Random Analogies
Financial Crisis Metaphors
a: The financial crisis ~
b: a Bazooka, tsunamis and tortoise
What: This article is a critique of metaphors used by financial regulators to explain the nature and depth of the 2008 money implosion. The author offers some alternatives....
Useful?
Writer: Max Frumes
LCC: H
Where:
Date: Jan 16 2011 11:55 AM
# 766 Critique Analogy
A Monster With Poison Fangs....
a: Chemotherapy ~
b: monster
What: "Let's say chemotherapy is like a monster and in order to get to the bad cancer cells and attack those cells and get rid of them along the way it's gonna run into some good fast growing cells."
Useful?
Writer: Marisa:
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Where:
Date: Apr 13 2013 4:43 PM
# 2710 Critique Analogy
a: electron transport chain ~
b: bucket brigade
What:
" The electron transport chain is like a "bucket brigade"--electrons are passed from one cytochrome molecule to the next until they are finally passed to oxygen, which is reduced to water."
Useful?
Writer: Not Stated
LCC:
Where: Reference Link Has Evaporated
Date: Feb 25 2014 6:35 PM
# 5090 Critique Analogy
a: parietal lobe ~
b: major river
What:
"Remember. the posterior parietal lobe is like a major river where tributaries of multiple senses and actions converge and integrate."
Useful?
Writer: Sandra Blakeslee, Matthew Blakeslee
LCC:
Where:
Date: Dec 3 2014 2:56 PM
# 6577 Critique Analogy
