The Earl’s Palace in Kirkwall was built by Patrick Stewart at a time when deep currents were coming...
Tag - OISF 2022
Science?
The Orkney International Science Festival is always varied in its content and far-reaching in its...
The man who tabled the elements
Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev was born in 1834 in Siberia, in a village near the town of Tobolsk.His...
The Horizontal Oak
The new book by naturalist/author Polly Pullar, The Horizontal Oak, is a personal one, looking at...
FESTIVAL PROGRAMME SCANS PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE
New insights into the origins of bere in Orkney fields, and of potatoes on a high Bolivian plateau...
A solar mirror of whitening light
Imagine a beam of energy so powerful that it can melt iron or steel – or even titanium. Picture how...
Changing our thinking to bring about meaningful environmental...
Broad-leaved trees can grow almost anywhere sheep and deer are largely excluded. You can see...
A walk to the Stenness and Brodgar stones
A soggy Sunday, then the day cleared and we went for a walk, pretty much following this route.In...
An epic of steam and steel
John Goodlad’s new book The Salt Roads tells how the salt fish trade connected Shetland with the...
Transition to the future
Globally we face massive problems. There is often general agreement about what we want for the long...