If you have a science-themed tattoo, Carl Zimmer would like to know about it. You can already see quite a variety of cool pictures Carl's readers sent him on these three posts:
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*Very* Branded with Science
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I am as clean as a newborn and will not start at this age, but I find the tattoos quite fascinating.
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CNN reports on a survey of the increasing number of people getting tats:
I've written previously how people will do crazy things for aesthetics. I know some would consider any tattoo in this category; I can't since I have a few myself. However, I'd never heard of a 3D tattoo before.
Torben Thomsen's tattoo
You come sailing with us, you'd better be careful: you sail in the Atlantic, you get an anchor tattoo. Sail more than 5,000 miles, it's a swallow. You round Cape Horn with us, it's a ship under full sail. Which will be a big tat, and the pain, I imagine will be terrible...
Still, we'll give you a leather strap to bite on.
Sailing on the Beagle is worth the pain.