Author: Carl Kruse
Do You See What I See?
by Carl Kruse The truth is often difficult to uncover with even obvious events like the sun “rising” or the earth being flat are different…
Shojin Ryori: “Better a dinner of herbs”
by Hazel Anna Rogers for the Carl Kruse Blog I am lucky. I grew up with a mother and father who prided themselves on gifting…
Mars One: No Flowers Quivering in the Wind
by Hazel Anna Rogers for the Carl Kruse Blog In 1993, sociologist and avid caver Maurizio Montalbini endured 366 days underground in a Nasa-designed underground…
Single Mums and Why Men Should Pay For Coke
by Hazel Anna Rogers for the Carl Kruse Blog I don’t know if everyone feels like this, but I do. It happens at the gate,…
Smothered Whispers and a Fictitious Disease: the History of Hysteria
by Asia Leonardi for the Carl Kruse Blog How much does it cost to be a woman? Before you turn your nose at the question,…
Alcohol: A Long Overdue Love Story
by Hazel Anna Rogers for the Carl Kruse Blog We begin our strange obsession with alcohol when we are young, for the most part….
“High Rise”: The Height of Decadence?
by Asia Leonardi for the Carl Kruse Blog What happens to civilized people when their needs clash with those of thousands of others in a…
“Dark Suburbia”: The American Dream Gone Wrong in Film
by Hazel Anna Rogers for the Carl Kruse Blog In the 90s, it seemed that America had a keen fascination with the dilapidation of the…
How Green Cities Improve Quality of Life
by Vittorio Compagno for this Carl Kruse Blog This has happened to everyone. To walk on the sidewalk, surrounded by people, crammed into a curb…
Film Scenes I Wish I’d Never Seen
by Hazel Anna Rogers for the Carl Kruse Blog Perhaps one of my greatest pleasures in life is watching great works of the screen. I…
Matters of the Occult
by Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse Blog Taking matters of the occult seriously has had its benefits, and it has also brilliantly displayed the…
Oliver Sacks
by Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse Blog Writing in the introduction to Oliver Sacks’ most popular work, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for…