Princeton Center for Food Studies

08/29/2022

https://www.arable.com/press-releases/arable-wins-crop-monitoring-solution-of-the-year-award-from-agtech-breakthrough/?utm_medium=email&_hsmi=224274862&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--HPUmBzAbs2fljGlJ1ETbBYesVTjtiC0Ogav4u1Savh4VPeS9yTZ4SYTqhMhy-yz1arnHxadu7kQ8pUPmLgJdLNNDGPA&utm_content=224274862&utm_source=hs_email

LOS ANGELES, August 25, 2022 — AgTech Breakthrough — a leading market intelligence organization that recognizes the top companies, technologies, and products in the global agricultural and food technology markets — today announced that Arable has won “Crop Monitoring Solution of the Year” ...

08/01/2022

“The Sterkfontein caves in South Africa are home to hundreds of fossils of early hominins in the genus Australopithecus. Original age estimates of these fossils suggested that they were no more than 2.4 million years old — younger than our genus, Homo. Researchers used a new, more accurate technique to redate the fossils and made an important discovery: The fossils were much older than previously thought. They were deposited between 3.4 million and 3.7 million years ago. The finding challenges our understanding of human evolution, including the consensus that we evolved in East Africa.”

Australopithecus fossils in South Africa are one million years older than initially thought. This could rewrite the story of human evolution.

11/29/2021

https://princetonstudiesfood.princeton.edu/2021/11/29/new-director-for-high-meadows-environmental-institute/

The High Meadows Environmental Institute, formerly Princeton Environmental Institute, has a new director: Gabriel Vecchi. Prof Vecchi, of Geosciences, is interested in climate science; extreme weat…

05/31/2021

On Sovereignty, by Jordan Hall

“Yes, the world is in trouble. And yes, we are going to need to do incredible things to make it through this transition. But until you have achieved your own sovereignty, you are as likely to make it worse as you are to make it better. Thus the task is simple. Whether you are seated at the throne of Empire or are struggling to just make ends meet, the right, best and only path begins at the center of you. Clean your room. Get yourself sorted out. Build yourself into a rock upon which profound things can be set. Then, and only then, is it time to begin taking care of the rest of the world.”

It might very well be the case that 2018 will be known as the “Year of Jordan Peterson”.

03/29/2021

11/07/2020

Princeton University FRS 138 Class #8
"The Ecology of Eating"

11/07/2020

FRS 138 Science, Society & Dinner Class #1:
"Environmental Consequences of the Global Food System" by Professor Kelly Caylor/Craig Shelton

11/06/2020

Princeton University FRS 138 Class #2
Science, Society, & Dinner Class:
"Environmental Consequences of the Global Food System"

11/06/2020

Princeton University FRS 138 Class #3
“Physiology of Taste and Relativity of Perception” - how various cooking temperatures affect yield, taste and texture for each of three proteins.