Frank writes, “Hey there! I didn’t tattoo science, science tattooed me! I’m coming up on being five years free of testicular cancer thanks in part to this tiny tattoo that helped the technicians correctly align my Guidant radiation treatments.”
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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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December 12th, 2008 at 4:46 am
Hey…. I’ve got eight or nine of those myself. And it’s coming up on twenty-five years since my diagnosis of testicular cancer. I guess that means I’m fairly well cured.
December 12th, 2008 at 8:20 am
That’s awesome. Best of luck, Frank.
December 13th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
Carl, I love your blog, but I’m bored with the tattoos.
Like, really bored.
Maybe you could fork the tatoos into their own blog, or give us a tat00-free filtered feed?
I hate clicking on the Google Reader links on my iPhone for yet another tattoo.
December 13th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
John–Tell you what: I’ll add “[Tattoo]” to the end of the titles from now on. Fair warning.
December 14th, 2008 at 12:29 am
Many, many of us have those tiny tattoos – mine are courtesy of the The TomoTherapy® guys at my cancer center (lung): other places use Sharpies
Not sure they had Sharpies 25 years ago, though. Excellent for you both, Frank and Lynn!