#520: Michael Pollan — This Is Your Mind on Plants

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Michael Pollan (@michaelpollan) is the author of
eight books, including How to Change Your Mind, Cooked, Food
Rules, In Defense of Food, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, and The Botany
of Desire, all of which were New York Times bestsellers. A
longtime contributor to The New York Times Magazine, Pollan
teaches writing at Harvard University and the University of
California, Berkeley. In 2010, Time magazine named him one of the
one hundred most influential people in the world. His newest book
is This Is Your Mind on Plants. 


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