Michael Pollan

Person · Open Library

Born

6 February 1955

Works

26

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Film & TV

Acting · Long Island, New York, USA

Michael Pollan (born February 6, 1955) is an American author, journalist, activist, and professor of journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. A 2006 New York Times books review describes him as a "liberal foodie intellectual." He is brother of actress Tracy Pollan.

Known for

• Food, Inc. 2 — Self – Author, The Omnivore's Dilemma2024
• How to Change Your Mind — Self2022
• Fantastic Fungi — Self2019
• Reconnect: The Movie — Himself2019
• The Mind, Explained — Himself2019
• The Mind, Explained — Self2019
• Food Evolution — Self2017
• Cooked — Self2016
• Time to Choose — Self2015
• In Defense of Food — Narrator and Story Consultant2015

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1955

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

2,369

Total plays

40,333

Michael Pollan (born February 6, 1955) is an American author, journalist, activist, and professor of journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Michael+Pollan">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Moderated estimation of fold change and dispersion for RNA-seq data with DESeq2

   · 2014 · cited 85,330x

2. Gene set enrichment analysis: A knowledge-based approach for interpreting genome-wide expression profiles

   · 2005 · cited 47,764x

3. Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure

   · 1976 · cited 43,873x

4. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

   · 2021 · cited 41,537x

5. Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water

   · 1983 · cited 38,978x

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Quotes

• “Of course it’s also a lot easier to slap a health claim on a box of sugary cereal than on a potato or carrot, with the perverse result that the most healthful foods in the supermarket sit there quietly in the produce section, silent as stroke victims, while a few aisles over, the Cocoa Puffs and Lucky Charms are screaming about their newfound whole-grain goodness.”
• “Nutrition science is where surgery was in about 1650, you know, really interesting and promising, but would you want to have them operate on you yet? I don’t think so.”
• “The industrial animal factory offers a nightmarish glimpse of what capitalism is capable of in the absence of any moral or regulatory constraint whatsoever.”
• “The industrialization — and brutalization — of animals in America is a relatively new, evitable, and local phenomenon: No other country raises and slaughters its food animals quite as intensively or as brutally as we do. No other people in history has lived at quite so great a remove from the animals they eat. Were the walls of our meat industry to become transparent, literally or even figuratively, we would not long continue to raise, kill, and eat animals the way we do.”
• “Evolution doesn’t depend on will or intention to work; it is, almost by definition, an unconscious, unwilled process.”
• “Design in nature is but a concatenation of accidents, culled by natural selection until the result is so beautiful or effective as to seem a miracle of purpose.”

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Wikidata facts

Official website

michaelpollan.com

Image

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