Material Science: Valentine’s day gifts for your lady scientist

Oppenheimer tote bag $15. Dude. The design features a portrait J. Robert Oppenheimer, in profile, depicted with the mushroom cloud of an atomic bomb blast behind him & his famous quote followed by his signature. Iconography has never been so hot.

Ethanol wine glasses set of four, $64, from Molecular Muse. Perfect to enjoy some champagne, post-post modern stylez.

CHEMISTRY: A Screen Printed Artist Book about Science and Attraction, $22. It’s a small artful accordion book that spends 10 pages dwelling on the chemistry of attraction from Blue Valentine Press.

Sterling silver chromosome pendant, $80, from Bronze Girl. It’s beautiful. It’s a chromosome. And it’s shiny! What more does a girl want?

Then - well ok it’s a bit late to start this knitting project but maybe for next year - there’s the mobius shawl that you can knit for your loved one. After all, what say I love you more than the symbol for infinity coupled with the patience of knuckling down and knitting that much yarn into a garment??. Here’s the pattern. If you want a shortcut, for $40 you can buy a magenta one knit out of acrylic over at Etsy: Mobius magenta shawl.

And finally for those who want to put things baldly, there are the countless fertility pouches that Stitch PIxie sells that feature egg and sperm and ovaries all sewn on in vinyl. Perfect for storing tampons, birth control (which would make it the anti-fertillity pouch), what have you ($12-$25 depending on design). There’s even a naughty, but strangely unerotic, vulva one.