Science tattoos!

I have to admit, if I saw this one I would just assume she was an XTC fan.

old dude rockin' that trilobite on his bicep = hero

carl zimmer is a totally awesome writer. his book "evolution" is incredible.

I have come close to getting a science tattoo a couple of times. one was a feynman diagram and one was "the ascent of man". glad to have changed my mind both times, but both were because I decided tattoos sucked rather than these were bad tattoos.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Feynman-Diagram.svg/800px-Feynman-Diagram.svg.png
http://www.learner.org/channel/courses/biology/images/archive/fullsize/1678_fs.jpg

also, I hope this guy regrets setting his tattoo in fucking times new roman using Microsoft Word Equation Editor. It looks like ass.

http://carlzimmer.typepad.com/sciencetattoo/2008/05/fundamental-flu.html

Hahaha "MS Equation 3.0" cracks me up, as a name, every time.

http://carlzimmer.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/03/19/think.jpg

WORST

ha! my brother has that Uffington white horse tattoo, too! crazy.

http://carlzimmer.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/03/17/maths_tatts.jpg

^^^ excellent typography!

http://carlzimmer.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/02/21/dinonychus.jpg

@_@

xp, I was just about to post that! it's incredible!

http://carlzimmer.typepad.com/sciencetattoo/2008/02/descent-of-man.html

someone beat me to my ascent of man thing : (

Yeah, god elmo, for real. Plus why the fuck would you juxtapose random f-block, p-block, and s-block elements? O rite, bcz yr a clever-clever fuck. "Thanks to him, I am now an independent thinker!"

I dunno if this quite counts, but I have a 'parallel resonating band-stop filter circuit diagram that resembles the Kirby Was Here graffiti a la Thomas Pynchon's "V"' tattoo.

http://carlzimmer.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/02/16/sonic_hedgehog.jpg

nu-rave science baeb

http://carlzimmer.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/02/17/controlaltdelete.png

wait wait no THIS is the worst

Are those keys even placed like that?

Some of the little eqn ones look like they were done at home. :(

lol escapism

come on, man up and get the full qwerty, you nerd

http://carlzimmer.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/02/17/y_combinator.jpg

more shoddy Equation Editor typograhpy, lol kerning : (

to be honest i would probably back away slowly in dread if i ever encountered most of these tattoos on a person

for fear of getting drawn into conversation with them

yah

http://carlzimmer.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/02/21/dinonychus.jpg
this and the luis guzman tattoo are the only tattoos i would ever get

i would be oddly compelled to ask about the tattoo but wouldn't really want to know at all

http://carlzimmer.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/02/17/y_combinator.jpg

^^^ logic nerd

The dino one needs Jesus riding the front dinosaur.

I seriously went off maths during the course of my PhD, but seeing these it's made me think that a tattoo of some esoteric mathematical symbol or formula would still be pretty cool. I guess that the maths geek/nerd is still alive somewhere inside me, just beaten into submission by 4 years of struggle.

no tramp stamps?

I have to admit, if I saw this one I would just assume she was an XTC fan.