Random Analogies
Inefficent Extraction
a: Crop ethanol fuel ~
b: using natural gas to do tar sands extraction
What: "Converting crops to ethanol fuel is like using natural gas to extract heavy bitumen from tar sands - you are using up a "good" thing to produce a poor or mediocre substitute. The special interest groups are too interested in getting a chunk of cash for themselves to worry about the common good. We should always follow the carpenter's maxim of measuring twice before we cut once."
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Writer: Woodwose
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Where: Reference Link Has Evaporated
Date: Feb 7 2012 9:15 PM
# 1667 Critique Analogy
Not Liking Orson Welles
a: Orson welles ~
b: not liking double stuffed oreos
What: "This kid is cool. Seriously he seems actually down to earth, and he likes Orson Welles. I mean I realize that not liking Orson Welles is like not liking double stuffed oreos- everyone likes him/them- but still. He has real live opinions."
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Writer: boltonharris
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Where: Reference Link Has Evaporated
Date: May 8 2012 6:55 PM
# 2044 Critique Analogy
a: Neuroscience ~
b: a gadget-savvy infant Godzilla
What: "Modern Neuroscience is like a gadget-savvy infant Godzilla of Dogma that stomps around an ancient philosophico-existential playground insisting on its reductionistically-naive definitions of what we are." Another shot at the rabid reductionists....
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Writer: Pavel G. Somov, Ph.D
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Date: May 24 2013 2:39 PM
# 3266 Critique Analogy
a: math ~
b: X-ray specs
What:
"In a world brimming with information, math is an important tool to help spot statistical glitches and everyday fallacies, but it's being lost. "Math is the science of not being wrong about things," he writes. "Knowing math is like wearing a pair of X-ray specs that reveal hidden structures underneath the messy and chaotic surface of the world."
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Writer: Jordan Ellenberg
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Date: Sep 2 2014 7:24 PM
# 6178 Critique Analogy
