“This is a Tubulariae organism penned by the German biologist and artist Ernst Haeckel . Flower-like – it is in fact a marine organism I love the ambiguity. The image can be found in Haeckel’s original grand publication Kunstformen der natur (1904) . A stunning book.” Science journalist.
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Originally published February 17, 2008. Copyright 2008 Carl Zimmer.
Leigh writes: When I was a PhD student in philosophy, I did a lot of work in philosophy of science. Not science proper, but after all, philosophy was (and is) the beginning of science. 😉 Anyway, my tattoo is a riff on the history of both science and philosophy– the hermetic symbols for the Philosopher’s Stone (sulfur + mercury + salt, and some sort of time designation). Yep, that’s right, alchemy.
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A reader writes: “This is my friend, Ira Klotzko, he’s got a doc. in Physics and a great sense of humor. I won’t share his original plan for the depiction of Uranus…One we can share is how he jokes that the tattoo is really accurate because, as is the case with his waistline, the universe is always expanding.”
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Mithras writes, “Pinkhaired Girl, a CS Ph.D. student, has this tattoo.”
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