From Craig McLean at Deep Sea News: scienceblogs.com/deepseanews/2007/08/science_tattoo.php
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Originally published February 16, 2008. Copyright 2008 Carl Zimmer.
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Jay Phelan writes:
“I got it around 1990 when I was in graduate school. As I got deeper into the study of evolution, genetics, and human behavior, I realized that there was a tension between what my genes “wanted” me to do and what I wanted to do–from the fattiness of the foods I ate, to the selfishness/selflessness I showed to others, to issues with managing my money, my risk-taking, and my relationships, and more. It dawned on me that I was fighting a never-ending battle. Anyway, I tried to come up with a design that captured that tension and, once I did, decided to get it tattooed on my back…”
Cleek writes: “Here’s my dromaeosaur (unfeathered) but, i’m a programmer, not a paleontologist, so i guess it’s not exactly my science. maybe i’ll get some C++ for the next one.”
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Andrew writes:
“I cleverly disguised my ‘science’ tattoo as yet-another-asian-character. I had the chinese words yu zhao tattooed over my spine just below the collar-line. Roughly translated (because as Inara says on that Firefly episode, “there are nuances of meaning) it means Cosmos. And just to really geek out – I got the idea from a report done on gravitation submitted to the International Geophysical Union.”
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Originally published February 16, 2008. Copyright 2008 Carl Zimmer.