Funding models and the slowing down of revolutionary ideas. By Ronin Research Scholars Jose Luis Perez Velazquez & Susan Khor The history of science tells us about major findings in the understanding of natural phenomena that prompted scientific revolutions or substantial changes in perspectives. Somehow, it seems to me that these ground-breaking innovations, the great …
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By Ronin Research Scholar Martin Bohle What makes the affiliation with the Ronin Institute attractive for people like me?? To situate the following, one should recall culture, that is, my cultural background. I was born in post-WWII Germany, at times when the re-emergence of Germany was an option, into a traditional family that had a …
By Research Scholars Emily Monosson, Arika Virapongse and Judy Daniels At the Ronin Institute, we’ve been working on a Big Brain project that intends to collect and share experiences and insights by scholars operating outside of traditional academic institutions. Our Big Brain project got off to a great start in early March 2021 with two …
By Ronin Research Scholar Candace Gossen, on her Ronin Public Seminar on Feb 12, 2021: I am very grateful to the Ronin Institute for offering the opportunity to talk about my life work on Rapa Nui (Easter Island). My PhD field work and research began on the island in 2002 as I was looking for …
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This seminar is part of the Ronin Institute Public Seminar Series, featuring our Research Scholars. We welcome members of the public, but please register ahead of time to get the meeting link. Presenter: Gregg Willcox, Ronin Institute Research Scholar Date: Mar 10, 2021Time: 11:00 AM-12:00 PM US Eastern Time / 16:00-17:00 UTC (in your local time) Add to your calendarHosted by: Varsha …
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By Ronin Research Scholar Keith Tse 2020 has been a year like no other, and for obvious reasons. It came as no surprise that the word chosen as Word of the Year for 2020 by the American Dialect Society was COVID, since this has been and still is plaguing (literally) our global community since the …
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This seminar is part of the Ronin Institute Public Seminar Series, featuring our Research Scholars. We welcome members of the public, but please register ahead of time to get the meeting link. …with the world more attuned to risk, lessons can be drawn to strengthen response and resilience. In 2020, the risk of a pandemic became reality. …
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This seminar is part of the Ronin Institute Public Seminar Series, featuring our Research Scholars. We welcome members of the public, but please register ahead of time to get the meeting link. Presenter: Candace Gossen, Ronin Institute Research Scholar Date: Feb 12, 2021Time: 2:00-3:00 PM US Eastern Time / 19:00-20:00 UTC (in your local time) Add to your …
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This series of blog posts introduces some of the guiding principles that we use at the Ronin Institute to help the community be its best. Our last post was on Pay it Forward. In our Code of Conduct, we emphasize an individual’s right to their “peaceful enjoyment” of participating in the Ronin Institute. Here’s one key thing …
By Ronin Research Scholar Jonathan Walter I’ve decided to leave traditional academia and pursue different ways to be a scientist. If you’ll indulge me, I’d like to share about why, and what I’m doing next. Let’s be real, this wasn’t my first choice. Being a professor had long been my dream, and I spent more …
