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…]
A Tribute to Rosalind Franklin by Fraser Hibbitt for this Carl Kruse Blog Every year we here at the Carl Kruse Blog take time to celebrate that moment in April 25, 1953 when Watson and Crick published their findings on the structure of DNA, and of the benefits to humanity that such knowledge has wrought. … [Read more…]
by Carl Kruse The Harvard club of Berlin invites members of the Carl Kruse Blog to its upcoming “Current Affairs Dinner” to take place March 12, 2025. The topic of discussion is “Does Europe Need Its Own Nuclear Bomb?” Recent weeks have shaken Europe’s confidence in the transatlantic alliance. Longstanding assumptions about the U.S. as … [Read more…]
by Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse Nonprofits Blog He spied an object as he walked along alone in a field, somewhere in Missouri. Perhaps in the town of Hurley where he attended High School. At his school, he played drums as he had done for most of his life. Very early on in his … [Read more…]
by Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse Blog The worst of Winter is January. There are more people running, less people drinking, and it seems desperate. A runner is hopping on the spot, waiting for the traffic light to go red; now, they are off again huffing the steam of a new year. It is … [Read more…]
by Christine Tomasa for the Carl Kruse Blog The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, often referred to as the “Doomsday Vault,” stands as a monumental safeguard for global agricultural biodiversity. Situated on the remote island of Spitsbergen in Norway, approximately 1,300 kilometers beyond the Arctic Circle, this facility serves as a repository for the world’s crop … [Read more…]
by Hazel Anna Rogers for the Carl Kruse Blog The Francis Bacon exhibition in London’s National Gallery comes at a fine time. The world is dying all around and we are beginning to see the skeletal trees beneath the absorbingly great colours of the leaves. Existentialism has been noted for bringing the discussion of death, … [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 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 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…]