The United Nations designed World Habitat Day to spread awareness of the need for adequate shelters throughout the world, and to remind us of our collective responsibility for our habitats. Each year on World Habitat Day, a Global Observance is held during which the Habitat Scroll of Honour award is presented, a prestigious award presented…
Month: September 2019
Item of the Week!
This week’s Item of the Week is the SKY-Z PicoTurbine. This wind turbine demonstrates how alternative energy works. Aside from solar power, alternative energy is procured by the movement and rotation of turbines, whether by wind or water. When the turbines are rotated, it moves magnets around a coil of wire, which then creates the…
Maryam Mirzakhani
Maryam Mirzakhani was a mathematician at Stanford University when she passed away in 2017 from breast cancer. Originally from Iran, Mirzakhani was a gold medal winner in the Iranian National Olympiad for mathematics for two years in a row. This allowed her to enter college without completing the national entrance exams. Mirzakhani went on to…