TECHNOLOGY - CLOSE UP Video Interviews

Hygienist removes tartar – and invents!

Dental hygienist Kara Hershey assiduously removes tartar from your correspondent's teeth while more than holding up her end of the conversation and guardedly discloses her ideas for inventions that she…

August 27, 2015

ART STORES TECHNOLOGY

Makes custom pewter gifts

Kyle Gerckin, head of the caster department at Wendell August: American Made Gifts in Grove City, PA shows how to pour pewter into a custom-made mold to create an ornament. …

May 16, 2015

ANIMALS ENVIRONMENT NATURE

New composting toilets at Andorra

Elizabeth Fink has been using the new composting toilets near the Wissahickon Environmental Center (formerly Andorra Tree House) at the northwestern edge of Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. It never smells, she…

April 21, 2015

BUSINESS CARS AND VEHICLES CRIME

Car body shop manager talks shop

Your correspondent took his wife’s car to Dr. Ralph’s Automotive Services Center in Roxborough after she discovered one morning that it had been bashed overnight. While a technician was dusting…

January 2, 2015

BUSINESS FAMILY INTERNET

Money never sleeps: mining litecoins in basement

A father and son "mine" bitcoins and litecoins 24/7 in their unfinished Chestnut Hill basement. These "coins," son explains, are virtual currencies not under the control of any government. As…

December 31, 2013

BUILDINGS BUSINESS CHILDREN

How Lego conquered the toy industry brick by brick

The Lego Company has been fantastically successful. In each of the last 5 years sales have risen 24% and profits, 40%. But it was not always so. For most of…

December 16, 2013

ENTERTAINMENT FILM HISTORY

Accompanies WC Fields silent film with digital Wurlitzer

Moviegoers attending the Chestnut Hill Film Group’s inaugural screening of the season this Tuesday evening were delighted by the artful musical accompaniment of veteran keyboardist Don Kinnear. Kinnear improvised…

October 3, 2013

CHILDREN EDUCATION ENTERTAINMENT

GO MO MATH – Math Museum of NYC

We arrived at the Museum of Math one hour before closing on a Saturday in late summer and zipped through it. The exhibits deserved more than the limited time we…

September 17, 2013

CHILDREN ENVIRONMENT HOBBIES

Night geocaching at Andorra Natural Area

Scenes from the video featuring Wen-Young and his son Manny of Plymouth Meeting, PA. “That’s what we’re looking for- the waypoints” “It’ll say the gecoache is that way but the…

August 26, 2013

BUSINESS EDUCATION FOOD + DRINK

Herr’s potato chip factory tour

The story goes that in 1853, a restaurant patron at a New York resort who complained of a soggy french fry gave rise to the invention of the potato chip.…

August 14, 2013