Science geek chic

What seems like another lifetime ago, I used to be a biochemist. Yes, the kind that ran around in a lab coat mixed flasks full of enzymes and other stuff and tracked reactions and did a lot of spreadsheets to crunch data. Sounds like fun doesn't it?

I decided to leave that career and the accompanying life of glamour and persue a degree in design instead.

Every once in a while, a small part of me misses the lab and the science and the knowing why certain things happen when you get this reaction happening in a cell and all that fun stuff. Rather than go back to the lab, I'd prefer to show my science geek side with this:



For you really chemically-savvy types it's also known as this:


or estradiol, commonly called estrogen. The artist behind the necklace is Raven Hanna, who sells the estrogen necklace and others on her site Made with Molecules. Hanna, a "Yale-educated scientist turned artist" probably also couldn't stand all the glamour of being a scientist too ;)