Stand Up For Yourself

RUSSELL CROWE says his main strategy for stacking on extra weight for his new movie Body Of Lies was being more sedentary. Most of us don't need the motivation of movie contracts to seduce us into a sitting position: it just happens naturally. Calculate the time spent sitting in front of a steering wheel, a computer or TV screen each day and, for anyone with a desk job, it can easily add up to most of your waking hours.

Rudd's River Of Inquiries Poised To Burst Its Banks

IT'S review season in Kevin Rudd's Australia, and forests of earnest findings and recommendations are beginning to thump on to ministerial desks, their purpose to reshape and refine the national fabric.

The Hunter A Survey Of Our Lifestyle And Industry 2007-08

EVERY morning when the school bell rings, almost 100,000 students take to their desks in Hunter schools. That?s not counting the more than 50,000 students enrolled across Hunter TAFE's 15 campuses, or the 26,000 at Newcastle University, including more that 3500 international students from around 100 different countries.

One For All

Adam Turner looks at some some devices that turn a notebook into a desktop computer.

Students Logging Onto New Ways Of Learning

It's getting harder to find a blackboard in the classroom of the 21st century as more schools embrace technology, writes KATELIN McINERNEY. Picture this - a classroom in Coonabarabran. Students sit at their desks and happily talk maths with counterparts in a small school somewhere in the English countryside via a form of technology known as video conferencing.

Travel To Learn

Taking long-service leave can enhance a teacher's skills, writes Kristie Kellahan.

Postscript

EVERY day around Australia, thousands of people marshal their thoughts, pick up a pen (or, more likely, switch on a computer) and write a letter to the editor.

Unis Lose Millions To Computer Thieves

Universities across the country are losing possibly millions of dollars a year from the theft of expensive computers and related equipment, prompting administrators to crack down on campus security. Most universities have installed closed-circuit television cameras in their computer laboratories,

Computer Art - A Matter Of Unusual Conjunction

Confused about computer art? A new exhibition sheds light on the subject, says Mark Lawrence. JUXTAPOSITIONING. So that's what it's all about. To a layperson with vivid memories of being caught in the middle of a room filled with swirling images and distorted sounds, co-curator Mike Leggett's de

Social Security's $100m Computer

Canberra The federal Department of Social Security is spending $100 million installing a new computer system, despite toughening the criteria for access to unemployment benefits in the recent Budget. A departmental first assistant secretary, Mr Vic Rogers, said yesterday that the new system would