Hi All, We here at Ipswich campus turn 10 today and have spent the morning celebrating. Happy Birthday us. I hope you are all ready for the new semester; it’s going to be a beauty. There are a couple of things I wanted to discuss today, one wonderful, one I’m not sure about. Firstly, did you know that scientists have discovered a new element? I guess that means that every periodic table in existence will need to be replaced, more work for messieurs Mendeleev and Meyer (or their descendents anyway). I have a problem with it though! This new element is manmade, as are about 26 other so called elements. Isn’t that the same as me walking into the forest with a black marker pen drawing a band around an antechinus and saying I have discovered a new species: the black banded antechinus? Well if this gets you goat, if you think these scientists are kidding, if you think it’s baaaad science the second thing I wish to discuss will warm your heart. The good people of Barcaldine in outback Queensland are planning the world’s first goat museum, to be opened in 2010. The goat museum will rival tourist hotspots such as the museum of barbed wire in Kentucky and the spam museum in Minnesota. I have noticed that many of our Museum management books have been checked out by a bevy of Barcaldine based UQ students and staff so you know it’s going to be good. Marcos