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Los Angeles Grain Processer

a: Los angeles ~
b: one of those machines that treat flour

What: "Los Angeles is like one of those machines that treat flour. When the wheat comes in, it's full of interestinging ingredients - but it goes through this machine and what you get out at the end is perfect white crap."

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Writer: Vacilando
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Date: May 7 2012 6:33 PM


Imagine This.......

a: Glycoprotein ~
b: molecular trees

What: "Glycoproteins are like molecular trees, with the protein portion being the trunk and the sugar molecules forming the leaves and branches. It is almost as though the prokaryotes were building a forest with which to protect them selves, much in the way in the way higher plants covered the surface of the earth millions of years later." and he goes on to say that if a glycoprotein is a like a tree, the glycocalyx is like the forest.

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Writer: Joseph Panno
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Date: May 8 2013 11:23 AM



a: Digestion ~
b: taking a house apart

What: "Digestion is like taking a house apart, brick by brick. The bricks are the smallest building blocks of the house. In the same way, nutrients are broken down because our digestive system can't cope with absorbing large pieces of food into the blood system."...

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Writer: Not Stated
LCC: R
Where:
Date: Jun 7 2013 6:46 PM



a: Chocolate chip cookies ~
b: platnoic ideal

What:

"Guys, these Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies are like the platnoic ideal of what a chocolate chip cookie should be. They are, in fact, what every chocolate chip cookie strives to be."


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Writer: Club Narwhal
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Date: Jan 12 2015 12:59 PM



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