Random Analogies
Helicoidal Collagen Is Like Good Springs ...
a: Helicoidal collagen ~
b: good springs in a matress
What: "The shape, not only the amount of the collagen molecules affects the mechanical properties of the skin. Helicoidal collagen is like good springs in a matress, nice and firm..."
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Writer: Not Stated
LCC: RL
Where: Reference Link Has Evaporated
Date: Aug 12 2011 10:28 AM
# 1094 Critique Analogy
Spruced Up For The Big Game
a: St louis ~
b: Moscow before Nixon visited in 1972
What: "St. Louis is like Moscow before Nixon visited in 1972," jokes KMOX (1120 AM) radio host Charlie Brennan. "Moscow put their best face on; it was kind of a detente. They put new sod down all over, and flowers were planted 72 hours in advance. The city never looked better, but the Western journalists found it funny."
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Writer: Charlie Brennan
LCC:
Where: Reference Link Has Evaporated
Date: Jun 2 2012 10:55 AM
# 2295 Critique Analogy
Volcano Popcorn
a: Pumice ~
b: popcorn
What:
"Pumice is like a bag of popcorn, and how popcorn doesn't really mesh together. When the area got wet, all of the sand and fill material between the pumice basically washed downward thirty some feet to the solid rock. "
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Writer: Not Stated
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Date: Sep 8 2014 9:56 AM
# 6226 Critique Analogy
a: Gene flow ~
b: sale of Harry Potter books
What:
"Gene flow is like tracking the sale of Harry Potter books. If you made a list of all the planes, trains, and automobiles which have shipped them, and all of the web sites and stores which have sold them, you would, at the end of the day, still not have explained a single page without J.K. Rowling. You certainly wouldn't know what a Muggle was."
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Writer: rentafriend2000
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Where:
Date: Jan 21 2015 12:47 PM
# 7071 Critique Analogy
