Any CSI fans here? Or people interested in forensic science?

[Bouncy Ball]

My husband and daughter ADORE the CSI series (though not the Miami one) and they watch it a lot (she's not allowed to watch some of the episodes, because they just get a bit too PG-13 in nature).

AND, in her GT class, they are doing a forensic science unit right now.

Well, one of the forensic pathlogists and Deputy Medical Examiners in Las Vegas who serves as a consultant to the show is going to be at a local university this week, giving a talk on how he uses forensic science in real cases.

WE'RE GOING!!!!

What perfect timing (with her class in school). I don't normally get into this stuff, but they made me sit down and watch a few episodes of it, and I have to admit to getting sucked into it. So now I'm pretty excited about hearing this guy speak.

Go ahead, call me a dork now.

[XanaDUer]

1. Lucky You!

Yes, I love shows like Forensic Files, etc.

[bigwillq]

2. That's so cool!

I love all the CSI's and all other shows about that stuff!
I made a CSI egg today when my sis and I colored eggs!

BTW, Congrats on 10,000 posts!:hi:

[Bouncy Ball]

10. Thank you!

How did you make a CSI egg? And thanks for reminding me I need to get egg-dying stuff.

[bigwillq]

17. Well the egg dye that we bought was very messy

SO I got out my rubber gloves and pretended I was a CSI agent. Then I wrote CSI on the egg so it's a CSI egg!:)

[sundog]

3. Shouldn't you be partying

in accordance with your 10,000th post? :party:

Now stop all this seriousness & abuse some substance while the night is still young :P

[Bouncy Ball]

5. WHAT?

I didn't even NOTICE!!!!

YAY!!! I passed 10,000!!! I'll have to start a whole new thread. And I even have a topic (highly fluffy).

Thanks sundog, for noticing!

[Bronco69]

4. I LOVE forensic science.

I was watching Court TV the other day and they said the shows like Forensic Files and CSI are making it harder to prosecute cases because now the juries want forensic evidence that they see on those tv shows and in a lot of cities it just isn't available.

[MuseRider]

6. My husband was a pathologist and

had to serve as deputy coroner for a bunch of years. THE STORIES! OMG they would curl your hair or make you laugh hysterically.

[Bouncy Ball]

12. Oh my!!! I'll bet!

No telling them at the dinner table, right?

[MuseRider]

13. He would get home from a scene

and wake me up at 3AM and tell me the most horrific stuff. Being an ICU nurse at the time it didn't bother me much but yikes. Some of the funny stuff was simply from the workers at the scenes. It is amazing what people will say and do to avoid the awfulness of their surroundings.

[Toby109]

7. Dork

[babylonsister]

8. Love those shows! and my favorite kind of fiction book

is a good mystery or murder. I'm not violent, but something about it fascinates me.

[LordshipLadyship]

9. you need to get the pc CSI games, Bouncy

The games are way cool, you use the tools, and you solve the crimes (and if you get stuck like I did, there are walkthroughs online ) (and if you're like me, you yell at Brass during the game... "Gimme a warrant to search the premises, damn it!!!" ) (you have to have found certain evidence before he lets you :grr: )

Look at this http://www.lynnpeavey.com/index.php?cPath=33

[Bouncy Ball]

11. We did buy the board game for CSI a few weeks ago.

And we learned you really have to set aside some time and a lot of attention to play it. You cannot play it with the TV on in the background! It's very detailed.

PC games for it?

Well, I know what I'm getting Mr. Bouncy for his birthday now, thanks!

[GreenPartyVoter]

14. Well, stick you in the fridge and call you cool! Lucky! :^D

[GOPisEvil]

15. Oh, wow...that sounds interesting!

I never got CSI classes in school. I got hosed. x(

[Bouncy Ball]

16. I never did either.

And speaking of school, I got out some of my college yearbooks the other day out of curiosity...... ;-)

[GOPisEvil]

19. Uh oh...

:scared:

[Bouncy Ball]

20. Hee heeeeeee.

I found someone! It suddenly occurred to me that our years overlapped, so I thought "wonder if he's in there?"

I'll PM you with something I can't say here.

[Lisa]

18. I asked my 3rd-year college biology class ...

... how many people watched shows like "CSI", and although some people were shy about admitting it, most of the class said they watched crime shows at least once in a while.

So I introduced my optional bonus marks plan -- if people find a real-life case that uses concepts we covered in class, and do a 10-minute presentation on it, they will get an automatic 5% on top of their final grades. So far we've had talks on the use of DNA fingerprinting to catch poachers (comparison of genetic heterozygosity of various animal species with human populations), the use of pollen and species range mapping to refute alibis, and maggot development to identify time of death. Next week someone's doing an art fraud case (artificially-aged North American tree wood in a fake "medieval European" artifact).

[Bouncy Ball]

21. Wow, that sounds awesome.

I bet they are going to remember this class more than others because of it, too.

[Rowdyboy]

22. If I was in high school today, watching shows like that, I would take

science far more seriously and really work at it. I love what they do.

[Bouncy Ball]

23. I feel the same.

It's always been interesting, I just think the way it was presented to us in school wasn't always interesting. Same for history. I LOVE history now, thought it was a giant snooze when I was in school.

I once heard someone say "if you are teaching history and it's boring, you are doing something wrong."

[Rowdyboy]

24. Hated history in high school, majored in it in college

Thats the difference in weak teachers and kickass professors.