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Hour Two: Holiday Rebroadcast: Michael Pollan / Diabetes Update

We're taking a post-Thanksgiving break to let all the food digest. We hope you'll enjoy this rebroadcast of a favorite program from our archives.

What do sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and control have to do with plants? Well -- everything, according to Michael Pollan. He's the author of the best selling book "The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World." In this hour of Science Friday, we'll talk with him, and take a look at the way people and plants--including apples and marijuana--interact with each other. We'll also find out about new insights in treating type 1 diabetes.

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Guests:
Denise Faustman
Associate Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Director, Immunobiology Laboratories
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts

Michael Pollan
Contributing Writer, New York Times Magazine
Author, "The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World," (Random House, 2001)
Cornwall Bridge, Connecticut

Books/Articles Discussed:

"The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World," by Michael Pollan. Random House, 2001. (find more SciFri books here)

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Related Links:

Harvard Medical School FOCUS - July 13, 2001

Internet Directory for Botany
Yahoo! Science > Biology > Botany

This segment produced by: Annette Heist
Web Producer: Charles Bergquist