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CSI: Ancient Athens

Andrew Jaffe shares my love of oddities regarding probability theory:

Before it happened, I would have said slim. But since it happened, 100%.

—Lawrence Fishburne, CSI, on the chances of being hit in the head by a tortoise dropped by a bird of prey.

I’ve never seen CSI.  Are they investigating the death of Aeschylus?

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2 Responses to “CSI: Ancient Athens”

  1. Andrew Jaffe Says:
    May 20th, 2009 at 4:28 pm

    Ted- Good call on Aeschylus! In fact that’s a plot point… -Andrew

  2. Ted Bunn Says:
    May 20th, 2009 at 4:40 pm

    Oddly enough, just a few weeks ago I warned a bald, hatless classical scholar I happen to know about the dangers of falling tortoises. But I thought it was Sophocles who died that way until Wikipedia set me straight.

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