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Richard Munson

Make Chicago the Center of Agricultural Innovation

The 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, 2022

Feb 21, 2022

Richard Munson

Tech to Table: James Rogers, Jenny Du, and Louis Perez, Apeel Sciences — Coating Foods

James Rogers, Jenny Du, and Louis Perez want to cut food waste in half. With PhDs in materials science and chemistry, they devise…

Nov 9, 2021

Tech to Table: James Rogers, Jenny Du, and Louis Perez, Apeel Sciences — Coating Foods

Nov 9, 2021

Richard Munson

Weeding Robotically:

Eliminating Poisonous Herbicides on Farms

Nov 6, 2021

Weeding Robotically:

Nov 6, 2021

Richard Munson

Tech to Table: Irina Borodina, BioPhero — Messing with Pest Sex

Conventional insecticides kill virtually every insect in a field, including pollinating bees and natural predators of crop pests. Such…

Oct 26, 2021

Tech to Table: Irina Borodina, BioPhero — Messing with Pest Sex

Oct 26, 2021

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Tech to Table: Lynette Kucsma and Emilio Sepulveda, Foodini — Printing 3D Meals

Remember Star Trek’s Replicator, the fantasy machine that synthesized meals on demand? Today, 3D food printers seem to be turning this…

Oct 12, 2021

Tech to Table: Lynette Kucsma and Emilio Sepulveda, Foodini — Printing 3D Meals

Oct 12, 2021

Richard Munson

Big Beef Reveals Its Fear as Plant-Based and Cell-Based Options Flourish

Big Beef is feeling nervous. Sensing competition from plant- and cell-based meat alternatives, the cattle industry took out an expensive…

Sep 30, 2021

Big Beef Reveals Its Fear as Plant-Based and Cell-Based Options Flourish

Sep 30, 2021

Richard Munson

Superweeds and Superbugs — The Cost of Industrialized Agriculture

Claire Brown, writing recently in the New York Times Magazine, explains how herbicides are losing the war against weeds. She vividly shows…

Sep 21, 2021

Superweeds and Superbugs — The Cost of Industrialized Agriculture

Sep 21, 2021

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Meet the Innovators Battling Climate Change

The United Nations recently issued a dire warning that climate change threatens ecological and social disaster. If greenhouse-gas…

Mar 20, 2019

Meet the Innovators Battling Climate Change

Mar 20, 2019

Richard Munson

Nikola Tesla — Futurist

Larry Page, Google’s co-founder, calls Nikola Tesla a hero because he gave us the electric motor, long-distance power transmission, radio…

May 30, 2018

May 30, 2018

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Tesla: Inventor of the Modern

Nikola Tesla gave us the electric motor, long-distance electricity transmission, radio, robots, and remote control — the very foundations…

May 22, 2018

Tesla: Inventor of the Modern

May 22, 2018

Richard Munson

Richard Munson

Author of Tesla: Inventor of the Modern, and his latest book — Tech to Table: 25 Innovators Reimagining Food — will be released in September 2021.

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