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HIGHLIGHTS FROM EVENTS 2017

HIGHLIGHTS 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 […]

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ABOUT OISF FESTIVAL 2017

ABOUT 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 […]

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HIGHLIGHTS FROM 2017 FAMILY DAY

HIGHLIGHTS 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 […]

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From childhood tinkering to gravitational waves

From 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 […]

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Alamein

Alamein

Music Channel, OISF 2017, Play OISF Video, Video 2017

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.

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Big Bill and the Guns of Alamein

Big 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 […]

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Pepperwort and Parsley, Beeswax and Fulmar Oil

Pepperwort 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, […]

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  • The Big Bang 2: A shift in the mist
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  • Eddington’s universe
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Cosmology

  • The Big Bang 3: Lemaître’s universe, Hubble’s law

  • The Big Bang 2: A shift in the mist

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Quantum physics

  • Higgs 8: Physics is worth a mass

  • Higgs 7: Three roads converge

  • Higgs 6: Can the circle be unbroken?

  • Higgs 5: The strong dominate the field

  • Higgs 4: Symmetry for the weak

  • Higgs 3: Symmetry for the strong

  • Higgs 2: What makes light matter?

  • Higgs 1: Frozen light

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  • The giant snake from a lost world

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    January 29th, 2013
  • The Big Bang 2: A shift in the mist
    January 28th, 2013
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ABOUT OISF

A science festival has a radical role in developing a creative climate for a region. Here is the story of how it began, and how Orkney was involved from an early stage in the concept.

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