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...Yet, rather than look to the 19th century luminaries — the Lever brothers, the Cadbury family or the mill baron Titus Salt — who developed those model towns, Staab, professor of sociology at Berlin’s Humboldt...
...Berlin’s reconstructed Prussian palace, the Humboldt Forum museum complex, might be missing an emperor — but it is certainly not lacking in thrones....
...El Niño warms the usually cool and nutrient-rich Humboldt current off Peru and Ecuador’s coastlines and leads fish to migrate away from what are normally some of the world’s most productive fisheries....
...Formalised in 2022, BiodiverCities by 2030 guides cities towards nature-based approaches to development, says Diego Ochoa, director of external affairs at the Alexander von Humboldt Biological Resources...
...usually only represented through the racist, kitsch lens of Hollywood, perhaps it was a lack of visibility that pushed him towards visual art, self-taught in painting and later with a ceramics degree at Humboldt...
...There, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe mingled with philosophers Friedrich Schelling and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, the scientist-explorer Alexander von Humboldt and the playwright Friedrich Schiller during...
...Wulf assembles an impressive cast of writers, philosophers, and scientists — including Schiller, Goethe, Hegel, Novalis, Humboldt, Caroline Schlegel — who sought to challenge intellectual and social orthodoxies...
...The Schlegel brothers, August Wilhelm and Friedrich, inventors of the modern doctrine of Romantic art, lived on one side of the town hall, the Humboldt brothers — Alexander (subject of Wulf’s award-winning...
...Neil MacGregor is a former director of the British Museum and a founding director of the Humboldt Forum in Berlin....
...One of Germany’s leading business schools sits awkwardly in Berlin between the reconstructed Humboldt Forum museum complex and a rose garden planted by Margot Honecker, an ex-education minister and wife...
...Someone this week reminded me of Alexander von Humboldt’s line: “The most dangerous world view is the view of those who have not viewed the world”....
...Meanwhile, in Germany, the construction of the controversial Humboldt Forum museum of non-European cultures in Berlin put colonial-era collections front of mind....
...Berlin’s vexed, vast Humboldt Forum, launched in July to showcase the city’s non-European art, is left empty of the highlights it was built to house — in October a landmark agreement was signed to return...
...The main story unfolds in the wilder reaches of Humboldt County, northern California, where much of the American cannabis harvest is produced....
...Then there is the Humboldt squid. It appeared to vanish from fishing grounds in Mexico’s Gulf of California after a rise in water temperatures over a decade ago....
...Inside, the Humboldt Forum is a vast 42,000 sq metres. I was told it has more exhibition space than the whole of the Museum Island....
...A few thousand Humboldt penguins live on the peninsula and with their bumbling and their tumbling, are chief fundraisers for the project....
...Frederick StudemannAnd it’s a book called Magnificent Rebels, and it is a book by Andrea Wulf, who’s a writer who wrote a very much celebrated biography of the explorer, polymath, whatever, Alexander von Humboldt...
...The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis by Amitav Ghosh, John Murray £20, 352 pages Andrea Wulf is the author of ‘The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost...
...Humboldt Avenue by daylight looks nothing like the chaotic battlefield it turns into after dark. Cars and trucks speed down the wide suburban road in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota....
...Even those explorers I most admired, the diligent 19th-century specimen collectors such as Alexander von Humboldt and Alfred Russel Wallace, were only, after all, seeking to advance our own scientific, rationalising...
...Also included is the first article to apply the “greenhouse” metaphor to global warming — published in 1899 by Swedish scientist Nils Gustaf Ekholm — and an engraved 1848 portrait of Alexander von Humboldt...
...I particularly like Humboldt Fog goat’s cheese and also Tillamook Sharp Cheddar....
...Instead, the Humboldt Forum museum has found itself at the centre of an increasingly toxic debate about colonialism and looted art....
...She recounts how she was hurt by drugs growing up in Chicago’s Humboldt Park neighbourhood....
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