Tonight's Science on the Tree ornament is a little more obscure:
Given the conical sort of shape, I suspect it's meant to be a Christmas tree, but it's abstract enough that it could really be some sort of Calabi-Yau thingy, so we'll let this stand as a symbol for string theory and other abstract mathematical areas of science: It's intricately patterned, follows elegant mathematical symmetry, and nobody's entirely sure what it's really supposed to be.
Also, it's made of straw. That may have some symbolic meaning, but I'm not sure what.
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Not agriculture, since it's straw?
This one reminds me a little of the top part of Da Vinci's helicopter.
I guess I messed up my html coding, here's the URL:
http://www.artist-biography.info/gallery/leonardo_da_vinci/27/
but it's abstract enough that it could really be some sort of Calabi-Yau thingy
Oh, honey. You can just say, "This is something mathy!" and wave your hands. Lie with conviction!!