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Les Demoiselles D’avignon

a: Les demoiselles d'avignon ~
b: a scientific research

What: "With all its preliminary studies, 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon' is like a scientific research." .......Maybe this is a metaphor for the modern scientific process, much planning, much detail and the essential elements of any and every process broken down to manageable logical chunks.

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Writer: Javed Jalil
LCC: N
Where: Reference Link Has Evaporated
Date: Nov 5 2010 12:09 AM



a: Aphasia ~
b: vacant look

What: "aphasia is like a vacant look out of a bruised face" The link is about a list of sexy words; aphasia is one them.

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Writer: RequiemBelle
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Date: Oct 19 2013 2:35 PM



a: Interleukin ~
b: message from the Department of Defense

What:

"The helper T-cell binds to the B cell, which is "presenting" the chopped up piece of invader (the foreign fragment in the MHC protein) for the T cell's consideration. If the fit is just right, it causes the helper T cell to secrete a substance called interleukin. Interleukin is like a message from the Department of Defense to the munitions factory."


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Writer: Michael J. Behe
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Date: Apr 25 2014 3:45 PM



a: Circulatory system ~
b: servants

What: "Analogy: the circulatory system is like servants who bring food and take away the leftovers for their lazy overlords "

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Writer: Not Stated
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Where: Reference Link Has Evaporated
Date: Jun 11 2014 5:39 PM



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