Photograph courtesy of o2b
This is weird but altogether wonderful too. Carl Zimmer at ScienceBlogs is collecting pictures of scientists with tattoos. So far so mundane, you might think. But these are science tattoos.
His collection so far includes a biologist with a DNA sequence on his shoulder that spells his wife's initials; the chemical structure of the ATP molecule; the first few dozen numbers of pi; and, my favourite, a man with the entire periodic table on his forearm.
There are plenty of scientists waiting to join the club too. A commenter on Carl's post says:
I don't have it yet, but I plan on getting an infinite tessellation by Escher, of butterflies. I'm a computer scientist/aspiring researcher, and this will represent the intersection of math and biology that has become my interest. Maybe someday people won't see my double major as such a schizophrenic move :)
There's even a picture of a man being tattooed with the entire solar system. That has to hurt - let's hope it was done after the International Astronomical Union decided to re-define the planet last year.
See the pictures so far here.
