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Kate O'Hare's Hot Cuppa TV: Who's Evolving Whom? PBS Examines 'The Botany of Desire'
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Night peeps - going to watch this fun PBS special - http://www.pbs.org/thebotanyofdesire/ #fb 12 days ago |
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On WPT: If you missed Michael Pollan's The Botany of Desire, it airs again at 9 tonight. http://www.pbs.org/thebotanyofdesire/ 14 days ago |
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The Botany of Desire will air on PBS in MSP on Nov. 9. Check it out! http://bit.ly/41cX9 ^vt 19 days ago |
The Botany of Desire documentary
kottke.org —
PBS will be airing a two-hour-long documentary based on Michael Pollan's excellent The Botany of Desire (previously recommended here).
The tulip, by gratifying our desire for a certain kind of beauty, has gotten us to take it from its origins in Central Asia and disperse it around the world. Marijuana, by gratifying our desire to change consciousness, has gotten people to risk their lives, their freedom, in order to grow more of it and plant more of it. The potato, by gratifying our desire for control, control over nature so that we can feed ...
Who's Evolving Whom? PBS Examines 'The Botany of Desire'
Kate O'Hare's Hot Cuppa TV —
... we've been at least as good for dogs, cats, horses, cows, chickens, hamsters, camels, pigs, corn, wheat and soybeans as they've been for us, and we definitely come out on the short end of the stick with cockroaches, rats, crabgrass and bedbugs. We evolved on Planet Earth too, and as far as we try to remove ourselves from nature, it's Thumbnail image for TheBotanyofDesire_MichaelPollan.jpg temporary at best and usually just an illusion. On Wednesday, Oct. 28, PBS premieres "The Botany of Desire," based on the book of the same name by author and avid gardener ...
PBS' 'Botany of Desire'
CelebStoner —
... to be adapted for television, and it was well worth the wait. Part 3 of the PBS special focuses on an "incredibly valuable and interesting plant called cannabis." ...
