The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
Pollan... heheh, surely that can't be a coincidence... anyway Pollan covers four plants: apples, tulips, cannabis, and potatoes. Apples covers Johnny Appleseed and Kazakhstan, tulips the Dutch tulip bubble; cannabis; potatoesｅｎｄ ｒｅｓｕｌｔ：
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nice, impressively tight prose. potatoes w/ terminator genes by archer david midland is already covered by web media/news, but otherwise this is a fast, tight read