The best-selling author grapples with big questions about A.I., consciousness and the distractions polluting our minds.

The shortest month of the year is packed with highly anticipated new releases, including books from Michael Pollan, Tayari ...

Humanity’s understanding of itself is being shaken by artificial intelligence, neuroscience and a renewed interest in ...

At its simplest, the question Chalmers posed was, how is it that seemingly inert physical matter — quarks, atoms, molecules, ...

With the Omnivore’s Dilemma and How to Change Your Mind, Michael Pollan transformed our understanding of food and drugs. Can he do the same for our sense of self?

“Eating real food is not going to protect you from the measles,” said Michael Pollan, who’s written extensively about health and nutrition, on “The Interview.” And if A.I. tells us it is conscious, ...

Sixteen years after opening America’s eyes to the society-wide damages caused by our industrialized food system with 'Food, Inc.,' best-selling authors Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser find ...

Both in-person and virtual tickets are available for this event. Doors open at 6:00 p.m. STAT News reporter Angus Chen interviews author and journalist Michael Pollan about his new book, "This is Your ...

Michael Pollan has been studying America's unhealthy food system for nearly two decades. Vegetables are some of his favorite foods. He loves brassicas like broccoli, which scientists believe have anti ...

After decades in the shadows, psychedelic drugs are the focus of new studies testing their efficacy at treating a variety of psychological issues, including depression. Back in the 1950s, tens of ...

Ask Michael Pollan to talk food culture, and you could get a deep discussion of America's agriculture policy or advice on concocting something smelly. "I've got a lot of bowls bubbling around the ...

“The book is an effort to launch a conversation, a kind of post-drug war conversation,” Pollan tells me in a telephone interview. “I start out with the drug war, and that’s why the first chapter is ...