Should YOU Go to Graduate School? A Guide
Reposted from Lost in Transcription: So, it’s that time of year again, when thousands of college seniors emerge briefly from their beer-bong haze long enough to ask themselves, “What the hell am I...
View ArticleHere, read this guide to choosing a grad school and advisor
This essay was originally posted at Lost in Transcription: So, you’ve come here because you read the Lost in Transcription Guide to Whether or Not YOU Should go to Graduate School, and, at the end of...
View ArticleHaving your awesomest grad school experience
Reposted from Lost in Transcription So, welcome back for the third installment of me dispensing advice that no one asked for. Previous advice included two guides, the first to help you decide whether...
View ArticleScientiam Consecemus!!
Here’s an update for those of you who are following the development of the Ronin Institute. We now have an official motto, in Latin and everything: Scientiam Consecemus That’s “Let’s Chop Up Some...
View ArticleRonin in the Chronicle of Higher Education
The most recent issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education features an article on independent scholarship. It profiles nine independent scholars, four of whom are Research Scholars here at the Ronin...
View ArticleWhat’s the Likelihood of a Coup in Eritrea?
An article in the International Business Times reports that on Monday morning there was something that looked like a coup attempt at the Ministry of Information in the capital city of Asmara. The...
View ArticleInternational Ronin
In the wake of that article that recently came out in the Chronicle of Higher Education (covered here), I’ve received a few e-mails suggesting that there may be some confusion out there regarding the...
View ArticleIn defense of the independent academic lifestyle
Reposted from Lost in Transcription: So, as I noted previously, there was a recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Education about independent scholarship. The article profiled nine scholars, four...
View ArticleRisk it ALL!
Hey, here’s a cool video. It’s a sort of advice column from designer James Victore. The advice is obviously framed in a way that is specific to design (and probably art /achitecture as well), but it’s...
View ArticleAn Outsider’s Theory of Everything
[Update (5/29): Eric Weinstein will be giving a follow-up lecture this Friday (5/31) at 2pm at Oxford's Mathematical Institute in lecture room L2 (which, I believe, is at location 22 on this map)....
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Introducing the New Ronin Institute Logo
Today is a big day for the Ronin Institute. It’s the day we unveil our shiny new logo, lovingly crafted to reflect the values of the institute and to pay homage in heraldic form to its proud one-year...
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Ask a Cool Anthropologist
It’s a problem we’ve all been faced with. You’ve got a question, the sort of question only an Anthropologist can answer. But the problem is, all of the Anthropologists you know are just so . . ....
View ArticleNew Ronin Book on Ralph Waldo Emerson
Congratulations to Ronin Institute Research Scholar Joseph Kramp, who is publishing a new book, Ralph Waldo Emerson: A Psychological Biography, through Mellen Press. The official publication date is...
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Science, Nature, and Cell Aren’t the Problem, Exactly
Randy Schekman made news this week when he published a column in the Guardian, where he proclaimed that his lab would be boycotting Science, Nature, and Cell, probably the three most prominent...
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Kickstart a Two-Volume Collection of Chinese Poems
Ronin Institute Research Scholar Evelyn Ch’ien is running a Kickstarter campaign to fund the publication of 600 Chinese poems by diplomat Liao Entao. The annotated collection stands to be a real...
View ArticleRich Dean, Poor Student
Last week, the Institute for Policy Studies released a report on executive pay at Universities. They focused specifically on the 25 Universities with the highest compensation for the top executive at...
View ArticleIntroducing the Ronin Institute Newsletter: Kitsune
Happy New Year to everyone out there. In December, the Ronin Institute published the first issue of Kitsune, a newsletter that will come out six times a year and will keep you up to date on the...
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News Flash: Postdocs are a Screw Job
To people who have been involved with academic science recently (say, the past forty years), this will not come as a shock, but the National Academy has released a report concluding that, well, being a...
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Orzack on the Sex Ratio
There’s a new paper out in PNAS (available here) by Ronin Institute Board member and Research Scholar Steven Orzack. It’s also been covered briefly by NPR (listen here). Steven is the founder of the...
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