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Julius Fröbel

In 1833, Julius became a naturalized citizen of Switzerland. Julius became a leader of the democrats, and in 1848 was elected a member of the Frankfurt Parliament (May 1848–June 1849).

On the dissolution of the parliament in 1849, he visited the United States, where he became editor of a German language newspaper, lectured in New York City, and was a member of the law firm of Zitz, Kapp & Fröbel. In 1850, he went to Nicaragua, Santa Fé, and Chihuahua as correspondent of the New York Tribune. In 1855, he was editor of a San Francisco paper. He returned to Germany in 1857. Efforts were made to expel him from Frankfurt, but he was protected on the ground of his naturalization as a citizen of the United States.

Source: Julius Fröbel (1805-1893)

Inheritance

How Our Genes Change Our Lives and Our Lives Change Our Genes

This groundbreaking book shows how the human genome is far more fluid and fascinating than we imagined.

Conventional wisdom dictates that our genetic destiny is fixed at conception. Although a child may recover from the psychological trauma caused by childhood bullying, their genes may remain changed for life.

This book masterfully demonstrates what rare genetic conditions can teach us all about our own health and well being.

People with rare genetic conditions hold the keys to medical problems affecting millions.

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Hardcover – April 15, 2014
by Sharon Moalem MD PhD (Author)

Dried Fruit

by Patrick & David Dower

<a href="http://patrickdaviddower.bandcamp.com/album/dried-fruit">Dried Fruit by Patrick & David Dower</a>

‘Dried Fruit’ was recorded although the two collaborating brothers resided 3,000km apart.

The title ‘Dried Fruit’ was inspired by the torment this distance created during the recording process.

How could they share in the fruits of their labour when you cannot send fruit through the mail?

5 track album

Source: Dried Fruit, by Patrick & David Dower

Ten Klooster

Ten Klooster was a successful artist in his time and his work was purchased by a number of major museums in the Netherlands, Great Britain and the United States.

Nature, in all its aspects, was his main inspiration and he was able to draw upon the innumerable sketches he made during his years in the lush, tropical environment of the Dutch East Indies.

He was educated in the Netherlands and cherished a deep desire to become an artist.

It was only after his return to the Netherlands and his retirement in 1919, that he was able to devote his life to art. His prolific and widely acclaimed oeuvre ranges from intriguing oil paintings to expressive woodcuts and exquisite ink drawings, which echo classical Chinese and Japanese art as well as art deco motifs.

Johannes ten Klooster (1873-1940): a man with two lives

This abundantly illustrated publication discusses all aspects of his life and work and includes a complete catalog of his 175 woodcuts.

Johannes Frederik Engelbert ten Klooster was born in Kudus, Java on August 7, 1873, to a Javanese/Chinese mother and a Dutch father.

He was educated in the Netherlands and forced to work for a living; from 1897 to 1914 he served as a military officer in the Dutch East Indies and was stationed in Java, Sumatra and New Guinea.

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Woodcut on thin oriental paper

Signed with monogram on block: “Ten Klooster”, in lower right. Annotated in pencil with title and name of the artist below image: “handdruk” and “Ten Klooster”. Donated by Contemporary Art Society 1932

Donated by Contemporary Art Society 1932

Source: British Museum: Waterval met herten

Philanthropy

How Investment Firms Are Changing Philanthropy

In 1991, as the United States was emerging from a recession, Edward C. Johnson III, the chairman of Fidelity Investments, introduced what at the time was an unorthodox possibility: What if his company could facilitate charitable donations for its clients?

The firm could help people get a tax benefit while making it easier for them to give to charities.

By the end of the year, the company had obtained public-charity status for an organization called the Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund.

Clients could create an account that would hold their donations to the fund and write off the contribution on their tax returns that year. Eventually, they would have to select one or more charities and direct Fidelity to funnel the money there, but they could do that at their leisure.

Soon, Charles Schwab and the Vanguard Group had introduced similar services, which are known as donor-advised funds.

The donor-advised funds often give to charities far more than the five per cent that foundations are required to disburse.

At Fidelity, Vanguard, and Schwab, the over-all figures have recently surpassed twenty per cent.

Source: How Investment Firms Are Changing Philanthropy – The New Yorker

Gutenberg Festival

Celebrations in 1840 of the 400th anniversary of Gutenberg’s invention were influenced by contemporary attitudes to print culture and universal education.

Previous celebrations in 1640 and 1740 at Leipzig had been planned by the printing guild.

via Reading Culture and Writing Practices in Nineteenth-century France

Before Gutenberg, printing was practiced but on a very small scale as each page had to be carved on wood.

