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		<title>Scientist Welfare (aka I am now an NSF supported scientist)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	A proposal that a few colleagues and I submitted to the National Science Foundation (NSF) has been recommended for funding by the Division of Materials Research. One of the PIs on the grant is my former dissertation adviser and some of the proposed work involves using a novel combination of techniques that I developed in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>STM is Working!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Donnie and I have finally managed to get a stable tunneling current with our STM. On Thursday we ran a couple of traces in the x-direction, and as long as we didn&#8217;t touch the table or the air handler wasn&#8217;t on we saw minimal historesis.
	Next week we will set everything up on stone block/foam sandwiches [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ilovephysics.com/archives/2008/04/19/stm-is-working/</link>
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		<title>Jonas Brothers are Really Bad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	My wife is watching &#8220;Dancing with the Stars&#8221;. I&#8217;m working; however, I am upset Penn Jillett was kicked off the show even though I&#8217;ve never actually seen him dance since I don&#8217;t normally pay much attention while my wife watches. His show &#8220;Bullsh@t&#8221; on Showtime is a terrific show for anyone interested in real science [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ilovephysics.com/archives/2008/03/25/jonas-brothers-are-really-bad/</link>
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		<title>Firing excellent math teachers because they&#8217;re Quaker</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	The San Fransisco Chronicle reports that a Quaker math teacher was fired for refusing to sign an oath of allegiance. This is not necessarily physics news, but having gone to Guilford College and having a background in the Society of Friends, this is an interesting story to me.
	Marianne Kearney-Brown, a Quaker and graduate student who [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ilovephysics.com/archives/2008/03/03/firing-excellent-math-teachers-because-theyre-quaker/</link>
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		<title>STM Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	My student and I are still working hard on our scanning tunneling microscope. We&#8217;ve had some issues with the solder-less breadboard we were using to prototype. Stuff was shorting on the breadboard, so we placed the components on a proto-board and soldered them together. 
	The pre-amp is now working exactly like it should. We supply [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ilovephysics.com/archives/2008/02/27/stm-update/</link>
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		<title>My long hiatus and &#8220;Ask a Physicist&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	I have been missing for a long time.
	Last year I was busy writing and defending a dissertation. Then I got a new job. I&#8217;ve moved, had a baby and started a new career in the span of six months. Hopefully you understand my absence.
	However, the long neglect of ilovephysics.com is officially over. I am starting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ilovephysics.com/archives/2008/01/18/my-long-hiatus-and-ask-a-physicist/</link>
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		<title>Building a Scanning Tunneling Microscope for less than $100</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	I am a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) guy. I completed my M.S. thesis using a commercial instrument and I have always wanted to build one. Until recently, I haven&#8217;t had the time or the money. About 1 month ago, a student here at Longwood University approached me about doing a project. The first thing that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ilovephysics.com/archives/2007/10/15/building-a-scanning-tunneling-microscope-for-less-than-100/</link>
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		<title>BioFuel. The fuel of the future?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Here is an interesting article about biofuels posted at Functionalism In Action by Ian Conrad:
	There is so much hype, today, about biofuels. They are seen as the savior of our nation &#8212; especially corn-ethanol; especially if one were to compare the subsidization that goes on here. But is this the right approach?
	The article continues, making [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ilovephysics.com/archives/2007/08/15/biofuel-the-fuel-of-the-future/</link>
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		<title>Scamming Physicists</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	I was almost fooled by a Nigerian scam. The method used is actually interesting and shows how sophisticated scammers have become. I post this here to alert others in a position similar to mine. The summary: if you receive an unsolicited email asking for you to send some item to Africa, then RUN, RUN, RUN [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ilovephysics.com/archives/2007/07/20/scamming-physicists/</link>
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		<title>Your Students Can Send Seeds to Space</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Epsori Space Systems announced today that its Free Seeds Experiment will be flying aboard the Up Aerospace SL-2 launch, scheduled for Saturday, April 28 th 2007 . Epsori Space Systems will distribute the experiment to 2500 classrooms in the fall of 2007. The payload contains 22 ounces of mixed vegetable seeds. Teachers in grades 3-5 [...]]]></description>
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