What Is the Best Place to Eat in Berkeley?

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The world probably needs to double its production of food to feed what is still, for n av a growing population. How well do you think that process will go? There are other ways to address the growing need for more food, and one is to change diets. What we have this limited land base, arable soil. We can expand it dramatically. And so what is the most efficient way to use it? Not by pounds of grain, or bushels of grain, but by food that humans need to eat.

Michael Pollan has long been fascinated by nature and the ways we connect and clash with it, with decades of writing covering food, farming, cooking, and architecture. Pollan's latest fascination? Our widespread and ancient desire to use nature to change our consciousness.

He joins Tyler to discuss his research and experience with psychedelics, including what kinds of people most benefit from them, what it can teach us about profundity, how it can change your personality and political views, the importance of culture in shaping the experience, the proper way to integrate it into mainstream practice, and - most importantly of all - whether it's any fun.

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Recorded July 20th, 2018 Other ways to connect

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