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Class Recap

What we've been up to

What've we been up to? Well, as you can see, we've been making postcards; I promise not all of them touted Tim's beekeeping abilities.

Rethinking Math: Enticing Shapes and Sexy Numbers has been living up to its name, injecting a well-needed dose of mathematical learnin' into the anumerical among us. Full of awesome facts, too - Pythagoras has his theorem, yes, but he also "founded a religion on which the the main tenets were the...

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Teacher Wishlist

We thought it was time to put together a list of specific classes we'd love to host and need teachers for--if you or anyone you know would be interested in leading a session or two on the following, leave us a rec on our suggestion page!

NYC Urban Planning
Dinosaurs
Foreign Languages (especially Polish!)
Knot Tying
Small Engines
Medicine
Coin Magic
Cake Decorating
Terrariums + Gardening
How to have awesome conversations
Photoshop
Web...

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Class Recap

Felting!

Last night a dozen of us learned just what felting is and gained a new appreciation for anyone who made cloth before the cotton gin. (For real. Before the cotton gin, one person could clean one pound of cotton in a day. Compare that to the cotton gin, which could clean as much in one day as a person could in a whole year.)

But yeah, felting is really neat. Wikipedia defines felt as "a non-woven cloth that is produced by matting, condensing and...

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