AI x Healthcare Gathering in Berlin
by Carl Kruse Dr. Thomas Jestädt of the Oxford Society invites readers of this Carl Kruse Blog to the second gathering of AI and Healthcare. The event brings together practitioners from pharma, medtech, hospitals, VCs, healthcare IT providers and startups working at the intersection of AI and healthcare. Alumni from Oxford, Cambridge, the Ivy Circle, Studienstiftung … [Read more…]
Is The Way We Study History Wrong?
by Hazel Anna Rogers for this Carl Kruse Blog When I was ten years old, I went with my class on a history field trip to Attingham Park, an 18th Century Hall and 4,000-acre estate located about 25-minutes drive from Shrewsbury, where my school was. For the field trip, we were asked to wear period … [Read more…]
Takesada Matsutani: Shifting Boundaries
by Fraser Hibbitt for this Carl Kruse Blog One large room seen through from the streetside of Saville Row. A family, ponderous, in front of what looks like a black-stained curtain tied about a pillar and attached to a large box. The draping falls on the floor stiff and meticulous. I walked three doors down … [Read more…]
Harvard Club of Berlin Invite To Their Summerfest
by Carl Kruse The Harvard Club of Berlin invites readers of the Carl Kruse Blog to its 2026 Summerfest to take place starting at 6pm on 13 June 2025 at the Zollpackhof Restaurant in Berlin. Details from the Harvard Club below. If interested, please RSVP directly with them. We would like to cordially invite you and … [Read more…]
Upcoming Silicon Valley Astronomy Lecture Series: Why Do We Exist?
by Carl Kruse On Wednesday, May 20, 2026 at 7 pm (PDT), Dr. Hakeem Oluseyi, the CEO of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, will give a free, non-technical lecture entitled: “Why Do We Exist? The Nine Realms of the Universe That Make You Possible” in the Smithwick Theater at Foothill College, in Los Altos, … [Read more…]
Harvard Berlin Club Invite To Their Leadership Dinner on April 22
Hi All, The Harvard Club of Berlin invites readers of the Carl Kruse Blog to a leadership dinner with Prof Lothar Wieler in Berlin at 6:30pm on April 22. Full details as sent by the Harvard Club are below. Cheers!Carl Kruse Dear members and friends of the Carl Kruse Blog and the Harvard Community in … [Read more…]
When AI Rents Humans
by Alexandra Indra Kruse for the Carl Kruse Blog The first time you hear about a website like rentahuman.ai, your brain does the normal human thing: it files it under “joke.” The premise is almost too perfect: AI agents, which can write poetry, negotiate contracts, and generate a photo realistic hamster wearing a tuxedo, still … [Read more…]
The Fermi Paradox
by Fraser Hibbitt for this Carl Kruse Blog Perhaps nothing more than a remark shared over a lunch established the hypothetical framework for thinking of life extraterrestrial. Enrico Fermi, who was fond of his playful questions (“how many atoms of Caesar’s last breath do you inhale with each lungful of air?”), said, between mouthfuls of … [Read more…]
Carson Kievman: Composer and Friend
By Carl Kruse Tomorrow — December 27— would have been Carson Kievman’s birthday, and it feels like the right moment to talk about him the way he preferred to be remembered, not as a footnote in a program book, but as a living current of energy, wry, stubbornly idealistic, and always building the next thing. … [Read more…]
Again, Winter Solstice
by Alexandra Indra Kruse for this Carl Kruse BlogThe winter solstice is the year’s most dramatic plot twist: the day the sun seems to lose its nerve, hanging low and stingy with light—and then, almost imperceptibly at first, begins its comeback. Long before anyone had weather apps or electric streetlights, this was big news. It … [Read more…]
Invite from Princeton Alumni: A Conversation With Author Sash Bischoff
Hello All, The Princeton Alumni Association of Germany warmly invites readers of the Carl Kruse Blog to a live conversation with Sash Bischoff, author of the acclaimed novel Sweet Fury, on December 9 at 17:30 Berlin time. About the BookLila Crayne is America’s sweetheart—radiant, beloved, and preparing to star in a feminist adaptation of Fitzgerald’s Tender Is the Night. As … [Read more…]
Berlin Art Exhibit: Bad/Good Jews
by Carl Kruse Friend of the Carl Kruse blog, artist Yury Kharchenko invites us to the opening of the exhibit “Bad/Good Jews,” to take place November 13 at 7pm at Bunker West, Hohenzollerndamm 120, 14199 Berlin. The exhibit runs through November 27, 2025. The exhibition “Bad / Good Jews” brings together five outstanding Jewish artists: … [Read more…]
Harvard Club Invite: Dinner With Author Jamaica Kincaid in Berlin
Hello Friends! The Harvard Club of Berlin invites readers of the Carl Kruse Blog to an evening discussion with renown author Jamaica Kincaid on November 5 at 6:30pm at Restaurant Luther & Wegner, Charlottenstr. 56 10117 Berlin. The invite is below. Cheers! Carl Kruse P.S. Stammtisch, Tuesday, Nov 4 at Fredericks in Potsdammer Platz. Dear members and … [Read more…]
Knut Hamsun
by Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse Blog Black wood, all black, so black it’s blue, like a raven or a crow in winter sun. Up, up, past the steep gables, up to the dragonhead, sharp and dark and up she points, up through the snow, the tempest, the long, long blackness, then the long, … [Read more…]
Changeling: How European Folklore Explained Autism
by Asia Leonardi for this Carl Kruse Blog «Don’t call us gnomes. We don’t want to be called that anymore. Once it was the perfect wordto designate a wide variety of creatures, but today it has too many meanings […] If you want togive me a name, I am like them, an elf. Or rather, … [Read more…]
Urban Paradise Guild
By Alexandra Indrah Kruse The Urban Paradise Guild (UPG) is a pioneering South Florida nonprofit founded in 2008, with the mission to restore native habitats in urban Miami‑Dade County and to promote sustainable, resilient living for both people and wildlife. The UPG is one of this blog’s favorite non-profit groups in Florida and we have … [Read more…]
Aphorisms on Spring
by Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse Blog The cherry tree blooms in early spring. There are three on a street close to me and I noticed the buds coming out just the other day. I cannot now remember this prelude as they quickly blossomed into a rich fullness. It was a surprise but so … [Read more…]