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Oil As Oxygen

a: Energy ~
b: Oxygen to Civilisation

What: "Energy is like Oxygen to Civilisation; Restrict the Supply and We Strangle"

Useful?
Writer: Brian Gordon
LCC:
Where: Reference Link Has Evaporated
Date: Feb 11 2012 1:21 PM


Weakest Link?

a: Electrical circuit ~
b: chain

What: "An electrical circuit is like a chain. It is only as good ....." As the weakest link?

Useful?
Writer: Not Stated
LCC:
Where: Reference Link Has Evaporated
Date: Oct 2 2013 3:32 PM



a: science ~
b: Rules of Chess

What:

See the video in the link


Useful?
Writer: Richard Feynman
LCC:
Where:
Date: Mar 14 2014 5:31 PM



a: Buckaroo Banzai ~
b: decades of escapist pulp

What:

"Then there's Peter Weller, who, I am informed by Wikipedia, patterned his performance on "Elia Kazan, Jacques Cousteau, Albert Einstein, Leonardo Da Vinci, and Adam Ant." Probably only Adam Ant shows up in the final result, but that's okay. Weller provides a stable, unflappable anchor for the proceedings, and the movie seems to take off from his post-New Wave demeanor. Buckaroo Banzai is like decades of escapist pulp filtered through the skeptic's shrug of the mid-'80s."


Useful?
Writer: Rob Gonsalves
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Where:
Date: Aug 1 2014 4:22 PM



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