Comments on: Welcome to sciencetattoo.com

By: Bart Mitchell

Bart Mitchell — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 06:10:52 +0000

Here are my Nerd Tattoos. Im just happy that the artist now understands what a Swartzchild Radius is. I was suprised at how interested he was, and asked great questions. http://www.d1040325.domain.com/applications/Coppermine/index.php?cat=10004

By: Perry

Perry — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:07:05 +0000

Carl,

You should’ve registered the sciencetattoo.com domain and just started a database. It seems you inspired someone else to do that.

Great work with the blog by the way. Any chance we’ll see Parasite Rex II?

By: Carlie

Carlie — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 13:48:27 +0000

I don’t usually like DNA representations, but that one is incredible.
Allen, yours are neat – they kind of look like quipu, too, so you can say it’s symbolic of keeping account of your relationship.

By: Allen

Allen — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 13:11:05 +0000

Well, tattoos are accessories after all, and why else would one get one if not for others to see? Sure, not all tattoos are for everyone to see, but it seems clear that the intent is to display.

In our case, my wife and I got tattoos as our wedding rings.
http://paleobio.org/images/Collins-Tattoos.jpg
I can still hear the guffaw of one of my wife’s good friends at the wedding when it was announced what we did. Our tattoos are ankle rings composed of a siphonophore, deep sea relatives of the Portuguese Man-o-War. We modeled it after one of Haeckel’s plates, but have since been told by the guy who knows more about siphonophores than anyone else alive that it “doesn’t exist”. That is one aspect for which it is not an apt symbol.

By: bug_girl

bug_girl — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 01:58:00 +0000

there is actually a famous (infamous?) publication in a peer reviewed journal:

Insect tattoos: a dermographic study. American Entomologist.
1996.

(I think that’s the year, anyway.)