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Pbs: The Botany of Desire

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In this interesting documentary based on a book by Michael Pollan, we explore our relationship with domesticated plants and whether they control us rather than vice versa. The author looks at four basic human desires for beauty, sweetness, intoxication, and control using apples, tulips, marijuana, and potatoes as examples. [1:56:15]

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apples, botany, marijuana, plants, potatoes, tulips
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domestic plants, plants and humans, pbs, pbs: the botany of desire, human relationship with plants, human uses of plants
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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Instructional
  • This video is hosted on YouTube