Front, flank, and rear, the squadrons sweepTo break the Scottish circle deep That fought around their King.But yet, though thick the shafts as snow,Though charging knights like whirlwinds go,Though bill-men ply the ghastly...
Category - Frontiers 2013
When I first encountered the Kogi
When I first encountered the Kogi, it was a quite extraordinary surprise. I was trying to research...
The lost world beneath the waves
An old Orkney legend may carry a hint of the rising sea. It tells of Orkneymen visiting Norway and...
A piece of Mars is coming to Orkney
A piece of Mars is coming to Orkney for this year’s Orkney International Science Festival. It is a...
‘Truly the last of the great Vikings’: Captain John Hourie
One of the popular daily One O’Clock Toasts in the 2012 Festival was given by the Festival...
Professor Archie E Roy: a great man of science
Warm and human, first and foremost interested in people, a fantastically popular lecturer, a...
The last of the Great Auks – a poignant anniversary
Two hundred years ago in May a Great Auk was killed at Fowl Craig on Papa Westray. By this stage...
Megawatts of business
Suppose that you’re in Cambodia and want to sell a surplus steam turbine; or in Chile and needing...
The Majorana mystery
March 25 is the 75th anniversary of one of the most baffling mysteries in science – the...