Dendritic coasting

[image error]Morphologica is the online Etsy shop of a neuroscience postgrad who makes laser cut jewellery and ornaments from the images she sees during her time in the lab.

We've mentioned her neuron earrings before but her drinks coaster in the shape of a dendritic tree is just fantastic.

And if your drink of choice is something strong, there's a lovely symmetry as your drink leaves the dendritic tree, is absorbed by your body, to be passed on to the dendrites in your brain.

Although the analogy stops...