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Book Recommendation: This is Your Mind on Plants by Michael Pollan

Would you like coffee or tea? Before you decide, I recommend you read on. This is Your Mind on Plants is another Michael Pollan book that makes for a compelling read. As promised by the title, this book takes a deep dive into three plant-derived molecules and their impacts on people: opium, caffeine, and mescaline.

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Book Recommendation: The Food Explorer by Daniel Stone

Looking for your next delicious read? I recommend you pick up a copy of The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats, by Daniel Stone. This book focuses on David Fairchild and his fellow “food explorers” who laid the foundation for modern agriculture. For page after page, I was truly astonished at their adventures

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Book Recommendation: Headstrong by Rachel Swaby

Looking for a book that will expand your knowledge on the world of science? Headstrong by Rachel Swaby is a collection of 52 short and punchy chapters about women who transformed medicine, biology, physics, math, and technology. I was inspired, over and over, by how many of these women paid forward their hard work to support later generations of women in STEMM.

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Book Recommendation: How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan

As a scientist, I greatly enjoyed Pollan’s explorations of the neurobiology and evolutionary history of psychedelics in his 2018 book How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence. Check out this blog to find out why I found this to be a compelling read.

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