12 Perfectly Nerdy Tattoos You'll Absolutely Want
by N/A, 9 years ago |
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Tattoos are a great way to learn a lot about a person, and if you run into these people, you can probably tell pretty quickly that they're pretty nerdy, and not afraid of that fact.
1. A Passionflower
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The passionflower is an incredibly unique flower.
2. Strebe Projection
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This Strebe equal-area projection is a perfect tattoo for a geographer.
3. Equations
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Newton's second law of motion and Einstein's mass-energy equivalence are probably the two most easily recognized equations ever.
4. Spaceship
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This colorful look at space travel belongs to a former rocket scientist who clearly is still fascinated with space.
5. Dopamine
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After beginning to work in a behavioral neuroscience lab, this woman got the chemical compound of dopamine tattooed on her side.
6. Dinosaurs
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These two dinos also happen to be the logo for the Los Angles County Natural History Museum.
7. Sabertooth Cat skull
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The owner of the dino tattoos also has this Sabertooth Cat skull tattoo, which is modeled after one on display at the museum.
8. Schrodinger's Cat
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A fascination with philosophy of physics led this medical physicist to get this tattoo of Schrodinger's cat inside a box designed by M.C. Escher.
9. Italian wall lizard
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This biologist studying the Italian Wall Lizard has one tattooed on himself.
10. Halley's comet
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This couple each have Halley's Comet based on the Bayeux Tapestry depiction of the comet.
11. Neurons
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These neurons tattooed over the shoulder is meant to represent the circuitry of the brain.
12. Jellyfish
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This jellyfish tattoo belongs to a professor of animal science,
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