a: Question mark ~
b: glass blown exclamation point
What: "Personally, if I had thought of the simile that a question mark is like a glass blown exclamation point, I wouldn't be able to get over the excitement of what I had just thought of. Which is to say, I'm too novice or egotistical a writer to even think of trying to develop a context for it."
Writer: Not Clear
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Date: Oct 15 2013 7:28 PM
a: Semicolon ~
b: a shovel
What: "It's a bit like digging into the layers of the ground. There's the surface, but a semicolon is like a shovel, in that it helps explore a deeper meaning to part of the previous clause. The surface here would be "And the earth was without form, and void." The next clause, "and darkness upon the face of the deep," goes into further detail of what the formless earth looked like."
Writer: Rena Sherwood
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Date: Oct 15 2013 8:32 PM
a: ras protein ~
b: operator
What:
"Picture a switchboard operator of old. There she sits, in front of a dizzying array of toggles and lights, ready to push buttons and stretch cords to connect incoming calls to just the right recipient. She might even listen in on the conversations from time to time. The protein Ras is like that operator."
See the link for a good picture and longer discussion.
Writer: Leigh MacMillan
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Date: Feb 24 2014 4:18 PM
a: semiconductor ~
b: a raisin cake
What:
"A semiconductor is like a raisin cake, where the raisins give the cake the special flavor that makes it sell. By itself, a semiconductor can't really conduct electricity that well, but if you introduce impurities into it then those impurities turn it into a conductor. The impurities are called dopants, and electric current travels through doped silicon under the right conditions. Think of the dopant atoms as the raisins in the raisin cake, and the raw semiconductor material that's in between the dopant atoms as the cake in which the raisins sit."
Writer: Jon Stokes
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Date: Mar 4 2014 1:57 PM
