Random Analogies
Ethanol Is Like Duke Basketball
a: Ethanol ~
b: Duke basketball
What: "Ethanol is like Duke basketball - it brings together all sorts of people in opposition. Its environmental downsides are large, it depends entirely on government subsidies, and it makes food more expensive." A discussion of the strange bed fellows that ethanol mandates have created.
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Writer: Timothy P. Carney
LCC: S
Where: Reference Link Has Evaporated
Date: Nov 16 2011 11:42 AM
# 1488 Critique Analogy
You See For A Long Time......
a: Geology ~
b: astronomy
What: "You see, geology is like astronomy. It lets you see the Big Picture. The picture in which our petty lives are swallowed whole by monstrous insignificance. Where we are forced to look a billion years or more before to see the continents adrift and crawly things emerge upon the land. Or out onto a hundred billion galaxies with each a hundred billion stars. I like that"
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Writer: Richard S. Platz
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Where:
Date: Apr 14 2013 2:24 PM
# 2716 Critique Analogy
a: Mitochondria ~
b: a funky little bean
What:
"Now, the mitochondria is like a funky little bean,It supplies energy to the entire scene!" The link is a video that raps the part of the cell. This is really good for audio learners.
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Writer: Karly Masters
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Where:
Date: Dec 27 2013 8:59 PM
# 4457 Critique Analogy
