The first stage of new light rail tracks were opened before Christmas in George St Sydney and decorated. I?m looking forward to the light rail coming to the top of my street in Randwick!
In the same way you can go into a library today and look through newspapers and other documentation, the NSW State Library's?new social media archive?creates?a collection of data that will allow?researchers?in the future to gain insights into?the life and times of people living in New South Wales in the digital age. The Library identifies keywords and hashtags to collect.?The Archive?then?gathers?the?social media posts?that contain these keywords and hashtags?from a range of sources, including Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. You can view the latest activity and the?hourly emotion clock on the?Live?section?of?archive?or search for a specific topic or hashtag in the?Explorer?section. The image above shows current thoughts on Education with an emotion clock that looks positive.
Suns of Mercury is a creative collaboration between musicians around the world that blends folklore with emerging styles to create new music. They aim to build common ground across languages and cultures with music. www.sunsofmercury.com
The World Press Photo 2017 exhibition showcases the winners of the 60th World Press Photo Awards, which honours the photographs that have best captured the state of the world in the past year.?In total, 152 photographs were selected from 80,408 images made by 5,034 photographers from 126 different countries. This photo, in the nature category, shows a keeper in a panda suit keeping a young panda away from human contact as part of training before being released into the wild in the Sichuan Basin, China. China?s efforts to eliminate poaching and to protect the panda?s habitat have played a large role in increasing numbers. www.worldpressphoto.org/collection/photo/2017/nature/ami-vitale
Four women who played vital roles in the US space program are immortalized in a 231-piece Lego set which became Amazon's No. 1 best-selling toy in just 24 hours. Astronomer Nancy Grace Roman, computer scientist Margaret Hamilton, and astronauts Sally Ride and Mae Jemison, the four women who played vital roles in the US space program feature in a 231-piece Lego set, accompanied by three builds illustrating their areas of expertise. http://edition.cnn.com/2017/11/02/health/women-of-nasa-lego-trnd/index.html
