David Baker: 5 challenges we could solve by designing new proteins
Proteins are remarkable molecular machines: they digest your food, fire your neurons, power your immune system and so much more. What if we could design new ones, with functions never before seen in nature? In this remarkable glimpse of the future, David Baker shares how his team at the Institute for Protein Design is creating entirely new prote...
David Becker: Rich ! Without money ?
Today people dream about being rich, but what does it mean to be rich? Is having lots of money, real wealth? David Becker took these photos during the last 30 years, of traditional people who are truly rich. He shares images of their surprising traditional life in the South Pacific, his experience there, and some reflections on our modern worl...
David Baker: Countdown for Coral Reefs - Past, Present, & Future
,000 years ago, humanity began a dramatic transformation of the landscape of Southern China. Forests were cleared for rice cultivation and firewood to power what would become Hong Kong’s first major industrial endeavor. As China and other nations began to explore and trade on the high-seas, a rich bounty of life teemed below the surface of the S...
Claire Sands Baker, Dr. David Sands: The foxy story: From lab to farmer
The Toothpick Project is an interdisciplinary initiative that addresses the greatest pest threat to food security in Africa: Striga. Claire Sands Baker and Dr. David Sands, with partners from three continents, are utilizing Fusarium oxysporum (a host specific fungi) to eradicate Striga and protect smallholder farms.