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Michael Pollan
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April 2013
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
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2006
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2 editions
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In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
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2008
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52 editions
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
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published
2001
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33 editions
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Food Rules: An Eater's Manual
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published
2008
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57 editions
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How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
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published
2018
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34 editions
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Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
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published
2013
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34 editions
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Second Nature: A Gardener's Education
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published
1991
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25 editions
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Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World
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published
2020
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3 editions
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A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder
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1997
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26 editions
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Caffiene
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Learning about Human Learning Algorithms
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I am a learning algorithm. I am human. I am a human learning algorithm.
How do I learn? Why do I learn? What are the limits to my learning?
Is machine intelligence the inevitable byproduct of human intelligence? How can an understanding of human learning algorithms and machine learning algorithms explain this?
Or, is human...
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Michael Pollan
voted for
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us about Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
as
Best Science & Technology
in the
Opening Round
of the
2018 Goodreads Choice Awards.
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Michael Pollan
voted for
The Pollan Family Table: The Best Recipes and Kitchen Wisdom for Delicious, Healthy Family Meals
as
Best Food & Cookbooks
in the
Semifinal Round
of the
2014 Goodreads Choice Awards.
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Michael Pollan
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Morgane's
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I became interested in food because I am interested in nature --and because I am a gardener. If you care about the environment, eventually you will find yourself thinking about food, because our eating represents our more profound engagement with...
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“He showed the words “chocolate cake” to a group of Americans and recorded their word associations. “Guilt” was the top response. If that strikes you as unexceptional, consider the response of French eaters to the same prompt: “celebration.”
― In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
― In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
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