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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
by Carl Kruse The Harvard Club of Berlin invites members of the Carl Kruse Blog to the Fireside Chat – “Turning Point. In the world. In the United States? In Germany ?” with Dr. Gregor Peter Schmitz to take place on Wednesday, May 28, 2025, at 6:30 pm at the Marriott Hotel on Potsdamer Platz. … [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 Carl Kruse The Mountain View, California-based SETI Institute recently discussed a new research project that looked for signs of alien intelligence in galaxies beyond the Milky Way. The study involved several other academic institutions and used the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) telescope in Australia to focus on low radio frequencies, e.g., those in the … [Read more…]
By Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse Blog A few years ago, when I was living in a different town, I used to get coffee from a girl who hated the summer. What it was she hated about it I couldn’t quite tell, probably the intensity of it. She was shy and her sentences often … [Read more…]
by Carl Kruse The Germany Stanford University Alumni group invites members of the Carlkruse.org blog to their end of summer event hosted at the brewery of the Technical University (TU) Berlin. If you are not familiar with the TU, they are one of the world’s top universities for Brewmaster training. The event will feature free … [Read more…]
by Fraser Hibbitt for this Carl Kruse Blog The mind of God being immanent; or rather the mind of God has been transcribed for all to read freely without issue of exegesis, without the bickering over interpretation and its consequent factionalism. To think it was once symbolically confusing. For how long did we all watch … [Read more…]
by Carl Kruse The Columbia University Club invites readers of the Carl Kruse Blog to a private English-language tour of the Documentation Center for Nazi Forced Laborers to take place on Sunday, June 23 from 15:30 to 17:30 in Berlin. The Center, located in Schöneweide, has the task of making the history of the 26 … [Read more…]
by Carl Kruse It is Memorial Day once again in the U.S.A., that time the nation honors its soldiers who died in combat. Originally known as Decoriation Day, the tradition began shortly after the civil war when flowers were strewn on the graves of civil war soldiers, later turning into national recognition of all American … [Read more…]
by Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse Blog I can’t think of a biography that I have read. I’m still thinking about whether I have read an autobiography. A part of me presumes they are second-rate. I don’t like it when people are too knowledgeable about other people, or about themselves. It is very easy … [Read more…]
by Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse Blog Kurt Vonnegut’s novels read smoothly. Depleted people are thrown this way and that without regard, without seriousness. Although, Vonnegut’s novels are very serious, all about war and politics and loneliness and angst. What else? Mental illness, suicide, loss, and death. If you feel like laughing at these … [Read more…]