Here is a picture of my serotonin tattoo. I don’t know that it needs much more explanation than it’s my favorite neurotransmitter.–Hayley
Serotonin
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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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Books by Carl Zimmer
The Tangled Bank is the best written and best illustrated introduction to evolution of the Darwin centennial decade, and also the most conversant with ongoing research.--E. O. Wilson, Harvard University
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"Superb...quietly revolutionary"--Boston Globe
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"As thorough as it is graceful...This is as fine a book as one will find on the subject."--Scientific American
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"A book capable of changing how we see the world."--The Los Angeles Times
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"A fascinating story, which Zimmer unfolds as a tale of high-stakes scientific sleuthing."--Booklist
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- Top 100 Stories of 2009: #42: Scientists Watch Pathogens as They Cause Infection
- DISCOVER Blogs: Bad Astronomy
February 18th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
serotonin yes
hayley yes please
phwoar
if only my biology teacher was that hot, id be doing neurosciences now
not marine biology
March 9th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
Yea, im not gonna lie thats probably the most awsome tat ive ever seen on a girl, are you on facebook haha.. im taking Neurobiology right now and it is the most interesting class i’ve ever been in. Neurotransmission in the brain along with memory congnition and reasoning are awsome topics, but i must say i am more of a dopaminergic fan
April 28th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
Ok. You’ve convinced me. I should’ve gone into the sciences as well. Poor me. I actually learned a trade. Don’t see to many it-babes like that.
May 5th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
Club Confabula – a Dutch weblog – likes your tattoo!
August 20th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
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January 8th, 2009 at 7:55 pm
That is really hott…….
January 31st, 2009 at 7:07 pm
that’s the coolest tattoo ever!
February 18th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
WOW i like it very much
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March 3rd, 2009 at 1:42 am
thats soo dope. i envy you for gettin that haha
March 10th, 2009 at 8:52 pm
Glad you guys like it so much.
March 16th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
are you trying to say that your body brings as much pleasure as serotonin? I’ll be the judge of that.
April 7th, 2009 at 9:24 am
Oops the schizogen MA…
Awsome; vertically presented as that the mol is shaped as an amino-handed robot
July 2nd, 2009 at 4:44 am
Uhm whoops you’d think that whoever designed this tattoo would have had the NH2 be H2N and the OH be HO. The general rule is that if most of the bonds emanate to the right, the text pendant to the connecting atom goes to the left, and vice versa.
August 6th, 2009 at 9:23 am
You’d expect that someone who knows what a neurotransmitter does is capable of writing plain english.
I also wonder how she came to realize that serotonin is her specific favorite, but I guess that would challenge the fact that she just wants to look interesting a bit too much.