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One of TBV's sons gives Landis a "thumbs up" at the Tour of California, February 21, 2006 -- before things got complicated.
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From a dubiously respected source, we find proof of the validity of the Visual Gestalt ("eyeballing") method of matching chromatograms.
Posted by DBrower at 12/29/2007 10:06:00 PM
What was a daily roundup became an "irregular report" of links with specific Landis interest, with brief comment. We avoided bashing, gushing, or gross stupidity. Unless it was funny.
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[More...]Thanks to Free Floyd for the idea, and Groklaw for some inspiration.
PK/Strbuk is similarly inclined.Bill Hue is a passionate about fairness and justice, and is relatively indifferent to Landis' guilt or innocence
Marc is an American living in Paris.
If someone who leans towards guilt would like to contribute directly, please inform us.
Sharing a diversity of viewpoints is the best way we know of to arrive at the truth.
5 comments:
Thanks a lot, TBV. I must now re-examine my entire life and everything I'd thought I'd believed.
Larry, TBV,
While the quantification of the "Granny Smith Apple and the Sunkist Orange" is visually similar, I find the identification portion of the comparing apples and oranges lacking in this example. Sunkist is a cooperative of orange growers and is not a variety of orange. Varieties of oranges include: Navel, Valencia and Blood oranges. This analogy may be very apropos to the missing Mass Spec data.
It is fun read.
--GMR
Wow, pictures can be so misleading!
Hear (from another source) is an analysis for the mineral content of an apple and an orange compared.
www.nutritiondata.com/facts-C00001-01c20TB.html
Apple, raw, with skin (Includes USDA commodity food A343)
1 cup, quartered or chopped (125g)
Minerals:
Calcium 7.5 mg
Iron 0.1 mg 1%
Magnesium 6.3 mg
Phosphorus 13.8 mg
Potassium 134 mg
Sodium 1.3 mg 0%
Zinc 0.0 mg 0%
Copper 0.0 mg 2%
Manganese 0.0 mg
Selenium 0.0 mcg
Fluoride 4.1 mcg
www.nutritiondata.com/facts-C00001-01c20Vm.html
Orange, raw with peel
1 cup (170g)
Minerals: scaled to 125g(x.735):
Calcium 119 mg 87.47
Iron 1.4 mg 1.03
Magnesium 23.8 mg 17.49
Phosphorus 37.4 mg 38.14
Potassium 333 mg 244.76
Sodium 3.4 mg 2.50
Zinc 0.2 mg .15
Copper 0.1 mg .07
Manganese ~
Selenium 1.2 mcg .88
Fluoride ~
Thank God, I was about to launch into a huge Ali exclusive, until I actually read your link.
I can relax into my welcome ignorance comfort zone -- apart from ACDC screaming to me that they're back in black through the head-phones -- a life saver.
Thank god for ACDC. Thank god for rock ...
Incidentally, FTIR is Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy.
And all TBV readers should know the difference between spectroscopy and chromatography by now. :)
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