The numbers came from her mother. From her father, Lord Byron – poetry and passion. The future Ada...
Author - Howie Firth
The poet’s song and the fish in the sea
It was the perfect name for a poet, and it was his own. The surname Singer came from his father, a...
The Earl, the Bishop, and the Springtime of Science
The Earl’s Palace in Kirkwall was built by Patrick Stewart at a time when deep currents were coming...
The man who tabled the elements
Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev was born in 1834 in Siberia, in a village near the town of Tobolsk.His...
Oh, starboard your helm!
This time it could be the big one. Fire on the Amazon, fire in Siberia, a dome of heat above the...
Islands in the ocean
The sea shapes almost everything in Orkney. For a start, you’re never far from it. On a winter’s...
Tim took them through
On World Whisky Day, 16 May, we send greetings to a friend of many years, Dr Tim Dolan in Aberlour...
3D printing and sewing for the NHS
Sir Paul Nurse called for the Dunkirk approach for the coronavirus. Many small craft in the water...
Sam and the islands
Prof. R. J. (Sam) Berry, born on 26th October 1934, died on 29th March 2018. He had a deep love of...
Dreaming of Mars
It’s just on fifty years since the first footstep on the Moon. At the time it seemed that the Moon...