Billy, a psychology major, writes: “I love all forms of science, my favorite being evolutionary biology. So I decided to get this tattoo of Charles Darwin with a mohawk. I put a mohawk on him because I love punk rock music, and view him as revolutionary. ”
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 six books, the most recent of which is Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life. His website is carlzimmer.com and his address is [ blog at carlzimmer dot com ].
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December 4th, 2008 at 7:34 am
Sad. It’s also a bad tattoo.
December 5th, 2008 at 2:41 am
I’m afraid that picture of Billy is not particularly flattering… downright ugly, in fact.
I’m sorry. I used to come to this blog to read interesting things. Now, it seems that I see more pictures of people’s inked flesh than interesting posts.
I don’t want to ruin anybody’s fun, but is it really necessary for this parade of “tribalistic masturbation” to happen on the main blog? There is a link to the emporium page if people want to look at this sort of thing.
Anyway, I’ve said my peace. Your blog; your rules.