“I got this on Saturday, that’s it fresh off the needle. When it’s healed I’ll try and take a full arm shot so you can see it all. the artists original design had ‘seek and you will find’ but that’s too close to the biblical reference ‘..shall find’ so i changed it to just ‘seek seek seek’ on the banner. you’re not always gonna find your answers but you should always be looking for some.” –Damien

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Originally published February 17, 2008. Copyright 2008 Carl Zimmer.

“Attached is a photo of a tattoo I got immediately after turning in the final paperwork a little over two weeks ago for the completion of my Ph.D. in biological anthropology. It’s the first evolutionary tree that Darwin sketched in his 1837 Notebook B on the transmutation of species.” –Julienne

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Originally published February 17, 2008. Copyright 2008 Carl Zimmer.

“I chose at the time to not go for the 101-straight defined double-helix , as DNA is such a dynamic entity, zipping and unzipping and playing host to some many other molecules and with all it’s binding domains, that I wanted it to be different in different places.” –Steve O’Grady

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Originally published February 17, 2008. Copyright 2008 Carl Zimmer.

“I am a nurse and here is my tattoo.”

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Originally published February 17, 2008. Copyright 2008 Carl Zimmer.

“I am a neuroscientist. As a graduate student, after successfully passing my qualifying exam, I celebrated by getting this tattoo. It is the hieroglyphic for the word ‘brain.’ It is the earliest written reference to the brain dating back to the 17th century BC. I am convinced that the brain is the greatest mystery in the universe! “–Jason Trageser

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Originally published February 17, 2008. Copyright 2008 Carl Zimmer.