{"id":723411,"date":"2010-04-25T09:51:53","date_gmt":"2010-04-25T13:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/loom\/?p=2783"},"modified":"2010-04-25T09:51:53","modified_gmt":"2010-04-25T13:51:53","slug":"on-growth-and-ink-science-tattoo-the-loom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/723411","title":{"rendered":"On Growth and Ink [Science Tattoo] | The Loom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/loom\/files\/2010\/04\/Nautilus-tattoo440.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2703\" title=\"Nautilus tattoo440\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/loom\/files\/2010\/04\/Nautilus-tattoo440.jpg?resize=440%2C330\" alt=\"Nautilus tattoo440\" width=\"440\" height=\"330\"\/><\/a>Alex, a graduate student studying human biology and evolution, writes, &#8220;As an undergraduate at I was fortunate enough to study <em>On Growth and Form<\/em> by <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/D'Arcy_Wentworth_Thompson\">D&#8217;Arcy Thompson<\/a>. His synthesis of mathematics, classics and biology was an inspiration to me, and drove me to pursue science as a career. Though I am now studying to be a paleoanthropologist, my tattoo of an (idealized) ammonite fossil is a reminder to me of the material and mathematical processes behind all living things. Plus extinct cephalopods are more aesthetically appealing than hominin skulls.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/loom\/science-tattoo-emporium\/\">Click here to go to the full Science Tattoo Emporium.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/8q8EBbkaOkqmYt8rk9_EmsSNQh4\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/8q8EBbkaOkqmYt8rk9_EmsSNQh4\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/8q8EBbkaOkqmYt8rk9_EmsSNQh4\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/8q8EBbkaOkqmYt8rk9_EmsSNQh4\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Loom\/~4\/GMNT5Bwzk4I\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/UjH2P5wVEZc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex, a graduate student studying human biology and evolution, writes, &#8220;As an undergraduate at I was fortunate enough to study On Growth and Form by D&#8217;Arcy Thompson. His synthesis of mathematics, classics and biology was an inspiration to me, and drove me to pursue science as a career. Though I am now studying to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-723411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-32bV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=723411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}