Julia Sherred's Geeky Pleasures

Every once in awhile I come across some pretty awesome things that people make and sell on Etsy. Today is such a day. Head on over to Molecular Muse and start browsing some of the awesome jewelry, all inspired SCIENCE! Some of my favourites are:

Creativity by Molecular Muse

This beautiful necklace is called Creativity and rightly so.

All jewelry is made with sterling silver.

On this necklace are three charms. Each charm is a different neurotransmitter. Neurotransmitters are responsible for mood and emotion. From left to right:

• serotonin – happiness, satisfaction
• dopamine – love, passion, pleasure
• acetylcholine – learning, memory, dreaming

To see more pictures of Creativity plus pricing information, visit here.

I Am Star Stuff by Molecular Muse

I actually learned a little bit of science when I found the next one. This one is called I Am Star Stuff.

As I did not take biology (instead I took computer science, chem and physics) I learned about amino acids when reading the description for this necklace. There are 22 amino acids. Each amino acid is represented by a letter (A C D E F G H I K L M N P Q R S T U V W Y). When you put them together to form a word or sentence, you get this piece of awesome.

This bracelet was inspired by the following Carl Sagan statement (which of course makes it all the more awesome):

that we are composed of the stuff stars made, which it literally true. After the Big Bang, only hydrogen existed. Stars burned this fuel and started creating slightly heavier atoms. Then other stars made even heavier atoms. They spit these out as they burned or exploded them away as they died. It is this generative magic that allowed carbon and oxygen and nitrogen and potassium – and all the other atoms we need for life – to exist. Look around – everything you see used to be in a star.

For more information about this bracelet, visit here.

Geek by Molecular Muse

And the final piece of jewelry that I want to feature is called Geek.

Once again, it is made up using the different letters that represent amino acids.

If there is a phrase that you would like to made into molecular jewelry, Molecular Muse does special orders!

To find out more about Geek, visit here.

There is still a whole bunch more of awesome over at Molecular Muse. So please head on over there and get your geek on.

With science and jewelry, it is hard to go wrong.