After watching the 1974 Great Gatsby movie and reading this great blog post by The Bowery Boys on the real "Valley of Ashes," I decided to throw together a quick map of locations from the book. Still a work in progress!
We've been getting a decent number of questions about coworking, so here's the scoop: we aren't doing coworking for the time being. It turned out that coworking + two spaces + classes = despairingly long days, so it's on the back burner for a bit.
Chances are it'll show up in Prospect Heights in one form or another once we're moved out of Carroll Gardens, but only time will tell!
Here's a look at some classes coming up with week!
For the Record: A History of the DJ - May 6 in Prospect Heights
Easy Crafts: Tangle Free Headphones - May 7 in Carroll Gardens
Manage Your Gmail Inbox - special weekend session! May 11 in Prospect Heights
Time for more Masters of Social Gastronomy recapping! Last month we covered sugar and artificial sweeteners.
In 1937 Michael Svaeda was working in a lab on drugs to control fever. While, you know, smoking a cigarette.
He put the cigarette down to do some Science, and when he picked it up... sweetness! While it might have been the first candy cigarette that actually featured tobacco, the important part was the compound he'd spilled: cyclamate.
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Time for more Masters of Social Gastronomy recapping! Last month we covered sugar and artificial sweeteners.
In terms of artificial sweeteners, saccharin has been around since the beginning of time. These days it hangs around in products like Brooklyn's very own Sweet 'N Low.
But back in 1879, we lacked any artificial sweeteners at all. And we didn't find them by looking for them, either.
Ira Remsen and Constantin Fahlberg were labmates,...
