Random Analogies
a: Dendrite ~
b: forest
What: "Nerve cells are the building blocks of the brain.Just like any other cell.
Then he says they are very different! Much more vulnerable. Axon continues to grow and grow. Dendrite is like a forest. Axons are really really long! The cells have to work really really hard to generate the protein to supply the protoplasmic structure. Nerve cells send signals, at about 100 miles per hour."
Useful?
Writer: Gerald Fischbach
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Where: Reference Link Has Evaporated
Date: Oct 25 2013 2:24 PM
# 4253 Critique Analogy
Going Off The Rails
a: health care system ~
b: a runaway train
What:
"Anyone with a pulse in the United States has become aware that our health care system is like a runaway train in serious danger of jumping off its track. It's amazing, and confusing, because we are blessed with so much medical innovation"
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Writer: Brian Carmody
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Date: Jan 23 2014 8:21 PM
# 4756 Critique Analogy
Linker Histone As Archivist
a: Cell nucleus ~
b: an overcrowded archives
What: "The cell nucleus is like an overcrowded archives, with DNA and proteins wound and twisted into dense packages, called chromatin. Now a series of experimental results, including one reported in this issue (p. 614), is sketching a new picture of this archive and how a protein called the linker histone helps to manage it, by either granting or denying the cell's gene-regulating proteins access to particular sequences."
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Writer: Elizabeth Pennisi
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Date: Feb 12 2014 1:03 PM
# 4872 Critique Analogy
a: Hillary clinton ~
b: a weather vane
What:
"Hillary Clinton is like a weather vane. She will point in any direction that the prevailing wind is blowing. NOT the kind of president this country needs."
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Writer: Not Stated
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Date: Feb 26 2015 2:55 PM
# 7393 Critique Analogy
