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…]
by Hazel Anna Rogers for the Carl Kruse Blog I have devoured cookbooks for some time. We had several shelves of them in my parents’ house, thick, brightly colored novels with reams of delicacies just waiting to be salivated over. I refer to the cookbook as a “novel,” I suppose, because more often than not … [Read more…]
by Carl Kruse My childhood friend Michelle Ezratty Murphy has honed her Latin-infused cooking skills during more than 30-years of culinary adventures in her home kitchen. And now we can access her beloved recipes, such as the award-winning “Titi Rosa’s Arroz Con Pollo, Made With Love and Pegao,” in the newly released FAMILIA KITCHEN COOKBOOK. … [Read more…]
by Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse Blog On Autumn ‘Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round that thatch-eves run’ John Keats’ opening lines of ‘To Autumn’ picture a busy god culminating the over-brimmed ‘clammy cells’ … [Read more…]
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…]
by Asia Leonardi for the Carl Kruse Blog She was a thinker, a philosopher, a writer, the first woman to become a psychoanalyst: but more than anything, Lou Von Salomé was a free woman, independent and careless of people’s thoughts. Her magnetism enchanted illustrious figures of the time: from Paul Rée to Friedrich Nietzsche, from … [Read more…]
by Asia Leonardi for the Carl Kruse Blog When talking about progress and development we inevitably recall the scientific advances of Western medicine. And there is no doubt medical technology has made huge steps over the years: in 1900 global life expectancy was about 30 years; in 2000 about 63. Every day, antibiotics save the … [Read more…]
by Carl Kruse The Smithsonian is sponsoring their “Summer Sessions for Teachers” — a no-cost 5-day online workshop from 27 June through 1 July 2022. Titled “Inspiring Civic Engagement,” the workshop aims to expose teachers to how Museum collections can inspire civic action in students and help prepare them to be active participants in a … [Read more…]
Presented by Carl Kruse So there’s this guy I’ve always thought,must surely be enlightened.He’s never mad, rarely sad,and never ever frightened.But if I bring it up he laughs,and claims it’s not the case.“I don’t know what that means,” he says.“I just know what it takes,“for me to find real peace of mind.I just have to … [Read more…]
by Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse Blog Under the aged and rusted wrought iron arches of Kew Garden’s Palm House, feet and faces meet and disperse between the narrow spaces left by the leaves. Two winding iron staircases are set front and back inside this elaborate glass house, offering this view of disorganized bodies … [Read more…]
by Hazel Anna Rogers for the Carl Kruse Blog It was as if it was meant to be. At the end of 2021, when most of us were just wishing we might be glimpsing the rear end of the Covid-19 pandemic, astronomers in Western Australia looking earnestly at the night sky were greeted by inexplicable … [Read more…]
by Hazel Anna Rogers for the Carl Kruse Blog Artificial intelligence, more commonly known as AI, is a branch of computer science that focuses on the creation of intelligent task-oriented machines — tasks that might usually require some degree of human intelligence. This is a general definition, and one which perhaps lessens the fear-riddled narrative … [Read more…]
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…]
by Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse BlogOne of the most innovative technological conceptions to come to fruition in the late twentieth century was, and is, Artificial Intelligence (AI). If humanity has always looked to create and extend their collective consciousness beyond the bounds of within, then AI is the latest and greatest manifestation of … [Read more…]
by Hazel Anna Rogers for the Carl Kruse BlogIn 1896, Thaddeus Cahill, of Iowa, USA, completed the machine that he had been working on since completing his degree in the physics of music at the Oberlin Conservatory in Ohio. This machine was to transform the production and distribution of music, and Cahill’s ambitious invention began … [Read more…]
Here at the blog we have a long-running infatuation with the Monterey Bay Aquarium in northern California and try to visit as often as possible, both in person and in the blog, and have written about the place before. When Fraser suggested re-visiting it, we quickly said yes. – Carl Kruse by Fraser Hibbitt for … [Read more…]