Save the Planet! Part 3: Super Powered Sweet Corn

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🗓️ 2 August 2017

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

We’ve made our plants bigger, juicier, and sturdier. Now can we make them better at sucking CO2? And should we?

The last episode in our five-part series, with TED science curator David Biello.

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0:00.0	Binge, power through, or saver, one by one in or out of order.
0:16.1	Whatever you've been doing, this is number three of our special five pack of podcasts
0:21.7	on how to save the planet with a little technology.
0:28.7	I'm a new summer Odie, a note to self.
0:31.9	Climate change doesn't have to be a doomsday conversation.
0:35.6	In fact, it shouldn't be.
0:37.6	Because doomsday isn't an option.
0:40.4	We here at Note to Self prefer realistic and constructive.
0:45.4	Just like our climate change expert and Ted's science curator, David B.Elo.
0:51.1	This time, David and I get into how we can give plants superpowers by editing their genes
0:58.1	in a good way.
0:59.1	You think?
1:00.1	So, I want to talk about CRISPR.
1:05.7	This is a really big buzzword right now.
1:07.9	It's basically genetic editing, right?
1:10.4	How does it relate to the environment?
1:13.9	CRISPR is this kind of wonder tool for genetic engineering.
1:18.0	You can both edit genomes that already exist.
1:20.9	So say you don't like the fact that tomatoes are red.
1:23.2	You want your tomato to be blue.
1:24.5	You can cut out that gene and voila, you have your blue tomato.
1:28.4	Or you want your tomato to be yellow.
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