{"id":16685,"date":"2010-05-02T17:54:47","date_gmt":"2010-05-02T17:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/the-companion-molecule-science-tattoos-the-loom\/"},"modified":"2010-05-02T17:54:47","modified_gmt":"2010-05-02T17:54:47","slug":"the-companion-molecule-science-tattoos-the-loom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/the-companion-molecule-science-tattoos-the-loom.php","title":{"rendered":"The Companion Molecule [Science Tattoos] | The Loom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2811\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/1990b_Scicurious-caffeine440.jpg\" alt=\"Scicurious caffeine440\" width=\"440\" height=\"250\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\">Scicurious, a blogger at&nbsp;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/neurotopia\/\">Neurotopia<\/a> with a PhD in physiology, writes,<\/p><p><strong>The molecule is caffeine, and the tattoo itself was designed by artist Glendon Mellow of <\/strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/glendonmellow.blogspot.com\/\"><strong>The Flying Trilobite<\/strong><\/a><strong>. I got it to celebrate my PhD. <\/strong><\/p><p><strong> Why caffeine, you ask?<br><\/strong><\/p><p><strong>1) I had a friend once tell me that my friendship was like a hot cup of coffee. Warm, vivacious, stimulating, and comforting. It was one of the best compliments I ever received.<br><\/strong><\/p><p><strong>2) I have spent the last six years of my life studying drugs in various forms. Caffeine always spoke to me as a stimulant, because it is so different from other traditional drugs classified as stimulants. I&rsquo;ve always been a little different myself.<br><\/strong><\/p><p><strong>3) I also spent the past six years studying various neurotransmitters. I will spend more years studying different neurotransmitters. Which ones I study and why will change over time, but caffeine will be with me through all of it. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/1990b_icon_smile.gif\" alt=\":)\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"> <\/strong><\/p><p><strong><span><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/loom\/science-tattoo-emporium\/\"><em>Click here to go to the full Science Tattoo Emporium.<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/O3wGsFkb-1-_98sDc_kiz053_XE\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/1990b_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/O3wGsFkb-1-_98sDc_kiz053_XE\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/1990b_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/1990b_ylh1PN-bL9A\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/f2db0_RiVN_ckfBFU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scicurious, a blogger at&nbsp;Neurotopia with a PhD in physiology, writes,The molecule is caffeine, and the tattoo itself was designed by artist Glendon Mellow of The Flying Trilobite. I got it to celebrate my PhD. Why caffeine, you ask?1) I had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/the-companion-molecule-science-tattoos-the-loom.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16685"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}