Point for renewable energy: csiro’s solar thermal breakthrough

Point for Renewable Energy: CSIRO’S Solar Thermal Breakthrough

ByCourtney Nicole

The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) is an Australian federal government agency founded in 1926. They operate a solar thermal test plant in Newcastle, Australia which recently made a major breakthrough incomparable to any in the history of solar thermal energy. What Did CSIRO Do? They broke the sound barrier. At least, that’s what their…

Celebrating 30 years of addiction: happy birthday tetris!

Celebrating 30 Years of Addiction: Happy Birthday Tetris!

ByCourtney Nicole

Thirty years ago, Alexey Pajitnov released a game he had designed in his lab at the Moscow Academy of Science. It was an innovation on a traditional Soviet puzzle game. Pajitnov released the new game June 6, 1984, and named it Tetris, combining the words “tetrominoes”, because it used five different tetrominoes (geometric shapes composed…