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The Botany of Desire : with Michael Pollan
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Featuring author, journalist, activist, and professor Michael Pollan, and based on his best-selling book, this program takes viewers on an eye-opening exploration of the human relationship with the...
Featuring author, journalist, activist, and professor Michael Pollan, and based on his best-selling book, this program takes viewers on an eye-opening exploration of the human relationship with the plant world - seen from the plants' point of view. Narrated by Frances McDormand, the program shows how four familiar species - the apple, the tulip, marijuana, and the potato - evolved to satisfy our yearnings for sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and control.
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- Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)
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- Videos, Slides, Films
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- English
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- New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2011]
- ©2008
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- 1 streaming video file (120 min.) : sound, color, digital file
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- OCLC
- ocn786191805
- Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on September 23, 2011.
- Films on Demand is distributed by Infobase for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
- Four Plants that Satisfy Human Desire (1:50) -- Sponsors: The Botany of Desire, with Michael Pollan (0:35) -- Relationship of Humans and Plants (2:21) -- Apple - Sweetness (3:34) -- Apple - Genetic Home (1:58) -- Apple - Johnny Appleseed (3:37) -- Apple - Curious Biology (2:53) -- Apple - Hard Cider (2:21) -- Apple - Race for Sweet Varieties (2:00) -- Apple - Monoculture (1:16) -- Apple - Kazakhstan Recreated (3:22) -- Apple - Increasing Disease Resistance (1:19) -- Apple - New Varieties (2:17) -- Apple - The Future (1:48) -- Tulip - Beauty (1:33) -- Tulip - Famous Garden (2:01) -- Tulip - Photography (1:17) -- Tulip - Rise of the Angiosperms (1:38) -- Tulip - Wild Origins (1:51) -- Tulip - Tulip Mania (5:10) -- Tulip - Virus (2:53) -- Tulip - Breeding New Varieties (3:26) -- Tulip - Big Business (3:49) -- Tulip - Exquisitely Useless (1:01) -- Cannabis - Intoxication (1:31) -- Cannabis - Human Drive to Experience Other States of Consciousness (2:16) -- Cannabis - Horticultural Challenges (1:28) -- Cannabis - Tradition (2:12) -- Cannabis - Marijuana in the United States (2:24) -- Cannabis - Operation Intercept (2:19) -- Cannabis - Shrinking to Survive (3:10) -- Cannabis - Increased Potency (1:44) -- Cannabis - THC (2:13) -- Cannabis - Anandamide (2:16) -- Cannabis - Treating PTSD (1:47) -- Cannabis - Amsterdam (3:12) -- Cannabis - Final Thoughts (0:49) -- Potato - Control (2:01) -- Potato - South American Origins (3:01) -- Potato - Inca Civilization (1:43) -- Potato - Feast and Famine in Europe (3:08) -- Potato - McDonald's (2:53) -- Potato - Risky Business (3:44) -- Potato - Genetic Engineering (2:34) -- Potato - GMO Movement (3:47) -- Potato - The Future (2:45) -- Potato - Organic Farming (2:11) -- Potato - Getting Away from Monoculture (1:09) -- Epilogue: Michael Pollan on Nature (2:06)