World Masters Games video/photo updates

Small is sexy: the discovery of super planetary nebulae

A discovery of unexpected phenomena in neighbouring galaxies by a team at the University of Western Sydney may also help to explain a long-standing mystery in astronomy.
Associate Professor Miroslav Filipovic, from the UWS School of Computing and Mathematics, has lead a team of Australian and American scientists who have found a new class of object which they call ’super planetary nebulae’. [Read more]

Parramatta Marist High School’s colour mixing demo

The video below is a short demonstration on the basics of colour mixing theory. The brush and mixing techniques are shown using primary colors.

This video was made by Parramatta Marist students and we wish we had some more information but the explanation above is all we found on YouTube. [Read more]

The Speed of Night – Darling Harbour

It’s the other side of Darling Harbour.

No tourists, not many at least. Late-night sounds drift on the sea breeze as the heart of Sydney’s exhibition and entertainment precinct slows to a barely perceptible pulse.

The noise and colour of another hectic Saturday is only hours away, but while the moon glows over the deserted pavements and the winter chill hangs in the air there is a relative quiet. The man-made structures of the exhibition centre and a carnival ferris wheel tower over the unpopulated open spaces while flags flutter listlessly as if in fitful sleep.

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Options for Hurlstone Agricultural High School

Four NSW state Labor MPs: Andrew McDonald (Macquarie Fields), Graham West (Campbelltown), Geoff Corrigan (Camden) and Phil Costa (Wollondilly) are known as “Team Macarthur” and represent around 275,000 constituents in Sydney’s south-west.

They also belong to another team; the NSW Labor Party. [Read more]

UWS students push the media frontier to cover climate change conference

University of Western Sydney School of Communication Arts students have harnessed the power of the multimedia web to report live from Australia’s first national youth climate change conference held on the weekend. [Read more]

Getting to grips with the economy 2009

The Global Financial Crisis or GFC has entered the language but what does it all mean? This opening session of the series provides an overview of the Australian economy and of the challenges confronting it, especially , but not solely, as a result of the global financial crisis. [Read more]

Peter Kahn at the Sydney Tramway Museum

Peter Kahn spent his working life in the insurance industry, but he would rather have been a tram conductor.

As a result, Mr Kahn has dedicated much of his spare time over the past 50 years to the Sydney Tramway Museum at Loftus, and was honoured with a NSW Government heritage volunteer award. [Read more]

Desiree Regina sings for André Rieu

Bundeena resident, Desiree Regina dreams of performing with classical music superstar André Rieu and has gone to great lengths to turn her dream into reality.

She is a trained opera singer and said the goal of performing with Rieu initially helped her fight post-natal depression. ”His music helped lift me out of the despairing spiral,” she said. [Read more]

Chris Woolcock’s rare rocking horses

Chris Woolcock of McGraths Hill is the only known person in Australia whose full-time occupation is making and restoring rocking horses.

And each of his products is unique. No two horses are alike. [Read more]