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Burning Eyes

a: Broken heart ~
b: getting shampoo in your eyes

What: " A broken heart is like getting shampoo in your eyes. It feels for a while like you'll never see again, but after a few tears you get over it."

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Writer: Mark Amend
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Date: Apr 12 2012 10:13 AM


Cell Are Very Crowded

a: Proteins destined for chloroplasts ~
b: rush hour traffic

What:

From:

"Protein Targeting, Transport,
and Translocation"

This comparison appears on page
241 of the linked book. "Instead
proteins destined for chloroplasts
are like people trying to reach
work during rush hour."


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Writer: Ross Dalbey, ‎Gunnar von Heijne
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Where:
Date: Dec 27 2013 12:21 PM



a: medicinal chemists ~
b: a craftsman behind an old manual lathe

What:

"The HGP killed the status of medicinal chemists because it revealed that structure does not equal function and the assumption of linear pathways turned out to be naive. Medicinal chemists are like a craftsman behind an old manual lathe. The human brain cannot understand mechanism through naive experimental design. Mechanism must be inferred through computational methods + improved automated instrumentation. Physics + mathematics is now driving drug discovery. Look at the new microarray driven biomarkers!"


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Writer: Skeptic
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Where:
Date: Jul 10 2014 5:28 PM



a: crystal ~
b: a class of children

What:

"A crystal is like a class of children arranged for drill, but standing at ease, so that while the class as a whole has regularity both in time and space, each individual child is a little fidgety! "


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Writer: Dame Kathleen Lonsdale
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Date: Jul 22 2015 9:59 AM



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