Slideshow: science tattoos from Science Ink: Tattoos of the Science Obsessed

I still think the Euler's identity brand I photographed a few years back is the most committed science body-art I've seen.

I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

benher

I’ve done a few sciencey tattoos in my day! (The Butterfly Curve, Pi, Soundwaves)
Anyone want a Sagan portrait? I’ll do it free if you come to Osaka! I’ll up the ante – Dawkins, Feynmann also welcome; what’s a plane ticket compared to that?
nick15

Is it me, or am I the only one who thinks that Golden Ratio spiral should have circled around that dude’s nipple?
andygates

I’ve been meaning to go to Japan for years! (tho alas, my credit, she ees cronched). Tempting though!

(I’m #10 in the slideshow! Fame for a limb! Should get a copy for my artist)
http://twitter.com/OhMeadhbh Meadhbh Octopodidae

carl zimmer was on KQED’s forum program last week. it was a great hour of chat. listen to it here: http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201111041000
theophrastvs

well, one of the two DNA molecules has the correct handedness …that’s something
(cf http://www.fred.net/tds/leftdna/)
AviSolomon

I love how Zimmer’s book can be used as a lesson plan to teach science:
http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/09/images-and-ink-identifying-significant-science-symbols/
And getting a science tattoo is quite the filter to identify what matters the most to scientists themselves. Every tattoo in the book is bound to be eminently teachable.