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Michael Pollan



Michael Kevin Pollan is an American author, journalist, activist, and professor of journalism. Among his bestsellers are books that explore the socio-cultural impacts of food and the efficacy of mind-altering drugs to help fight depression, anxiety, and other mental disorders.

Michael Pollan
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Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual

Eating doesn’t have to be so complicated. In this age of ever-more elaborate diets and conflicting health advice, Food Rules brings welcome simplicity to our daily decisions about food.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageThe single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world.

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The 36-Hour Dinner Party

Shared meals have always been about community, about what happens among family and friends—even enemies—when they gather around a table to eat; but once upon a time, before every family had its own kitchen in which Mom labored more or less alone, cooking was itself a social activity, one that...

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The Science of Psychedelics with Michael Pollan

How could LSD and psilocybin help with mental health, palliative care and addictive behaviours? What was the point of a psilocybin mushroom evolving the way that it did? Michael Pollan explores the “second wave” of international research and discusses what psychedelic drugs may teach us about...

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The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World

In 1637, one Dutchman paid as much for a single tulip bulb as the going price of a town house in Amsterdam.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageDon’t eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food.

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The Intelligent Plant

In 1973, a book claiming that plants were sentient beings that feel emotions, prefer classical music to rock and roll, and can respond to the unspoken thoughts of humans hundreds of miles away landed on the New York Times best-seller list for nonfiction.

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The Compassionate Instinct: The Science of Human Goodness

Leading scientists and science writers reflect on the life-changing, perspective-changing, new science of human goodness. Where once science painted humans as self-seeking and warlike, today scientists of many disciplines are uncovering the deep roots of human goodness.

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Unhappy Meals

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing question of what we humans should eat in order to be maximally healthy.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageEat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

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