The Earl’s Palace in Kirkwall was built by Patrick Stewart at a time when deep currents were coming...
Author - Howie Firth
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...
Eddington’s universe
Whenever the poet George Mackay Brown reorganised his library, getting rid of some of the...
Music to reach to the stars
Sir William Rowan Hamilton was one of the greatest thinkers the world has seen. He created elegant...