This post is about one of the prints available from Vintage Visualizations, a new Brainery-affiliated venture. For more info, check out our intro post here!
American whaling peaked in 1858, but it still found a place on this 1880 fisheries chart. That year, though whaling was still a lucrative business in Massachusetts, a paltry $408 worth of whaling was done in North Carolina.
The ch...
Coming up, we'll be hosting some great classes for kids during the week:
City Sounds Music Together is offering a 10-week mixed age music class on Thursdays and Fridays.
Treasure Trunk Theatre is offering a 12-week story drama class for ages 3-5, along with camps on school holidays.
Be sure to check out their sites for details and to register! Tell your kids, tell your friends, tell your friends' kids!...
*The contest is now closed! Congrats to Sanford and Julie!*
It's back-to-school season, so we thought it was time to give away a couple of gift certificates. We'll set two winners up with a $50 gift certificate to help you get your learn on!
To enter, just leave a comment below letting us know what's been your favorite book to read this year by Monday, September 21, 2015 at 12pm EDT.&...
On September 26 and 27, the 6th annual World Maker Faire, a.k.a. the Greatest Show (and Tell) on Earth, will take place at the New York Hall of Science. World Maker Faire New York is a showcase of invention, creativity, and resourcefulness, and a celebration of the Maker Movement and DIY spirit. The event will include more than 900 projects and demonstrations spanning from robotics and Arduino to 3D...
Love classes? Love traveling? We've got just the thing: two Brainery teachers have great opportunities coming up this spring in Italy:
Jennifer Mattson will be writer-in-residence at the Lemon Tree House's Writing Residency in Tuscany. The two-week program combines time to write with craft talks, not to mention cocktails and dinners with fellow writers.
Christine Garvey will be combining drawing classes and ...
Mark your calendars for Tuesday, October 13 and join us at the Brooklyn Historical Society for a look at Joseph Alexiou's forthcoming book, Gowanus: Brooklyn's Curious Canal. Joseph has been teaching a class on the history of the canal for a few years here at the Brainery, and we couldn't be more excited to see it hit the shelves.
Joseph's book narrates more than three hundred years in the history ...
This guide originally appeared over on Ice Cream Club's tumblr, many, many summers ago. Jonathan Soma gets all credit.
There are a few types of ice cream, but the easiest to work with is Philadelphia style. It’s different from the more-complicated French style because while the French style is based on a custard, Philadelphia style is just milk and cream. Custards are cool and give a richer flavor...
You probably know saffron as expensive red threads from Spain, sold in tiny, tiny containers at specialy stores and used to color and flavor paella. Its threads are picked from a type of crocus, the crocus sativus, and the painstaking nature of its harvest has led to it being known as "the world's most expensive spice." And, if you're anything like me, you may not have actually used it much; given t...
On Tuesday, July 28, the Masters of Social Gastronomy will tackle the long tradition of floral foods at a special after-hours lecture at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. MSG will take on both myths and science as they explore ice cream flavored with violet, apple pie perfumed with rosewater, the secrets of the steeply priced spice saffron, and much more.
Tickets will likely sell out so be sure to get your t...
This fall, we're excited to be partnering with UrbanGlass to bring you a series of classes taught by their great stable of teachers:
Wednesday, September 16: The Birth of Glass Blowing: The Vitreous Age Begins
This combination lecture and demonstration will explore the pivotal moments around the invention of glassblowing.
Sunday, October 25: A World is a Thing in Motion
Learn about the morphologica...
