Whenever the poet George Mackay Brown reorganised his library, getting rid of some of the...
Author - Howie Firth
Music to reach to the stars
Sir William Rowan Hamilton was one of the greatest thinkers the world has seen. He created elegant...
On the road in Sutherland
A bitterly cold east wind hurls its force through the darkness outside the building, but all...
Photographing distant skies
Alan Tough got his first compact digital camera back in 2003. “There was a spectacular aurora in...
Bill and the Mars rover
Bill Graham started his working life at the coal face – as an apprentice mechanic of the mine for...
Family Day engineering activities for Findhorn
3D printing, plastics recycling, a Mars rover made from scrap, and an organic orchestra – these are...
A Thinker for Today
He was born exactly 100 years ago today, and even in his own profession of physics he is not as...
Old furniture transformed
Tables, chairs, sideboards, chests of drawers – all of them off to the dump and buried in landfill...
Jim Robertson: maths teacher and musician
Among the people commemorated in the One O’Clock Toast at the Peedie Kirk this year was Jim...
Europe’s small islands to gather in Orkney
Representatives from small islands across Europe will gather in Orkney to share ideas about areas...