"Dead"

A lab friend came by my desk yesterday to show me "Science Ink," an amazing book about gorgeous science themed tattoos by writer Carl Zimmer. The book is divided into scientific disciplines including neuroscience, astronomy, evolutionary biology (including a couple of "evo-devo" tattoos) and chemistry, but all the tattoos are pretty incredible. One tattoo covered the person's entire back and depicted the extinction of the dinosaurs in gruesome detail ... a little dark, yes, but totally rad. My boss wandered in the lab while we were looking at the "Schrodinger's cat" tattoo. He walked up to us and said, "dead." Then he grinned, wagged his eyebrows around, and again pronounced, "dead." Carl Zimmer is going to be on the Groks Science Radio Show next Wednesday on WHPK at 3pm Chicago time! I will be tuning in.