When I first encountered the Kogi, it was a quite extraordinary surprise. I was trying to research a film about the Lost City, the ruins of a large Tairona settlement on the steep slopes of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. The Sierra is the steepest coastal mountain on earth, rising straight out of the [...]
Eoin Scott, the chairman of Orkney Science Festival, who died on 5 June 2013, was someone who was at the very heart of Orkney life, with his farm and his family. The old township of Redland, much of which forms the present-day farm, has a long history. It was described in the book Reminiscences of [...]
An old Orkney legend may carry a hint of the rising sea. It tells of Orkneymen visiting Norway and meeting there an old woman from Orkney who inquires about the land she left long ago. ‘And what like are the Bonnie Woods of Otterswick?’ she asked in the Sanday version of the story. Otterswick today [...]
They don’t get a whole lot of tourists in Repulse Bay. It is not that they don’t deserve them; the natural environment is beautiful and special. However, at the very north of Hudson Bay and at more than 66o in latitude the access is not easy – there is the ever present risk of severe [...]
A piece of Mars is coming to Orkney for this year’s Orkney International Science Festival. It is a little piece of a meteorite whose structure shows that it was once part of a rock on the surface of Mars. So far, about a hundred pieces of the Martian surface have come to Earth as meteorites [...]
He set out from his home in Orkney when he was just nineteen, a newly qualified medical graduate, off to Hudson’s Bay to try a summer, but it was fourteen... Read more →
An old Orkney legend may carry a hint of the rising sea. It tells of Orkneymen visiting Norway and meeting there an old woman from Orkney who inquires about the... Read more →
Suppose that you’re in Cambodia and want to sell a surplus steam turbine; or in Chile and needing to source a diesel generator. Or you may be in Malaysia and... Read more →
Eoin Scott, the chairman of Orkney Science Festival, who died on 5 June 2013, was someone who was at the very heart of Orkney life, with his farm and his... Read more →
Two hundred years ago in May a Great Auk was killed at Fowl Craig on Papa Westray. By this stage the Great Auk, a large flightless seabird of the North... Read more →
When I first encountered the Kogi, it was a quite extraordinary surprise. I was trying to research a film about the Lost City, the ruins of a large Tairona settlement... Read more →
March 25 is the 75th anniversary of one of the most baffling mysteries in science – the disappearance of the Italian physicist Ettore Majorana, at the age of 31. The... Read more →
They don’t get a whole lot of tourists in Repulse Bay. It is not that they don’t deserve them; the natural environment is beautiful and special. However, at the very... Read more →
A piece of Mars is coming to Orkney for this year’s Orkney International Science Festival. It is a little piece of a meteorite whose structure shows that it was once... Read more →
Warm and human, first and foremost interested in people, a fantastically popular lecturer, a profound thinker, a man who pushed at the margins of ideas, and an indefatigable story teller.... Read more →
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