Archive of Class Notes

Archive of Class Notes for Food for Thought: The Omnivore's Dilemma

Day One: Introduction to the course--from food to philosophy

Day Two: "Our National Eating Disorder" (Pollan, pp. 1-31, 85-99)

Day Three: "Big Organic" (Pollan, pp. 134-184)

Day Four: "The Ethics of Eating Animals" (Pollan, pp. 287-333)

Day Five: Changing Human Nature (two essays by Rivkin)

Day Six: Changing Education (two more NYTimes articles)

Day Seven: What is Health? (NYTimes, continued)

Day Eight: The Odds of That

Day Nine: The Paradox of Choice

Day 10: "Allow for Serendipity"

Day 11: "Nudge"

Day 12: Do Caterpillars Make Choices? (with Wil Frankin)

Day 13: Ambiguous Figures (with Paul Grobstein)

Day 14: Interpreting Our Data

Day 15: Literary Interpretation

Day 16: Beginning Prodigal Summer

Day 17: Continuing Prodigal Summer

Day 18: Reflecting on our Election (and other?!) Choices

Day 19: Zero-Sum or Not?

Day 20: Tragedy or Comedy of the Commons?

Day 21: Cannibalizing or Socializing

Day 22: The Dog and its Tail

Day 23: Revising (Moby-Dick and your Papers)

Day 24: Rewriting Ahab's Wife

Day 25: Of What Use is Ahab's Wife to Us?