Numlock News: September 30, 2019 • Honeycrisp, Spider-Man, Overwatch
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By Walt Hickey Honeycrisp The Honeycrisp variety of apple is legendary for being really sweet, really juicy, and just all around a top-tier fruit but with a stubborn, steep price premium over other apples. Developed by the University of Minnesota and released to growers in 1991, the fruit is the university’s third-most profitable invention, after a vaccine that protects against PRRS in pigs and Ziagen, an HIV drug. Still, those patent royalties —$1.25 per tree, which accumulated to a grand total of
Numlock News: September 30, 2019 • Honeycrisp, Spider-Man, Overwatch
Numlock News: September 30, 2019 …
Numlock News: September 30, 2019 • Honeycrisp, Spider-Man, Overwatch
By Walt Hickey Honeycrisp The Honeycrisp variety of apple is legendary for being really sweet, really juicy, and just all around a top-tier fruit but with a stubborn, steep price premium over other apples. Developed by the University of Minnesota and released to growers in 1991, the fruit is the university’s third-most profitable invention, after a vaccine that protects against PRRS in pigs and Ziagen, an HIV drug. Still, those patent royalties —$1.25 per tree, which accumulated to a grand total of