Andrew writes:
“I cleverly disguised my ‘science’ tattoo as yet-another-asian-character. I had the chinese words yu zhao tattooed over my spine just below the collar-line. Roughly translated (because as Inara says on that Firefly episode, “there are nuances of meaning) it means Cosmos. And just to really geek out – I got the idea from a report done on gravitation submitted to the International Geophysical Union.”
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"Celebrated curiosity monger"
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 twelve books, the most recent of which is Science Ink: Tattoos of the Science Obsessed. His website is carlzimmer.com and his address is blog at carlzimmer dot com .
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April 9th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
the picture is backwards. I hope the tattoo isn’t.
June 19th, 2009 at 6:30 am
Just confirming what Jes commented – the above Chinese characters are back-to-front. Does this mean you have gone over to the dark side, Luke?
July 23rd, 2009 at 5:53 pm
Perhaps a mirror was involved?