Michael Pollan
@michaelpollan.bsky.social
Author of ten books, including The Omnivore’s Dilemma, How to Change Your Mind and A World Appears. Website: https://michaelpollan.com/books/a-world-appears/
Out today, fascinating new book from @SciPsychedelics X @ucbsoj fellow Keemon de Greef: The Ego Trip: Psychedelic Toads, a Trail of Deaths, and the Guru Who Peddled Transcendence: 9780385550246: de Greef, Kimon: Books www.amazon.com/Ego-Trip-Psy...
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Terrific Ferriss Fellowship story in @MensHealthMag by @matthabusby from @SciPsychedelics X @ucbsoj Can MMA Fighters Taking Psychedelics Unlock the Future of Brain Health? These Researchers Think So. www.menshealth.com/health/a7319...
Can MMA Fighters Taking Psychedelics Unlock the Future of Brain Health? These Researchers Think So.
Ten combat sports fighters suffering from traumatic brain injuries went to Medellín, Colombia, for eight days of psychedelic neuroplasticity-enhancing treatment. The lessons could benefit all of us.
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Be sure to check out this important new book, excerpted here in the Microdose: The psychedelic toad milkers - by Kimon de Greef themicrodose.substack.com/p/the-psyche...
The psychedelic toad milkers
Following toad poachers across the Sonoran Desert
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AI Has Entered The 'Loss Of Control' Transition - NOEMA www.noemamag.com/ai-has-alrea...
AI Has Entered The ‘Loss Of Control’ Transition | NOEMA
Waiting for a disaster to save us.
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Thanks for the shoutout, Mr. Prez: Obama summer reading list includes these favorite authors www.usatoday.com/story/entert...
Obama's summer reading list includes authors he's loved for years and new favorites
Barack Obama's annual summer reading list is out, and we agree with many of his 5-star picks. Here's what his taste in books reveals.
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Consciousness: A Q&A with Michael Pollan - Clio’s Books cliosbooks.substack.com/p/consciousn...
Consciousness: A Q&A with Michael Pollan
The author of A World Appears discusses the microbiome, AI, and literature in relation to a fundamental human question.
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by way of idle wishful thinking - would be great if NYT hired a science writer/thinker for the op-ed page to tell us what’s happening and what’s at stake in the sciences, at a time when they are under attack in a way Galileo would recognize, while newspaper science journalism is facing extinction
Rave Review for ‘All That’s Unseen,’ by (my former student) Emilee Hackney - The New York Times. COngratulations! www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/b...
Book Review: ‘All That’s Unseen,’ by Emilee Hackney
“All That’s Unseen,” by Emilee Hackney, an eighth-generation Appalachian, offers a portrait both loving and cleareyed of the region that formed her.
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From “just say no” to just say nothing: 5 Questions for harm reduction educator Rhana Hashemi themicrodose.substack.com/p/from-just-...
From “just say no” to just say nothing: 5 Questions for harm reduction educator Rhana Hashemi
Hashemi discusses her approach to drug education and what students want to know about psychedelics.
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I’m looking forward to this
UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics@scipsychedelics.bsky.social · 2w agoJoin us for States of Consciousness (Oct. 14-15, 2026), a conference at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social exploring consciousness through the lens of psychedelics. Register by Aug. 6 to save with early bird pricing: https://psychedelics.berkeley.edu/soc-conference/
There are 22 theories of consciousness: Michael Pollan explains why none of them work - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-KP...
There are 22 theories of consciousness: Michael Pollan explains why none of them work
YouTube video by The Royal Institution
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What Venus Flytraps, ChatGPT, and LSD reveal about consciousness | Michael Pollan - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrOx...
What Venus Flytraps, ChatGPT, and LSD reveal about consciousness | Michael Pollan
YouTube video by The Institute of Art and Ideas
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Is AI ALIVE? What AI is teaching us about consciousness with Michael Pollan and Chris Hayes - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgd_...
Is AI ALIVE? What AI is teaching us about consciousness with Michael Pollan and Chris Hayes
YouTube video by MS NOW
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(93) Is the boom in toad-derived 5-MeO-DMT built on a false history? Colorado’s new law lays groundwork for ibogaine access themicrodose.substack.com/p/is-the-boo...
Is the boom in toad-derived 5-MeO-DMT built on a false history? Colorado’s new law lays groundwork for ibogaine access
Plus: Study finds personality traits may shape the intensity of psychedelic sensory experiences
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Congratulations to @michaelpollan.bsky.social on his newest book, A World Appears, being chosen as a Best Book of the Year So Far by Amazon. View the full list: https//www.amazon....
What an amazing reading by the ever brilliant Laura Mullen. 🙏🙏 calirb.com/killing-spre...
Killing Spree by Jorie Graham
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Review by Laura Mullen “Then the rain came and we thought it / might clean us. / It did not clean us.” In his Theses on History, Walter Benjamin described a painting by P…
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In a changing GOP, a Republican blasted Big Agriculture and beat a Trump-backed candidate
Interested in plant intelligence and sentience? Don't miss SILENT FRIEND | Official Trailer | A Film by Ildikó Enyedi | with Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Léa Seydoux - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaRZ...
SILENT FRIEND | Official Trailer | A Film by Ildikó Enyedi | with Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Léa Seydoux
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(51) Veterans Affairs announces new MDMA clinical trial; Psilocybin’s antidepressant effects are both rapid and long-lasting themicrodose.substack.com/p/veterans-a...
Veterans Affairs announces new MDMA clinical trial; Psilocybin’s antidepressant effects are both rapid and long-lasting
Plus: Psychedelic trips leave traces in speech through vocal “jitter” and “shimmer;" Scientists pair intravenous ketamine with drug targeting opioid receptors to enhance antidepressant effects
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Why you can't stop eating: The science of cravings, food addiction and 5 ways to regain control | Michael Pollan & Prof Tim Spector - ZOE Science & Nutrition | Podcast on Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/3MkY...
Why you can't stop eating: The science of cravings, food addiction and 5 ways to regain control | Michael Pollan & Prof Tim Spector
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Michael Pollan: The TRUTH about junk food and why you can’t stop eating - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H1k...
Michael Pollan: The TRUTH about junk food and why you can’t stop eating
YouTube video by ZOE
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Raj Patel's beautiful tribute to Carlo Petrini, Joy's Great Democrat - Raj Patel newsletter.rajpatel.org/p/joys-great...
Joy's Great Democrat
An appreciation of Carlo Petrini and his politics
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My conversation with Sam Harris on The Hard Problem of Consciousness | Waking Up dynamic.wakingup.com/course/CO430...
The Hard Problem of Consciousness | Waking Up
Open the door to a deeper understanding of yourself—with guided meditations and insights for living a more examined life.
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Out today-- important book on the threat to bees from Big Ag: Bitter Honey | Princeton University Press press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Bitter Honey
"An ambitious, important, and utterly captivating book.”—Mary Roach, New York Times bestselling author of Replaceable You and StiffA revealing investigation into how industrial farming poses a growing...
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