Random Analogies
Atomic Cloud
a: An atom ~
b: a very small, round cloud
What: "An atom is like a very small, round cloud, by itself too small to see. This cloud is tough enough to join many other atoms of different round shapes to make things that we can feel - like animals, plants, rocks, air and water."
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Writer: Loren Booda
LCC: QD
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Date: Jun 15 2010 11:11 PM
# 467 Critique Analogy
But Where Is The Cigar?
a: Burning man ~
b: sitting on Freud's couch with a geisha
What: "For oh so many of us, going to Burning Man is like sitting on Freud's couch with a geisha. The intensity, the sexuality, the art, the closeness to this natural yet alien landscape ... these ingredients are a potent alchemy. "
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Writer: Caveat Magister
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Date: Apr 21 2012 4:18 PM
# 1887 Critique Analogy
Tiny Solar Factory..
a: Chloroplast ~
b: tiny carbohydrate factory
What: "Chloroplasts contain the essential life-giving photosynthetic pigments. Each chloroplast is like a tiny carbohydrate factory and out of this little factory comes the food for the plant, or bonsai tree, and practically every other living thing on earth - including you and me."
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Writer: Corey Smith
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Date: May 2 2013 12:29 PM
# 2880 Critique Analogy
a: control group ~
b: the study group
What:
"In a nutshell, this means that there is a control group of identical patients that does not receive the treatment of interest. The control group is like the study group in every other measurable way that might be relevant, such as average age, coexisting diagnoses, average weight, fraction that smoke, etc."
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Writer: Yaybob
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Date: Jan 8 2015 7:20 PM
# 6962 Critique Analogy
