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Carl Zimmer's Science Tattoo Emporium
Underneath their sober lab coats and flannel shirts, scientists hide images of their scientific passions.
Writer Carl Zimmer wondered aloud whether many scientists have tattoos that reflect their science or other geeky interests, and the response was an emphatic yes. He's posting the photos and stories of scientific ink up at the Science Tattoo Emporium. Today's is a gorgeous backpiece of the tree of life, belonging to a grad student in zoology at the University of Melbourne.
Of course, now I'm curious -- do any of you makers, builders, tinkerers, and crafters have geeky tattoos? If not, what would your tattoo be?
Carl Zimmer writes a fascinating science blog called The Loom along with other science journalism.
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9 years ago
If you consider anime tattoos geeky, yes.
13 years ago
http://stuff.freebiehost.net/wp-content/411932018_ec557f585f.jpg
lol
Reply 13 years ago
bandwidth bust... I got 300GB bandwidth for free and 8GB storage...
Reply 13 years ago
Aww, bandwidth-exceeded error, I can't see the image.
13 years ago
I have ink.. but wouldn't put anything on my forearms like that.
Reply 13 years ago
...But do you have science ink?
Reply 13 years ago
Isn't everything science..
Reply 13 years ago
Well, eventually, yes. But I might argue that some things are more science than others. :)
13 years ago
When I was trying to learn the quadratic formula, I asked my teacher if it would be considered cheating to just tattoo it onto my arm.
She said no.
Reply 13 years ago
My teacher has a tattoo of the chemical formula for natural sugar.
Reply 13 years ago
*Science teacher.
Reply 13 years ago
Which natural sugar?
Reply 13 years ago
Hmm, maybe C12H22O11 ?
Reply 13 years ago
That's table sugar (sucrose). Others are glucose, fructose, maltose, galactose, xylose, lactose etc...
Example link
Reply 13 years ago
I picked sucrose because I thought that would be the more likely pick, but then again, maybe he picked something more out of the ordinary ?
Reply 13 years ago
Er, glucose or fructose, I think.
13 years ago
Wow - there's LOTS of great tattoos there. I've never seen the need to get poked with needles a few million times, but some of these might actually persuade me...
13 years ago
nice ink