Science popularizer Carl Zimmer uses tattooed scientific elements to promote love of science

Perhaps the scientific formula formulated by Albert Einstein, his famous theory of relativity, which revolutionized physics in the first third of the twentieth century. It is the tattoo with which most people identify themselves.

But apart in the selection of scientific tattoos made by Carl Zimmer who is a writer and divulgator scientist, who has been receiving in his blog The Loom and has collected in a volume entitled Science Ink.

The first edition was sold out in bookstores during the first week of sale to the public. You can find references to any scientific discipline, tattoos that sequence DNA strands, such as the one using the four nucleotides that constitute the amino acids that translate proteins.

They reveal the initials of your partner becoming a gesture of love towards her. An act of love directed to your partner, as well as to the paractic and especially to the scientific divulgation.

A facet that has been parallel to his career as a member of one of the most reputable institutions in scientific terms in his country. Work in which he has applied himself providing numerous satisfactions, and enough knowledge that in his spare time he has incorporated to his other great passion, the artistic tattoo.

But you can also delight yourself with tattoos that are inspired by astronomical terms or that describe chemical formulas, or that give a glimpse of the different organs that remain lodged at the subcutaneous level.

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Works that show us the evidence that dozens of intelligent and intellectually perceptive young people recognize that the equations, symbols and elements that make up the periodic table. They can be transformed into the motifs that build an aesthetic narrative that will always accompany you.

A visual and elegant language through which the universe reveals its deeply buried and marvelous secrets. Showing us along the way traits of our personality, experiences that can guide us towards that destiny we long for.