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"Lawns as totalitarian landscapes"? This is a 17-minute presentation that Michael Pollan gave in 2007 entitled "The Omnivore's Next Dilemma." The video is available here (courtesy of YouTube.com), and also on the TED.com site, which has all sorts of terrific presentations from brilliant people. In this talk, Michael Pollan describes in beautiful, compelling detail how he came to look at the world from other species' points of view (and write The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World among other things). Heady, earthy stuff, and well worth the investment.