Food glops that are standardized — that’s what dominates this week’s Improbable Research podcast.
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This week, Marc Abrahams —with dramatic readings by Nicole Sharp — tells about:
- Standardized food glops (1) — National Institute of Standards and Technology (2009). ‘Certificate of Analysis – Standard Reference Material 1548A: Typical Diet’.
- Standardized food glops (2) — Sharpless, Katherine E., Jennifer C. Colbert, Robert R. Greenberg, Michele M. Schantz, and Michael J. Welch (2001). ‘Recent Developments in Food-Matrix Reference Materials at NIST.’ Fresenius Journal of Analytic Chemistry 370: 275–78..
- Business lessons from The Wizard of Oz —[this segment is sponsored by Freshbooks] “Impaired Employees: Lessons Learned from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,” Michael Harvey, Miriam Moellera, Hugh Sloan III and Alex Williams, Business Horizons, vol. 53, no. 6, November-December 2010, Pages 561-570.
The mysterious John Schedler or the shadowy Bruce Petschek perhaps did the sound engineering this week.
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