What an interesting guest speaker Peter Merk organised for last week’s meeting. Zac’s talk on the Hyper Loop was fascinating – the future is here! His talk reminded me of the famous line from Charles Duell, during his tenure as United States Commissioner of Patents (1902), purportedly saying “Everything that can be invented has been invented”. Just imagine being able to get to Melbourne in 20 mins and Sydney in 40 mins. The level of interest in Zac’s talk was evident in the fact that the Q & A after his talk went longer than his talk.

May is Bowel Scan month and no doubt you would have seen the ads appearing on the telly promoting this worthy cause. It is the most common cause of cancer affecting both sexes in Australia. Currently 80 Australians a week die from this disease and there is absolutely no need as 90% of bowel cancers can be cured if detected early. I have no doubt that Julie will have some bowel scan kits available at our meeting so I encourage all members to spend $15 and do a poo for your own wellbeing!!