Random Analogies

What: "The rolled spleen is like a richly flavoured piece of ham, offset with cornichons and a lovely piquant dressing. The terrine of heart, liver and other bits and pieces is appealingly mild and delicate in flavour. But my favourites are the dried salted pig's liver with egg and radishes, and the warm salad of pig's head, trotter and broad beans. Mind-blowingly tasty."

Writer: Fergus Henderson

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Date: Jun 7 2013 4:57 PM

What: "Say we compare a digital camera to a car - the energy capacity is your fuel tank capacity so how far your car can travel depends on the capacity of your fuel tank and similarly, how many shots you can take with the battery depends on the battery's energy capacity. The power density is like the torque or "pick-up power" of your car. If you sit ten big fat people in your car and still manage to accelerate from 0 to 100MPH in 8 seconds then you would say the car or fuel has good "pick-up". So when your camera demands high power in a short moment like just as when a picture is taken and if the battery can deliver it instantly without any complaint then it is said that the battery has high power density."

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Date: Jul 30 2013 3:27 PM

What: Think of a loaf of bread, sliced into layers. The individual pieces of bread are like the sheets of graphite...it is far easier to push one slice sideways relative to the others than to rip a slice.

Writer: David Zukertort Rudel

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Date: Jul 30 2013 5:17 PM

What: "My early lathe work with pencils originates from an interest in memory. My mother had recently died and she had suffered significant memory loss during her illness. Her illness made me question, where do our thoughts go? Working in my sketchbook, I realized that graphite was a good visual metaphor for the way our brain works. The smear of graphite is like memory, always fleeting, never permanent."

Writer: Robert Lyon

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Date: Aug 26 2013 6:55 PM