“Please join us on Friday, Sept 19th at 8pm for The Mind Diddlers, the latest evolution in Jason Brown’s ongoing lecture series. Topics to be covered include the genetic algorithms of Jeff Bridges, the sexy origins of modern rocketry, mythology about aliens abducting your wife, and the perversions at the heart of information technology. Free.

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“Then on Saturday, Sept 20th from 1-4pm come to Machine equipped with jars and produce and join us for Picklefest 2008, our first ever do-it-yourself pickling extravaganza in collaboration with Erik Knutzen and Kelly Coyne from homegrownevolution.com and Mark Frauenfelder from dinosaursandrobots.com. Bring jars, something to pickle, and for those with overflowing gardens some produce to swap. Free. For more information on the event and lacto-fermentation (our pickling technique of choice) please follow this link here

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