Westray and Evie schools are the winners of the 2022 Blyth Challenge. The Challenge, named after...
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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...
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...