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a: Facebook ~
b: Starbucks

What: "Facebook is like a Starbucks where everyone hangs out for hours but almost never buys anything."

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Writer: Chris Dixon
LCC: H
Where:
Date: Apr 11 2010 8:08 AM


Human Evolution is like a bush.....

a: Human Evolution ~
b: a bush

What: "In palaeoanthropology, this idea is seen in the view that only one species of hominid has existed at any one time, each one succeeding the next in a scheme of orderly replacement. This idea began to crumble in the 1970s , since when discoveries of ancient relatives of humans have revealed a marked diversity of form. Human evolution is like a bush, not a ladder."

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Writer: Henry Gee
LCC:
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Date: Aug 7 2011 11:10 AM


The Cmoss Of The Brain?

a: cerebrum ~
b: an exceedingly sensitive photographic plate

What:

"Theoretically we may conceive that the cerebrum is like an exceedingly sensitive photographic plate receiving impressions even without the will power being exerted"


1878 - ‎Medicine
"The Medical Gazette: A Weekly Journal of Medicine, Surgery, and ..., Volume 4"


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Writer: Not Stated
LCC:
Where:
Date: Feb 12 2014 2:15 PM



a: Diabetes ~
b: Play-Doh

What:

A list of 5 similarities in the link.


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Writer: Christel Marchand Aprigliano
LCC:
Where:
Date: Mar 7 2014 4:28 PM



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