Radu’s Rides
Contributing Editor Radu Craiu shares some concerns about the impact of the pandemic on young researchers:
By the time we start to grasp what it means to be young, the youth itself is gone. Whether it drowns in too much truth or too many compromises matters less than the realization…
Contributing Editor Radu Craiu shares some advice that would have come in handy as a new researcher:
Once upon a time we were young and insolent (some of you still are). It was a time of questioning the authority of the discipline’s stars and the norms they had created, while…
Contributing Editor Radu Craiu offers some words of advice:
Nothing is more random than love. Its asymptotic properties are far from well understood, its underlying processes are certainly not stable and their convergence at best questionable. It is no surprise then that there are important advantages in love provided by…
Contributing Editor Radu Craiu writes: At the end of a year that felt like a decennium, it might be wise to remind ourselves that we are constantly torn between, on the one hand, the excitement of answering questions about the future (“What will it look like, and where do I…
Contributing Editor Radu Craiu writes:
In an interview for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Robert Thurman, who was, until his retirement in 2019, the Je Tsongkhapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University, warned listeners about the potentially noxious and certainly annoying “stink of enlightenment,” which is the prideful attitude…