Amanda, a biologist, writes, “Here’s my science tattoo. It’s inspired from the REM song Man on the Moon and by trip to the Galapagos a few years ago.”
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The lyric is “Mr Charles Darwin had the gall to ask”. Never mind, it’s only a tattoo.
The lyric, in nearly every live performance of the song R.E.M. has played in the past decade, is in fact, “Mr. Charles Darwin had the balls to ask.”
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Carl Zimmer writes about science regularly for The New York Times and magazines such as DISCOVER, which also hosts his blog, The Loom. He is the author of 12 books, the most recent of which is Science Ink: Tattoos of the Science Obsessed.
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Amanda, a biologist, writes, “Here’s my science tattoo. It’s inspired from the REM song Man on the Moon and by trip to the Galapagos a few years ago.”
The lyric is “Mr Charles Darwin had the gall to ask”. Never mind, it’s only a tattoo.
The lyric, in nearly every live performance of the song R.E.M. has played in the past decade, is in fact, “Mr. Charles Darwin had the balls to ask.”