Holiday special: Epic science tattoo

For today's holiday special, we look at illustrations of science, not on journal websites or on dead trees, but rather on a much more ancient medium. The Review posts this link to a blog at Discover Magazine that displays this epic science tattoo:


Clearly the tattoo artists have issued the authors of Graphical Abstracts a challenge. Consider this the body art equivalent of a thrown gauntlet.

Today's holiday is The Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Reference: Carl Zimmer, The Loom - a blog of Discover Magazine, That About Covers It, 2008-06-27.