Random Analogies

Using Insulin

a: Using insulin ~
b: ploughing the land before planting seeds

What: " Using insulin is like ploughing the land before planting seeds. Insulin helps achieve good glycemic control, and helps the antibiotics, antitubercular drugs and pain suppressants produce their effect in an efficient and time saving manner."----The linked article describes using analogies to explain how insulin works.......

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Writer: Sanjay Kalra DM
LCC: QP
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Date: Jan 11 2011 2:32 AM


Ouch! That Must Hurt

a: Child bearing ~
b: shitting a pumkin

What:

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Writer: Not Stated
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Where:
Date: Oct 1 2013 4:36 PM



a: Marxist ~
b: follower of that crazy pastor

What:

"representative sampling of a 'school' notorious for resisting classification. Generally, the approach to literature is rhetorically and intellectually dishonest (essentially because being a 21st century Marxist is like being a follower of that crazy pastor who keeps predicting the end of the world: when what you swore was gonna happen don't happen, you need some fancy talkin' to keep the boat afloat)."


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Writer: Sean
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Date: Jul 9 2014 11:47 AM



a: rubisco ~
b: QWERTY

What:

"The situation with rubisco is like QWERTY" A Nice discussion of the molecular evolution of this enzyme.


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Writer: Joseph E. Armstrong
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Where:
Date: Dec 6 2014 2:14 PM



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