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Gift Certificates

In case you missed that big old "gift certificate" button over on the sidebar, we're really excited to have gift certificates available! Just click on the button below and Paypal will take care the rest, including sending a nice little email to the person you're buying it for. They can use it for any class we offer, anytime they want. 

The basics:

* $5 minimum
* no expiration (but no refunds either)
* put it...

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More From This Semester

More random knowledge gleaned during the last couple weeks of classes:

Beekeeping - First week we covered the anatomy of bees and the social structure of the hive. In the process, we learned approximately 65 million interesting things, but I'll keep it to just a couple of my favorite facts. You can gather way more from Tim at Borough Bees, his blog.

*In the summer, workers (the sterile females who, as you can probably imagine, do all...

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Monday night lamp making!

It's rainy, it's freezing, and it gets dark at 7, so there's really no reason not to come to our lamp making workshop tonight (October 4).

We've had a couple spots open up for tonight's class, so shoot us an email if you want one! You'll learn about lighting design while creating your own hanging lamp to take home at the end of the night, and it's just $25. 

Read more about the workshop over here!

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Things we learned this week:

We've got some new classes starting tonight and next week (lots of food, and bees too, for good measure), but in the meantime, here're some random fun things we've learned over the past couple of weeks in Knife Skills, Pseudoscience, and Astronomy. 

Emily's lead a couple of one-night knife skills workshops over the past couple of weeks, and if there's one lesson to be learned about knives, it's that they should be sharp! Always! To...

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New Semester and The New York Times!

Our next semester starts Monday (with a knife skills workshop!) and we're pretty excited about all the awesome classes coming up (and their equally awesome teachers) over the next month.

Things are mostly full for this semester, but If you want to hear whether any spots open up, follow us over on twitter (@bkbrains) or check us out on Facebook. You can always email us too if you want to be placed on any wait lists. You...

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