Random Analogies
a: Government bureaucracy ~
b: gun
What: Government bureaucracies, like guns, are merely objects.Guns don't kill people, and bureaucracies aren't corrupt. People kill people, and people are corrupt.
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Writer: pescadero
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Date: May 10 2012 3:17 PM
# 2090 Critique Analogy
Her Long Drive Home
a: Boston ~
b: an ant colony
What: "The small towns and their miniscule speed limits gave me a chance to really look around, and appreciate the sheer desolation of a rural community. I've come to notice that Boston is like an ant colony, with thousands of people in any given place all going somewhere different."
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Writer: Ethan Edson
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Date: May 14 2012 2:16 PM
# 2137 Critique Analogy
a: Dopamine ~
b: a carrier pigeon for the brain
What: "The nerve cells in the Substantia Nigra produce a substance called dopamine. Dopamine is like a carrier pigeon for the brain. It takes messages from one part of the brain to another, telling it how to control movements in the body."
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Writer: Not Stated
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Date: Oct 29 2013 11:00 AM
# 4337 Critique Analogy
a: hippocampus ~
b: assembly line
What:
"The hippocampus and amygdala work together. The hippocampus is like an "experience" assembly line and the amygdala its workers. The hippocampus sends our current and past experiences to either "long term" memory or the recycling bin. And the amygdala puts a stamp on the experience. This stamp can be things like "dangerous", "interesting", "useful", etc... But the stronger the stamp, the more likely it will affect your future behavior. And anything with a stamp goes to long term memory."
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Writer: DoxasticPoo
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Date: Feb 21 2014 4:34 PM
# 5014 Critique Analogy
