GalleryHIGHLIGHTS FROM EVENTS 2017
OISF 2017
One of the highlights was Prof. Peter Higgs In Conversation with his former mathematical physics student Dennis Canavan. The Nobel laureate looked back at the events that had shaped […]
GalleryABOUT OISF FESTIVAL 2017
OISF 2017
It was Scotland’s year of History, Heritage and Archaeology, and there were certainly plenty of anniversaries to commemorate. There were 50 years since the start of Loganair’s North Isles […]
GalleryHIGHLIGHTS FROM 2017 FAMILY DAY
Family days, OISF 2017
You could make a cloud chamber and see particles from outer space. You could write in runes, or study ancient seeds and pollen. You could try a Raspberry Pi […]
GalleryFrom childhood tinkering to gravitational waves
OISF 2017, Play OISF Video, Video 2017
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
