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Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Beware the Ides of March

Julius Caesar murdered in 44 B.C. and all that.

I, on the other hand, had a pretty good day.

According to NPR this morning, with every breath you take, you inhale a molecule of air that Caesar exhaled. Say Wa? Me and my friend Google did some research and came across this:
... if we further assume that the atmosphere has been well mixed by turbulent motion, so that all the molecules have scattered in the course of the last two thousand years, it follows that every time we breath we inhale at least one molecule of breath that Julius Caesar exaled when he was murdered in the Roman Senate house in 44 B.C. ...
[PP Wegener, in What Makes Airplanes Fly?, 1991]

So now, of course, I feel a little creeped out.

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