Lifesaver pores are 15 nanometers.

But these pores here are special.

And as you can see, my aorta dilated progressively, and I got closer and closer to the point where surgery was going to be necessary.

One is hierarchical pores, and the other is a macro molecular nanoscale porosity in the material.

Every red blood cell of your body right now has these hourglass shaped pores called aquaporins.

Pores like these conduct electrical current and are responsible for all the communication in the nervous system.

You can see that the skin pore structure changes enormously from stretched skin pores to the regular skin texture.

As we zoom in on one of these purple neurons, we see that its outer membrane is studded with microscopic pores.

And as a golfer and as a kid, one of the things that really sort of seeped into my pores, that I sort of lived my whole life, is process.

We find life at the bottom of every long term, long distance drilling core into the center of rock that we bring up and there's bacteria in the pores of that rock.

And even when you close the pore which neurons can do, they can open and close these pores to generate electrical activity even when it's closed, because these ions are so small, they can actually sneak through, a few can sneak through at a time.

It has pores, it has sweat glands, it has all these things that work together very dynamically and very efficiently, and so what I propose is that our building skins should be more similar to human skin, and by doing so can be much more dynamic, responsive and differentiated, depending on where it is.