Offshore Experience

I just got back from my first interesting taste of the offshore life. I spent three nights on a fixed platform surveying for a project I am currently working on. I'll be honest and say I'd heard a few horror stories about life offshore but for me this experience was a …

The Twilight Sad Live

The Twilight Sad, as portrayed on their debut album Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters are an intriguing, oftentimes melancholic proposition. Their vast songs, built up through intricate layers of guitar, take you on a trip into the brooding psyche of lead singer …

The Fungle Road

Today I went on my second outing with the Stocket Hillwalking Club. The day started at 8am with quite a squeeze onto a tiny bus with 26 other keen walkers. We had a somewhat bumpy ride out south and west of Aberdeen to the remote Glen Esk where after a cry of "stop!" …

Active Galactic Nuclei - A Talk by Prof. Ian Robson

Professor Ian Robson, Director of the UK Astronomy Technology Centre in Edinburgh, kindly came up to Aberdeen this evening to give an interesting and engaging talk on a specialist subject of his: Active Galactic Nuclei.

Moving from the study of galaxies with unusually …

Glen Callater and Carn An Tuirc

With the forecast promising everything from clear skies right through to blizzards and howling winds I wasn't quite sure what to expect when I set out for Braemar this morning. In the end I got a later bus as the winds were ferocious at 6:30am in Aberdeen and this …

Glen Callater and Carn An Tuirc

With the forecast promising everything from clear skies right through to blizzards and howling winds I wasn't quite sure what to expect when I set out for Braemar this morning. In the end I got a later bus as the winds were ferocious at 6:30am in Aberdeen and this …