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SETI : Are We Alone?

January 12, 2018 / 3 Comments

Help SETI Answer The Question: Are We Alone? by Carl Kruse Every year the good people at SETI @ HOME make a fundraising drive to support their efforts in tackling what is one of the great remaining questions of humanity, is there intelligent life besides us in the universe? While the answer to the question … [Read more…]

Posted in: Carl Kruse, Science, SETI Tagged: carl kruse, Research, SETI, SETI@HOME, Space

Winter Solstice Again

December 21, 2017 / 2 Comments

Happy Winter Solstice by Carl Kruse Since before anyone kept records people have celebrated Winter Solstice, the shortest day-longest night of the year, and that happens to be today. And every year around now I share a quick note to celebrate the solstice ( See http://carlkruse.org/2015/12/22/happy-winter-solstice/  for a similar solstician greeting.) In prehistoric times people … [Read more…]

Posted in: Carl Kruse, Holidays, Seasons Tagged: carl kruse, Seasons, Winter, Winter Solstice

Summer Solstice

June 21, 2017 / 4 Comments

Here’s To A Great Summer Solstice By Carl Kruse The ebb and flow of the seasons is one of life’s constants and today is the Summer Solstice, the longest day, shortest night of the year, marking the beginning of summer.  Some say it marks mid-summer, but no matter. Water flows, flowers bloom, trees sashay, the … [Read more…]

Posted in: Carl Kruse, Seasons Tagged: carl kruse, Seasons, summer, summer solstice

Another Memorial Day Wish

May 30, 2017 / 2 Comments
A Memorial Day Image From Carl Kruse

Yet Another Memorial Day Wish By Carl Kruse It is Memorial Day once again in the U.S.A., that time the nation honors its soldiers who died in combat. As I do every Memorial Day, I take some time to reflect on war and death, wishing that in some future — which seems impossibly distant — … [Read more…]

Posted in: Carl Kruse, Holidays Tagged: carl kruse, holidays, memorial day, reflections

Svalbard Seed Vault Flooding

May 21, 2017 / 5 Comments

Melting Permafrost Floods Svalbard Seed Vault By Carl Kruse On Friday, March 19, a stream of nervous reports warned that water had entered the doomsday seed repository known as the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.   Temporary panic ensued because Svalbard is humanity’s last line of defense against a major catastrophe or doomsday situation that might imperil … [Read more…]

Posted in: Carl Kruse, Science, Svalbard Tagged: carl kruse, Norway, Seed Vault, Svalbard

March for Science? March On.

April 18, 2017 / 2 Comments
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The March for Science by Carl Kruse Some scientist friends have come out against the upcoming March For Science, saying that while good intentioned, the march runs the risk of trivializing and politicizing science, turning scientists into another group embroiled in the culture wars and further alienating science from a certain segment of the world’s … [Read more…]

Posted in: Events, Marches, Nonprofits, Science Tagged: carl kruse, Events, March For Science, Science

More Earth-like Exoplanets Found

February 23, 2017 / 3 Comments

A Fantastic Time For Discovery, and for SETI by Carl Kruse The journal NATURE’s website reportedly crashed after it announced the NASA  discovery of seven Earth-like planets orbiting a star near us, some 40 light years away in the Aquarius constellation. The star known as TRAPPIST-1 (Transiting Planets and Planetisimals Small Telescope) was observed by … [Read more…]

Posted in: Carl Kruse, Science, SETI, Space Exploration Tagged: carl kruse, Exoplanets, NASA, SETI, Space Exploration, Trappist-1

Carl Kruse Reminder – PLN Fundraiser To Protect Lands In PR Coming Up

February 7, 2017 / 2 Comments

Fundraiser At the Home Of Maria Celeste Takes Place This Thursday By Carl kruse A reminder that the fundraiser to benefit “Para La Naturaleza,” takes place this Thursday, February 9th at the Miami residence of Maria Celeste Arraras. (See original Carl Kruse  Nonprofit Fundraiser for Para La Naturaleza here). Para La Naturaleza seeks to protect … [Read more…]

