a partisan one. Text of the story

11:20am Nanostructured interfaces for drug delivery. Mucosal delivery is the most important (mouth, etc.). Have to overcome mucous layer. Oral delivery is very hard because of high pressure and flow. Want to go into intestines and stay there for awhile while drug is delivered. Normal drugs only deliver 2-3% of their dose, the rest just …

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10:40am Ballistic electron emission microscopy (BEEM) study of hot electrons in Cu film. Lots of questions, mostly because this paper is kind of full of crap and nobody knows what he's talking about. He can't answer the questions, and is trying to intimidate. Lots of people filing in at the end. 11:00am XPS of fuel …

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8:40am My talk. Nobody came. 9:00am Fe3O4 termination. STM below the Velway temperature. This is another talk about residual water vapor effects on samples in a UHV chamber. Is this very interesting? Clean the damn sample. Regular termination is tetrahedral Fe, metal insulator transition. People filed at the end of my talk to see THIS? …

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