GalleryFrom childhood tinkering to gravitational waves
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Had Prof. Ron Drever lived just a few more months this year, he would almost certainly have been awarded a share of this year’s Nobel Prize for Physics, for his part in one of […]
GalleryAlamein
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From the story of ‘Big Bill and the Guns of Alamein’ in the 2017 Orkney International Science Festival comes this song with Andy, Lewis and Chris.
GalleryBig Bill and the Guns of Alamein
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At the second battle of el-Alamein, where the Allied artillery was the only protection for the slow infantry advance through a vast minefield, Signalman Bill Sutherland from Orkney kept up the flow of targeting […]
GalleryPepperwort and Parsley, Beeswax and Fulmar Oil
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Mary Beith Memorial Lecture
Mary Beith was known as a lecturer and researcher of great clarity on the traditional medicines of the Highlands. Through her newspaper and magazine articles, her book Healing Threads, and […]
GalleryMaxwell’s Light
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Images from two of the Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell’s favourite walks, near Parton in Galloway, where the Lair Burn and the River Urr run close to his house of Glenlair. Jennifer Austin’s composition, […]
GalleryBroad Street Saturday
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Broad Street in Kirkwall is the setting for some of the Saturday afternoon events in the annual Orkney International Science Festival. There is the Vintage Rally organised by Orkney Vintage Club, with music by […]
GalleryEurope’s Lost World
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Hunters with spears scan an ancient landscape that now lies beneath the waters of the North Sea. The search for the lost world of Doggerland was the subject of two fascinating sessions of talks […]
GalleryReasons for Hope OISF 2012
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The 12th-century St Magnus Cathedral in Kirkwall was the setting for the lecture Reasons for Hope by Jane Goodall on 7 September 2012 in the annual Orkney International Science Festival.
GalleryThe Grand Tour 2012
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This is a brief visit to four famous historical pipe organs in Germany, the Czech Republic and The Netherlands. High quality sampled version of these organs were played by Professor George Mcphee using the […]
GalleryA Green and Medieval Afternoon 2011
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Music and art, crafts and costumes, stories of people and ideas, all in the setting of the Earl’s and Bishop’s Palaces in Kirkwall, Orkney, in the 21st Orkney International Science Festival, September 2011