Posted in: Carl Kruse, Environment, Nonprofits, Puerto Rico, Science Tagged: carl kruse, Environment, Maria Celeste Arraras, Para La Naturaleza, Puerto Rico

Find Your 1,000 True Fans

February 3, 2017 / 6 Comments
100 true fans

Whatsoever You Do –- Find Your 1,000 True Fans. By Carl Kruse A friend today asked me for a good book on marketing, as if I would know, but I then remembered the impact Kevin Kelly’s essay “1,000 True Fans,” had on me some years ago and suggested to my friend he start his research … [Read more…]

Posted in: First Steps, Marketing Tagged: Branding, Business, carl kruse, Kelly, Marketing

Carl Kruse: Support Land Conservation in Puerto Rico

January 27, 2017 / 2 Comments

Support of Land Conservation in Puerto Rico By Carl Kruse I am delighted to share with  you news from my friend Maria Celeste Arraras who is involved in preserving the natural and historic charms of Puerto Rico, and in promoting sustainable development and ecotourism on the Island.  Mari’s efforts focus on an organization called Para la … [Read more…]

Posted in: Carl Kruse, Environment, Events, Nonprofits, Puerto Rico Tagged: carl kruse, Environmental Protection, Land Conservation, Maria Celeste Arraras, Para La Naturaleza, Puerto Rico

Carl Kruse Celebrates MLK Day

January 15, 2017 / 2 Comments

Re-reading A Letter From A Birmingham Jail by Carl Kruse In what has become now a tradition, ( see Carl Kruse Talks About Martin Luther King ), every Martin Luther King Day I re-read King’s now classic “Letter From A Birmingham Jail,” an essay written as a response to King’s critics who at the time … [Read more…]

Posted in: Carl Kruse, Holidays, Politics Tagged: carl kruse, martin luther king, martin luther king day, nonviolent resistance, politics, racism

Spotlight: Urban Paradise Guild

December 2, 2016 / 1 Comment
kruse-seeds for haiti

UPG Sends Seeds To Families In Haiti by Carl Kruse The Urban Paradise Guild (UPG) headed by Sam Van Leer is a nonprofit group based in Southern Florida working to bring back natural habitat and make our urban environment more green and livable.   The group introduces more native plants into local areas, organizes clean-ups, engages … [Read more…]

Posted in: Haiti, Nonprofits Tagged: carl kruse, Haiti, Nonprofit work, reforestation, Seeds, UPG, Urban Paradise Guild

From Carl Kruse: Help SETI@HOME

December 1, 2016 / 2 Comments

SETI Project  Can Use Our Help by Carl Kruse One of my favorite nonprofit groups is the SETI Institute, which is the world’s top organization that is looking for life elsewhere in the universe. I love SETI because it’s the chance to get involved in answering one of humanity’s last remaining big questions – Is … [Read more…]

Posted in: Nonprofits, Science Tagged: carl kruse, Radio Astronomy, Science, SETI, The SETI Institute

Kruse: The Electoral College

November 26, 2016 / 1 Comment

One More Voice Calling For The End Of The Electoral College by  Carl Kruse For whatever reasons it was established way back when, and whatever benefits it might have today, that the Electoral College in the U.S. contravenes the will of the people is a great blow to Democracy. The winner of the votes in … [Read more…]

Posted in: Politics Tagged: carl kruse, Election 2016, Electoral College

Carl Kruse Stands With Kazhir Khan

July 31, 2016 / 1 Comment

Jumping into the fray I’ll say Kazhir Khan’s speech at the 2016 Democratic National Convention was a beautiful lesson in ethics, civics, loss, honor and sacrifice. A speech of power and raw emotion. I cried during it and I don’t remember crying in a long time over a speech. Shortly after he finished, the shameless … [Read more…]

Posted in: Carl Kruse, Politics Tagged: ann coulter, carl kruse, fallen muslim soldier, kazhir khan, racism
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