White is Nice, Green is Mean: Rip Currents
With the microwave weather picking up and the extended summer break in most Australian universities approaching…
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MacMS Presents: Spring Awakening
Spring Awakening is a modern rock musical centred around self-discovery and coming of age. Written by…
Exercise Wallaby 2019 and Bilateral Ties
A week ago today, thousands of soldiers from the Singapore Armed Forces, or SAF, landed at…
TEDx at Macquarie University
We talked to Director and Curator of TEDxMacquarieUniversity, Hossai Gul, about the upcoming conference taking place…
History in our Harbour: Cockatoo Island
Cockatoo Island is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the largest islands here on…
World Suicide Prevention Day 2019
Today, 10 September, is World Suicide Prevention Day, a global initiative to openly discuss and destigmatise…
Synesthesia: Sound to Sight
While our senses are distinct, they do overlap. This is called a “cross-modal relationship”. There’s a…
Transnational Transience and Migrant Anxiety
It’s been about a month into the new term for most Sydney universities, which means an…
War on our Shores
The waters of Port Jackson (which house the Lane Cove and Parramatta Rivers, as well as…
Monomyths in the Hero’s Journey
There’s a certain formula we return to when we’re storytelling, or listening to one– long story…
Why Do We Hate the Sound of Our Own Voice?
Have you ever recorded something, played it back, and cringed hearing the sound of your own…
Creative Commons and Australian Copyright (Part 2)
Creative Commons, or CC, is an emerging paradigm “devoted to expanding creative works so others can…