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Leaving the Atoms [Tattoo]

By Carl Zimmer
Feb 13, 2009 6:01 PMMay 20, 2019 10:28 PM
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Mar writes: "I'm a pharmacist, and I'm doing a Biomedicine Phd. When I began the PhD I decided to have a tattoo. When I was little I used to rest for long times apparently doing nothing. My mother always told me, 'Leave the atoms and come to the Earth.'"

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