I can think of at least 20 regular readers who need to look at Carl Zimmer's collection of science tattoos immediately.
Some of them are lyrical, detailed, and beautiful. Others are tight, terse, and smart. Still others consist of carefully considered text. All are clearly quite meaningful to their owners, and endlessly wonderful to me.
You know who you are. Get over there.
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My response to this odious essay by Dale Reich was, well, terse.
This morning I received a funny email from a graduate student here at UW, Nicholas Murphy, which made me laugh out loud (reproduced and linkified here with permission from Nicholas):
Witness the overall demise of fossil fuel pipelines, thanks in part to the hard work of amazing activists, and in part to the fact that the value of these pipelines is dropping fast, which in turn, can be attributed in no small part to the hard work of amazing activists. And now, the latest:
Big F.U. from the Science and Technology Facilities Council to the astronomical community.
Wow. You made my day!
Cool! Now if I could just figure out what to put on myself . . .
That was fun. Even with the explanations, I don't get them all, but that's ok. Some were truly spectacular!
HHhhhhmmmmmmmmmmm............ yet again........
Signout reader named Benjamin Langer, who himself has a very nice critical piece on intelligent design in the current edition of SCQ.
I think people differ greatly on this issue. For example, if it were completely unidentifiable as my own, I would have no problem with a picture of my naked ass being posted on the Internet. Others would be absolutely horrified by the prospect.