Melinda writes,

I have attached a photo of my Dirac Equation tattoo, which I obtained a few months ago. I am really happy with it. In fact, it caused quite a stir at the Yuri’s Night celebration at NASA Ames. I’m a physics student and research at the University of California, Santa Cruz. I currently conduct research analyzing gamma ray radiation from astronomical sources (blazars and pulsars mainly) with Cerenkov detectors located in Amado, Arizona…Side Note: The equation was written up on a LaTeX document and stenciled from there. Doesn’t get much nerdier than that!

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I’ve update my blogroll over in the right-hand column. New blogs, fixed links. Much good stuff!

Originally published September 11, 2010. Copyright 2010 Carl Zimmer.

Just quick note that I’m about to go onto the public radio show Word of Mouth a few minutes past noon EST. We’ll be talking about my recent piece in the New York Times about inclusive fitness. You can listen live from their web site or catch up later with a podcast.

Originally published September 9, 2010. Copyright 2010 Carl Zimmer.

The National Association of Science Writers will be getting together in my backyard over in New Haven in November. The lineup is coming together nicely. I pitched in a little on organizing two sessions on books, which I think will be fantastic. (I’m on one of the panels, but it would still be fantastic if I were bound and gagged in the corner.)

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