Discovery Channel scientist to open Orkney Science Festival

The former chief scientist of television’s Discovery Channel is to open this year’s Orkney International Science Festival today.

Prof. Steve ‘Jake’ Jacobs has written and presented a series for the Discovery Channel, and also for National Geographic TV and Fox Television where he was the creator and on-air host of the series Jake’s Attic.

He has performed live shows and workshops across the US and is currently developing a new television series with NASA Television.

He will present one of his shows in the Orkney Science Festival, as well as carrying out the opening in Kirkwall Town Hall.

Topics of the festival will range from the origin of life in space, to clues from genetics to the people of the Viking Age.

Further details can be found on the festival website http://oisf.org/