Random Analogies

What: "American culture is like a mobius -- people, lifestyles, attitudes go away for a while, only to eventually return again upside down. Watch the passing scene long enough, and you'll see the lava lamp of social norms reverse itself, then reverse itself again. For the Webb legacy, the shift has been of the 180-degree polar variety, providing the kind of clarity and moral sledgehammer that Jack so favored. "

Writer: PJ-Comix

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Date: Aug 27 2011 11:52 AM

What: "The immune system is understood more and more as a second brain, Lymphocytes are like traveling neurons, they are linked not by synapses, but by binding proteins which help to recognize each other. Nerves are effective because they are connected at the end to muscles, in the same way, the immune system is effective because at the end of the chain, it has the group of B-cells which can act directly by liberating antibodies which will smother and suffocate the bacteria and finally destroy them. Besides, the brain develops a feeling of identity in the same way, the immune system has a very accurate individuality, hence the rejection of the transplants."

Writer: Dr Jacques Vigne, MD

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Date: May 9 2013 8:41 PM

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"Citizen Kane may be the *best made* movie to look at, but it doesn't draw you in as much as other movies like Casablanca, Vertigo, etc. Citizen Kane is like a Picasso, and Vertigo is like standing on a Hawaiian beach at sunset. "

Writer: TonyXL

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Date: Jan 16 2014 12:47 PM

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"Cell-surface receptors are like traffic cops. . . . Without the appropriate signals entering and exiting the stem cell, it does not know whether to selfrenew..."

The rest is in the link....

Writer: Joseph A. Amato

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Date: Feb 12 2015 1:20 PM