2020 Orkney International Science Festival went online. Like many events this year, technology came to the forefront to connect all of us, all over the world. Technicians and assistants normally taking door tickets or working presentations on PCs to projectors were now on a steep learning curve to synchronize live links, sound and visual of [...]
Having retired from my final job as a Senior Committee Clerk from Orkney Islands Council, and subsequently done a three-year graduate course at Orkney College UHI, I spotted a report in a students’ newsletter, urging students to see the work being done in Barefoot College, Tilonia, Rajasthan. Founded in 1972, Barefoot College teaches practical knowledge [...]
Jane Goodall’s lecture in St Magnus Cathedral is now online. The lecture, given in the 2012 Orkney International Science Festival, was the Grimond Lecture, which annually highlights issues of global and local significance. The title of the talk was Reasons for Hope – reasons why despite the starkness of the challenges faced by humanity, Jane [...]
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