"I am a biochemist, studying to be a molecular biologist, and the tattoo I am sending is the entry for carbon on the periodic table of elements. Since all living things on this planet at least are carbon based, from a chemical standpoint, it doesn’t get much more basic than carbon. Hence the tattoo." –Erin
The call for science tattoos has brought 81 images now. After two months, they keep coming.
Carl Zimmer writes about science regularly for the New York Times and magazines such as Discover, where he is a contributing editor and columnist.
He is the author of seven books, the most recent of which is The Tangled Bank: An Introduction To Evolution. His website is carlzimmer.com and his address is [ blog at carlzimmer dot com ].
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October 19th, 2007 at 9:47 pm
I’ve decided to wait for a partner to get a tattoo…something like the Microsoft logo, Animal Planet,a double helix, Darwin in Che Guevara’s beret giving the Archbishop of Canterbury a swirly, you get the idea…
The catch would be you can only make it out when our hips are together…
October 25th, 2007 at 12:21 am
~H2O