As lots of you know, we're on the hunt for a new space for the Brainery. We've got some leads, but we thought we'd open the search as wide as possible by getting all of you lovely folks involved.
So, if you notice for rent signs as you wander around Brooklyn, we want to hear about 'em. Read on for details, and one million thanks in advance for your help.
(This idea is absolutely 100% stolen from New Work Cit...
At this month's meeting of The Society for the Advancement of Social Studies, not only do you get three short, awesome lectures on the history of fun and games, but you get to play games. Victorian Parlor Games, to be exact, with wonderful names like Poor Pussy.
Show up here:
Public Assembly, 70 North 6th Street in Williamsburg, Tuesday, June 5, 7pm, totally free RSVP!
What'll we learn:
A Brief History...
If there's one thing Homemade Root Beer, Soda & Pop and Fix the Pumps neglected to tell me in their deep dark secret-revealing takes on root beer and soda, it's that sarsaparilla is totally a thing in Asia.
I'd thought it was just for olden days cowboys and specialty soda producers, but I was w-r-o-n-g. It shows up all over the place sporting the name sarsi.
While we in the Western hemisphere have co...
Monday evening we had a class on suturing, and it was as awesome as it sounds. After learning some history and theory, we dove in and some bananas with some pretty serious wounds. Number #1 fact about suturing? It's hard.
During the class, I was particularly excited to learn that the oldest known suture dates to a mummy from 1100 BC, even though historians believe the practice goes back much further, to...
I have a rule about how to not get mugged: it's called ABR, and it stands for Always Be Running. If you are running, it is my belief that muggers will say "oh, that dude is running" and will decline to mug you.
Being at your desk is different. You probably won't be mugged, but you might be disorganized instead. In this case, the best advice one can give is ABK, Always Be Knolling.
Knolling is the process of arrang...
Okay, let's be honest with each other: I'm not giving you any recipes (yet). I put together a batch of blueberry wine a month ago, and I need to make sure my house doesn't catch on fire before I really report back to you.
Blueberry wine? You cry incredulously. Blueberry wine? What happened to good ol' grapes?
I bought blueberries instead, is what happened.
Fact: You can make wine out of pretty much anyth...
Okay, today we're starting a beer vinegar. You're probably familiar with malt vinegar, that fun thing that makes your fries soggy at the Chip Shop. That's made with an unhopped beer, but today we're using a homemade IPA (full of hops!) to make beer vinegar, so the finished product will likely be way more bitter, just like an IPA.
Note: this might turn out to be a huge disaster, but we won't know for four or ...
We're working with Paul, who writes the math-focused blog Lost in Recursion, to come up with some mathy classes for the summer. Most importantly though, we need your feedback!
Let us know what topics, from the list below, you think might be most interesting/useful/fun to tackle. Just leave a comment below, and thanks in advance for being awesome. Feel free to suggest your own ideas as well.
Topics!
Sizes of ...
We've talked about how to cook onions before, now let's talk about onion-industry-approved facts about how they're sized.
Maybe you've been curious about what a medium onion is. I was, too, until I found the United States Standards for Grades of Onions from the USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service. Now, I know we aren't ones to let the government boss our food around, but their definition of a "me...
Okay, it's not secret, but we just added a session of Weird Spices for next Monday, May 7th. You'll get to taste all sorts of things that should really only be eaten in combination with other foods, and even get to try out Soma's (in)famous science lemons. Excellent!
Sign up and details!
