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Our Teachers Have Awesome Blogs

Four Pounds Flour - by Sarah, who taught a wicked class on Historic Gastronomy

Borough Bees - by Tim, dare I say this is the best beekeeping blog in the city?

Make Something Happen - by Rachel, who is teaching ethnographic research methods this June

KEEPS - by Peter, who taught us all how to make our own banh mi, though his blog is about all sorts of interesting stuff

The Paper Collective - just launched! Super fun crowdsourced art projects in...

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What's been going on at the Brainery

We've been super busy with a million classes, and even though we lost our camera charger for awhile, we managed to rustle up some photos from the past few weeks.

To wrap up our Data Viz class, we held a show and tell for people to demo their projects. Although there was much discussion of Chernoff Faces and pivot tables, Soma went low-tech with a drawing of the Brainery's activities over the past year or so. (above)

In our banh...

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First time here?

Hey! If you're coming to us from the NYTimes article, awesome.

Right now, we're working hard on putting together our June class schedule. It'll be released in about a week, so be sure to sign up for our mailing list to hear when they're opened for registration. In the meantime, check out what we're offering in May.

So, what's our deal?
Brooklyn Brainery is all about accessible, community-driven, crowdsourced education. We were tired...

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What's Going on This Week

Lots of new classes starting this week:

Monday! Soma knows more about fish sauce than anyone rightfully should, and tonight's Fundamentals of Thai Cuisine will give him the chance to share that knowledge with everyone (and also cook lots of Thai food). Fun fact: Thais use forks and spoons to eat, rather than chopsticks. 

Tuesday! We're reading some classic American short stories--Hemingway, Flannery O'Connor, and some Edgar Allan Poe--in...

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