At a UC Berkeley event in May 2024, bestselling author and UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus Michael Pollan joins KQED’s Mina Kim to discuss how he chooses his subjects, why he co-founded the UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics and the role of storytelling in shifting our perspective. “We’re wired for story,” he told Kim. “We’re a storytelling and consuming people, and we remember better and we’re moved more by narrative than we are by information or argument.”