Random Analogies

What: "Past, present or future are meaningless in his movie context. Our hypothesis is that space time is like this movie. Think of space as the complete reel, and time as the time required to navigate this space."

Writer: Shelly Saxena

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Date: Dec 9 2012 1:02 PM

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"It's sometimes instructive to remember a crystal structure is like a snapshot of a movie."

Writer: Chinabonding

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Date: Mar 8 2014 1:11 PM

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"A cache is like a smart librarian. When a patron asks for a Harry Potter book, the librarian goes looking for it on the shelves (i.e., the hard drive) and comes back with it along with the other Harry Potter books that were filed around it. This material is kept in a special place behind the desk (cache memory) so that when other patrons ask for a Harry Potter book, the librarian can retrieve it much more quickly. It's an efficient system indeed."

Writer: Larry Schneider

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Date: Aug 29 2014 7:51 PM

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"I think food is a window into empathy. Slow Food is like a gateway drug for civic engagement, environmentalism, for changing the world, because when you share food with people you see what you have in common. Food becomes a vehicle for understanding each other and for dealing with issues of race, class, oppression, and gend "

Writer: Josh Viertel

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Date: May 23 2015 11:32 AM