Richard Munson

Jan 18, 2025 | johnbatchelor.substack.com | Richard Munson |John Batchelor

Progress on the Palisades FireThe Eden fire shows significant progress towards containment, while the Palisades fire remains a major concern. At peak, the firefighters were using 45,000 gallons of water a minute. “You hate to use the cliché ‘perfect storm’ but that’s what it was. You had not just the weather—you had poor foresight, you had budget concerns.

Jan 15, 2025 | johnbatchelor.substack.com | Richard Munson |John Batchelor

It is 1762. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The governor, a man by the name of John Penn, rushes across town to the home of Benjamin Franklin. It’s in the early in the morning, recorded as 2 AM. The governor is frightened. He needs help. There’s a mob closing on Philadelphia to kill Native Americans. This scene is one of many illustrating the many lives of Benjamin Franklin in a new book, Ingenious: A Biography of Benjamin Franklin, Scientist. Richard Munson is the author.

Nov 29, 2024 | washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com | Richard Munson

The 1700s saw major advances in science, but none as significant as those in the centuries of Newton (1600s), Maxwell (1800s), or Einstein (1900s). Still, 18th-century gains were impressive and included, among others, leaps made by Daniel Bernoulli (hydrodynamics), Joseph Black (the harnessing of steam energy), Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit and Anders Celsius (temperature-measurement scales), Antoine Lavoisier (the dispelling of the phlogiston theory), and Joseph Priestley (the discovery of oxygen).

Nov 27, 2024 | bookreporter.com | Richard Munson

Benjamin Franklin is one of history’s greatest achievers. In INGENIOUS, Richard Munson delves deeply into the remarkable talents, skills and intellectual prowess of a man known to be one of America’s Founding Fathers but who was so much more.

Nov 20, 2024 | nextbigideaclub.com | Chase Jarvis |Richard Panek |Richard Munson |Donald Robertson

Donald Robertson is a cognitive-behavioral psychotherapist. He has been researching Stoicism for over twenty years and is one of the founding members of the non-profit Modern Stoicism. He is also the founder and president of the Plato’s Academy Centre non-profit in Greece. The philosophy and methods of Socrates can help bring calm and clarity to the distracted, nervous, and angry modern mind. His training techniques share remarkable overlaps with modern cognitive-behavioral therapy.