The previous post suggests other Kuhnian remarks.
The Institute of the above title is not the one recently imagined
by Stephen King, but the one associated with a mathematician
who died on January 26 (Paul Newman's birthday).
For the Ashtray, see Ash Wednesday Surprise (March 9, 2011) and
https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/
2011/03/06/the-ashtray-the-ultimatum-part-1/.