by Carl Kruse The Columbia University Club invites readers of the Carl Kruse Blog to a private English-language tour of the Documentation Center for Nazi Forced Laborers to take place on Sunday, June 23 from 15:30 to 17:30 in Berlin. The Center, located in Schöneweide, has the task of making the history of the 26 … [Read more…]
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. Originally known as Decoriation Day, the tradition began shortly after the civil war when flowers were strewn on the graves of civil war soldiers, later turning into national recognition of all American … [Read more…]
by Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse Blog I can’t think of a biography that I have read. I’m still thinking about whether I have read an autobiography. A part of me presumes they are second-rate. I don’t like it when people are too knowledgeable about other people, or about themselves. It is very easy … [Read more…]
by Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse Blog Kurt Vonnegut’s novels read smoothly. Depleted people are thrown this way and that without regard, without seriousness. Although, Vonnegut’s novels are very serious, all about war and politics and loneliness and angst. What else? Mental illness, suicide, loss, and death. If you feel like laughing at these … [Read more…]
by Carl Kruse The Carl Kruse Blog in conjunction with the Ivy Circle is pleased to announce an upcoming series of events in Munich. The first is part of the Speakers Series Event of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and takes place on Friday, February 15th with Safra Catz, CEO of Oracle. The TUM … [Read more…]
By Erasmus Kruse Introduction The cosmos, with its vastness and unpredictability, poses a myriad of challenges to Earth and its inhabitants. Among these potential threats, the impact of near-Earth objects (NEOs) remains a significant concern for planetary defense. In response to this, NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO) has spearheaded the Double Asteroid Redirection Test … [Read more…]
by Hazel Anna Rogers for the Carl Kruse Blog In December of 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) released an article stating that, worldwide, 1 in 4 healthcare facilities had no water services; 1 in 3 did not have access to hand hygiene (where care was provided); 1 in 10 had no sanitation services at … [Read more…]
by Carl Kruse The Silicon Valley Astronomy Series returns on Wednesday, November 15, 2023 with a presentation titled Water Above, Water Below, Water Within: The Many Roles of Water in Making Planets Habitable. Dr. Laura Schaefer from Stanford University will provide an illustrated, non-technical lecture of the topic. It all takes place at the Smithwick … [Read more…]
By Asia Leonardi for the Carl Kruse Blog “It was deep into his fiery heart (ooh)He took the dust of Joan of ArcAnd then she clearly understoodIf if he was fire (ooh)Oh, she then she must be woodI saw the glory in her eye (in her eye)Myself (I long) I long for love and light … [Read more…]
by Hazel Anna Rogers for the Carl Kruse Blog Reiki is an alternative ‘healing’ therapy based around the idea of so-called ‘energy’ work. During the therapy, the reiki practitioner hovers their hands (sometimes also holding the hands on areas of the body for extensive periods of time) over the patient that purports to sense and … [Read more…]
by Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse Blog General Jack D. Ripper: You know when fluoridation first began? Lionel Mandrake: I… no, no. I don’t, Jack General Jack D. Ripper: Nineteen hundred and forty-six. 1946, Mandrake. How does that coincide with your post-war Commie conspiracy, huh? It’s incredibly obvious, isn’t it? A foreign substance is … [Read more…]
by Hazel Anna Rogers for the Carl Kruse Blog We are a comfortable people, on the whole. I speak of those of use with the time to glance upon this article, or perhaps those who have the time to spend slouched on sofas in the evening eating food from cupboards plentiful, or those who can … [Read more…]
by Hazel Anna Rogers for the Carl Kruse Blog Night falls and it is not black, for we are scared of shadows, and so we illuminate the dark and make it more like day. Night falls, but we see the crests of the waves surrounding the city as though they themselves were bordered by thin … [Read more…]
by Carl Kruse The SETI Institute will host an upcoming chat that explores the secrets of the solar system and the search for life beyond Earth. Two scientists from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland – Dr. Stefanie Milam and Dr. Geronimo Villanueva will participate in this discussion into the unknown. Communications specialist … [Read more…]
by Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse Blog DNA resounds with the connotation of Life. Not of the experiential life, but the “deep” life of our physical presence, our ancestry. The little arc in the story of the discovery of the double-helix structure, James Watson dreaming of two snakes intertwining, grants us the pleasure of … [Read more…]
by Carl Kruse The Carl Kruse Blog in conjunction with Ivy Circle in Berlin and the Harvard Club in Berlin would like to invite all to the upcoming Harvard Club speaking presentation “Democracy and the Rise of Authoritarianism” to take place on April 26, 2023 at 6pm CET at the Meistersaal, Köthener Str. 38, 10963 … [Read more…]
by Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse Blog The coming of Spring is the headlong fall into light and day. The day is everything for affirmation, though what is affirmed is figured first, darkly, in the night. In the spring, D.H. Lawrence wonders what he is in the midst of the ‘leaping combustion of spring’: … [Read more…]
by Hazel Anna Rogers for the Carl Kruse Blog This thing is colossal, a sheer asymmetrical beast of stark adjoining structures. Tempelhof Airport owes its asymmetry to its lack of completion; Ernst Sagebiel, who designed this place, couldn’t complete his vision due to the outbreak of war in 1939. Despite this, construction on the central … [Read more…]
by Carl Kruse Every Martin Luther King Day I read King’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” for a jolt of moral fortitude and to connect — even if in a distant way — with a great man. I have written before about the impact King’s Letter has on me (see links below) and I thought … [Read more…]
by Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse Blog In the early 60s, the architect Walter Segal and his recent wife Moran Scott decided to demolish Scott’s London home. Scott having four children from a previous marriage, and with Segal moving in, they decided more space was needed. Whilst in the process of transforming these Edwardian … [Read more…]