” The focus of the piece is about your sense of self and the self that others see, and the need to open up conversations about this” Emma Gee, OIC Arts Officer
‘Chalk About’: Live Performances Tour Orkney Schools
A New Study Looks To An Early Diagnosis Of Alzheimer’s Disease
“Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer is a promising new method for diagnosing this disease and this important study will give us more information about its effectiveness as a diagnostic tool.” Dr Gordon Waiter, Director of the Aberdeen Biomedical Imaging Centre at the University of Aberdeen
Halloween Tales from Orkney: Removing Objects
“All over the island carts, ploughs, lorries, wheelbarrows, etc were shifted, and in once case a motor car was removed.”
‘Deep Wheel Orcadia’ by Harry Josephine Giles Wins Top Science Fiction Award
Harry Josephine Giles’s Deep Wheel Orcadia has won the prestigious Arthur C Clarke Award for Science Fiction.
Halloween Tales From Orkney: Robert Burns
“Some merry, friendly, country-folks,/Together did convene,/To burn their nits, and pou their stocks,/And haud their Halloween”
Sgathaich: Ultra Q: The Gift From Space
Ultra Q is a 1966 science fiction series from Japan. Made by Tsuburaya Productions, Ultra Q stands for Ultra Question and is the series before the first Ultraman
Raising Awareness About PoTS
“Today, 25th of October, I am wearing purple for PoTS awareness day, a day and condition that I didn’t know even existed until this year”
Book Review: Chris Hadfield, “The Apollo Murders”
“The novel is set is 1973, just after the cancellation of the last Apollo missions to the Moon.”
Halloween Tales From Orkney: ‘A Nicht O’ Tine’
” At the season of Earth’s decay our forefathers remembered their dead, who were believed to visit their homes on that night.”
From the Copper Mines of Slovakia: 15thC Trade Routes Across Europe
Nearly 600 years ago, a heavily loaded merchant ship foundered off the island of Skaftö, situated approximately 70 km north of present-day Gothenburg on the now-Swedish west coas