17mnv9ayuof00jpg1 — Gutenberg developed printing by the use of 25 mobile fonts cast in lead and set in a press with a frame operated by a screw.

Gutenberg developed printing by the use of 25 mobile fonts cast in lead and set in a press with a frame operated by a screw.

While Johannes Gutenberg was born and raised in Mainz, he lived to Strasbourg between 1434 and 1444, where he was an apprentice goldsmith. It was in Strasbourg that he invented the printing press that so changed the world.

The statue, sculpted in 1840, by David d’Angers, is of Johannes Gutenberg holding a piece of parchment on which is inscribed the words “Et la lumière fut” (And behold, there was light) from the Book of Genesis. He was the publisher of the Gutenberg Bible in 1455.

In Frankfurt, the sculptor Edward Schmidt von der Launitz (1797-1869) created a group of three figures using galvano-technology. Depicted are Johannes Gutenberg – with book and letters – and his colleagues and financial backers Johannes Fust – with books on his arm – and Peter Schöffer – with stamping hammer.

The four figures seated symbolize theology, poetry, natural sciences and industry. The upper sandstone pedestal bears 14 portraits of renowned European printers of early modern times. The standing figures shown on the pedestal hold the escutcheons of the centres of the early book printing and book trade: Frankfurt, Venice, Strasbourg and Mainz.

“What the world is today, good and bad, it owes to Gutenberg. Everything can be traced to this source, but we are bound to bring him homage, … for the bad that his colossal invention has brought about is overshadowed a thousand times by the good with which mankind has been favored.” Mark Twain

Play gifts

The value of play gifts designed by Friedrich Froebel is their simplicity.

The logic of their unit form and interaction enables free and creative activity as the self expression of each child.

Their logical structure provides constantly emerging forms for each child to discover new conditions, relationships and relations.

speilgaben

Parents and educators can watch how each child can develop their own creative powers by free activity.

The intellectual roots of the play gifts are in Friedrich Froebel’s life as a student and teacher. His scientific studies and experience at the Mineralogical Museum in Berlin (1812-1816) and the subsequent work in Keilhau / Thür. (1817-1831) provided the basis for shaped his ideas about how each child could be free and develop creative powers through activity.

Source: Spielgaben

175 years of Kindergarten

Kindergarten was named by Friedrich Froebel on June 28, 1840 at Bad Blankenburg during the Gutenberg Festival to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the invention of printing by movable type.

The first kindergarten at Bad Blankenburg was a new cultural form, which combined work, family, child care and education.

Froebel recognized in particular how each child acquires knowledge about himself or herself and the world through activities, that correspond to the nature of each child.

via http://www.froebeldekade.de/froebeldekade/froebel-tagung2015/

Although much has changed since 1840,

many of Froebel’s principles continue to guide high quality early childhood education around the world today.

Read more about the history of the kindergarten and of early childhood education along Froebelian lines at the International Froebel Society

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International Froebel Society

Experts agree that high-quality early childhood education promotes the healthy cognitive, social, emotional, and physical development of young children.

Decades’ worth of evidence shows that the highest quality early education is child-centred and play-based. And yet, in many places, early childhood education today is dominated by skills-based, academically-oriented, test-focused teaching.

We seek to change that.

Source: IFS: The International Froebel Society | Promoting Child-Centred Kindergarten & Early Education Worldwide

As an organisation of educators, university-based researchers, and early years providers, the IFS provides an international forum for the development of the principles of child-centred and play-based educational theory and practice, especially but not exclusively those associated with the inventor of the Kindergarten, Friedrich Froebel (1782-1852).

Human Variome Project

The Human Variome Project provides a central repository hub for global data sharing of genetic information with direct application to improving global health.

One way to address the global challenges of public health in developing countries is through international collaboration to share data.

It is important to do this not just for humanitarian reasons but because open information is at the heart of scientific progress.

One field in which this is particularly evident is genomic research, which has made revolutionary progress in recent years. There has been an explosion in research to discover the function of each of the twenty thousand or so human genes.

via The Human Variome Project | Science & Diplomacy.

One of the main goals of UNESCO is the development of international science that meets social needs in health, food, education, and other standards of living.

The Human Variome Project establishes and maintains the necessary standards, systems and infrastructure for genetic knowledge sharing, offers training and education for clinicians, researchers and the general public and works with individual countries to build their medical genetics and genomics capacity.

These activities promote the development of better genetic services and will lead to the improvement of genetic treatment and diagnostic abilities worldwide.

via The Human Variome Project – Sharing data – Reducing disease

Rare genetic conditions can teach us about our own health and well being.

People with rare genetic conditions hold the keys to medical problems affecting millions.

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Hardcover – April 15, 2014
by Sharon Moalem MD PhD (Author)