After six months of science tattoo madness, the ink keeps flowing. To keep up with the rising tide, please visit their new home: The Science Tattoo Emporium. (You can also get there via http://sciencetattoo.com) I have an amazing backlog of tattoos to post there, which I will be doing so once at day–with an increasing amount of my own commentary on the story behind the picture.
Originally published February 18, 2008. Copyright 2008 Carl Zimmer.
Kim writes:
“This is my tattoo of Darwin. It’s from a political cartoon published in the late 1800’s. As I’m an anthropologist studying human evolution, it felt appropriate.” The original cartoon appeared in Hornet magazine in 1871, in the wake of Darwin’s publication of The Descent of Man. Here is the magazine editor’s note; if you then press “next” you can see the original. Wikipedia has a cleaner copy of the original.
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Originally published February 18, 2008. Copyright 2008 Carl Zimmer.
“I hope computer science counts”–Robert Newsom
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Originally published February 17, 2008. Copyright 2008 Carl Zimmer.
“A tattoo of human evolution on my leg. I think that explanation is pretty…. well, self-explanatory” –Krisko
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Originally published February 17, 2008. Copyright 2008 Carl Zimmer.
“i send you my biohazard tattoo. obviously it’s not about the band ^^ i’m a biology student and it represents my choice….” –Alesita
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Originally published February 17, 2008. Copyright 2008 Carl Zimmer.