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?
