{"id":1476,"date":"2008-02-15T20:17:23","date_gmt":"2008-02-15T20:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/02\/15\/michael-pollan-the-omnivores-n\/"},"modified":"2008-02-15T20:17:23","modified_gmt":"2008-02-15T20:17:23","slug":"michael-pollan-the-omnivores-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/15\/michael-pollan-the-omnivores-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Pollan: The omnivore&#8217;s next dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What if human consciousness isn&#8217;t the end-all and be-all of Darwinism? What if we are all just pawns in corn&#8217;s clever strategy game, the ultimate prize of which is world domination? Author Michael Pollan asks us to see things from a plant&#8217;s-eye view &#8212; to consider the possibility that nature isn&#8217;t opposed to culture, that biochemistry rivals intellect as a survival tool. By merely shifting our perspective, he argues, we can heal the Earth. Who&#8217;s the more sophisticated species now?<!--more--><!--cut and paste--><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0\" width=\"432\" height=\"285\" id=\"VE_Player\" align=\"middle\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/static.videoegg.com\/ted\/flash\/loader.swf\"><PARAM NAME=\"FlashVars\" VALUE=\"bgColor=FFFFFF&#038;file=http:\/\/static.videoegg.com\/ted\/movies\/MICHAELPOLLAN-2007_high.flv&#038;autoPlay=false&#038;fullscreenURL=http:\/\/static.videoegg.com\/ted\/flash\/fullscreen.html&#038;forcePlay=false&#038;logo=&#038;allowFullscreen=true\"><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\"><param name=\"scale\" value=\"noscale\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"window\"><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if human consciousness isn&#8217;t the end-all and be-all of Darwinism? What if we are all just pawns in corn&#8217;s clever strategy game, the ultimate prize of which is world domination? Author Michael Pollan asks us to see things from a plant&#8217;s-eye view &#8212; to consider the possibility that nature isn&#8217;t opposed to culture, that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/15\/michael-pollan-the-omnivores-n\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Michael Pollan: The omnivore&#8217;s next dilemma<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[209],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-nO","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}