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Walter’s Way

December 5, 2022 / Leave a Comment
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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…]

Posted in: Architecture, Dreamers, Enabling The Future, London Tagged: Self-Build, Walters Way

Goodbye Frank Drake, Father of SETI

September 8, 2022 / 5 Comments
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by Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse Blog Less than a week ago, astronomer and astrophysicist Frank Drake passed away in his home in California. He was one of those rare examples in which a childhood fascination directly informs their career, their pursuit, and entanglement with the world. Drake’s equation, perhaps only second in fame … [Read more…]

Posted in: California, Carl Kruse, Dreamers, Science, SETI, Space Exploration, Voyager Tagged: Frank Drake, Obituary

MLK Day Reflections

January 18, 2022 / 1 Comment
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Fraser Hibbitt reflects on ‘A Letter From A Birmingham Jail’ for the Carl Kruse Blog on MLK Day 2022 Embodied love must act: it is how it measures time. Reading Martin Luther King’s ‘Letter from a Birmingham Jail’ is to meet the weight of words – words that hold a history of strife, tension, and … [Read more…]

Posted in: Beautiful Words, Carl Kruse, Celebrations, Dreamers, Holidays Tagged: Letter From A Birmingham Jail, martin luther king

Carson Kievman is Dead at 72

November 3, 2021 / 10 Comments
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by Carl Kruse My friend Carson Kievman is gone. He was 72. Originally from Los Angeles, Carson lived his last decades in Florida, mostly in Miami. He had a stroke in 2020, and later doctors discovered two cancers.  He had long lived with diabetes. Carson left an indelible mark on South Florida (and on me). … [Read more…]

Posted in: Art, Dreamers, Music, Nonprofits, Princeton, Sobe Arts Tagged: Carson Kievman, Classical Music, Florida

Jocelyn Bell Burnell’s Discovery of the Pulsar

August 27, 2021 / 8 Comments
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By Hazel Anna Rogers for the Carl Kruse Blog Space is on our minds. With the recent controversy surrounding billionaire escapades into space – Jeff Bezos paid $5.5 billion for a mere four minutes in space – people have begun questioning whether space travel and research are bygone dreams that should be left alone in … [Read more…]

Posted in: Dreamers, Great Britain, Science, Space Exploration Tagged: Astronomy, Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Pulsars, Radio Telescopes

Von Braun and Dreams of Mars

May 30, 2021 / 4 Comments
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by Vittorio Compagno A bright red sphere millions of kilometers from here is what Mars meant for most people throughout human history. At first, it was just dance on the stage where the Sun and other stars revolved around the Earth, a luminous celestial body with its reddish reflections, until finally we recognized it as a planet. Before recent space missions, little was known about the red planet, … [Read more…]

Posted in: Dreamers, Enabling The Future, Science, Space Exploration Tagged: Astronomy, Mars, Mars exploration, Rocket Science, Saturn V, Werner Von Braun

Gene Cernan, Apollo 17

January 17, 2021 / 5 Comments
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by Carl Kruse It was on January 16, 2018 that Eugene Cernan — the Apollo 17 commander and last astronaut to walk on the moon — left our world. Cernan was famous for saying, “Dream the impossible and make it happen. I walked on the moon. What can’t you do?” What can’t you do indeed … [Read more…]

Posted in: Dreamers, Space Exploration Tagged: Gene Cernan, Moon Landings, Naval Aviation, Pushing the envelope

We Are The Music Makers, The Dreamers Of Dreams

December 18, 2015 / 14 Comments

by Carl Kruse Already immortalized by the time Willy Wonka re-immortalized it, Arthur O’Shaughnessy‘s ode resonates beautifully with those sure they are the music makers, the dreamers of dreams, the movers and shakers. And wouldn’t that be all of us? We are the music makers,And we are the dreamers of dreams,Wandering by lone sea-breakersAnd sitting … [Read more…]

Posted in: Beautiful Words, Dreamers, Poems Tagged: music makers, O'Shaughnessy, poetry

Carl Kruse Dot Org Review: Responsible Charity

November 1, 2015 / 7 Comments

RESPONSIBLE CHARITY IN INDIA by Carl Kruse During a 2008 trip in India, my friend Hemley Gonzalez volunteered with a world famous charity in Kolkata and experienced first-hand the deplorable conditions that people were subjected to under the care of this well-known organization. Disheartened and shocked by the experience, he started working directly in the … [Read more…]

Posted in: Dreamers, Hemley Gonzalez, India, Nonprofits, Responsible Charity Tagged: good deeds, Helping Others, Kolkata

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