Random Analogies
Back-packing On Water
a: Paddling a kayak ~
b: back-packing on water
What: "If you enjoy the outdoors, paddling a kayak is like back-packing on water. You get to go to places and see things you would not have been able to without some form of paddle craft."
Useful?
Writer: Not Stated
LCC:
Where: Reference Link Has Evaporated
Date: Feb 15 2012 10:11 PM
# 1710 Critique Analogy
a: Retina ~
b: three layered cake
What: "The retina consists of many millions of cell types packed together in a tightly knit network spread over the surface of the back of the eye fundus as a thin film of tissue only 1/2 millimeter thick. The retina is like a three layered cake with three layers containing cell bodies of neurons and two filling layers where synapses betwen the neurons occur "
Useful?
Writer: Not Stated
LCC:
Where:
Date: Feb 23 2014 8:26 PM
# 5060 Critique Analogy
A Brain Filter It May Be....
a: choroid plexus ~
b: kidney for the brain
What:
"In effect, the choroid plexus is like a "kidney" for the brain: it maintains the chemical stability of the CSF in much the same way that the kidneys maintain the stability of the blood."
Useful?
Writer: Spector, Reynold; Johanson, Conrad E
LCC:
Where:
Date: Jan 12 2015 1:04 PM
# 7028 Critique Analogy
