Random Analogies
A Planted Plant
a: Zygote ~
b: plant
What: "But that is not the problem. The problem is defining when after cinception the zygote can think, or do anything that isn't merely vegetative. If it is merely the fact that it is alive that makes it human(in the philosophical sense rather than the scientific sense), then what justifies us killing animals? For weeks after conception the zygote is like a plant, unable to think, without a brain. I see no reason why this zygote is more important than an animal?"
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Writer: iamian
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Date: May 15 2013 10:50 PM
# 3257 Critique Analogy
Region By Region Goes The Happy Talk
a: Colloquialism ~
b: culturally specific phrasing
What: "I think they work to some degree. A colloquialism is like culturally specific informal/conversational terms. Oh, yeah I don't really watch much sport either - except the rugby, and a big deal is made out about all that."
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Writer: Ayano Katagiri
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Date: Oct 9 2013 1:39 PM
# 3883 Critique Analogy
Energy~money~time?
a: The krebs cycle ~
b: processing loop
What: "The Krebs cycle is like a processing loop that transforms the value of a share of IBM stock into physical cash coming out of an ATM. The share of IBM stock begins as set of bits stored somewhere in cyberspacetime on the computers run by your online stockbroker. When you sell the share of stock, the bits storing the share of stock are debited from your account and some bits over in the IBM portion of cyberspacetime are deleted too. The resulting cash value is credited to the money market bits of your online stockbroker account. From there the cash value bits can be transferred to your local bank, and ultimately, you can punch in some numbers into an ATM and out pops some physical cash that can be used to buy a cup of coffee. In this example, the share of IBM stock is like an energy rich carbohydrate molecule and the cash popping out of the ATM is like a molecule called ATP, which is the biochemical energy equivalent of cash. In a capitalistic economic system, money is the equivalent of energy in a biochemical sense, since, as everybody knows, it makes the world go round. There is an old joke in thermodynamics that energy is the ability to do work, while money is the ability not to do work."
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Writer: Steve Johnston
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Date: Dec 27 2013 11:39 AM
# 4440 Critique Analogy
a: plastid ~
b: a guest that stays and makes you cookies
What:
The assumption in evolutionary theory is that organelles in plants,chloroplasts, where once free living bacteria that where internalized by a host cell. To explain this idea to kids, or maybe adults, think of this process as a house guest. You invite someone over to stay for a while. They are a very good cook. They make brownies, and cakes and pies and cookies. And they do it with using their own supply of sugar that comes from no where. The host, being someone who likes to eat this stuff,most of the time, will not want their guest to leave and will adapt the house to accommodate their guest.
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Writer: Lucrezia
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Date: Jan 31 2015 4:09 PM
# 7187 Critique Analogy
