Richard MunsonMake Chicago the Center of Agricultural InnovationThe Union Stock Yards, featured in Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, are long gone, and most Chicagoans think our thriving city now has little…Feb 21, 2022Feb 21, 2022
Richard MunsonTech to Table: James Rogers, Jenny Du, and Louis Perez, Apeel Sciences — Coating FoodsJames Rogers, Jenny Du, and Louis Perez want to cut food waste in half. With PhDs in materials science and chemistry, they devise…Nov 9, 2021Nov 9, 2021
Richard MunsonTech to Table: Irina Borodina, BioPhero — Messing with Pest SexConventional insecticides kill virtually every insect in a field, including pollinating bees and natural predators of crop pests. Such…Oct 26, 20211Oct 26, 20211
Richard MunsonTech to Table: Lynette Kucsma and Emilio Sepulveda, Foodini — Printing 3D MealsRemember Star Trek’s Replicator, the fantasy machine that synthesized meals on demand? Today, 3D food printers seem to be turning this…Oct 12, 2021Oct 12, 2021
Richard MunsonBig Beef Reveals Its Fear as Plant-Based and Cell-Based Options FlourishBig Beef is feeling nervous. Sensing competition from plant- and cell-based meat alternatives, the cattle industry took out an expensive…Sep 30, 2021Sep 30, 2021
Richard MunsonSuperweeds and Superbugs — The Cost of Industrialized AgricultureClaire Brown, writing recently in the New York Times Magazine, explains how herbicides are losing the war against weeds. She vividly shows…Sep 21, 2021Sep 21, 2021
Richard MunsonMeet the Innovators Battling Climate ChangeThe United Nations recently issued a dire warning that climate change threatens ecological and social disaster. If greenhouse-gas…Mar 20, 2019Mar 20, 2019
Richard MunsonNikola Tesla — FuturistLarry Page, Google’s co-founder, calls Nikola Tesla a hero because he gave us the electric motor, long-distance power transmission, radio…May 30, 2018May 30, 2018
Richard MunsoninThe Fourth WaveTesla: Inventor of the ModernNikola Tesla gave us the electric motor, long-distance electricity transmission, radio, robots, and remote control — the very foundations…May 22, 2018May 22, 2018