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Folks, it's time. And an appropriate time: for my penultimate post here at Discover Magazine, I've decided to show you my tattoo. I've been meaning to post this for a while, but there were a lot of behind-the-scenes issues getting permissions I won't bore you with. But by the time I was able to post this it was so long after I got inked it seemed a little silly. Still, Discover Magazine was the reason I got it, so it seems fair and fitting to post this now. And I've dyeing to let y'all know anyway. As a brief recap, a few years ago I made a bet with then-Discover Magazine CEO, Henry Donahue: if I got 2 million page views in one month, and the magazine got 5 million total, we'd both get tattoos. In March 2009 we did it! So Henry and I went about getting inked. He ...

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