Random Analogies
Ethanol Is Like Famine-for-profit
a: Ethanol ~
b: famine-for-profit
What: "Actually corn ethanol is like famine-for-profit. It causes global food prices to rise above the cost many poor families can afford. Thats the EU has banned US ethanol. Thats why when ethanol production rose in the US a couple years back people in other countries (including Haiti) were reduced to eating "mud cakes" (literally what they sound like).
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Writer: polo
LCC: S
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Date: Nov 16 2011 11:30 AM
# 1485 Critique Analogy
Star Wars And Blood Chemsitry
a: Cytokine ~
b: Darth Vadar
What: "Well, CD3/CD28 is like Princess Leia, when she was captured by Jabba The Hut. (played by TH17(IL17). She needs help. Meanwhile, Cytokine is like Darth Vadar plotting from the Death Star. But don't worry, Voclosporin is Luke Skywalker, flying in a landspeeder to the rescue!"
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Writer: Dow
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Date: May 3 2013 11:42 AM
# 2906 Critique Analogy
a: A cliche ~
b: a Bon Jovi song
What: "A cliche is like a Bon Jovi song. It's on everyone's lips because it strikes a chord, but its popularity becomes its own bane, leading to its demise. What we all forget, however, is that a cliche's previously soaring popularity was due to its powers of description."
Useful?
Writer: Not Stated
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Date: Oct 11 2013 3:38 PM
# 3975 Critique Analogy
a: hippocampus ~
b: file finder
What:
"The hippocampus is like the brain's file fmder for locating information in stored memory. "
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Writer: Temple Grandin
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Date: Feb 21 2014 4:25 PM
# 5008 Critique Analogy
