At just 32 years old Tristan Cameron Harper is already known by a number of distinct identities – professional ice-hockey player, model, Mr Scotland 2016/17, and kilted yogi. Today, all those identities have merged into Tristan...
Frontiers 2021
Sailing with Shackleton – an Orkney link
One of the great voyages of history was made by Commander Frank Worsley, going with Shackleton to...
Painting the Shackleton story
Next year is the 100th anniversary of the death of the polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, whose...
Following the Festival
The Heart of the Land
2020 Orkney International Science Festival went online. Like many events this year, technology came...
The robots and the planets
What is the next step in exploring the solar system? Could robots go where we cannot? Could we and...
Tim took them through
On World Whisky Day, 16 May, we send greetings to a friend of many years, Dr Tim Dolan in Aberlour...
Linking towers for fire safety
Bill Graham, a chartered engineer and inventor with various patents to his name, has come up with...
Dreaming of Mars
Dreaming of Mars [dropcap]I[/dropcap]t’s just on fifty years since the first footstep on the Moon...
Eddington’s universe
[dropcap]W[/dropcap]henever the poet George Mackay Brown reorganised his library, getting rid of...
