Serious committment to science

(PHOTO: CARL ZIMMER from his photostream SCIENCE TATTOOS)

I am a self-confessed girl nerd, and I do love my science. If I wanted to wear my heart on my sleeve and show that love to the world, I might opt for some nice elemental earrings, perhaps, or a natty pair of periodic table socks. So in terms of committment to the cause, that makes me small fry compared to this lot. This bunch of high-pain-threshold artistic and dedicated tattoo-lovers are flying the flag for scientists all over the world, by tattooing their own bodies with scientific designs. These range from the relatively subtle and easily covered up glucose molecule belonging to Professor David Anderson, via the properly impressive periodic-table-on-arm, past the odd diazepam molecule and classic equation or two, all the way to the downright scary sperm thing. Evolutionary biology rules ok, but that’s just weird! There’s also a funky microscope, a Necker cube, a Darwin fish, a pi, a phi, an Einstein and more. It’s well worth a peruse I promise you.