Month: November 2016

What’s That Sound: Yaybahar

by Beth Dolinar, Luminari Coordinator In each issue of LUMOS!, we offer a regular series about the unique and unusual (and sometimes downright strange) instruments we’ve never heard. And since we can’t really understand an instrument until we’ve heard it …

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Your GPS to Health: Greens, Dried Plums and Squash

by Lisa Silberg, Personal Chef and Co-Director of Camp Delicious! The holidays are here and for many of us that means finding the willpower to avoid all those delicious temptations – like when a co-worker brings in a plate of …

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A Tale of Self-Driving Cars and Horse-Drawn Buggies

by Beth Dolinar, Luminari Coordinator We Pittsburghers are getting a glimpse of the future not yet available to those in other places. Google’s self-driving cars are out and about every day, mapping our streets and working out the bugs so …

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Speak Up: Lessons from Public Speaking Camp

by Judi Rosen, Parent of 2016 Speak & Tell! camper How often do any of us get to learn a life skill? How many times have you had an idea, but not the tools to express it? For as much …

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