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David Kestenbaum
David Kestenbaum

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    Jackson Braider - 09:52pm Jun 18, 2006 EST (#48 of 49) Reply

    A guide for metaphors and similes for scientific thingees?

    I heard an intriguing way of describing the average individual's DNA: A "pantry" of possibilities that may or may not pop up in sickness or health, youth or old age, etc. A larderful of reflexes and reactions that may or may not be used...

    Ah, but if only we had larders these days so people knew what grandma used to do in there ...

    What I'm reaching for here is a sense of how important the likes of metaphor and simile are to science reporting. Science reporting is supposedly discussing the unknowable to the unknowing. In this scheme, certain imagery works, other imagery doesn't succeed in translating processes and events into things we already know and understand.

    Any particular metaphoric bloopers you've encountered out there? Any pearls, by contrast, to inspire us further?

    Jay Allison - 12:29pm Jun 20, 2006 EST (#49 of 49) Reply

    David moving on...

    Big thanks to David for his visit, and for the thorough and responsive notes he left us--some of them posted seamlessly from his vacation in South Africa, maybe even from donkeyback.

    We'll be preparing his issue of the REVIEW soon. In the meantime, he may answer a straggling question or two, and also said he'd take email if anyone feels urgently unanswered.


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