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Happy DNA Day

April 25, 2019 / 15 Comments
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Every April 25 some of us commemorate the day in 1953 when Watson, Crick, Wilkins, et al (particularly Rosalind Franklin who received little credit at the time) published their paper on the structure of DNA. Today we celebrate the scientific advances that the understanding of DNA has made possible. I met Francis Crick in the … [Read more…]

Posted in: DNA, Events, Science Tagged: DNA DAY, Francis Crick, Genetics

SETI : Are We Alone?

January 12, 2018 / 12 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 is … [Read more…]

Posted in: Science, SETI, Space Exploration Tagged: Research, SETI@HOME, Space

Svalbard Seed Vault Flooding

May 21, 2017 / 9 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: Nonprofits, Plants, Science, Svalbard Tagged: Norway, Seed Vault

March for Science? March On.

April 18, 2017 / 5 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: Events, March For Science

More Earth-like Exoplanets Found

February 23, 2017 / 8 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 was observed by a Belgian research team with data … [Read more…]

Posted in: Science, SETI, Space Exploration Tagged: Exoplanets, NASA, Trappist-1

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

February 7, 2017 / 3 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: Environment, Nonprofits, Plants, Puerto Rico, Science Tagged: Maria Celeste Arraras, Para La Naturaleza

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, SETI Tagged: Radio Astronomy, Search For ET, The SETI Institute

Carl Kruse Recommends Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden

January 7, 2016 / 18 Comments

by Carl Kruse “What’s a great place in Miami that has nothing to do with partying,” ask several friends arriving in the city. And I send one and all to Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden (FTBG). There are few places like it.  Exotic plants A to Z.   A research and education facility.  A festival venue.  A … [Read more…]

Posted in: Miami Tourism, Nonprofits, Plants, Science, Travels Tagged: Elevating Humanity, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Flora and Fauna, Florida Tourism, Miami Places To Visit

The Best Aquarium In The World

December 20, 2015 / 21 Comments

Carl Kruse Dot Org Profiles: The Monterey Bay Aquarium by Carl Kruse In California there is an aquarium that all other aquariums should be modeled after, in spirit, and in outlook. Transformed from an abandoned cannery on water’s edge at Monterey Bay, it is at once beautiful and imposing. Steinbeck once wrote of this area … [Read more…]

Posted in: Environment, Monterey, Nonprofits, Science, The Environment, Travels Tagged: aquatic research, good deeds, non-profit, ocean science

Carl Kruse Dot Org Review: The SETI Institute

November 11, 2015 / 12 Comments

“Are we alone?” is a question all of us have wondered about. The SETI Institute has done more than wonder,  listening now for more than 30 years for any radio signals in space for signs of alien intelligence. Radio signals propagate far and wide and any advanced society will have likely communicated with radio signals … [Read more…]

Posted in: Nonprofits, Science, SETI, Space Exploration Tagged: Alien Intelligence, Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence, The SETI Institute
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