Benjamin Cohen is the author of Notes from the Ground: Science, Soil, and Society in the American Countryside (Yale University Press, 2009) and a number of other academic and non-academic writings triangulating around science, the environment, and culture.

• June 2011: Micro-Interview with Peter Galison
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  September 2009: Interview with Rebecca Solnit
  “How can you write about the obscure things that give you pleasure with a style flexible enough to come to more urgent matters?”
• April 2007: Interview with Michael Pollan
  “If you want to make people realize they have a stake in the natural world, food is a really good way to do that.”
• August 2006: Library: The Pembroke Library
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  May 2006: Interview with Arnold Davidson
  What do the stigmata of Francis of Assisi have to do with WMDs?
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  March 2005: Interview with Marjorie Grene
  The great-grandmother of philosophy answers our stupid questions about Sartre, hermits, and the cogito.