http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/03/21/nitrogen-as-horse-earth-and-air/ A blog about life, past and future. Written by DISCOVER contributing editor and columnist Carl Zimmer. Sat, 26 May 2012 01:25:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/03/21/nitrogen-as-horse-earth-and-air/comment-page-1/#comment-9392 Charles Delwiche Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:41:06 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/03/21/nitrogen-as-horse-earth-and-air/#comment-9392 This Nitrogen-cycle diagram -- which exists in myriad versions -- is often attributed to my father. He wasn't the tattooing type, but I think he would have been quite honored by your choice. When I got a tattoo I went for the now-classic Ernst Haeckel ophiuroid: http://www.glue.umd.edu/~delwiche/images/brittlestar2.jpg My rationale was that I didn't want to raid someone else's culture for a cool design, and my cultural background is, well, science. Haeckel made his mistakes, but he was a terrific artist. This Nitrogen-cycle diagram — which exists in myriad versions — is often attributed to my father. He wasn’t the tattooing type, but I think he would have been quite honored by your choice. When I got a tattoo I went for the now-classic Ernst Haeckel ophiuroid: http://www.glue.umd.edu/~delwiche/images/brittlestar2.jpg My rationale was that I didn’t want to raid someone else’s culture for a cool design, and my cultural background is, well, science. Haeckel made his mistakes, but he was a terrific artist.

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